A riveting and illuminating deep dive into the anti-Castro movement in the US, which has had a formative impact on right-wing politics from Miami to the Nations Capital and beyond. Monkey Morales was the proverbial man without a country, and his willingness to use any means necessary to achieve his goals (including bombings, murder, and other terrorist acts) makes for an outrageously entertaining saga of counter-revolutionary hubris gone horribly wrong. -- T.J. English, New York Times best selling author of The Last Kilo, The Corporation, and Havana Nocturne Anyone who knows anything about Miamis mythic webs of intrigue knows Monkey Morales lay at the heart of them all. Finally, a pacy biography that sorts fact from fictionand needless to say the facts are much, much stranger than the tallest of tales. -- Nicholas Griffin, author of The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980 John le Carré and Ian Fleming together could not have invented a more compelling real life spook than what is found here in the pages of this definitive biography of the legendary Ricardo Monkey Morales. His most closely guarded secrets and undercover exploits in espionage all are revealed here for the first time, finally providing the missing puzzle pieces that help resolve some of the biggest historical jigsaws of 20th century spy craft. -- Fernand Amandi, MSNBC analyst Ive been trying to understand Ricardo Monkey Morales for thirty years. He left us all these cluesin police records, on the lips of exiles, across international press, in hours of surreal testimony. Fact. Fiction. Hyperbole. Heartbreak. You could never quite put his story down. Finally, Rick, Jr. and Sean Oliver connect it all for me. This bookdecades overdueis a gift. -- Roben Farzad, author of Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami, CNN, NPR Radio The authors have done a masterful job putting all these elements together so cogently; I dont know how anyone couldve done it, but theyve certainly done the job. I cant say enough how impressed I am. Masterful job, just outstanding, masterfulover and over. -- Jerome Sanford, former Assistant US Attorney
