Covert City

“Accessible to the general reader.” –Foreign Affairs“With Covert City, Miami finally gets its due as a central artery of intrigue and skullduggery in American geopolitics. The fact that most of the events in this startling narrative unfolded outside the purview of mass media or beyond the knowledge of the general public is a testament to the murky residue of the Cuban Revolution. Houghton and Driggs, echoing William Faulkner’s dictum that ‘the past is never dead, it’s not even past, ’ shed new light on this history and trace the enduring legacies with insight and verve.” –T.J. English, New York Times-bestselling author of Havana Nocturne and The Corporation“Lucid and entertaining, this adventuresome account covers well-trod ground with panache.”–Publishers Weekly”[Houghton and Driggs] relate this intriguing story in the dramatic, provocative cadences of reality television, which will entertain fans of spy novels and histories.” –Booklist

Dr. Vincent Houghton is the Director of the National Cryptologic Museum. He is the former Historian and Curator of the International Spy Museum. He has a PhD in Diplomatic and Military History from the University of Maryland, and is a veteran of the United States Army. Dr. Houghton has made numerous media appearances on a variety of media platforms including CNN, NBC News, Fox News, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Travel Channel, The History Channel, The American Heroes Channel, Vanity Fair, Maxim, and ESPN.com.

Eric Driggs currently works for the United States Southern Command out of the Pentagon as a Congressional Liaison. He spent the previous 10 years as the Governmental & External Affairs Officer for Coast Guard Seventh District, which oversees Coast Guard operations in South Carolina, Georgia, the peninsula of Florida, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and the Caribbean Basin. He has also worked as a Cuba Analyst at the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies.