Brooklyn-born Jay Cardinale, Vietnam War hero turned deserter is offered a full pardon if he’ll assassinate an American radical living in exile in Cuba. Traveling with the Venceremos Brigade, idealistic American leftists going to help in Cuba’s sugar cane harvest, Jay cuts cane, gets political, plots murder, drinks with Hemingway’s ghost, makes Fidel laugh, turns twenty-one, falls in love and becomes a new man. Join Waxman as he reads from his new progressive political thriller.