Bail Bonds Babylon [Paperback]

Laura Lanfield (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2010

In Bail Bonds Babylon Laura Lanfield is known as one of the first Bail Bonds women in the Miami Area. She lives through guns in her face, chasing drug warlords, schlepping through the hot thick jungles of Columbia to liberate her compadres, rescueing strippers, and being locked in the back of a kidnappers Lincoln Continental. She has done it all, and all while trying to hold down the fort as a single mother with two kids, and keeping an active personal life.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The author had me right along-side of her adventures. It was a quick easy reading, and I could hardly put it down --E. Maxfield

...Laura s written voice is raw, it's real, it s unforgettable. --Jeff Rivera (Author of Forever My Lady)

About the Author

Laura Lanfield is the pseudonym for a well known South Florida private investigator, bail bondsman, true crime author, columnist, and proud grandmother. One of the first licensed female bondsmen in Miami, as was her mother, she eventually co-owned and operated her own agency, writing bonds, and chasing fugitives in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and other areas in South Florida during the incredibly violent cocaine cowboy era.

Product Details

• Paperback: 274 pages
• Publisher: Matanda Publications; 3rd edition (June 30, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982679300
• ISBN-13: 978-0982679302
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,874,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Seeing is believing, October 30, 2011

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Nicholas Spill "Nick Spill" (Miami Beach, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bail Bonds Babylon (Paperback)

I know Laura, not her real name of course. And I have only known her for some 10 years. I am glad I never came across her in the 70s and 80s. As a younger bonds woman and investigator with an attitude I would have been completely bewildered by her. So thankfully I can sit back and enjoy her stories now, knowing that even though they are wild and outlandish, these stories are true. She is the real thing.

Laura's writing can be raw and straight from the gut but she paints a vivid picture of Miami in the early cocaine days of the 70's and early 80's.

There is no other literature out there documenting what happened in this criminal world quite so vividly.

5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down!, May 26, 2010

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J. Vensel "Astroflower" (Hollywood) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bail Bonds Babylon (Paperback)

I read Bail Bonds Babylon in a day and a half. The dangerous adventures that Laura Lanfield had to go through to bring justice to harden criminals are no less than heroic. I forget sometimes that these are real dangerous adventures that one woman went through and had the smarts to get herself out of. Set in the steamy tropical settings of South Florida and South America, this book is a great paperback to throw in your travel bag or just bring it home for those lazy summer days. The writing is expressive, easy to understand, and sassy.