Riders In Disguise

by Patrick Anderson Jr.

Miami, 1979.

Rig Lopez-Campbell is a middle-schooler navigating the streets of Liberty City following his father’s imprisonment. Tommy Munoz is a Pedro Pan survivor and former accountant dragged into the violent world of cocaine trafficking. Tina Pacheco is a Puerto-Rican freelance photographer-turned-journalist after capturing images of the Dadeland Mall Massacre. Ralph Williams is a homicide detective tasked with stemming the tide of carnage in the face of growing corruption within his own department.

Touring Magic City during the height of the Cocaine Cowboy era, Riders in Disguise takes a broad look at the most influential period in South Florida's history.

Praise for Riders in

“Brilliant and scathing…Anderson Jr. delivers a smart vibrant unforgettable knockout…”
-Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of This Is How You Lose Her

“…Compelling from the first page, Riders in Disguise perfectly captures the contradictions that beset Miami, a city both blessed and cursed by its diversity and its fearlessness.”
- Susan Hubbard, author of The Society of S Trilogy

“In this terrifying and stunning debut, Patrick Anderson shines a prismatic light on Miami’s violent past...”
- Darlin Neal, author of Rattlesnakes & The Moon and Elegant Punk

372 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 15, 2023

About the author

Patrick Anderson Jr. received his BA in English from Florida State University and his MFA in Creative Writing from University of Central Florida. He has had short stories and essays published in various e-zines and print journals such as Prick of the Spindle, Silverthought, Miambiance, Sex and Murder Magazine, Ghostlight Magazine, Existere Journal, Midwest Literary Magazine, and The Worcester Review.