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Close But No Cigar - A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba (Paperback)
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Close But No Cigar - A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba (Paperback)
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WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR
NON-FICTION 2017 'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads
like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters to make
Hemingway proud' Daily Telegraph For over a decade Stephen Purvis
had been a pillar of Havana's expat community, one of many foreign
businessmen investing in Cuba's crawl from Cold War communism
towards modernity. But for reasons unknown to him he was also under
State Security's microscope. One morning during the height of
President Raul Castro's purges in 2012, while his family slept, the
unmarked Ladas of State Security arrived at his home and he was
taken away into the absurd and brutal world of Cuban justice. In
this engrossing memoir, Purvis recounts his fifteen-month ordeal.
Accused at first of selling state secrets, he is taken to the
notorious interrogation centre Villa Marista, where he endures
brutal conditions designed by the KGB and Stasi to break the bodies
and minds of spies and political prisoners, and resists the
paranoia and incompetence of his jailers. Later, held in a
maximum-security prison, he finds himself surrounded by a motley
crew of convicts: people-smugglers and drug-runners together with a
handful of confused businessmen also awaiting formal charges. From
his arrest to his farcical secret trial and sudden release, Purvis
exposes the madness of modern Cuba with wit, grit and a sharp eye
for character. As tourists flock to Havana to marvel at a city
frozen in time, he shows that despite reforms and international
reconciliation the Castro regime remains a corrupt, dictatorial
relic. Close But No Cigar is part thriller, part comedy and part
morality tale, but most of all a true story that takes the reader
into a dark side of a sunny place that remains an enigma.
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