That We Shall Die

A Jane Madden genealogical mystery

An American ex-soldier entices a young English woman to stay in late-1950s Havana, a decadent capital pretending all is normal while Fidel Castro’s guerrilla army rises in the southern mountains of Cuba. She encounters glamour and violence before having her head turned by the idealism of revolution. She returns home with a baby, a photograph taken with a cultural icon, and a gun. A lifetime later, that child commissions a professional genealogist to investigate his mother’s family and past. His father’s identity is a riddle, but could DNA provide the answer? Could it Che Guevara himself, a famed racing driver, or just some lowly Cuban unknown to history? But there is another photograph, another puzzle. Who is the beautiful girl pictured decades ago in a busy London street? Where is she now? And why is it so important to find her? Returning in the third book in the series, Jane Madden discovers who her client truly is and closes a chapter on her own life.