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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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Former President Bill Clinton  is reportedly facing a new round of charges of sexual assault from four women  who claim the incidents occurred after  Clinton  left the White House in 2001.
Author and journalist Ed Klein reports in the Daily Mail that attorneys have notified  Clinton  that they are preparing to file four separate lawsuits against  him . Klein says a member of  Clinton ’s legal team has confirmed the existence of the allegations to  him .
 Clinton ’s history of sexual misconduct both before and during  his  presidency returned to the spotlight in 2016 and again in 2017 during  his  wife Hillary’s failed presidential bid and more recently amid new allegations of sexual misconduct against a plethora of politicians  journalists  and Hollywood celebrities.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said last week that  Clinton  should have resigned the presidency in the wake of his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. It forms part of a broader re-evaluation of  Clinton ’s conduct by Democrats and left-wing media pundits.
Klein  who has written a number of sensationalist books including All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump  reports that the women were employed in “low-level positions” at an organization owned by playboy billionaire Ron Burkle.  Clinton  was hired by Burkle and flew around the world on Burkle’s private jet — which Klein says was known as “Air Fuck One.”
Klein says there is no evidence that Burkle knew anything about the alleged assaults by  Clinton . He also reports that  Hillary Clinton  is “furious” with Bill for getting stuck in another scandal and offered to hire private detectives to dig up dirt on the women — but  Clinton ’s attorneys said no.
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Report: Bill Clinton Facing Fresh Accusations of Sexual Assault


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There has already been ample reporting suggesting that  Mr. Kushner  may have done just that. During a period when  Mr. Kushner  was negotiating President Trumpâs first visit to China   his  family business was trying to sell a debt-ridden property in New York to an insurance company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Public scrutiny of the deal scuttled it. Last May  The New York Times described how  immediately after the Trump administration extended a visa program for wealthy investors   Mr. Kushner âs sister invoked  Mr. Kushner  in a presentation seeking Chinese investment in one of the familyâs New Jersey real estate developments.
Such appearances of conflict might not  by themselves  get  Mr. Kushner  in trouble. The president has broad authority to set the countryâs foreign policy  and public corruption laws have been far more difficult to enforce after a 2016 Supreme Court decision overturning the conviction of the former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell on bribery charges.
But  Mr. Kushner  might face more trouble to the extent  he  keeps such negotiations secret from those in charge of carrying out United States foreign policy. When the national security adviser  H. R. McMaster  learned of some of Mr. Kushnerâs communications only after the fact  he was surprised  one official told The Post  and thought it was âweird.â
 Mr. Kushner  has been famously tardy in disclosing  his  business interests and ties with foreigners in  his  application for a security clearance.  He  was still making updates to  his  forms as recently as January. That means  he  has conducted an entire year of foreign policy without officially disclosing all the personal interests  he  may have been serving.
Finally  the risk might be greater still if  Mr. Kushner  negotiated such deals before Mr. Trumpâs inauguration. Thatâs the possibility raised by  Mr. Kushnerâs  pre-inauguration meetings with Russia. In December 2016   Mr. Kushner  met with Sergey Gorkov  the head of a bank under American sanctions  Vnesheconombank. That meeting came after  Mr. Kushner  suggested a back channel of communications in a meeting with Russiaâs ambassador  Sergey Kislyak  according to Mr. Kislyak.
While the proper authorities may not have been informed of this series of meetings  Michael Flynn  the former national security adviser who pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with Mr. Muellerâs investigators late last year  did attend or at least knew of them. Steve Bannon  who recently sat for 20 hours of interviews with special counsel prosecutors  participated in the Zayed Trump Tower meeting along with Mr. Flynn and  Mr. Kushner . So if they are a concern to Mr. Mueller  he has recently gotten far more details of what happened at the meetings.
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Has Jared Kushner Conspired to Defraud America?