Továrna křiváků (The Crook Factory) – Simmons Dan (2012)

In 1942, during the height of World War II, Ernest Hemingway asked the American ambassador in Cuba for permission to run a spy group from his house in the Cuban countryside. This is true... DAN SIMMONS, a recipient of numerous literary awards, elaborates on this little-known historical fact into a cleverly crafted, thrilling story. In the summer of 1942, an FBI agent named Joe Lucas traveled to Cuba to monitor Ernest Hemingway at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover, who had recklessly decided to play spy in the Caribbean. Lucas was instructed to somehow gain the trust and friendship of the famous author, but even all his cold-blooded reasoning and training did not prepare him for the human whirlwind known as 'Papá.' Hemingway created a spy group he called 'The Thief's Workshop' to stage a dramatic game of amateur espionage. Then, against all expectations, Hemingway acquires serious intelligence, and the game becomes mortally dangerous for him, Lucas, and countless innocents. In The Crooked Factory, Dan Simmons weaves an unforgettable, gripping tale populated by larger-than-life characters inhabiting the sensuous, intoxicating Cuban landscape of the 1940s. It is a novel about honor,…