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As the police boat speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho's great moment of heroism. Except that in this feverous city, Nestor's act of heroism can also be seen as an utter betrayal of his Cuban roots.
As Nestor's world disintegrates - his family disowns him, he can't get a Cuban coffee without ugly stares, ans his girlfriend Magdalena leaves him for her ex sex-addiction psychiatrist boss - his quest to right the wrong brings him into contact with the full panorama of modern Miami.
The Cuban mayor, a Yale-marinated journalist, the black police chief, a Haitian professor whose ambitions to be French are thwarted by his Creole-spouling son, the clueless baying art-buyers ans an Anglo billionaire porn addict all come up for scrutiny in Tom Wolfe's high-energy, scrupulous and hilarious reckoning with our times.