Havana Split Vol. 1 - by Brrémaud (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Amid 1950s Cuba's simmering unrest, sharp-witted Cuban-American Lily Turner returns to Havana to visit her father, Arnaldo Valdes. When a lost bet leads to his kidnapping, Lily is pulled into a dangerous web of espionage, gang rivalries, and political revolution. With the CIA, the mob, and Fidel Castro's rebels closing in, nothing is as it seems. Gritty and fast-paced, Havana Split launches a noir-drenched series where every alliance comes at a price.

Cuba, 1958. Lily is reunited with her father, the owner of a seedy detective agency in Havana. Well, reunited... Rather, she catches a glimpse of him. Her father, a gambling addict, has been kidnapped along with his secretary by Alfonso, a mafioso and sports betting boss.

The deal is simple: her father in exchange for a starlet, a failed film actress, but above all the mistress of Alfonso's great rival. Simple, easy, fácil, especially since Lily can count on the help of John, an ex-CIA agent, and José, a handyman in his spare time and a full time coward. And all this in the middle of the revolución!

About the Author

Frédéric Brémaud--also known under the pseudonyms of Brrémaud, Labrémure, and Lili Mésange--was born on March 11, 1973 in Seoul, South Korea. He spent his childhood in the north of the French department Deux-Sèvres and on the island of Noirmoutier. After studying in La Rochelle and Newcastle, he worked at the Centre national de la bande dessinée et de l'image, in Angoulême, where he met many authors. A few years later, in 1999, he published his first album: volume 1 of Coeur de royaume (Soleil), illustrated by Benoît Vieillard. A prolific author, he never stopped writing! Today he has more than a hundred titles, of all genres and for all audiences, with Soleil, Glénat, Paquet, and Bamboo. In 2018, Frédéric Brémaud was nominated in the Early Readers category of the Eisner Awards. In 2021, he published volume 5 of Love (Vents d'Ouest).

Vic Macioci was born in Rome in 1991. After graduating from high school in literature, she moved to France for her studies and graduated from the Émile Cohl School (Lyon) in 2016, specializing in comics and illustration. Her first series, Gravity Level, a sci-fi series written by Lorenzo Palloni and published by Sarbacane, earned her the Gran Guinigi Award for Best Drawing at Lucca Comics & Games 2020. She then participated in the anthology Nées Rebelles, written by Morin, Derain, and Hopman and published by Démain. She is also an illustrator (Giunti, Ablaze) and a character designer for video games, including Roller Drama and Becoming Saint (Open Lab). She also teaches character design and traditional techniques at the international visual development school Idea Academy in Rome.