{"product_id":"escape-from-castros-cuba","title":"Escape from Castro's Cuba","description":"Named a 2021 Top Thriller by \u003ci\u003eAlta Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ​2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Action\/Adventure Fiction \u003cbr\u003e 2021 Professional Achievement Award, Johns Hopkins University faculty \u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this visionary sequel to \u003ci\u003eCastro's Curveball\u003c\/i\u003e, the former Washington Senators Minor League catcher has returned to Havana with a small role in a movie being filmed on location. Billy Bryan soon realizes that this place and his past remain as star-crossed as when he played winter ball in the Cuban capital decades before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Against his better judgment, Billy becomes entangled in a scheme to spirit a top baseball prospect off the island. This pits him against his old friend Fidel Castro. Despite being in his final days, the dictator remains a dangerous adversary, as does the Cuban sports machine and the Mexican crime syndicates that now direct baseball talent toward the U.S. Major Leagues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eEscape from Castro's Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e, Billy must once again navigate the crosscurrents of the so-called City of Columns: a place where the sunsets from the Hotel Nacional along the Malecón breakwater are as beautiful as ever, but where the alleyways in Old Havana still fan out, crooked and broken, like an old catcher's fingers.","brand":"Tim Wendel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53122433188204,"sku":"9781496222923","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/7985\/1884\/files\/9781496222923-us.jpg?v=1769704312","url":"https:\/\/commercestreetbooks.com\/products\/escape-from-castros-cuba","provider":"Commerce Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}