All John Early ever wanted to do was get the job done and get it done right, yet the ones he worked with gave him the most trouble, his own people, colleagues and associates. He never understood why they tried to kill his initiatives, bring him down, smear him. They tried to cut him a new ass and run him out of town. None of it made sense. John told the story to his close friend Roscoe Caterwaul sitting in the rattan chairs at the glass-top garden table among the orchids on the rooftop terrace of the Orange Blossom Hotel. They sampled a range of special cocktail recipes from John's portable...