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Havana nocturne how the mob owned Cuba-- and then lost It to the revolution / T.J. English

An award-winning journalist and historian offers the complete story of how the Mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s, made a fortune--and lost it all to Fidel Castro.

Main Author: English, T. J., 1957-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : William Morrow, c2008.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Lansky, Meyer, > 1902-1983.
Luciano, Lucky, > 1897-1962.
Mafia > Cuba > Havana.
Cuba > History > 1933-1959.
Havana (Cuba) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Summary: An award-winning journalist and historian offers the complete story of how the Mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s, made a fortune--and lost it all to Fidel Castro.
Item Description: "This book was originally published as The Havana mob in the United Kingdom in 2007 by Mainstream Publishing"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description: xx, 396 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-380) and index.
ISBN: 9780061147715 (hbk.)
0061147710 (hbk.)
Author Notes: T.J. English's first work in the genre known as "True Crime" was The Westies: Inside the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob, published in 1990. It was later adapted into a film called State of Grace starring Sean Penn. His second work, Born to Kill: America's Most Notorious Vietnamese Gang, and the Changing Face of Organized Crime (1995) was nominated for both an Anthony Award and an Edgar Allan Poe Award for best "True Crime" in 1996. Prior to becoming a nonfiction writer focusing on gangs and organized crime, English was a journalist writing for the Irish Voice during the police investigation and subsequent trial of those same members of the Hell's Kitchen mob who were the focus of his first nonfiction work. English, who was born in 1957, continues to do extensive research and write.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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