Hotel Scarface
Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami
New York : New American Library, 2017.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xviii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
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.
Subjects:
Drug traffic -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century.
Drug dealers -- Florida -- Miami -- Case studies.
Hotels -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century.
Miami (Fla.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Miami (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century.
Drug traffic -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century.
Drug dealers -- Florida -- Miami -- Case studies.
Hotels -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century.
Miami (Fla.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Miami (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781592409280
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TRUE CRIME Far | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324) and index.