I would have put 0 stars, but I guess you can't in Amazon's system. The book is good bedtime reading because its descriptions of Cuba are just interesting enough to get your mind off daily concerns, but not so good that you can't fall asleep. Even at the end I was just reading a chapter or two at a time. When Coonts describes an evil character as a "liar of Clintonian magnitude" I realized that I didn't like Coonts.