Hotel Scarface : where cocaine cowboys partied and plotted to control Miami
Farzad, Roben2018
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Behind the bar at the Hotel Mutiny, the hottest ticket in town as the clock approached 1980, waitresses and bellhops were stacking whiskey totes full of the white stuff. The 'tips' - pure cocaine packed in $100 bills - were sluicing in. Everyone was trying to bribe their way to a coveted New Year's Eve table at the hotel's swanky, members-only club, desperate to sit among A-list guests including Liza Minnelli, Ted Kennedy, Julio Iglesias, Burt Reynolds, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Doobie Brothers and the Eagles - and America's biggest cocaine kingpins. Roben Farzad's vividly reported, wildly entertaining account of Miami's pre-South Beach heyday tells the true story of the city's violent cocaine trade and of the infamous establishment at its epicentre, the Hotel Mutiny.
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London : Bantam Press, [2018].
Collation:
xviii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2017.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780593080139 (pbk)0593080130 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364.1336 FAR364.1336
LC class:
HV5833.M48
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English
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BRN:
322645