BLOOD IN the SAND: Book I of USAtlas Pentalogy

In the history we know, the Bay of Pigs was the failure that humiliated Kennedy. In this novel, it isn't. April 1961. With the air support Kennedy never cancels, Brigade 2506 secures the beachhead and the Cuban regime falls in a matter of days. To dazzle the world, Washington designs the "Caribbean Plan" a pharaonic injection of dollars meant to turn the island into the ultimate capitalist paradise. The Missile Crisis never happens. JFK survives Dallas. And the economic miracle has a price that isn't paid in Senate speeches, but in the dark offices of Havana. Three lives are dragged into the construction of the new empire. Tom Hargrove, the brilliant senator who designed the Cuban Miracle, forced into a pact with the CIA machine to keep his utopia standing. Elena Vidal, the calculating heiress to a shadow power network, returning to the island to reclaim her father's throne in a city full of wolves in tailored suits. And Rafa Castillo, a fisherman turned reluctant war hero, whose moral compass disintegrates as guardian of a casino where the new accountants are deadlier than the old gangsters. The Cold War died on the beach. The real empire was born in the shadows. For readers of James Ellroy ("American Tabloid") and Don Winslow. Book I of the USAtlas pentalogy. The building of the empire continues in Book II.