Sins of South Beach is the true story of sex, drugs, violence, corruption, murder, and the making of Miami Beach. The book is an autobiographical portrait of one of the most spectacular renovations that any city has ever undergone, and the seedy underside that fueled its rise.Sins of South Beach reveals the city’s renaissance, and the crime and corruption that fueled it. Alex Daoud, who served as Miami Beach’s Commissioner and Mayor from 1979 to 1991, describes in vivid, first-hand details how, as an idealistic young lawyer, he was seduced by money, power, and sex, and how that seduction led to the moral decay that nearly drove him insane.