Behind Islands in the Stream: Hemingway, Cuba, the FBI and the crook factory

by Thomas Fensch

Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for 20 years--1940-1960. After the Spanish Civil War, thousands of Spanish Falange (Spanish fascists) immigrated to Cuba. They were thought to be a threat to Cuba and to the U.S. With the blessing of, and financing by, the American Embassy in Havava, Hemingway recuited a ragtag band to spy on the Falange. He called them the "crook factory." The FBI became enraged that he was poaching on their territory. Later some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999549669
• ISBN13: 9780999549667
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: New Century Books
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"