The Children of Outer Darkness: AN Illustrated Novel of Espionage, The Cold War and the Cuban Revolution

1957. The world begins a five-year journey to the brink of nuclear annihilation.

Cold War enemies hurtle toward one another. At the collision point lies an impoverished island in the Caribbean. The proxy war is born. It's both a throwback and a harbinger.

Cuba's gamecocks preen and posture. Dictator Batista apes Mussolini. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara channel Robin Hood. The pageant holds the world rapt.

No one notices the outcasts, one falling from the sky and another skittering up the mounta...