Clap
By (Author) J.W. Diaz
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
3rd August 2000
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
256
Width 128mm, Height 16mm, Spine 195mm
191g
Welcome to Santiago: tourist paradise and captial of the Cuban sex industry, in the grip of an epidemic of VD.
Meet Ricardo Farr: pimp, petty hustler and astrologer for El Diario newspaper. Ricardo is about to prepare for a big international trade show - and a healthy delivery of contraband from the mainland - when his doctor gives him some rather alarming news... There's no hope for him without treatment, and the drugs he needs are unavailable in Cuba because of the American embargo. But there are those in high places with their own plans for him.J W Diaz works as a journalist and has travelled widely in Central and South America.