About Author

“The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves – a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more” – Carl Becker

"There is a certain intimacy to knowing Alex. Much of who he is and what drove him - he kept locked away. Expressive and emotive, funny and very occasionally brutal, he is 100% dependable. We look at his formative years from my view as best childhood friend in the rapidly changing Miami of the 1960’s and 1970’s, and later in an expanding criminal web that reached from South America to the Caribbean, up to the Midwest." - Scott Sherouse

Leading Scholar on The Bahamas

Scott spent his formative years fishing, diving, and combing the shorelines of Florida. While wrestling for Miami Dade College he was also a young sportfishing captain running boats around the Bahamas. He then lived on Andros, a civilian contracted to perform research for the U.S. Navy, and visited nearly every other island of the Bahamas. Andros was also the setting of his first smuggling caper; his upbringing prepared him well to breach all Bahamian and USA coastal security measures. After a decade of the high-life, financed by mayhem, it was off to federal prison. Afterward Scott began a second life, as a scholar, in which he amassed an array of interdisciplinary degrees, with high honors.

Through Dr. Sherouse’s research and years on the waterfront, the under-belly of the South Florida and Bahamian drug trade is exposed. Capitalizing on his old insider credentials, Sherouse traveled to Colombia to debrief a few top Cartel men and hear of kidnappings, gold bullion, cocaine-submarines, and a private graveyard. More recently Dr. Sherouse taught cultural anthropology, world history, and sociology at Florida International University and Miami Dade College. His other recent book, The Bahamas, “Land of Milk and Honey”: Symbolic Acts and Social Action, looks at evocative and emotive events of the mid-twentieth century British Colony, leading toward independence.