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Cargando... Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miamipor Roben Farzad
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I may set up my expectations a little bit too high, this is an interesting collection of memories and actions from the 70's and 80's Miami drug deal scene, but the stories of debauchery just ran together after a while. ( ) I adore Caitlin Doughty. If you haven't watched her on YouTube, I highly recommend it. This is a fun question answer book for those death curious but faint of heart. While it is full of information regarding just about every aspect of death, it isn't gory and won't have you running for the toilet. Caitlin is normalizing death one book / video at a time for all ages, and I am totally here for it. "Internationally wanted hit men and mercenaries chilled at the Mutiny. Frequent visitors kept their guns tucked in the cushions, and cases of cash and cocaine in their suites." Interesting topic but I felt like I forced myself to finish. I've found I like my non-fiction in story form, and this is not quite like that. It is set up that you can read a chapter and put it down. Cocaine was “a delicacy for big shots in the old country” - pre-Castro Cuba, and Cubans brought that taste to Miami with them. It didn’t stay only in Miami and wasn’t limited to Cubans. Soon cocaine was everywhere and was used by everybody. Colombians famously and violently moved into the business. The Mutiny Hotel in Coconut Grove was an early base for those who bought, sold and moved the drug. Roben Farzad positions the hotel and it’s locally famous nightclub, supposedly the model for the Babylon Club in the movie Scarface, as the epicenter of business and debauchery in the Miami drug trade. Drug lords, hangers on, cops, politicians and murderers all gathered there. Farzad tells their story, or as much of it as he can. The book is well-researched and informative, considering the lack of documentation in the drug business. Interviews, court records and news articles form the basis of his research into this intriguing era in Miami’s history. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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