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熱帯の楽園に光るミサイルの標的は！？
1959年以来のカストロ政権が今終わろうとしている。
跡目争い、米国の思惑が渦巻き、一触即発の状態に！
太陽、セックス、社会主義の島・キューバ。さまざまな問題を孕みながらもカストロのもと、この熱帯の楽園は持ちこたえてきた。しかし、独裁者の死が間近に迫ったとき、一気に迷走が始まった。側近の裏切り、米国の不穏な動き、北朝鮮の関与、世界は突如きな臭くなる。
著書最高作の呼び名も高い長篇軍事小説。
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1959年以来のカストロ政権が今終わろうとしている。
跡目争い、米国の思惑が渦巻き、一触即発の状態に！
太陽、セックス、社会主義の島・キューバ。さまざまな問題を孕みながらもカストロのもと、この熱帯の楽園は持ちこたえてきた。しかし、独裁者の死が間近に迫ったとき、一気に迷走が始まった。側近の裏切り、米国の不穏な動き、北朝鮮の関与、世界は突如きな臭くなる。
著書最高作の呼び名も高い長篇軍事小説。
--このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
太陽、セックス、社会主義の島・キューバ。さまざまな問題を孕みながらもカストロのもと、この熱帯の楽園は持ちこたえてきた。しかし、独裁者の死が間近に迫ったとき、一気に迷走が始まった。側近の裏切り、米国の不穏な動き、北朝鮮の関与、世界は突如きな臭くなる。著者最高作の呼び名も高い長篇軍事小説。
--このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
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ジェイクグラフトンシリーズの７作目に当たりグラフトンは海軍少将に出世して、空母艦隊の艦隊司令官を務めている。今回のテーマは、「キューバ」。キューバというえばよくも悪くもフィデル・カストロ議長の国家であり、ポストカストロについては2003年ごろ彼がろれつが回らなくなったり、議会でころんだりした時に話題が出たが、回復以降はあまりささやかれない。生きている限りは、キューバはカストロの国なのである。今回物語の設定は、そのカストロが癌に侵され余命いくばくもないところから始まり、序盤から波乱含みである。一方、グラフトン少将は、キューバの中のアラモ砦であるグアンタナモ基地に保管されていた生物兵器の積み込みを監督せよとの極秘命令を受グンタナモ湾に艦隊を集結させる。このような状況の中、生物兵器を載せた貨物船が遺失し、政治的にも軍事的にも一気に不安定化するキューバとどのように対峙していくのか。直球勝負の展開が小気味よい。
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だから面白い！ってことです。
ジェイク・グラフトンシリーズですが、本作から読んでもなんの問題もないでしょう。
少し読みにくかったな。正直言って、キュービアンの名前がね、微妙に頭に入りづらかった。
作品には余り関係がないのかしらないが、微妙にチェ・ゲバラが、多くの人に愛されていた、のではないかなぁ、という感じが伺えるセリフが、２，３ヶ所ある。
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6 人中、6人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
"Cuba" is a worthy part of the Jake Grafton series.
1999/8/10
形式:ハードカバー
I found this to be an exciting read, once I got past the inconsistency with Coonts's "Under Siege," in which Fidel is executed as a democratic movement takes over Cuba. In this one, we seem to be in an alternate reality, where, years later, Castro is about to die of natural causes. Whether he'll be succeeded by the brutal secret police chief or an anti-Castro dissident is one of the several plot lines of this book.
The main plot line, concerning use of left-over Scud missiles to potentially deliver deadly viruses to major cities in the Southeastern U.S., consumes most of the book.
What I liked best was the secondary plot concerning two CIA agents operating in Cuba. They were well fleshed-out characters who added enough variety to the typical Grafton-Tarkington-Moravia plot to make this more than a formulaic add-on to this series.
You can still depend on Jake Grafton to supply laconic common-sense reactions to military and political situations, as others run in circles, scream, and shout.
One final point -- the final mini-chapter climax was both surprising and satisfying.
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Hidden Meanings?
