Today we will be breaking down the 2007 book Havana Nocturne written by T.J. English. This is the third T.J. English book we have done on the channel but with every book English always brings a fresh perspective to organized crime in America. Havana Nocturne follows the rise and fall of the Mafia controlled Casinos in Havana Cuba in the 1950's, how the American Mob created a gangsters paradise in Havana and how they lost everything when Fidel Castro seized power.

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