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Hotel Scarface

Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami

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Hotel Scarface

By: Roben Farzad
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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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 '70s, 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.

©2017 Roben Farzad (P)2017 Penguin Audio Americas Organized Crime State & Local True Crime United States Crime Royalty
Fascinating Historical Snapshot • Well-developed Characters • Cohesive Storytelling • Incredible Research • Vivid Detail
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Read this back in October, now just finished the audiobook version. It transports you back in time to say the least, and will have you googling left and right if you're somewhat of a history buff. Of course it doesn't hurt to already be somewhat familiar with the cast of characters. Highly recommended

Great read/listen

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lavish club real cuban drug lords and historical. entertaining and good read would recommend it.

80s miami club is cocaine central

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Fun and entertaining read. The research, stories, and details gathered is Amazing. Great narration. He at times will use different voices to help the listeners visualize characters when quoting them. The amount of detail really puts the reader in the heart of the 70's and 80's Miami cocaine craze. You almost feel taken back in time, like your sitting in the Mutiny yourself watching it all transpire right in front of you!

Like having your own Mutiny member card!

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Great listen/read!

This book does an incredible job of highlighting the absolute madness going on in South Florida during the 70's-90's. It also (finally) tells the story going on at the local level that is overlooked by the endless number of Pablo Escobar documentaries.

A must for any South Floridian

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A GREAT story about how the cocaine trade began in Miami. It shows how everyone was connected via the very important hotel, the Muntiny.

The characters I had not heard about before.

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This book captures the zeitgeist that inhabited that hotel, the city and the possibilities of everyone caught up in the drama. Having been born and raised in MIA this book makes a credible snap shot of a time that glittered in the outside but inside was another story. And there are still other stories to tell.

The full Monty

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Great story especially if you love Miami, leaves out Griselda Blanco but still a great listen. Recommended!

Vivid descriptions of 80s Miami

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This is good!
Simply an amazingly well put together story of how Miami used to be or how it came to be what it is today...it leaves me wondering if they would have really been able to flip everyone... how many people in high positions today would have been affected. Collateral damage!
Great job!

Miami history

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This book far exceeded my expectations .it fills in a lot of gaps like Iran Contra, Mena, Ollie North, etc. I’ve read many books on narco terrorism and this one was really informative. It’s very compelling & you don’t need to be a scholar to read it. It keeps you hooked. The narration is spot on. I lived in Miami
from 1969-1982 so it made it that much more exciting. If I didn’t know it really happened it would sound like a really wild movie. It reads like a great novel.

What a read!

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Loved it! Colorful writing cans fascinating stories interwoven into a cohesive framework about Miami's cocaine 80s

Loved it!

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