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Nelson DeMilleâs new novel  The Cuban Affair  takes us on a hard-hitting adventure through modern-day Cuba and makes some memorable points about todayâs tense political situation along the way. DeMille has an incredible gift for perfectly capturing a characterâs voice and unique personality. His protagonist in The Cuban Affair is 35-year-old former US Army infantry officer Daniel Graham MacCormick  or Mac for short.
Originally from Portland  Maine  we meet  Mac  once  he âs become a charter fishing boat captain in Key West  Florida. We never fully hear about  Mac âs tour in Afghanistan except for some traumatic combat memories  but weâre told  he  has a Silver Star  two Purple Hearts  and shrapnel wounds  so DeMille makes it clear that  Mac  saw heavy action.
DeMille reintroduces Mac into some abrupt  heart-racing action in The Cuban Affair. The story is told from the first-person point of view and is an action-packed  rollicking tale. After heâs approached by a group of mysterious Cuban expats in Key West   Mac  gets talked into a top-secret mission to recover $60 million in U.S. cash and property deeds from a cave in Cuba that were hidden during Castroâs violent overthrow of Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
 Mac  feels like thereâs something fishy about the whole operation  but eventually signs on  enticed in part by a beautiful Cuban-American woman  Sara  who will be his partner for the mission. DeMille showcases his humor throughout the book  such as when Sara is talking  Mac  into accepting the mission. Theyâre out on  Mac âs charter boat and Sara tries to appeal to his sense of adventure and his sense of right and wrong  with mixed results:
âDonât talk yourself out of this   Mac . Thereâs a sayingââ Iâd rather regret the things I did than the things I didnât do.â â
 Mac   of course  ends up taking on the mission and getting  himself  in hot water after traveling to Cuba under the cover of a Yale educational tour then breaking away to get the hidden money. Things donât go as planned and the book ends up taking a few sharp zigs and zags as it rockets to its conclusion  but this refreshing  zany  and cynical sense of humor is a great recurring feature throughout the book.
Demille also doesnât shy away from the hard topics. Heâs uncompromising in his look at the sadness of modern Cuba and the empty rhetoric of its socialist revolution.  Mac  doesnât really care about what happened in Cuba and comes across as basically apolitical: He just wants to get the money and the girl.
There are complications  naturally. The money is buried in a rural cave in a heavily armed police state full of citizen informants and the girl has a boyfriend. Nonetheless  despite his focus on the basics and disinterest in politics   even Mac  starts to feel disillusioned after arriving in Havana and looking around at the state of things. âRevolutions usually replace one group of incompetent autocratic assholes with another  and the real losers are everyone else  â Mac  ponders at one point.
When  he  finds out about the food situation in Cuba itâs even more sobering. Sara explains to  him  that Cuba is basically half starving as they look around an organic farm:
Even as Sara and Mac traverse Cuba and get into big trouble  DeMille keeps the laughs coming. Itâs quite funny that DeMille puts a character called Richard Neville (clearly a humorous stand-in for himself) into the book. Neville is a bestselling adventure author traveling with  Mac âs tour group in Cuba to research a book and Mac notices Nevilleâs highly attractive wife (a real âlookerâ). Not believing she could really be into the grouchy writer   Mac  surmises she must be attracted to Neville for âthe bulge in his pants â his wallet  not his crotch.â
Neville and  Mac  also have a bit of a rivalry for Sara and a competing inside joke about Ernest Hemingway that is hilarious. As Neville takes photos in front of Hemingwayâs house in Cuba:
As  Mac  and Sara work to get the money they run into a citizen informer  or chivato. He tries to buy them off in return for his silence that he suspects they are up to funny business and explains how things really work in the Communist paradise:
In another part  Mac  and Sara walk through the nicest neighborhood of Havana and are shocked at what they see  which is outright hypocrisy:
In the end  The Cuban Affair manages to combine just the right amount of sassy and sad. It doesnât focus all on doom and gloom  nor does it pretend that everything is merely a joke. At its most profound âteachable moment â  Mac  concludes that life is messy and the truth about humanity lies somewhere in between optimism and blackpill nihilism.  He  concludes that human affairs are complex and paradoxical  alternately bringing out the best and worst in different individuals.
In  his  acknowledgements  DeMille mentions that  he  did personally go on a Yale educational tour of Cuba to prepare for the bookâRichard Neville  indeed.  He  also thanks various friends  family  and colleagues who helped and advised  him  on the book. One is especially telling  because it shows that this book comes from the source:
Iâd like to thank a man who I met in Cuba  and who gave it to  me  straight about contemporary Cuban politics  culture  and life. He wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons  but heâs given himself the code name âLola.â Thank you  Lola  wherever you are  and take care.
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Nelson DeMille Presents A 'Cuban Affair' To Remember


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Richard Sherman  is not a fan of the NFL's injury reports.
Speaking with reporters on Wednesday   Sherman  who has been listed as questionable the past two weeks despite not missing a defensive snap for the Seahawks   said that the injury reports existed more for the people betting on the games than anyone else.
"I guess from what I understand the rule is for the gamblers  for Vegas  to make sure the odds and everything are what they are supposed to be  which is apparently what the league is concerned about when talking about injuries and things like that "  Sherman  said. "So maybe somebody should look into that  because I thought we weren't a gambling league and we were against all those things. But our injury report is specifically to make sure the gamblers get their odds right."
In response to  Sherman 's comments  the NFL put out a statement seemingly confirming  Sherman 's beliefs. However  the league counters the claim that they are for gambling  and instead suggesting that they are to protect the league from gambling.
 Sherman  added that  it  wasn't just people betting on games in Las Vegas that were beneficiaries of the NFL's injury reports. "Fantasy football  oh my God  " Sherman  said. "They are almost as bad as the gamblers."
While he was lighthearted by the end of the presser  it's striking to see a player call out the league for a policy as plainly as  Sherman  did in this case. You can watch  Sherman 's comments below.
The Seahawks head to Nashville on Sunday to take on the Tennessee Titans. Having not missed a game since 2011  fans can expect  Sherman  to play  regardless of what the injury report says on Sunday.
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Richard Sherman blasts NFL injury reports


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A report says that  House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.)  is considering leaving Congress after much soul-searching in talks with  his  close friends.
According to sources close to  Ryan  who spoke with CNN about the matter  they believe  he  could step down after the 2018 midterm elections. But that is based on the condition that  he  is able to pass the Republican plan to reform the tax system.
The report says  he  might even retire sooner than that.
The CNN report said that exhaustion with President Trump was one of the reasons cited for  Ryan  mulling over  his  retirement from Congress.
A Politico report said that  Ryan  âwould like to serve through Election Day 2018 and retire ahead of the next Congress.â
What did  Ryan  say about the report?
 Ryan  denied the report publicly  saying to reporters that  he âs in Congress to stay.
 Ryan  spokeswoman AshLee Strong explained further in a statement saying  âThis is pure speculation. As the speaker himself said today  heâs not going anywhere any time soon.â
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Paul Ryan reportedly makes a major decision after much âsoul searchingâ â TheBlaze