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Author Nicholas Griffin spent five years researching Miami’s history to write The Year of Dangerous Days. Featuring an iconic cast of political figures including Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, and Janet Reno, we watch as the city erupts into one of the worst race riots in U.S. history, as over 125,000 Cuban refugees land on the Miami coast in the Mariel boatlift and imprint the city’s identity forever, as murder rates skyrocket, and as drug cartels infiltrate all levels of law enforcement and government.
Nicholas Griffin is a journalist and author of four novels and three works of nonfiction. His writing has appeared in The Times (UK), The Financial Times, Foreign Policy, and other publications on topics as disparate as sports and politics, piracy, filmmaking in the Middle East, and the natural sciences. Griffin has written for film and was a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations. His last book, Ping Pong Diplomacy, was shortlisted for awards in both the United States and the UK. His critically acclaimed new book, The Year of Dangerous Days, was reviewed by the New York Times as “utterly absorbing … it’s impossible to read Griffin’s timely and searing account without thinking about its implications for our current moment.” Griffin lives in Miami with his wife and two children.