Bank robber Ben Tyler agrees to participate in a scheme to run guns into Cuba on the eve of the Spanish-American war in 1898, and once there meets and falls in love with Amelia Brown, the mistress of a wealthy American planter who has enough money to keep Ben and Amelia in style for a long time, if only they can figure out how to get it.
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Booklist, November 1997 Kirkus Review Starred, November 1997 Kliatt, March 1999 Library Journal Starred, January 1998 Publisher's Weekly, December 1997 School Library Journal, August 1998 Wilson's Fiction, February 1999
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