Even the Swagger character can not save the weak story

Cuba in 1953 - a Mafia-run world of vice, gambling, sex and drugs. Of course police and the government all get Their share out of it. Only the young revolutionary Fidel Castro might be the next threat to the corrupt Cuban government. THEREFORE the Soviet Union sends a highly experienced veteran agent to support Castro. To counter the CIA sends in Earl Swagger with a single goal: to kill Castro.

The story development is pretty slow and did not really grip me. Unlike former books I did not want to stay up late to finish it. The reason is obvious: the story is not convincing and has two really big flaws right from the start:
1) We all knowthat Castro is very much alive today. So you know that the mission will fail (for whatever reason).
2) If you read other books Earl Swagger before then you know that Earl is no cold-blooded killer. THEREFORE the basic idea does not work at all. The concept of turning into Swagger to assassin is just not "Swagger-like".

There are some Western-style shootings like in the book did are typical for the author and Earl's skills are fun to follow as usual But They can not make up for the otherwise pencil thin story.
A great quote from Earl Swagger to support my thoughts:.. "No, I am not planning nothing except to get the hell off this place It was a mistake ever coming I have been shot at in too many places to the hard in a gutter in a city I do not know, for reasons I do not understand. " Absolutely correct! The author Should Have Followed this thought and Should Have Let Swagger stay home! And I still do not understand why he wrote this story ...

Further aspects that kind of spoiled the fun for me:
This time Swagger meets Fidel Castro. And Meyer Lansky! (Who is next? Young JF Kennedy?)
In "Hot Springs" Swagger knocked down Ben "Bugsy" Siegel. This time it is Hemmingway who is on the receiving end of of Earl's fist. (Again the same question: Who is next)
It starts to get a bit ridiculous.

THEREFORE even if this is a book Which Swagger (normally) puts it way above the average book almost automatically, it is not one of Hunter's best works. Actually it is by far the only boring book with Either Earl Lee Swagger or Bob in it! (So ​​far there are 7)
With "The Day Before Midnight" (1989) Hunter already proofed That he does not need any Swagger character to write a fantastic page turner. Maybe it is about time for the author to invent a new hero and let Swagger rest in peace ?!