Syndicate in the Sun - Softcover

Messick, Hank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948986345 ISBN 13: 9781948986342

Publisher: Commonwealth Book Company, Inc., 2021

Synopsis

Fresh off his success revealing the pernicious Syndicate operations in Newport, Kentucky, detailed in his book Syndicate Wife and later Razzle Dazzle, Hank Messick came to the Miami Herald in 1963 to write about organized crime in south Florida. Syndicate in the Sun is the inside story of vice and corruption on the Gold Coast, of Miami gone wild, told by a no-holds-barred journalist. It is a story of corrupt politicians in the 1960s, perhaps rivaled only by the law enforcement leadership they put in place. This is the Dade County you've never seen and never want to see. While headlines and front page photos showed gambling houses being taken down, Dade County's finest were allegedly raking in the profits from those houses under their protection. Exposing both the Mob and its partnerships with law enforcement put Messick in grave danger. That he managed to survive is a story in itself. 

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About the Author

Hank Messick (1922-1999) was born in Happy Valley, NC, and educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of Iowa. He began his investigative journalism career in western North Carolina and in 1956 began working at the Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky's largest newspaper. For the next several years Hank investigated and reported on the Newport, Kentucky, vice industry. He later worked for the Miami Herald and the Boston Traveler, also investigating organized crime and corruption in those communities. After 1967 he wrote full time, authoring 19 books, mostly about organized crime and its influences in American life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Commonwealth Book Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1948986345
• ISBN 13: 9781948986342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258