Sparky and the Beard

by Dan Baldwin

Sparky and the Beard dips into those hazy, almost forgotten days of pre-Vietnam … the 1950s. The unlikely hero is Sparky from Chicago. Born Jacob Rubenstein, he is better known by his adopted name, Jack Ruby, the infamous killer of President Kennedy’s alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Dan Baldwin takes historical facts and weaves a fast-paced novel of intrigue, deception and murder, framed around the overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro’s revolution as he increases his communist stranglehold on the island paradise of Cuba. Under Baldwin’s masterful storytelling, Sparky and the Beard is an enjoyable, nerve-wracking experience. Like Sparky, the reader doesn’t know who to trust, who will live or how the protagonist will get out of Cuba. History has judged Jack Ruby harshly (though many consider his actions in Dallas in 1963 as justified.) Perhaps Dan’s most significant accomplishment in Sparky is his ability to craft the character of Jack Ruby into a sympathetic, even heroic, individual and take the reader and Ruby through compelling twists and turns.

341 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2019

About the author

Dan Baldwin is the author/co-author/ghostwriter of 50 published books on business, real estate, marketing, sales and related subjects.
His Western Novels are: CALDERA, CALDERA-A MAN ON FIRE, and TRAPP CANYON. All three are available for download or in paperback from www.amazon.com and www.creatspace.com and the other most possible sources.
His first mystery, DESECRATION is available for Kindle downloat at http://www.amazon.com/dp/b00eqm6kr0. A sequel, HERESY, will be released in late 2013. A thriller, SPARKY AND THE KING, is currently being marketed by his agent. Contact Baldwin at www.fourknightspress.com or www.danbaldwin.biz which are websites devoted to his fiction and non-fiction works and to writing tips and guidelines for his readers.