WHERE DID THAT PHOTO COME FROM?

Someone asked me where the original photograph was taken, by whom and why. Famed Miami portrait photographer Jeffrey Salter took it for an article that appeared in the Times of London, when my autobiography THE LAUNDRY MAN (Penguin Random House UK) was first published.  https://lnkd.in/ekjtqbxN

The location was underneath the Powell Bridge on Miami's Rickenbacker Causeway to Key Biscayne. You can see the Port of Miami in the background; on the far right, the high-rise buildings of South Beach peek out behind the gantry cranes at the port. Whether this isolated spot was the venue for my covert money laundering events during the tumultuous "Miami Vice" period of the 1980s must remain buried forever, I am afraid, especially since the city fathers have chosen to ignore that colorful part of Miami's history, but it has served as a rendezvous for those whose business must remain in the shadows.