Penguin Books, 473 p., new

Miami in 1981. Here ‘los gusanos’ live in America but dream of Cuba. Marta de la Pena recruits a priest, a teenager, an uncle and the dangerous but indispensable El Halcon to strike a symbolic blow against Castro. For Marta is determined to avenge the death of her brother Ambrosio, killed in the Bay of Pigs. But in a vortex of searing passions and uncontrollable violence, only the powerful can determine who is casualty, who survivor...