About the Author
Scott M. Deitche was born and raised in central New Jersey. He has had a number of articles published on organized crime and its manifestations in Florida. His work and research on the topic has been featured on Fox-TV. He resides in St. Petersburg, Florida with his wife and daughter.
Scott M. Deitche also has a website on the Tampa Mob, you can go there by clicking HERE.

Book Description
Bootleggers, gambling ringleaders, arsonists, narcotics dealers, and gang murderers-a variety of characters flourished in the era known as Prohibition, and Tampa, Florida was where they battled for supremacy of the criminal underworld. With meticulous detail, Scott M. Deitche documents the rise of the infamous Trafficante family, ruthless competitors in a "violent, shifting place, where loyalties and power quickly changed." Ybor City, the region of Tampa known as Little Havana, was a hard-working, multi-ethnic community, pillared by the cigar industry. With ambitions of greater power and money, the young Italian mob had to contend with the likes of Charlie Wall, old school dean of the underworld, the Cuban Syndicate, and thousands of corrupt police officers who exchanged loyalties for dollars.

Complete with a profile index of each known Trafficante family member, Cigar City Mafia is the only chronology of the Tampa underworld to show readers the local factories, bolita gambling houses, and the Hillsborough River, where a new body floated to the surface practically every other day.