Bringing together long-buried historical information with English’s own research in Havana – including interviews with the era’s key survivors, Havana Nocturne takes readers back to Cuba in the years when it was a veritable devil’s playground for mob leaders.  English deftly weaves together the parallel stories of the Havana mob – featuring notorious criminals such as Santo Trafficante Jr., and Albert Anastasia – and Castro’s 26th of July Movement.  Havana Nocturne offers a riveting, up-close look at how the mob nearly attained its biggest dream in Havana and how Fidel Castro trumped it all with the Cuban Revolution.