"A mob saga that has it all--brotherhood and betrayal, swaggering
power and glittering success, and a Godfather whose reach seems utterly
unrivaled. What a relentless, irresistible read." -- Don Winslow,
New York Times bestselling author of The Force
A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob
in the US from "America's top chronicler of organized crime" and New
York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne.
By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had
become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit
organizations was none other than the Cuban mob. Known on both sides of
the law as "the Corporation," the Cuban mob's power stemmed from a
criminal culture embedded in south Florida's exile community--those who
had been chased from the island by Castro's revolution and planned to
overthrow the Marxist dictator and reclaim their nation.
An epic story of gangsters, drugs, violence, sex, and murder rooted in
the streets, The Corporation reveals how an entire generation of
political exiles, refugees, racketeers, corrupt cops, hitmen, and their
wives and girlfriends became caught up in an American saga of
desperation and empire building. T. J. English interweaves the voices of
insiders speaking openly for the first time with a trove of
investigative material he has gathered over many decades to tell the
story of this successful criminal enterprise, setting it against the
larger backdrop of revolution, exile, and ethnicity that makes it one of
the great American gangster stories that has been overlooked--until now.
Drawing on the detailed reporting and impressive volume of evidence that
drive his bestselling works, English offers a riveting, in-depth look at
this powerful and sordid crime organization and its hold in the US.
