Cigar City Mafia
by: Scott M. Deitche
Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of The Tampa Underworld
Scott M. Deitche
Barricade Books
By James Calemine
During Prohibition in Tampa, Florida, the criminal underworld flourished. Scott M. Deitche's book, Cigar City Mafia, proves a gritty tale on the underground operations that revolved around Tampa's cigar industry for decades.
Deitche chronicles the true stories and eerie activities of some of Florida's most dangerous bootleggers, gamblers, arsonists, drug dealers and murderers, as well as crooked cops around the Ybor City area. Some of Tampa's deadliest denizens such as Nick Scaglione, Henry and Santo Trafficante, Scarface Rivera, Charlie Wall, and Frank Gagliano serve as major characters in this mean and insightful book. This is not a story for the weak of heart.
Deitche's research in such deadly company of killers and bad cops remains vital to illustrate how far the mob's connections and dark deeds penetrated and influenced local politics all the way up to 2002. This isn't HBO drama...Cigar City Mafia serves dark truths about real events and real people's actions that still linger to this day in one of our southern states...
Comments
kokowowoman says...
A ugg boots clearance recent survey found that one out of five Americans teenage or older want an iPad. No wonder Apple is selling three million iPads a month. It's the fastest-selling single product in the history of consumer electronics. Most buyers are choosing an iPad as a supplement to their current computers -- for watching movies in bed, like I do, or reading books in my easy chair when there's nothing good on TV ugg boots clearance. The iPad pretty much has the personal side of computing covered. But what about the computer side? What about the tasks you do on your laptop or on your desktop computer ugg boots clearance? But I'm convinced that many of you would find the iPad a delightful replacement for a typical laptop computer, whether a Windows PC or Mac, if you mostly use a laptop for three typical functions -- e-mail, social networking (through Facebook, for example) and Web browsing ugg boots clearance. What about occasional word processing? Apple's word processor, called Pages, is outstanding on the iPad. (A bonus: It also works easily with Microsoft Word documents, both reading them and saving them.) If you need software that can show and create PowerPoint presentations, iPad software called Keynote can do that nicely. There's even an Excel-compatible program called Numbers ugg boots clearance. All three of these productivity programs -- called apps -- sell for only $10 each. Getting something equivalent to Microsoft Office for only $30 is surely a steal ugg boots clearance. There are many, either free or a couple of dollars, at the App Store ugg boots outlet. Could an iPad be your only computer? Not for long. It gets updates via free software called iTunes running on a standard computer. When you plug the iPad into the computer using a USB cable, iTunes transfers the updates to your iPad ugg boots outlet. (iTunes is also used to add music, books, podcasts, university lectures, TV shows and movies to an iPad.) But if my experience is a guide, the iPad can function well as a replacement for a laptop. If you buy one, be sure to get the Keyboard Dock and the Camera Connection Kit. Photos look spectacular on the 10-inch screen ugg boots clearance.
Please login or you can
If you aren't registered, Register Now to start leaving comments.