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William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and
friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the
mountains of Cuba. He led one band of guerrillas, and Che Guevara
another, and together they swept through the country, ultimately
forcing corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista from power. In just a
year of fighting, the American revolutionary had altered the
landscape of the Cold War. But Morgan believed they were fighting
to liberate Cuba. Then Fidel Castro canceled elections, seized
properties, and imprisoned Morgan's fellow freedom fighters. Even
Morgan's own house mysteriously blew up. But The Comandante is
about more than just the revolution. It's the story of two people
in love, pressured by government agents and mobsters vying to
control a nation that soon brought the world to the brink of
nuclear destruction. In the mountains, Morgan met Olga Rodriguez, a
beautiful, fiery nurse, whom he soon married. Together, amid their
firestorm romance, they decided to take a stand and take back the
government from Castro and Guevara. The newlyweds began running
arms to prepare for a counterrevolution, soon caught in a
cloak-and-dagger web among Castro's forces; the Mob, which
controlled Havana; and the CIA's preparations for the Bay of Pigs
Invasion. But one of Morgan's guards betrayed him to Castro, who
threw the counterrevolutionary in prison, placing his wife and
their two daughters under house arrest. The couple smuggled secret
messages to each other until Olga ultimately escaped by drugging
her captors. Before she could free her husband, though, a junta
tribunal tried and sentenced him to death by firing squad. Drawing
on declassified FBI, CIA, and Army intelligence records as well as
Olga's diaries, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Michael Sallah and
Mitch Weiss skillfully reveal the inner workings of the Cuban
Revolution while detailing the incredible love story of a rebel
nurse and an American street hero who left their mark on history.
The last great secret of the Vietnam War is revealed in a gripping
book that is the culmination of efforts for which the authors
received a Pulitzer Prize for investigative
reporting. TIGER FORCE is the searing story of a group of elite
army soldiers in Vietnam who spun dangerously out of control and
went on a horrific seven-month rampage. It is also the story of how
these crimes, buried by the army for decades, at last came to light
through the heroic persistence of a few individuals who could not
forget.
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