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A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by ourmaster chronicler of the way we live now.
As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with ourhero, officer Nestor Camacho, on board-Tom Wolfe is off and runningheadlong into the only city in the world where people from adifferent country with a different language and a different culturehave taken over at the ballot box.
This melting pot is full of hard cases who just won't melt,damn it: a Cuban mayor; a black police chief; a hot young reporterand a timid editor of the Miami Herald, both WASPs who went toYale; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist who keeps his lovelyLatina nurse, Magdalena, in his bed and his star patient, aporn-addicted billionaire, on a string; a status-addled Haitianprofessor who thinks he's really French and wants his pale-skinneddaughter to "pass" and his Creole-spouting son to be quiet.
As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with ourhero, officer Nestor Camacho, on board-Tom Wolfe is off and runningheadlong into the only city in the world where people from adifferent country with a different language and a different culturehave taken over at the ballot box.
This melting pot is full of hard cases who just won't melt,damn it: a Cuban mayor; a black police chief; a hot young reporterand a timid editor of the Miami Herald, both WASPs who went toYale; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist who keeps his lovelyLatina nurse, Magdalena, in his bed and his star patient, aporn-addicted billionaire, on a string; a status-addled Haitianprofessor who thinks he's really French and wants his pale-skinneddaughter to "pass" and his Creole-spouting son to be quiet.