The Betrayal Game

The breathtaking new thriller by suspense master David L. Robbins of a conspiracy so explosive, it could only be told as fiction. You know only half the story. Now the other half will blow you away. Can one man make historyand can another change it with a single bullet?It was a question that Professor Mikhal Lammeck had devoted his life to answering. An expert on history's great political assassinations, he's come to Havana in the spring of 1961 to seek the answer firsthand. For the more he sees of Cuba's charismatic revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, the more he's convinced that he's witnessing that rarest anomaly: the man who can change history...and who thereforemustbe murdered. The wild CIA plots, the treacherous double crosses, the near- miraculous escapes, are already legendary, but it seems as if Castro's number is finally up. With a massive U.S.-backed invasion of the island looming, a trap has been set that not even Castro can escape. The players of this deadly assassination game are as varied as they are lethalorganized-crime figures, CIA agents, the Cuban underground, even a reclusive American billionaire. And now, perhaps most unlikely of all, a distinguished history professor. Mikhal Lammeck is thrust dead-center between a Cuban secret-police captain and a chillingly amoral American CIA agent. It's a devil's bargain, one that Lammeck has no choice but to accept, and it will give him unprecedented access to the secret history of one of the twentieth century's greatest coups. Lammeck suddenly finds himself no longer only studying history, but making it. He soon becomes the unwilling mentor of a young man who's arrived in Cubaa confused marine sharpshooter determined to become the century's most infamous assassin. Seamlessly blending history and fiction into an electrifying page-turner,The Betrayal Gameis that rarest of all thrillersa novel so vividly real, it might very well be true. From the Hardcover edition.

David L. Robbins is the bestselling author of War of the Rats, Liberation Road, Last Citadel, Scorched Earth, The End of War, and Souls to Keep. He divides his time between Richmond and his sailboat on the Chesapeake bay. He is currently writer in residence at his alma mater, the College of William and Mary.


From the Hardcover edition.