AVENTURA, FL (February 15, 2008) – Sins of South Beach author and former three-time Miami Beach Mayor, Alex Daoud will be speaking at Borders Book Store located at 19925 Biscayne Boulevard in Aventura on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 7:30pm. His book is an autobiographical portrait of the rise and restorations of Miami Beach, one of the most spectacular renaissances that any city has ever achieved.

Sins of South Beach illustrates the city's redevelopment and the crime and corruption that fueled it. Daoud, who served as Miami Beach's Commissioner and Mayor from 1979 to 1991, describes in vivid, first-hand detail how as an idealistic young lawyer, he was seduced by money, power and sex, and how that seduction led to the moral decay that drove him to attempt suicide.

Sins of South Beach depicts the era when "cocaine cowboys" slaughtered each other in drug wars and refugees from the Mariel Boatlift, many released by Fidel Castro from his worst prisons and insane asylums, terrorized the predominately elderly Jewish population of Miami Beach. The book identifies South Florida's ruling elite and dives into the details of the drug industry explosion and the cash available to fuel large land deals. Readers of Sins of South Beach will get an insider's view of the labor pains and controversial immigration issues Miami Beach experienced during its rebirth.

Having already received excellent reviews, Daoud will be signing copies of Sins of South Beach on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at Borders Book Store in Aventura at 7:30pm.

Described by New York Times best-selling author Steven Gaines as an "astonishing exposé on Miami Beach by one of the city's most beloved mayors," the revelations in this must-read are stunning. From sex, corruption and police misconduct, to villains and heroes, the novel leaves nothing on the table.