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Jake Sullivan #3
Havana Daydreamin'
It’s the summer of 1958, and Meyer Lansky, the mob’s accountant, is barely a warm breeze away from seeing the crown jewel of his gambling empire sparkling on the ocean: Havana, the Monte Carlo of the Caribbean. Then… Castro came down from the mountains, armed and on a mission. Batista’s days were numbered, and so was his patronage of Lansky and his cronies. It was said Lansky moved hundreds of millions of dollars out of Cuba. But, when he died in 1983, his estate was reported to be worth only sixty thousand dollars in cash. What happened to the money?
With the ratification of the treaty between the U.S. and Cuba, President Jordan Fletcher is encouraging American entrepreneurship on the island. Enter the mob…with a revived dream of government-sanctioned criminal enterprise. Two competing factions are vying to become the new Havana Mob and each knows the key to success is finding Lansky’s missing millions. One faction, led by the mysterious “Le Lisiado,” is on the offensive: Paula Cortez, President Fletcher’s liaison to the new Cuban government, is kidnapped
When Mike Lang learns of the kidnapping, he rushes to Havana to save the woman he loves. Threating Paula’s death, “Le Lisiado” blackmails Mike into finding the lost Lansky millions. Desperate for help, Mike calls upon his best friend, Jake Sullivan. Aided by a former Lansky employee, Silvio Caroselli, and Manuel Ortega, the new Chief of Havana Police, Mike and Jake track clues through a maze of leads, racing to find the treasure and save Paula’s life. Chip Bell’s third novel takes the reader on a twisted treasure hunt that begins in 1950s Havana and leads to an ending that no one, especially Jake and Mike, could have thought possible.
With the ratification of the treaty between the U.S. and Cuba, President Jordan Fletcher is encouraging American entrepreneurship on the island. Enter the mob…with a revived dream of government-sanctioned criminal enterprise. Two competing factions are vying to become the new Havana Mob and each knows the key to success is finding Lansky’s missing millions. One faction, led by the mysterious “Le Lisiado,” is on the offensive: Paula Cortez, President Fletcher’s liaison to the new Cuban government, is kidnapped
When Mike Lang learns of the kidnapping, he rushes to Havana to save the woman he loves. Threating Paula’s death, “Le Lisiado” blackmails Mike into finding the lost Lansky millions. Desperate for help, Mike calls upon his best friend, Jake Sullivan. Aided by a former Lansky employee, Silvio Caroselli, and Manuel Ortega, the new Chief of Havana Police, Mike and Jake track clues through a maze of leads, racing to find the treasure and save Paula’s life. Chip Bell’s third novel takes the reader on a twisted treasure hunt that begins in 1950s Havana and leads to an ending that no one, especially Jake and Mike, could have thought possible.
- GenresMystery
226 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 10, 2012
About the author
Chip Bell
42 books29 followersCharles L. "Chip" Bell, Jr., lives in the City of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Linda, is the father of two daughters, Jennifer and Jessica, and is a practicing attorney specializing in personal injury litigation, with his main office in Arnold, Pennsylvania.
Born on February 23, 1950, in Harrison Township, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Tarentum High School in 1968, attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, from 1968 to 1972, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude. He served in the United States Army from 1972 to 1974, attended Duquesne University School of Law from 1975 to 1979, and graduated Cum Laude. He practiced law as a personal injury trial attorney with the law firm of Rosenberg, Sewak, Pizzi and Bell from 1979 to 2002, and thereafter as a sole practitioner up to and including the present date.
He is a member of the American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) and the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (formerly the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association) and has served on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association from 1988 to 1990. He is also a member of the Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and served on the Board of Governors in 1988. He is a founder and past president of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Southwestern Pennsylvania, a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
He is the author of the Jake Sullivan series of novels, the first of which, Come Monday, was published in June of 2011, and the second, Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season, in October 2011. His third novel, Havana Daydreamin', was released in April 2012. His fourth novel, A Pirate Looks at Forty.has just been published as of June 2, 2014.
