Description: The rise and fall of Miami's notorious Hotel Mutiny, where Cocaine Wars crashed into the Cold War, Sexual Revolution and Miami Vice. A true story.
Lock your doors. Watch your backs. Raise your glasses. Miami is about to blow, in a fiery explosion of cocaine, blood, bullets, torched cars, cash, immigrants, hustlers, dopers, informants, corruption, body bags and inner tubes.
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 hundred-dollar 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 guest list that included Liza Minnelli, Ted Kennedy, Julio Iglesias, Burt Reynolds, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Doobie Brothers
Welcome to Hotel Scarface . Roben Farzad’s vividly reported 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, which Farzad describes as “an ecosystem for drug traffickers, law enforcement, celebs, spooks, refugees, parvenus, informers, and scammers, playing host to a drama of murder, corruption, betrayal, and licentiousness.”