"Cuba Libre" is a fascinating novel that tells the story of the United States' intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The author of the book, Penguin Ransom, transports readers to the atmospheric Havana, where the destinies of various characters are intertwined: romantics, revolutionaries, spies and traitors. Under the sounds of salsa and the aroma of cigars, the main characters face trials that require courage, sacrifice and understanding the true price of will. "Cuba Libre" is not only a fascinating story, but also a well-known delayed literary masterpiece that reveals to the reader a multi-layered world of political and social contradictions and trials that accompany the search for one's own path to freedom.