Mariel, not Marial. If you've been in Miami since 91 and don't know that, you most likely haven't been reading any newspapers since your arrival.

The Deep Blue Good-by e was originally published in 1964, not 1982.

Thank you for pointing out these errors, we will make the changes accordingly.

If "Miami Vice" portrayed a pastel playground, Didion repaints the city in ominous shades, as an urban outpost haunted by CIA spooks and anti-Castro terrorists who together compose a shadowy front in Reagan’s clandestine Cold War.

"Miami Vice" did not portray a pastel playground. The show was all about the darkness and craziness behind the pastel facade. They produced plenty of shows about CIA spooks and victims of Castro's terrorism. Sheesh, Gordon Liddy even played a recurring character on the show!

In one episode, Gina, one of the show's two female detectives, was revealed to be a Cuban exile who was spirited out of Cuba as a baby by an East German Stasi agent after her mother was murdered in Havana by her Communist boyfriend.

Gina let the Stasi agent get away even though the CIA wanted her to bring him in. Because he loved her mother and made sure she got out of a Cuba as a child.

There were many episodes that showed the darkness of Miami and the influence of Cold War politics on the flow of drugs through Miami.

The series ended with Crockett handing in his badge after a particularly brutal collision between the War on Drugs and the War on Communism left him feeling used up and betrayed.

Dude, you took the trouble to read the books before commenting on them but your comments make it look like you didn't bother to watch the show.

Thought I had read all Travis McGee novels...Will lhave to check Deep Blue Goodby...was in Miami in 1985..only seamy side I saw were the illegal immigrants concocting ways to smuggle people in.

What a great way take on a city, especially Miami.

Yes, Didion gave a picture of Miami terrorists but she did not cover all of them. When she wrote her book, Miami had already been penetrated by Castro's spies and terrorists (remember all the hijacked planes.) Also, some of the terrorists she heard about had been Castro's soulmates who later turned against him. Then, they became "bad" terrorists. Those people who think that the Cold War is an American invention have to learn better.

The Miami publication mentioned in the article is nothing but a messenger of hatred and prejudice against exiled Cubans. They don't want to talk about the Cuban-Americans' higher than average level of education and their accomplishments in the arts, sciences and, yes, politics.