When three American fishermen disappear along the North Carolina coast, and their sport-fishing yacht is blown to pieces, family and friends of the lost men try to determine what really happened.

The CIA scrambles to keep the details a secret, even as they search for answers themselves. Why are the Russian and the Cuban military meeting in the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda? Why does Russia continue fiercely attacking Chechnya? And what does an intense treasure hunt for Spanish gold in Cuban waters have to do with a clandestine operation to rescue American citizens? The crisis carries a potential for world-wide destruction that even the CIA's finest agents may be too late to defuse.

In Holiday in Havana American fishermen, CIA agents, and treasure hunters all compete against international weapons smugglers, the Cuban military and each other to avert a potential nuclear holocaust and rescue kidnapped Americans. There is also a plan to bring back Spanish gold, but if they escape with their lives, it will be a miracle. From Russia, to the U. S. Atlantic Coast, to Florida, and on to Cuba,

Holiday in Havana traverses continents and oceans as the tension intensifies moment by moment.