Read this before (no.262), but rushed through all his books too fast. On re-reading, this strikes me as a fairly simple (and ultimately conventional) story about the rebel/nonconformist getting revenge and importantly to him the woman he had lusted after as a kid from her conventional (but ultimately corrupted into criminality) husband.
So it is a story about how the wild kid from Havana having, improbably, joined the police, vindicating his decision and himself. You could see it as a Cuban variant on Rebus or Banks.
Quite good though, but Havana, food and friends took precedence over any plotting.
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