Hotel Scarface : where cocaine cowboys partied and plotted to control Miami
Title:
Hotel Scarface : where cocaine cowboys partied and plotted to control Miami
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ISBN:
9781592409280
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xviii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Heaven in Hell -- Monkey in the middle -- Snow in Miami -- Table 14 -- DMZ disco -- Busting Batabanó -- Monkey in the cage -- "God bless America!" -- Dadeland -- Entrar: lost muchachos -- Our man in Panama -- Muchachos Corp. -- Cocaine capitalism -- Making love, not war -- Summa cum laude -- Recruiting Ralphie -- Spring of 'eighty -- Reheating the Cold War -- Mariel & Co. -- The Marlboro meng -- Ricardo's morals -- Aliases -- Murder City, USA -- Tick-talks -- The big haul -- Investments -- Shooting to kill -- The cartel whisperer -- Hunting "El Loco" -- You find yourself in 'eighty-two -- A farewell salute -- Miami versus Montana -- A marked monkey -- Yo soy Scarface -- By the numbers -- Boys in the grove -- Burton bolts -- New coke -- MIA to LA -- The Mutiny's last stand -- Cocaine, cannons, commies -- Shipwrecked -- The hunt for Willie and Sal -- Empire strikes back -- A busted fraternity -- Undercover Sal -- Sunrise, sunset -- Bloody 'ninety-two -- The hit list -- Miami's trial of the century -- The best justice that money can buy -- Empire strikes back II -- Miami vice comes to life -- Rematch -- Sequestration -- Afterword.
Summary:
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. It was a hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami's cocaine cowboys heyday-- and an inspiration for the film, Scarface. Three waves of Cuban immigrants vied to dominate the trafficking, but as the kilos-- and bodies-- began to pile up, the Mutiny became target number one for law enforcement. Farzad examines a city high on excess and greed, and offers an unprecedented view of the rise and fall of cocaine-- and the Mutiny-- in Miami.
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