NIGHT JUMP – CUBA

By Poke Runyon

The 21st Century Edition of the Cold War classic.

A top-secret rocket. A mission into Cuba.
A race against the Soviets. 

Paperback | $16.95 | ISBN 9780971955233

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About the Book

First published in 1965, Night Jump – Cuba is a Cold War espionage thriller by Army Special Forces Captain Carroll “Poke” Runyon.

Drawing on his personal knowledge of Special Operations, a visit to Cuba before Castro, scuba diving in the Bahamas, friendships with NASA and Los Alamos scientists, and information from his uncle, Colonel Ford E. Pratt—a Pentagon officer who managed logistics for the 2506 Brigade in the ill-fated 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion—Runyon created a story of high-stakes Cold War intrigue.

Communist agents redirect the test flight of a top-secret American atomic rocket engine—the “Sherwood Drive”—so that it crashes in Cuba. Its loss activates a Special Forces team working for the C.I.A. and based in the Bahamas, led by Green Beret living legend Ed “Tiger” Malone. Their mission: reach the downed rocket before the Soviets can recover it.

In this new edition, Poke Runyon reveals previously undisclosed facts surrounding the Bay of Pigs invasion, as related by Colonel Ford E. Pratt (1911–1999).