Havana Nocturne Audiobook by T. J. English

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/38/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Havana Nocturne Subtitle: How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution Author: T. J. English Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins Language: English Release date: 08-20-08 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 901 votes Genres: History, 20th Century Publisher's Summary: Bringing together long-buried historical information and English's own research in Havana - including interviews with the era's key survivors - 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 who would lead the country's disenfranchised to overthrow their corrupt government and its foreign partners - an epic cultural battle that English captures in all its sexy, decadent, ugly glory. Critic Reviews: "English's engaging narrative reads with the gripping quality of fiction: the dark underworld of Havana comes to life....Highly recommended." (Library Journal) "Crime writer English...unfolds a story whose main outline will be familiar to any fan of The Godfather: Part II, but whose twists and turns no screenplay could keep up with." (Kirkus Reviews)