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Hotel Scarface

Hotel Scarface 1

Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami

by Roben Farzad
Hardback
Publication Date: 17/10/2017
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The wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami's cocaine cowboys heyday - and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface...

In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Grove's Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. Hollywood royalty, rock stars, and models flocked to the hotel's club to order bottle after bottle of Dom and to snort lines alongside narcos, hit men, and gunrunners, all while marathon orgies burned upstairs in elaborate fantasy suites.

Amid the boatloads of powder and cash reigned the new kings of Miami: three waves of Cuban immigrants vying to dominate the trafficking of one of the most lucrative commodities ever known to man. But as the kilos-and bodies-began to pile up, the Mutiny became target number one for law enforcement.

Based on exclusive interviews and never-before-seen documents, Hotel Scarface is a portrait of a city high on excess and greed, an extraordinary work of investigative journalism offering an unprecedented view of the rise and fall of cocaine-and the Mutiny-in Miami.

ISBN:
9781592409280
9781592409280
Category:
True crime
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
17-10-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
231x152x36mm
Weight:
0.48kg
Roben Farzad

Roben Farzad hosts the weekly program Full Disclosure on NPR One and is a special correspondent on PBS NewsHour.

He was previously a senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, where he covered Wall Street, international finance, and Latin America. Farzad is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.

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Terrific expose of American politics and the US relationship with Cuba.
The revelation about Richard Nixon is amazing.

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