Juan del Cerro had been writing historical crime fiction. A Cuban in the White House is his first venture into political fiction, satire, or fun, as you may wish to call it. He hopes fellow Cuban-born Americans will not get mad at the criticisms, and like the book.] Some, he fears, might be misled by the title, an innocent plug in favor of his much maligned nationality.+ But he ends by saying "Could it possibly come true?"