Cigar City Mafia
A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld
Ft. Lee: Barricade, 2004

Cigar City Mafia is the first book ever written about the Tampa mob. This enigmatic crime group extended its criminal empire across Florida, into Cuba and across the globe. Mafia traces the mob’s history from its beginnings in the Cuban/Italian ethnic enclaves of Tampa in the 1920’s through the present. The group also gave rise to one of the most powerful, yet least known mob bosses in crime history, Santo Trafficante Jr., who ran the crime family from 1954 to his death in 1987.

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The Silent Don:
The Criminal Underworld of Santo Trafficante Jr.
Ft. Lee: Barricade, 2007
Release date: April 25th 2007

Santo Trafficante Jr. was The Silent Don. For thirty years he was the mob boss of Tampa, running a criminal empire stretching from the Gulf Coast of the United States into the Caribbean. Under his father, Santo Sr., the young Trafficante rose through the ranks of the local Mafia while solidifying ties with mob families across the country.
By the 1950’s Santo Trafficante Jr. extended his reach across Florida and down to the island paradise of Cuba. He was the most influential mobster in Havana and ran a cadre of casinos with mobsters from New York to Chicago. After the fall of Batista and the rise of Castro, Santo became embroiled in the shadowy matrix of covert CIA operations, drug trafficking, plots to kill Castro, and ultimately the JFK assassination. But Trafficante never spent a night in an American jail. He was quiet yet cagey, unassuming yet powerful. Trafficante’s erudite understanding of the interwoven network of corrupt politicians, heads of state, non-traditional ethnic crime groups, and the Mafia enabled him to become one of the pivotal figures in the American Mafia during it’s heyday of power. The Silent Don combines court records, law enforcement reports, declassified documents, dozens of interviews, and other sources for the first look at the criminal career of one of the more enigmatic Mafia figures in history.

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