Havana Passage

The nation's first woman President is an iconoclast. Well down the list of her foreign policy initiatives is the diplomatic conversion of Cuba from a peace-threatening cancer to a useful hemispheric partner. Suddenly, however, the immediacy of Cuba is brought to her attention by two events. The United States Coast Guard boards an American fishing boat departing Havana Harbor, and Kate Stevens, a law student at Georgetown University, produces a documentary film questioning the fifty-year-old Cuban trade embargo.The President gathers strength from two men who fought alongside each other to secure her electoral victory-Charles Black, her Chief of Staff, and Gordon Cox, a Washington lawyer. While Cox helps her move the controversial Cuban policy forward, Gordon and his firm's new associate, Kate Stevens, prepare to defend the fishing boat captain in court, and are sent to Havana on a secret mission. In this thrilling new work, readers are given a peek into the workings of a lawyer whose client is the President of the United States, and a Cuba without Fidel Castro.