Once you get into Trafficante and these other guys in the south like Marcello and Civello, you start getting into JFK, Castro, Cuba, Jack Ruby, CIA operations, Vegas, hookers, and the roots of neon lit, Miami Vice culture as we know it. Good stuff.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
