Have you ever wanted to travel to Miami but never went yet? Well you can get the feeling of it by reading "Back to Blood."

In "Back to Blood," published by Little, Brown & Company, author Tom Wolfe brings readers an inside view of life in Miami where factors like racism, sex, wealth, and status play a key role in understanding the popular city. This is his first book in eight years.

The 720-page book is described:

A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.

As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with officer Nestor Camacho on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, BACK TO BLOOD is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.

In an interview with USA Today, Wolfe advises novelists and reporters to get out on the streets among the people and places they are writing about, which is what he did while writing "Back to Blood."

Wolfe described Miami as "the only city in the world where more than half the residents are recent immigrants, and not just Cubans, but Haitians and Russians and Nicaraguans. In the past 33 years, the Cubans have staged a political takeover - not through an invasion but at the ballot box! It's probably the only city like that."

He talked about how he paid attention to how people dressed in "Blood," down to their jeans that "hugged their declivities fore and aft, entered every crevice, explored every hill and dale of their lower abdomens."

Also, using the word "loins," which is found in the book several times to describe sex scenes, Wolfe said is better to use rather than saying those words (you get what I mean).

"'Loins' is a marvelous word to use without getting into genitalia. You get the general idea. It rhymes with groin. It does a lot of work for you," Wolfe said.

Wolfe has written "The Bonfire of the Vanities," which talks about life in New York, and "A Man in Full" centered in Atlanta.

"Blood" has gotten rave reviews:

"Back to Blood surges with its large ensemble cast of Floridians and immigrants with mixed histories and conflicting agendas. This sun-bronzed band of sailors, crack dealers, art enthusiasts, porn addicts, insomniacs, and love-struck romantics keep the fiction bristling with meaning even as the action moves forward. Certain to snag prominent reviews." - Barnes & Noble

"What holds our attention in Back to Blood...are Mr. Wolfe's two main characters: Nestor Camacho...and his former girlfriend Magdalena...Although Mr. Wolfe can be patronizing toward this pair, mocking them for their ignorance and naïveté, he also portrays them with genuine sympathy, using their earnest idealism as a prism by which to view the pretensions, social climbing and Machiavellian manipulation that burbles all around them." - New York Times

The fiction novel also got rave reviews on Amazon and mainly four stars on GoodReads.

"Back to Blood" will be released on Oct. 23.