Advance Praise
“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 Nation’s 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
“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
“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, author of The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
“I’ve been trying to understand Ricardo Monkey Morales for 30 years. He left us all these clues—in 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 book—decades overdue—is a gift.”
-Roben Farzad, author of Hotel Scarface, CNN correspondent, NPR Radio
Pre-order now from your favorite retailer
