Havana Hangover

By: Randy Richardson

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

Thirty-year-old Chicago corporate lawyer Tanner Ford leaves behind a painful past and lucrative job for a bucket-list trip to Cuba with Jackson Swift, his estranged best friend from law school. But when they arrive, the oddities start adding up. Jackson evades questions about his wife and kids. Their itinerary keeps changing, and their tour guide might work for a fake company. When Tanner awakes after a rum-soaked night beside Dannel, a local musician with something to hide, and a text from Jackson that reads “HELP ME,” his dream vacation turns into a fight for survival. He is held hostage in an abandoned cigar factory, interrogated by the police, and hunted down by a mysterious “ghost” in the Cuban government. Beset by anxiety and panic attacks, Tanner is hurled unwittingly into an international conspiracy leading right back to Jackson and a friendship that began in betrayal.

HAVANA HANGOVER combines the disoriented protagonist of Andrea Bartz’s The Lost Night with the political intrigue of a Paul Vidich novel. It is a story about healing, friendship, love and deceit, set within a lovingly-rendered Cuban cityscape and fueled by rapid twists and turns, eventually landing in the corrupt corners of DC politics.

“Randy Richardson’s edge-of-your-seat suspense novel, ‘Havana Hangover, ‘ is terrifying in its vivid portrayal of contemporary Cuba, with twists and turns that ram the characters through the storyline trajectory like the bullets that fly from chapter to chapter. Parallel to the action are soul-searching questions many of us ask. How far will I go before I sell my soul? The conclusion of ‘Havana Hangover’ is a terrifying treatise to the 2023 political landscape we live in.”
Catherine Lanigan, author of Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile

“Randy Richardson delivers a seamless suspense thriller, a crackling read centered around the smokey, sizzling, sensual streets of Havana with all of its political and mysterious undertones. The ghost of Ernest Hemingway, Cuba’s most famous adopted son haunts this story, one that reads like the tension-filled narrative behind the late Warren Zevon’s ‘Lawyers, Guns and Money,’ a song that evokes the shadowy secrets of the Cuban underworld. Gripping from start to finish.”
David W. Berner, author of A Well-Respected Man, and former Writer-in-Residence at the Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Home

“In ‘Havana Hangover’, the author combines love, greed, and heartbreak into a page-turning thriller. Two young lawyers whose friendship fell apart during law school reunite under somewhat mysterious circumstances and fly to Havana. Once there, it becomes dangerous for one lawyer to trust the other, especially when the other goes missing. Deftly woven throughout the story is Richardson’s knowledge of Cuba. If the lure of Cuba calls you and you enjoy a first-rate thriller, don’t miss ‘Havana Hangover.’”
Libby Fischer Hellmann, author of Havana Lost

ABOUT RANDY RICHARDSON

Randy is an attorney, former journalist, and a die-hard Cubs fan. As the president of the Chicago Writers Association, he is deeply involved with Chicago’s writing community, including as an organizer of the Let’s Just Write! conference. He is the author of two well-received novels, Cheeseland and Lost in the Ivy, as well as co-author of Cubsessions, all from hybrid publisher Eckhartz Press. His essays have been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines including Hypertext and Memory House. Visit his website, randyrichardson.co, to learn more about his work.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Renegade Press, LLC was started by internationally acclaimed actor, screenwriter and author Dan Davies. The mission, behind this boutique publisher, is to specialize in publishing 3-5 books a year that have a diverse, unique and compelling message. For more info please go to renegadepresspublisher.com.