The newest book from Helmut Portmann
Adios El Jefe!
Overview of Adios El Jefe!
Meet the Characters
Born in Switzerland and fluent in German,
ALEX BECK is recruited from logging oil wells for Schlumberger Offshore Services to be a supervisor of a European Field Office that evaluates the weapon system performance of the Army’s Pershing 1a tactical nuclear missile. Along the way, he becomes close friends with a small group of Cuban expatriates that also work on the missile system, not realizing that he is being drawn into a complex web of hatred and revenge.
Devastatingly beautiful with long black hair and a slender, athletic and tanned figure, ANA’s heart was hardened when as a young girl, she had to witness her mothers’ brutal rape and murder at the hands of Fidel Castros revolutionaries. She is quiet and lethal, with a black belt in Karate and proficiency with close combat weapons.
Best friends since meeting in elementary school in Little Havana, Ludo and Angel harbor the same intense hatred of Fidel Castro as consumes Ana. Ludo is a natural leader and the brains of the duo, while Angel is as quiet and lethal as Ana. He also has a black belt in Karate, and he quickly gains a reputation for being best not to cross.
Carlos and Raul are also expatriates that managed to escape Cuba, but their hatred of Castro and his revolutionaries does not quite consume them as it does the others. They are followers that generally go along with Ludo’s
leadership.
Jose is Anas’ older brother, and although he witnessed the violence inflicted on their parents alongside Ana, he is not as intensely consumed and does not like violence of any kind. He is the intellectual of the group, working on his PhD,
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