Hotel Scarface

Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami

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Roben Farzad: Hotel Scarface (2019, Penguin Random House)

352 pages

English language

Published Feb. 8, 2019 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-552-17154-0
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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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Subjects

  • Drug traffic
  • Drug dealers
  • Miami (fla.), social conditions