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Castro has seized power in Cuba. In Miami, the handsome young Marín brothers and the woman they love risk everything to set the island free.
The Insurrectionists is the first installment of a planned trilogy of novels about Cuban-American exiles in the aftermath of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. In this volume, set in the 1960s, a handsome young survivor of the debacle marries his brother’s strong-willed widow and rises to become a rich and powerful Miami businessman — without shedding his ties to the violent anti-Castro underground and the CIA.
Alex Abella is an award-winning author, screenwriter and journalist. His previous novel was Mission Churchill, a thriller about the effort to avert Winston's assassination. Alex's first thriller, The Killing of the Saints, was a New York Times Notable Book. He also wrote The Great American, a novel based on the life of U.S. Marine veteran William Morgan, who became a leader of the Castro revolution.
Alex's non-fiction book Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire, was long listed for a National Book Award. Alex has developed original TV series for Warner Bros. and the Disney Channel, and his play Camelia was staged at New York's Actors Ensemble Theater. Alex has written for Time, the Los Angeles Times and others.
Born in Cuba, Alex and his family came to the United States when he was ten. He grew up in New York City, graduated from Columbia University, and won a TV news writing Emmy at KTVU in San Francisco. He has also been a foreign correspondent in Latin America. He and his wife live near Los Angeles.
“Tomas Marín is one hell of a creation. Alex Abella drags him out of the swamps of the Bay of Pigs into the CIA's dirty war on Castro. The killers, the spies, and the true believers. Hustlers, lovers, and the making of modern Miami against the crash of the 1960s American assassination culture. That would be enough for most novels. But this is Abella country: his heart is in every hot, stubborn inch of it. The humor and the hunger. The music, the family, the rage. The magic of Cuban South Florida. The Insurrectionists has blood on its hands and cafecito in its veins. And pulsing across every page, amor in all its particulars and peculiarities and passions. I loved it.”—Michael Beckner, author of The Spy Games series
