The Girl Who Came Calling: A cold War Spy Novel

Its the Cold War. Fidel Castro is clinging to power in Cuba as the CIA the Mafia and counter-revolutionaries try to take him out. His gorgeous go-to girl assassin Pilar Rivera is all that stands between him and the graveyard. The Cuban Missile Crisis is winding down and Russia removes their nuclear missiles. Or do they? Rogue Russian agents help Fidel Castro smuggle nuclear warheads into the US. Now five ticking nuclear timebombs are just waiting to be detonated whenever Castro feels the need. While famed columnist Dorothy Kilgallen is investigating the JFK assassination she uncovers the story. Its up to Pilar to keep her from telling it even as shes coping with Che Guevara in Cuba Lucky Luciano in Italy Elvis Presley in New York Marilyn Monroe at Lake Tahoe and Jackie Kennedy in the Mediterranean. The story takes a twist when Pilar discovers Rafaels Portrait of a Young Man a masterpiece stolen by the Nazis in World War II hanging on Lucky Lucianos wall and is drawn into the larcenous world of stolen and art and forged masterpieces.Its a sweeping tale of sex intrigue murder and madness involving the rat pack the jet set mobsters moguls and the most iconic figures of the 20th century as told by Jack Ruby the last man standing - right next to the girl who came calling.