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Castro's Daughter

McGarvey #16 / 27
by David Hagberg
Castro's Daughter (McGarvey #16) by David Hagberg
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Cuban Intelligence Service Colonel Maria Leon is called to the bedside of the dying Fidel Castro. She is his illegitimate daughter but has never been acknowledged by her father until now. Castro makes her promise to contact the legendary former Director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey to help her on a mysterious quest to find Cibola, the fabled seven cities of Gold.

As the Cuban government unravels, Leon has to use every means at her disposal just to find the elusive McGarvey, all the while fending off men in her own Operations Division who want her job or her death. In desperation, Leon kidnaps McGarvey's closest friend, Otto Rencke, to force McGarvey's hand.

Mac's meeting with Leon launches the most bizarre mission of his entire career that takes him from Cuba to Mexico City, to Spain and finally to an ancient site in New Mexico that the Spanish conquistadors called the Jornada del muerto—the Journey of Death.

On the run from Cuban intelligence agents and blood thirsty Mexican drug cartel soldiers who will stop at nothing for a piece of the fabulous treasure, McGarvey struggles to decipher the truth buried in Leon's deception.

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Release date: July 17, 2012

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David Hagberg

David Hagberg is an American novelist best known for his techno-thrillers featuring super-spy Kirk McGarvey. Hagberg has also written numerous thrillers under the pseudonym Sean Flannery. Hagberg's style has been described as a cross between Tom Clancy and Ian Fleming. His thrillers generally feature a combination of technical detail, timely plots and super-spy heroics that are sometimes almost prophetic in their accuracy. In the novel Joshua's Hammer, for example, written in 2000, Hagberg gives a chilling account of a mega-terrorist plot by Osama bin Laden to kill thousands of Americans on their home soil, published a full year before the World Trade Center Attacks.

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Like many "cloak-and-dagger" novelists, Hagberg has a professional background in espionage, having spent his stint of military duty as a cryptographer for U.S. Air Force Intelligence.

Hagberg apprenticed as a spy writer by contributing more than 20 "work-for-hire" entries in the Nick Carter – Killmaster series of espionage novels between 1976 and 1987. He also wrote "work-for-hire" novels based on the Flash Gordon comic strip.

His work has been well-received by his colleagues in the crime writing community. Three of his novels, The Kremlin Conspiracy, False Prophets, and Broken Idols, were nominated for Edgars by the MWA in the "Best Paperback Original Novel" category. Three of his McGarvey novels, Countdown, Crossfire, and Critical Mass, won American Mystery Awards, given by Mystery Scene Magazine, for "Best Spy Novel."

Hagberg wrote a short story titled "Genesis" in Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary.

McGarvey

McGarvey consists of twenty-seven primary books, and includes two additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Without Honor (McGarvey #1)
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Countdown (McGarvey #2)
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Crossfire (McGarvey #3)
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Critical Mass (McGarvey #4)
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High Flight (McGarvey #5)
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Assassin (McGarvey #6)
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White House (McGarvey #7)
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Joshua's Hammer (McGarvey #8)
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The Kill Zone (McGarvey #9)
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Soldier of God (McGarvey #10)
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Allah's Scorpion (McGarvey #11)
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Dance with the Dragon (McGarvey #12)
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The Expediter (McGarvey #13)
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The Cabal (McGarvey #14)
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Abyss (McGarvey #15)
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Castro's Daughter (McGarvey #16)
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Blood Pact (McGarvey #17)
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Retribution (McGarvey #18)
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The Shadowmen (McGarvey #18.5)
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The Fourth Horseman (McGarvey #19)
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24 Hours (McGarvey #19.5)
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End Game (McGarvey #20)
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Tower Down (McGarvey #21)
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Flash Points (McGarvey #22)
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Face Off (McGarvey #23)
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First Kill (McGarvey #24)
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McGarvey (McGarvey #25)
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Gambit (McGarvey #26)
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Traitor (McGarvey #27)
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