It is 1955 in Las Vegas. Sammy and Satchmo are headlining the big hotels - where the casino operators and the color bar say a black man can't buy a drink or a meal or a room. Until now. The Chicago mob man Mo Weiner is bankrolling ex-boxer Worthless ...
An epic and explosive novel of Cuba in 1958, After Havana is the story of the nightclubs, revolutionaries, and secret police forces in the sour twilight of the Batista empire. Sloan is a white American horn player with a bruised past and a wounded he...
In the fall of 1960, the CIA's MK-ULTRA program has set up safe-houses in San Francisco, and is using streetwalkers to pull unsuspecting victims out of the smoky North Beach jazz clubs. Deacon and Anita, the star-crossed lovers from The Ivory Coast a...
It's 1947 in Los Angeles. Mickey Cohen's men are taking over Bugsy Siegel's rackets. A Red-baiting Congressman is in town looking for Commies in the movie biz. And studio cop John McClellan, head of security for Continental Pictures, has his hands fu...