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As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city he introduces the Cuban mayor the black police chief an ambitious young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; a psychiatrist who specialises in sex addiction and his Latina nurse by day mistress by night - until lately the love of Nestor's life; a refined and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict crack dealers in the 'hoods 'de-skilled' conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair 'spectators' at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed on-scene high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous best-selling novels The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full Back to Blood is another brilliant spot-on scrupulous and often hilarious reckoning with our times.Read More