Mafia in Havana

A vibrant picture of the Mafia's Caribbean empire when Havana was the playground of the rich and infamous. With a novelistic eye for detail and drama, prize-winning author Enrique Cirules presents a shockingly glamorous and seedy picture of Sinatra and the showgirls, mambo and marijuana, "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lansky.

The Mafia in Havana won the 1993 Casa de las Américas Prize for Latin American literature and the Critics' Prize in 1994. Includes a stunning selection of photos of personalities of the times.

"We invented Havana, and we can goddamn well move it someplace else if [Batista] can't control it."-Meyer Lansky in Sydney Pollack's film Havana