2000/1/12
形式:ハードカバー
I appreciated the reviews shared with readers regarding this title. I did not, however, find any comment which resonated with my reasons for appreciating the work. Therefore, I am prepared to believe that perhaps I was reading too much into it; that is, perhaps I was feasting on hidden meanings of the diaglogue which might have been far afield from anything the author had in mind. In any event, here is what I like about the book. First and foremost, given the events of recent weeks in this Nation's relationship with Cuba, I considered the book a felicitous example of "art imitating life." The entire episode of Ocho and his countrymen floundering around in the Florida straits is redolent of the young Cuban kid and his experiences that are now an international causa celebre. The hunt for the biological weapons, etc., is of course a replay of our recent experience with Iraq. The episode of the Cuban pilot casually cruising around in his Mig29 wreaking destruction on far superior American forces is a parody of a real life incident that occurred when the U.S. invaded Grenada; one simple, nonchalant Cuban worker found an old cannon of some sort that hardly functioned but used it to wreak havoc on the American forces that sought to land on the airstrip the workers had under construction. And of course there are countless other examples. What I enjoyed most about the book was how it lent itself to being taken almost wholly as satire. That is the hidden meaning I found. Politics aside (because who can ever agree on whether it was Castro or Uncle Sam that defeated the Revolution?), there is something palpably absurd about the entire battlefield scenario--a first world nation using the latest high tech gadgetry to subdue a third world nation that for all practical purposes has neither Army, AirForce or Navy! While the U.S. President, et.al., were ruminating over strategies ostensibly designed to save America from attack if not the world, what little cerebration that was being expended in Cuba had to do with nothing more lofty than the personal pursuit of a few ingots of gold! The only missle ever fired was fired by the hapless CIA interloper; non of the missles had been tested or kept in repair; no Cuban forces were identified who had the remosted idea of how to access the silos, let alone fire the rockets; the bio weapons lab was a joke; one lone dissolute, spent scientist in charge--whose assasination was surely in a world with real morality a more negative reflection on the good guys than on the Cubans..it was an act of depravity of the first water! So, if it was all good fun, a novel ala Grisham, Sheldon, King, etc.,, let's chalk it up to being fun. If there was a hidden meaning--that is if it was a sly indictment of a foreign policy that is morally and strategically senseless and bankrupt, then I'd rate it five stars, well earned....
4 人中、4人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A so--so "chapter" of Jake Grafton's career
2000/5/15
形式:マスマーケット
"Cuba" seemed like it might be an entertaining read, given the current political dynamics and newsmakers. Plus, I thought it would be nice to have another "chapter" featuring Jake Grafton. However, this book didn't really live up to expectations.
As with another reviewer, I also had to put aside the inconsistency with Fidel Castro being knocked off in an earlier Coonts book. Also, as the same reviewer suggested, the notion that this is a "Jake Grafton" book is slightly misleading, given the small percentage of the story that features him.
One of Mr. Coonts' strongpoints is that when he writes action sequences, the read can move very fast. His descriptiveness of flight and combat are also very strong. However, he seems to take forever to get to these assets in "Cuba". I felt the first two-thirds of the book were just short of interminable as he set up the various storylines. Then the assault on Cuba turned out to be quick and enjoyable reading; unfortunately, since it was such a small chunk of the book, it wound up being too short.
The enjoyment I had reading the last 100 or so pages almost made me rate this more positively, until I actually thought about how long it seemed to take to get there. It seemed to me that he could have balanced the action and plot development out a little better. After having almost all action and little to no plot development in his previous book, "Fortunes Of War", it seemed like he swung back too far in the other direction with this one.
I found a couple "loose ends" also in reading this that Mr. Coonts seemed to fail to address (unless he plans a return to this storyline). One was the issue of Castro's videotape. We read of one being interrupted and Castro dying before he can finish, with a small reference to two tapes being there. Then near the end of the story, we find that Castro completed one speech naming his successor, but the reader (unless I missed something) doesn't get any explanation for when/how it was made. Also, the resolution with the biological lab at the University of Havana seemed to have been left hanging; all we got was a mob and Vargas being arrested...that was it.
I wonder if perhaps Mr. Coonts pushed "Cuba" out too soon after finishing "Fortunes Of War". That would explain an effort that seems, well, subpar. I think he needs to spend a little more time working on a balanced story that is more along the lines of his earlier works (i.e. "Flight Of The Intruder", "The Red Horsemen", "Intruders") that were far more compelling and enjoyable. Those are works I would recommend strongly to those who are newcomers to Mr. Coonts' work; "Cuba" is not a good addition to his resume.
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