Blood of the Wicked Contributor(s): Gage, Leighton (Author) |
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ISBN: 161695180X ISBN-13: 9781616951801 Publisher: Soho Crime OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural - Fiction | Crime |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigations (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 1.35" H x 5.05" W x 7.56" (0.57 lbs) 352 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The first book in Leighton Gage's critically acclaimed police procedural series set in Brazil, now available in paperback at the special introductory price of $9.99 Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil's Federal Police is a good cop in a bad system--Brazil's justice system is rife with corruption, and constantly a beat behind criminal elements. But Silva and his team of colorful sidekicks--baby-faced Gon alves, who is irresistible to lady witnesses; chubby, crass Nu es; Mara Carta, the chief of intelligence with a soft spot for Mario--crack their difficult and sometimes ugly cases with pizazz. In the interior of Brazil, landless workers battle the owners of vast fazendas. When a visiting archbishop is assassinated, Mario Silva is called upon to investigate. Then a newspaper owner, a TV journalist, a landowner's son, and a priest are brutally killed. In a country where dead street kids are known as hams, justice is scarce. |