Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami

The wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miamis cocaine cowboys heydayand an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface... In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Groves Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. Hollywood royalty, rock stars, and models flocked to the hotels 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 kilosand bodiesbegan 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 cocaineand the Mutinyin Miami.