Hotel Scarface
Subtitle: where cocaine cowboys partied and plotted to control Miami
By: Roben Farzad
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781592409280
Subjects: Drug dealers; Drug traffic; Case studies; Social life and customs; Hotels; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Heaven in Hell; title: Monkey in the middle; title: Snow in Miami; title: Table 14; title: DMZ disco; title: Busting Batabanó; title: Monkey in the cage; title: "God bless America!"; title: Dadeland; title: Entrar: lost muchachos; title: Our man in Panama; title: Muchachos Corp.; title: Cocaine capitalism; title: Making love, not war; title: Summa cum laude; title: Recruiting Ralphie; title: Spring of 'eighty; title: Reheating the Cold War; title: Mariel & Co.; title: The Marlboro meng; title: Ricardo's morals; title: Aliases; title: Murder City, USA; title: Tick-talks; title: The big haul; title: Investments; title: Shooting to kill; title: The cartel whisperer; title: Hunting "El Loco"; title: You find yourself in 'eighty-two; title: A farewell salute; title: Miami versus Montana; title: A marked monkey; title: Yo soy Scarface; title: By the numbers; title: Boys in the grove; title: Burton bolts; title: New coke; title: MIA to LA; title: The Mutiny's last stand; title: Cocaine, cannons, commies; title: Shipwrecked; title: The hunt for Willie and Sal; title: Empire strikes back; title: A busted fraternity; title: Undercover Sal; title: Sunrise, sunset; title: Bloody 'ninety-two; title: The hit list; title: Miami's trial of the century; title: The best justice that money can buy; title: Empire strikes back II; title: Miami vice comes to life; title: Rematch; title: Sequestration; title: Afterword.