The story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of Americaâs most bustling citiesârife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning refugee crisis, and police brutalityâfrom journalist and author Nicholas Griffin.
What The Reviewers Say
Gilbert King,
The New York Times
...[a] deeply researched narrative.
Roger I. Abrams,
New York Journal of Books
... a well-written narrative of the events of that transformative year.
Kirkus
Miami-based journalist Griffin employs his trade with gusto in this deeply investigated account of real American carnage at the height of the drug war.
Publishers Weekly
In this cinematic chronicle, journalist Griffin...examines how an influx of immigrants, violent race riots, and a cocaine epidemic all collided in Miami in 1980 and led to the radical transformation of the city.