Advance praise for Monkey Morales...

"What do you get if you take a mercenary in the Congo, an assassin, a bomb-maker for the mob, a spy, a drug smuggler and an anti-Castro agent and base them all in Miami?  Well, in this case, all those characters turn out to be the same man: Monkey Morales.  I’d long thought it impossible to begin to sort his truth from myth.  A thousand thanks to Sean Oliver who’s done just that."

-Nicholas Griffin, New York Times bestselling author,
The Year of Dangerous Days

COMING 9.9.25

JANUARY 2025

Happy 2025. This is the year the Monkey's story is finally told. Monkey Morales: The True Story of a Mythic Cuban Exile, Assassin, CIA Operative, FBI Informant, Drug Smuggler, and Dad is slated for publication in September 2025 by Post Hill Press, and the advanced word has been heartwarming.

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The journey started six years ago when Monkey's son, Rick Jr, and I began sifting through the legend and lore of the world's greatest triple agent so finally present the real story—not an easy task. Ricardo Morales was an agent for Fidel Castro, Venezuela's intelligence agency, paid asset for the CIA, paid informant the FBI, DEA, and Miami law enforcement, and the single most uncontrollable rabble-rouser in the network of anti-Castro freelance bombers in Miami. That road led him into the hands of South Florida's cocaine kingpins during the dawn of that industry.

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Through tens of thousands of government documents, countless hours of interviews with friends, associates, family, and foes, and hundreds of news clippings, the story unearths itself from under the cloak of secrecy. And it's crazier than fiction.

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Check out a preview of what's to come in this harrowing story of a real-life mercenary with at least nine lives.

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