Award-winning author Alexander Bentley has earned new recognition for his latest novel,
Cuban Sliders, which has been honored with the Literary Titan Book Award. The accolade celebrates
books that deliver excellence in storytelling, originality, and literary craft, and
Cuban Sliders stands out as a bold and gripping addition to Bentley’s acclaimed Bureau Archives Trilogy.
Set in 1951 across Cuba and the Grenadines, Cuban Sliders is a noir-inflected Cold War thriller
that explores memory, power, and the danger of a world where certainty arrives too soon. In this
third installment of the trilogy, time itself is no longer behaving as it should. When a Soviet
scientist from a Cuban rum distillery is discovered in Havana, grotesquely aged, former Bureau
operative Max Calder is forced back into a shadowy world he believed he had left behind. At the
center of the mystery is the Mirror, an experimental technology capable of fracturing time, now
evolving into a widening web that entangles minds as easily as moments.
As Calder and Alicia Rayes pursue the truth, they uncover an even more disturbing development:
Decision Locking, a process that strips away dissent and collapses debate until one future remains.
With Soviet forces, CIA ambitions, and betrayal inside British intelligence converging around
them, Calder must decide whether the Mirror can be contained or if it must be erased entirely.
The Literary Titan review praised Cuban Sliders as “a spy-fi mystery” that pulls Max Calder “back
into the shadows of 1951,” highlighting Bentley’s ability to blend “first-person noir” with vivid,
atmospheric storytelling and philosophical depth. The review commended the novel’s immersive
settings, its “pulpy snap,” and the unsettling power of its central concept, describing Decision
Locking as “closer to a hallway where all the doors quietly vanish except one.” Literary Titan also
noted that the novel will resonate strongly with readers who enjoy Cold War espionage, science
fiction, film-noir mood, and thrillers that ask moral questions while delivering suspense,
infiltration, and shifting loyalties.
Cuban Sliders is available for preorder now on Amazon Kindle. Paperback and hardback editions
will be available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble on April 12th.
Readers are invited to discover the latest award- winning chapter in Alexander Bentley’s Bureau
Archives Trilogy.
With Cuban Sliders, Bentley continues to expand the boundaries of speculative espionage fiction.
The novel builds on the strengths that have defined the Bureau Archives Trilogy while pushing its
themes into even darker and more thought-provoking territory. Combining psychological tension,
fractured timelines, and world-shifting stakes, Cuban Sliders confirms Alexander Bentley’s place
as a distinctive voice in genre-blending thriller fiction.
Readers and reviewers alike have praised Bentley’s ability to fuse classic spy fiction with
speculative science, creating stories that feel both intellectually provocative and viscerally
immediate. The Literary Titan Book Award further cements Cuban Sliders as a standout title for
fans of sophisticated thrillers and imaginative historical suspense.
About the Author
Alexander Bentley is an award-winning author and serial technology entrepreneur based in
California. Over the course of his career, he has founded and led technology companies in both the
United Kingdom and the United States, serving in senior leadership roles including CEO in public
and private enterprises. His professional background includes extensive experience in secure
communications, networking, technology innovation, and security-related work involving
government and defense organizations, including the UK Ministry of Defence, the US Department
of Defense, and major aerospace and defense companies.
With a background in physics and deep familiarity with quantum mechanics and quantum
computing, Bentley brings a rare level of technical insight to his fiction. His novels are known for
blending espionage, speculative science fiction, and psychological suspense into gritty,
atmospheric thrillers that explore memory, identity, time, and power.
Originally raised in Henley-on-Thames and later near Stratford-upon-Avon in England, Bentley
moved to the United States after founding a technology company that eventually went public on
the NASDAQ stock exchange. In addition to writing fiction, he advises technology company
leaders and startups on strategy and fundraising, writes technology research papers, and speaks at
business and technology conferences around the world.
Bentley lives in California with his wife, Lucinda, and is the proud father of two grown children,
Alexander (Lex) and Virginia (Ginny). He is the author of the Bureau Archives Trilogy and
the Max Calder Short Stories, and he continues to expand his Cold War Spy-Fi universe with the
follow-up series, The Consensus Files.
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