House of Sugar [Paperback]

Sheldon Burton Webster (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 20, 2002

House of Sugar is a part-fictional reporting of the Bay of Pigs and the CIA/Mafia partnership to assassinate Fidel Castro and JFK. It is a riveting Cold War account of a world on the brink - a stunning re-creation by characters whose lives and voices are inserted into history. JFK averted political backlash by directing the CIA to shroud the Bay of Pigs fiasco under a cloak of secrecy until it was declassified in 1998. Kennedy's assassination theory is based upon extensive research of the events leading up to CIA operative Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest. Who orchestrated the CIA/Mafia assassination plot, and for what reasons? From the author's interviews with former CIA and military officers, Cuban nationals and exiles, this historical novel reveals the dark side of U.S. foreign policy. It is a shocking account of the CIA's covert operations to overthrow foreign governments funded, in part, through Mafia drug trafficking. Follow the saga of Don Carlos Garcia and his children, whose lives were forever changed on the night of April 16, 1961 when they fled their Casa de Azucar to escape the Bay of Pigs invasion. Learn about the CIA's secret internal factions, its ambivalence toward BBC journalist/agent Holly Woodson, and its readiness to dispose of its agents. This is a tale of the blind ambition, greed, lust, and espionage that was masked under a shroud of patriotism. The novel's sequels - House of Deception, House of Sham, and House of Flimflam -cover the Johnson-Clinton presidencies and the U.S. government's involvement in international drug trafficking. Sheldon Burton Webster was born in Norton, Virginia in 1944 and now lives in Birmingham, Alabama where he is a practicing CPA and writer. After graduating from Mississippi State University, he served as a captain in the United States Army. Mr. Webster is an avid sportsman, conservationist, and a mountaineer who has climbed three of the world's seven summits and visited over eighty countries in his quest for adventure. H

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About the Author

Sheldon Burton Webster was born on August 6, 1944 in Wise County, Virginia and grew up in Starkville, Mississippi where he attended John W. Overstreet Elementary and Starkville High School, graduating in 1962. Webster is a 1966 accounting graduate from Mississippi State University. After serving two years as an Army officer in West Germany, he moved to Birmingham, Alabama to begin his public accounting career with the International firm of Deloitte and Touch. In 1973 he established his public accounting practice that was merged with Borland Benefield CPAs in 1977. He serves as the Executive Vice President and Senior Audit and Consulting partner on a number of clients for one of Alabama's oldest and most prestigious accounting firms.Webster also serves as President elect Chairman and Treasurer of the Board of Directors of BKR International, an international affiliation of accounting and consulting firms headquartered in New York. BKR International is the world's 15th largest accounting entity with offices in over three hundred cities with combined professional fees in excess of one-half billion dollars.Webster is a sailor, sportsman and conservationist, and as a mountaineer has climbed eight major mountains, including three of the world's seven summits. In 1997 he was a member of a near-fatal expedition on Mount McKinley in Alaska with his climbing partner, Robert Dowling, international editor of Business Week Magazine.As a world traveler Webster has visited some eighty foreign countries and has taken many of the world's internationally acclaimed rail journeys. His most recent was the Reunification Express from Hanoi to Saigon while researching his novel, House of Sugar, a CIA/mafia conspiracy in assassinations and sale of illicit drugs with settings in Cuba and New Orleans.He is currently writing the sequels titled, House of Deception and House of Sham, the CIA's role drug trafficking in Laos and Vietnam and smuggling cocaine into the United States to fund the Nicar

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (December 20, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759685738
• ISBN-13: 978-0759685734
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,323,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)