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March 1, 2018
This series gets better with each novel. The Jake Sullivan novel is far more than just a crime/thriller series named after Jimmy Buffett songs. This one manages to still throw in quips about people and places in Key West while still providing a terrific international stage of intrigue and spy games.
This one involves the search for the alleged lost 300M that Meyer Lansky sunk into a hotel in Cuba. When Jake's best friend, Mike Lang, sees his girlfriend and US Liason to Cuba, Paul Cortez, kidnapped by some really bad guys who hold her life in exchange for Jake and Mike finding and turning over the Lansky fortune.
Cuba, the Mob, US vs. Cuban relations, Castro --- this one has it all!
This one involves the search for the alleged lost 300M that Meyer Lansky sunk into a hotel in Cuba. When Jake's best friend, Mike Lang, sees his girlfriend and US Liason to Cuba, Paul Cortez, kidnapped by some really bad guys who hold her life in exchange for Jake and Mike finding and turning over the Lansky fortune.
Cuba, the Mob, US vs. Cuban relations, Castro --- this one has it all!
December 12, 2021
Liking this team, the story keeps you guessing!
March 27, 2015
Havana Daydreamin' by Chip Bell
Jake Sullivan is an attorney who appears to revel in hot water. This is the third of the Jake Sullivan Trilogy. It is a action adventure primarily set in Havana Cuba.
Bell has taken current events and segued into a novel.
Jake and Mike Lang his confidant and backup are embroiled in the old day Mob as relations with Cuba are normalized. The two are blackmailed by emotion into helping organized crime get a toe hold in the "new" Cuba.
Bell does an excellent job with his plot line and leavens the book with action and violence. His violence is not graphic and plays a part in the plot as opposed to just being included for the thrill factor.
Bell also does a great job in tying up loose ends and introducing surprising plot twists. The more I read of Bell, the more I like his books.
I recommend.
Jake Sullivan is an attorney who appears to revel in hot water. This is the third of the Jake Sullivan Trilogy. It is a action adventure primarily set in Havana Cuba.
Bell has taken current events and segued into a novel.
Jake and Mike Lang his confidant and backup are embroiled in the old day Mob as relations with Cuba are normalized. The two are blackmailed by emotion into helping organized crime get a toe hold in the "new" Cuba.
Bell does an excellent job with his plot line and leavens the book with action and violence. His violence is not graphic and plays a part in the plot as opposed to just being included for the thrill factor.
Bell also does a great job in tying up loose ends and introducing surprising plot twists. The more I read of Bell, the more I like his books.
I recommend.
February 15, 2016
Does not measure up
I bought several in this series after reading the first which I enjoyed. I found this one to be annoying. Jake and Mike refer to each other by name several times I each exchange. Who does that! Had to quit reading.
I bought several in this series after reading the first which I enjoyed. I found this one to be annoying. Jake and Mike refer to each other by name several times I each exchange. Who does that! Had to quit reading.
August 6, 2020
Great writing, gripping story!
This one will grab you and won't let go. Full of twists and surprises, more action and suspense than the previous books in this series. Can't wait to start the next one!
This one will grab you and won't let go. Full of twists and surprises, more action and suspense than the previous books in this series. Can't wait to start the next one!
October 31, 2020
Another well written story from my new favorite author
Speechless! Intriguing. Perhaps to some the ending would not be a surprise. But me, I take one word at a time, one event at a time and don't try to figure it out. I just enjoy it.
Speechless! Intriguing. Perhaps to some the ending would not be a surprise. But me, I take one word at a time, one event at a time and don't try to figure it out. I just enjoy it.
September 20, 2012
A very quick page-turner that I read today. The best of the Jimmy Buffet titled books so far!
June 23, 2013
Weakest of the trilogy. Slow moving, not at all like the first two in this series.
January 14, 2015
Pretty entertaining
I really enjoy books like this. easy to read.easy to put down to be picked up later. nothing too deep,just an enjoyable read.
I really enjoy books like this. easy to read.easy to put down to be picked up later. nothing too deep,just an enjoyable read.
July 13, 2015
chip is a local man who writes a very entertaining, exciting novel i have read 2 previous jake sullivan novels
and they are great. will pick up his next.
and they are great. will pick up his next.
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