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CUBAN TRADER

Action Adventure Thriller
From the True Story Adventure Memoir of Roger Asquith
Written For Television by Michael January & M.A. DeGaetano
8 Part Limited Series

A naive young radio officer signs onto a "hellship" carrying molasses from Santiago de Cuba to Phildelphia in 1958, only to discover he's sailing straight into the shifting loyalties of the Cuban Revolution.

It’s 1958, and Roger Asquith, a bright twenty-four year-old, fresh from the British RAF has signed on as the new communications officer of the Cuban Trader. Carrying molasses from Santiago de Cuba to Philadelphia, with a mostly German crew of young escapees from the East, under the command of a merciless captain, they are sailing straight into danger. Little do they know that high in the mountains above the Cuban refinery, the Castro rebels are about to sweep from the hills to overthrow Dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Making return journeys to Cuba as the revolution grows ever more intense and dangerous, Roger finds himself navigating a series of adventures and narrow escapes as he must rescue his crewmates, only to find himself in a journey into the heart of darkness, entangled ever deeper in the shifting loyalties of the revolution. Braving the dangers of political upheaval, rebel guns, and the schemes of the captain leading to murder, intrigue, and mutiny on the stormy Atlantic.