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Bridgeworks - Warren Phillips
August 2013
On Sale: August 7, 2013
288 pages
ISBN: 0981617557
EAN: 9780981617558
Kindle: B00D87YQI4
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Romance Historical
This tale, set amid the Castro revolution in Cuba, is one of
adventure and intrigue, of armed struggle and forbidden
love, as the Batista dictatorship is overthrown. It also is
a story of conscience and idealism succumbing to reality and
disillusionment. Father Pedro Villanueva, 34, son of an
upper-middle class Havana family, is initially
non-political, and more at ease sailing at the elite Havana
Yacht Club than performing his priestly duties. Still, he
chafes at his church’s silence amid the Batista regime’s
brutality. He chafes also at the life imposed on him by his
priestly vows of celibacy. To free a parishioner’s son
from La Cabana prison, he and his brother Alberto bribe
guards at the prison. The prisoner is released, but
Pedro’s brother is killed during the handover. Pedro joins
with the underground to support the Fidelistas fighting in
the Sierra Maestra mountains. One of the women who helps lead him down that path is the
sexy Dolores Barre, leader of an underground Havana cell and
future wife of one of Castro's lieutenants. Another who will
affect his life is Maria Guerra, a disaffected government
official. Dolores and Maria persuade Pedro first to obtain
medicines for the rebels, later to smuggle arms to them
aboard his family’s 40-foot sloop, The White Rose (named
after a poem by Jose Marti, a 19th Century national hero, in
which the white rose symbolizes Cuba and its brightest
aspirations). As Pedro’s involvement with the revolution
grows, taking him into the mountains, gun in hand, his
priestly ethics are abandoned. His celibacy vows also are left behind. After Batista flees
the country and Castro’s forces take power, Pedro—his
core beliefs sacrificed—sees people close to him slowly
realize they have fought a right-wing dictatorship only to
witness a dictatorship of the left replace it. Some now are
demonized as counterrevolutionaries. The White Rose, with
Pedro at the helm, secretly slips off on a new mission.
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