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  • Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution | [T. J. English]
    Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution
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    Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 15 mins)
    • By T. J. English
    • Narrated By Mel Foster
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    Havana Nocturne takes listeners back to Cuba in the years when it was a veritable devil's playground for mob leaders Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano. Thanks to strong ties with the island's brutal dictator, President Batista, the mob soon owned the biggest luxury hotels and casinos and launched an unprecedented tourist boom. But their dreams collided with those of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and others.

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    This is an excellent, well researched and very listenable audiobook. T.J. English's prose is crisp and engaging and is matched with solid narration. To those reviewers who complain that the work lacks detail or that English is an apologist for Castro, I would disagree completely. English doesn't shy away from Castro's shady beginnings with the gangsterismo movement, nor does English ever contend that the Cuba revolution was not imbued with the spirit of both Marx and Marti right from its inception. I found the author balanced in his presentation of historical detail, not left wing in the slightest.

    This is a true crime novel about the mob in Cuba, not a historical monograph assessing the Castro regime, and as such it succeeds and entertains.

    8 of 8 people found this review helpful

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