Homicide Miami by Peter Davidson

Author:Peter Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-23T16:00:00+00:00

In the early 1980s, the Hungarian Communist Party reined in the secret police, and even eased travel restrictions. Hungary was arguably the most liberal of the Soviet-bloc nations, its citizens even allowed to view reruns of American television shows. Among Frank’s favorites was Miami Vice , the groundbreaking cop show that defined Miami. It starred Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett, a former University of Florida football star who served two combat tours in Vietnam before becoming a cop in Miami where he lived on a sailboat with Elvis, his pet alligator.

Crockett and his partner, Rico Tubbs (played by Philip Michael Thomas), portrayed a pair of undercover Metro-Dade detectives assigned to the vice unit. The crime-fighting duo battled the forces of evil—drug traffickers, foreign agents, and corrupt officials. They raced around town in Ferraris and piloted speedboats on Biscayne Bay. The popular television show captured more than the violence of Miami; it also captured the glamour of the South Florida lifestyle, the sultry sexiness of its women, as well as the colors of the city—the deep pastels of its art deco buildings and the shimmering blues and greens of its waterways. And it launched new styles in men’s fashions. Thanks to Miami Vice , three-day old facial stubble became fashionable for Miami’s men, as did loafers without socks, Ray-Ban sunglasses, and suits worn over T-shirts.

Frank yearned to go to Miami. Despite the Communists’ attempts to stamp out capitalism in Hungary, he was a natural born businessman, “a risk taker,” said a Hungarian friend who knew him in Budapest and later in Miami. Early on Frank vowed that he would make his fortune there, but his first stop in America was in New York City.

He arrived in the Big Apple in 1985 and went to work washing cars at a foreign car dealership in Manhattan. It wasn’t long before he was repairing them. Two years later Frank was living in Miami where he landed a job as a salesman at Prestige Motors, a luxury car dealership that sold Lotuses, Mercedes, Ferraris, Bentleys, and Lamborghinis. Likeable and diligent, he earned a six-figure income as a salesman, but the boy from Budapest wasn’t content to sell the high-priced vehicles—he wanted to own them.

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