Cuba Libre: A Timeline 10/27/62 Story

Book : Part of: Timeline 10/27/62

by James Philip

Genres: General Fiction; Alternative History sci-fi

Synopsis

This was where it had started; and ought to have ended.

Cuba…

But now it is February 1969 and Cuba is front and centre in the President’s sights.

Initially, it was estimated that over 90 percent of the population of the main island, over six million men, women and children had died on the day of the war. In fact, although the western provinces of Cuba were devastated, and the capital Havana utterly wrecked, some two million people had probably survived the US Air Force retaliatory strike; mainly because great care had been taken to avoid the US enclave at Guantanamo Bay, situated near its south eastern extremity from being inundated with radioactive fallout.

Fatefully, in early 1963 the decision had been made – in great secrecy – to contract the problem of ensuring a second, Castro-like regime could never again arise, to the CIA, and its exiled Cuban surrogates. Now the consequences of that blunder have come home to roost.

Distracted by other more pressing matters, successive administrations had tried to forget all about ‘that goddammed island!’

And for a while, succeeded. In forgetting, that was. However, that was then, and much blood and treasure later the still secret, dirty war in Cuba had sucked in thirty thousand US Infantrymen and Marines to prop up Central Intelligence’s mercenary brigade of as many as twenty thousand former mobsters, Batista-loyalists, and soldiers of fortune.

Now, the casualties are mounting and the new man in the Oval Office, working through his in-tray has got to the file marked ‘CUBA: OPTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION.’

There is a great deal of unfinished business for the newly inaugurated 39th President of the United States and the Cuba: Options for Consideration’ file has briefly, found its way to the top of his to-do list!

Author’s note to readers: since the publication of ‘Operation Anadyr’ in October 2014, the Timeline 10/27/62 series has branched into and explored a number of additional narrative arcs and themes, and in several standalone stories.

For my readers who prefer to read the Timeline 10/27/62 books in the chronological order of the overall narrative arc CUBA LIBRE = 29.

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Release date: September 15, 2020

Print pages: 64