Hotel Scarface

A raucous history of the cocaine boom. * New York Times *
Part biography of a hotel, part elegant true-crime thriller, this is the ideal read for a South Beach winter sun lounger. * GQ *
Hotel Scarface is a journey into the surreal. The book sizzles with exquisitely detailed reporting and a fast-paced narrative that thrusts the reader right into the middle of Miami’s cocaine-fueled madness. We’re all lucky that Farzad’s deft story-telling captures one of the most outrageous moments in American history in such a vivid way. * Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling author *
Stay up all night partying with the narcos and rock stars of Roben Farzad’s Hotel Scarface — you can check out anytime, but you can never plead. * Vanity Fair *
Thought I was reading a Carl Hiaasen novel. Then I realized it was NON-fiction. Hotel Scarface is to Miami what ‘Narcos’ is to Colombia. * Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, CNBC’s Chief International Correspondent *
Miami in the 1980’s. It’s one of the most exciting and dangerous stories in modern American history. Yet so little is known of this time and place other than a handful of oft-repeated legends. Enter Roben Farzad, whose Hotel Scarface will now and forever serve as the definitive record. You won’t be able to put this book down! * Joshua Brown, author of Backstage Wall Street *
Farzad captures the excess, decadence, and debauchery of the Mutiny in its heyday… a crucial piece to Miami’s history as the era’s cocaine epicenter. A gripping account of how the Mutiny’s role in Miami’s cocaine business changed not only the city, but America. * Kirkus Reviews *
‘Scarface’ was inspired by this lavish, coke-fuelled hotel. The de-facto headquarters for Miami’s cocaine trade was a dangerous, opulent place where the underworld mixed it up with celebrities. * VICE *
I can all but guarantee that this will be the most enjoyable and entertaining non-fiction book you’ll read this year. * BroBible *
Exhaustively researched… clean and precise. It’s an easy read; its implications, however, are profound. Tales of opportunistic, cutthroat men who made fast money at the expense of other people’s lives. * Miami New Times *

Roben Farzad has reported everywhere from Mozambique and Botswana to the West Bank and the slums of Medellin, Colombia, to the Dominican Republic and the warn-torn Niger Delta. He spent nine years as a senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, where he covered Wall Street, international finance, Latin America and Miami. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe and Miami Herald, and is a regular on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, C-SPAN and the PBS NewsHour.

Farzad is a graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and the Harvard Business School, and has lectured students at NYU, CUNY and Columbia. Born in Iran, he was raised in Miami and now lives in Virginia with his wife and their two kids, who also enjoy reruns of Miami Vice.

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