Well, I hate to write to my review editor and tell her I had the wrong date on my calendar for this month’s reviews. That means I’m reading frantically again for a couple days. I do have a review already posted for tomorrow.

So, I’m happy that I had Kevin R. Tipple’s review of Ace Atkins’ short story, “The Havana Run”. The March release is free for Kindle. Thank you, Kevin.

George and Jay are two out of work newspaper reporters who need money
as “The Havana Run: A Short Story” by Ace Atkins begins. They are
meeting with an elderly man at the La Tropicana in the Ybor City
neighborhood of Tampa, Florida. He has a lucrative proposition for them.
The only problem is they have to agree to do the job without knowing much
about it. They have to go to Cuba and pick up something unspecified for
him.

All Navarro will tell them is that he wants “family valuables” retrieved and
brought back. All they have to do is go down to Cuba, get the family
valuables that have been hidden since the revolution, and bring them back.
Fidel Castro died a few months ago and things in Cuba are probably a bit
shakier. Un the upside, they can pass as tourists, and get in and out over a
couple of days. Plus, they do need the money.

When you have read a lot of crime and mystery fiction, and are an older
reader, you know those guys are going to take the job. You also know that
once in Cuba things are going to go from bad to worse. The only question
is how?

It does and the result is the highly entertaining The Havana Run: A Short
Story. Author Ace Atkins keeps the twists coming in a fast-moving novella.
He also packs in plenty of character development regarding our reporters
who are just doing the best they can. The result is a quick read and one of
the better tales I have read this year. Well worth your time.

My reading copy came by way of a purchase using funds that were recently
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