When a New York musician finds a video made by his deceased father, a former Cuban Intelligence agent, confessing to his participation in the greatest unsolved crime of the 20th century, his carefree life is forever changed. Unbeknown to him, his mysterious Uncle Reynaldo submits him to a process of indoctrination--similar to the mind control techniques used in the classic novel, The Manchurian Candidate and TV Homeland series--and persuades Nelson into going public with his father's video confession, something he swore never to do. It plunges him into the shadowy world of Miami's Cuban exile power-players and into a web of deception that builds up into crescendo of violence, betrayals, and confrontations with Fidel Castro's agents at the U. N. and the FBI that endangers the life of the woman he loves and threatens to turn him into another patsy in the historic assassination conspiracy. * A riveting read . . . an astounding and superb job in recreating the era during JFK's assassination . . . a very strong writer's voice, one I haven't come across in such a long time for a new novelist. Lea Schizas MuseItUp Publishing *... Padron's fiction is evocative, passionate ... he is incapable of writing a boring word... David Landau, publisher, editor, author of the classic work Kissinger: The Uses of Power *... Both, a sensitive and powerful writer... Erica Orloff, best-selling author of multiple novels across several genres *Whatever you think you're gonna find in The Cuban Scar . . . I guarantee it . . . will keep you turning pages . . . perspectives on the Kennedy assassination are illuminating and subtly drawn out in unexpected ways . . . the whiffs of honesty that pervade the book . . . has that sensibility of ambiguity - moral, historical and otherwise - deeply comic vision of human bumbling . . . another sign of the true writer Tom Badyna, author of Flick *. . . enjoyed it a lot. It is very directly written . . . it has the ring of truth