In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—the old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars, and flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar and often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne , T. J. English offers a riveting, multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution, and international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the Mob in Havana and the event that would overshadow it, the Cuban Revolution. As the Cuban people labored under a violently repressive regime throughout the 1950s, Mob leaders Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano turned their eye to Havana. To them, Cuba was the ultimate dream, the greatest hope for the future of the American Mob in the post-Prohibition years of intensified government crackdowns. But when it came time to make their move, it was Lansky, the brilliant Jewish mobster, who reigned supreme. Having cultivated strong ties with the Cuban government and in particular the brutal dictator Fulgencio Batista, Lansky brought key mobsters to Havana to put his ambitious business plans in motion. Before long, the Mob, with Batista's corrupt government in its pocket, owned the biggest luxury hotels and casinos in Havana, launching an unprecedented tourism boom complete with the most lavish entertainment, the world's biggest celebrities, the most beautiful women, and gambling galore. But their dreams collided with those of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and others who would lead the country's disenfranchised to overthrow their corrupt government and its foreign partners—an epic cultural battle that English captures in all its sexy, decadent, ugly glory. Bringing together long-buried historical information with English's own research in Havana—including interviews with the era's key survivors— Havana Nocturne takes readers back to Cuba in the years when it was a veritable devil's playground for mob leaders. English deftly weaves together the parallel stories of the Havana Mob—featuring notorious criminals such as Santo Trafficante Jr. and Albert Anastasia—and Castro's 26th of July Movement in a riveting, up-close look at how the Mob nearly attained its biggest dream in Havana—and how Fidel Castro trumped it all with the Cuban Revolution.

托馬斯·英格利希（T. J. English）齣生於美國一個愛爾蘭裔天主教傢庭，在成為自由撰稿人之前，曾做過齣租車司機、酒保等工作。擅長黑幫題材，1990年齣版第一本專著《西幫分子》。2007年《紙醉金迷哈瓦那》齣版後，引發瞭銷售熱潮，一舉登上《紐約時報》暢銷榜第七名，並在《華爾街日報》《今日美國》等報紙紛紛上榜，獲得2009年“愛倫·坡奬”最佳罪案實錄奬的提名。作為一名記者，英格利希也為《時尚先生》《花花公子》《紐約時報》等媒體撰稿，2010年榮獲紐約新聞俱樂部奬；曾在美劇《紐約重案組》和《情理法的春天》中擔任編劇，並因此獲得著名的人道主義奬。目前常住紐約。

閻紀宇，資深譯者。颱灣中國時報國際新聞中心副主任。主要譯作有《彆對我撒謊》、《遮蔽的伊斯蘭》、《非理性的魅惑》、《超級精英》、《永不屈服》等。