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The Prestige of Smoke
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
THE PRESTIGE OF SMOKE
Six Brands, Two Rivals, One Secret.
Every magic trick has three parts. The Pledge. The Turn. The Prestige.
When Habanos S.A. convenes the Grand Prestige, the first global tasting event in the history of Cuban tobacco, six tasters are assigned six universal brands and five days to prove what they know. The stage is the Hotel Nacional de Cuba. The audience is forty-seven countries watching live.
But this is not really a competition between six people.
It is a confrontation between two philosophies. Dantes Cruz, ash reader and founder of CigarFati, believes the habano belongs to anyone willing to listen to what it has to say. ValentÃn Cifuentes-Gener, heir to one of Cuba's greatest tobacco dynasties, believes the habano speaks only to those born close enough to hear it.
Partagás against Cohiba. The man without a surname against the man made of surnames.
What neither of them knows is that a third party has already decided who wins.
Set across five days in La Habana, The Prestige of Smoke is a literary thriller built around the world of the Cuban habano, where the ash does not lie, the smoke sometimes does, and the line between knowledge and lineage turns out to be the most dangerous border of all.
Part detective story, part philosophical duel, part love letter to Cuban tobacco culture, this novel follows Dantes Cruz as he discovers that protecting the truth requires more than tasting it.
Something has to die for something to reappear.
By Edo Cruz. A CigarFati literary universe novel.
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