In modern-day Havana, the remnants of its glamorous past are everywhere – the old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars, and flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar and often romanticized, but little understood.  In Havana Nocturne, T.J. English offers a riveting, multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution, and international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the mob in Havana and the event that would overshadow it, the Cuban Revolution.
 
As the Cuban people labored under a violently repressive regime throughout the 1950s, mob leaders Meyer Lansky and Charles “Lucky” Luciano turned their eye to Havana.  To them, Cuba was the ultimate dream, the greatest hope for the future of the American mob in the years of post-Prohibition and intensified government crackdowns...