"English’s engaging narrative reads with the gripping quality of fiction: the dark underworld of Havana comes to life in the author’s lively descriptions of gambling, drugs, and sex... Highly recommended. –  Library Journal

"Fascinating... a colorful look back at pre-Castro Cuba." 
– Tom Robbins, The Village Voice

"Read this book through the prism of hot, illicit sex, and you see the power of the forbidden... English tells a sweeping story with more thrust than a mambo dancer... exciting... Havana Nocturne brilliantly explains how and why, after the Revolution, Fidel Castro would say, ‘We are not only disposed to deport the gangsters, but to shoot them.’" – Jesse Kornbluth, Headbutler.com

"Entertaining... amazing." – Howie Carr, New York Post