Monkey Morales

“A riveting and illuminating deep dive into the anti-Castro movement in the US, which has had a formative impact on right-wing politics from Miami to the Nation’s Capital and beyond. Monkey Morales was the proverbial man without a country, and his willingness to use any means necessary to achieve his goals (including bombings, murder, and other terrorist acts) makes for an outrageously entertaining saga of counter-revolutionary hubris gone horribly wrong.” – T.J. English, New York Times best selling author of The Last Kilo, The Corporation, and Havana Nocturne
“Anyone who knows anything about Miami’s mythic webs of intrigue knows Monkey Morales lay at the heart of them all. Finally, a pacy biography that sorts fact from fiction—and needless to say the facts are much, much stranger than the tallest of tales.” – Nicholas Griffin, author of The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
“John le Carré and Ian Fleming together could not have invented a more compelling real life spook than what is found here in the pages of this definitive biography of the legendary Ricardo ‘Monkey’ Morales. His most closely guarded secrets and undercover exploits in espionage all are revealed here for the first time, finally providing the missing puzzle pieces that help resolve some of the biggest historical jigsaws of 20th century spy craft.” – Fernand Amandi, MSNBC analyst
“I’ve been trying to understand Ricardo Monkey Morales for thirty years. He left us all these clues—in police records, on the lips of exiles, across international press, in hours of surreal testimony. Fact. Fiction. Hyperbole. Heartbreak. You could never quite put his story down. Finally, Rick, Jr. and Sean Oliver connect it all for me. This book—decades overdue—is a gift.” – Roben Farzad, author of Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami, CNN, NPR Radio
“The authors have done a masterful job putting all these elements together so cogently; I don’t know how anyone could’ve done it, but they’ve certainly done the job. I can’t say enough how impressed I am. Masterful job, just outstanding, masterful…over and over.” – Jerome Sanford, former Assistant US Attorney

Sean has never carried out a contract bombing, but he is the author of eight books and a 2021 Writer’s Competition winner in the script category. He is an actor and voice artist with over a hundred major motion picture and TV credits. He currently teaches in New Jersey where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

Rick is the second of Ricardo Morales Navarrete’s four children. He has appeared on radio and podcasts for NPR, Actualidad Radio 1040 AM, Spyscape, The Opperman Report, and Rob Reiner and Soledad O’Brien’s Who Killed JFK. He is a father of two and lives in Michigan with his wife Cheri and cat Buddy.

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