• Sleuth is a likeable everyman, thrust into an uncomfortable new role by events beyond his control
• Sleuth is a diplomat and ideally placed to get caught up with intriguing people and situations
• With a globe-trotting diplomat main character, each book in the series will be set in a different foreign locale (first three books set in Havana, Moscow, and Tokyo)
• As well as the usual challenge of trying to unravel a mystery, Charlie is always faced with the burden of doing so in a foreign jurisdiction with unfamiliar laws, bureaucracies and customs.
• Author's legal training informs his plots, while his expertise regarding consular officers, diplomatic postings, and embassy politics mean he is the perfect author for this series.

Nick Wilkshire is a lawyer originally from St. John's, Newfoundland. He is a graduate of Memorial University and Osgoode Hall Law School. Escape to Havana is the first book in his new series featuring fledgling diplomat Charlie Hillier. Nick lives in Ottawa.

For Charlie Hillier, a posting to Cuba could be the perfect place to start his new life - if he survives it.

With his career stalled and the office abuzz about his soon-to-be-ex-wife's indiscretions, Ottawa bureaucrat Charlie Hillier is desperate for a change. So when the chance at a posting to the Canadian embassy in Havana comes up, he jumps at it, grateful to get as far away as he can from his ex and his dead-end job at Foreign Affairs headquarters.

At first, exotic Havana seems just the place to bury his past and start anew, but he didn't count on finding a couple of kilos of cocaine under his bedroom floor, the kidnapping of a fellow diplomat, or the unsettling connection he uncovers between the former occupant of his house and a Colombian drug-runner. Before long, Charlie's only concern is whether he'll survive his posting at all.