Cold Coordinates

Santa Clara, 1990. Capitán Roberto Almanza Fuentes commands an artillery battery in Cuba's Special Period military - underfed, undersupplied, and increasingly hollow. When a classified archive assignment reveals that his commanding officer is trading Soviet-era weapons components for imported consumer goods, Roberto becomes the one man who can prove it - and the one man who has to disappear before he's silenced.

Cold Coordinates is a novel about the arithmetic of conscience - what it costs to tell the truth, and what it costs the people left holding it after you're gone.

Edward C. Distel writes fiction shaped by memory, exile, war, and the quiet lives history often forgets. Raised in a multilingual household and deeply influenced by the immigrant experience, his work explores loyalty, identity, survival, and the stories people carry in silence.

Drawn to both novels and short fiction, Distel believes the most powerful stories are often the most intimate. His writing blends literary realism with psychological depth, creating characters marked as much by what they cannot say as by what they do.

He prefers to let his characters speak for themselves.

These are his first published works, though far from his only stories.