Mario Leme is a low-ranking detective in the Sao Paolo civil police. Every day on the way to work he sets off early and drives through the favela kwn as Paraisopolis - Paradise City. It's a pilgrimage: his wife Renata was gunned down at an intersection here a year ago, the victim of a stray bullet in a conflict between drug dealers. One morning, parked near the place where Renata died, he sees an SUV careen out of control and flip over. The driver Leo is killed, but before his body is removed, Leme is sure he sees bullet wounds. Leo's death wasn't an accident, he was murdered. Soon, his girlfriend turns up dead too. And if they were killed deliberately, perhaps Renata was too ...Leme finds himself immersed further and further in the dark underbelly of Brazilian society, as corruption seeps from the highest to the lowest echelons, and the devastating truth about Renata begins to emerge.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Arcadia Books
GTIN
9781911350163
ISBN-10
1911350161
ISBN-13
9781911350163
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237352715
Product Key Features
Author
Joe Thomas
Format
B-Format Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Publication Year
2017
Type
Novel
Genre
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Dimensions
Height
198mm
Width
129mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Series Part/Volume Number
1
Literary Period/Movement
1911350161
Series Title
Mario Leme
Edition Number
1
Author Biography
Joe Thomas is Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He lived and taught in Sao Paulo for ten years. Paradise City is his first novel.