Blood of the Wicked: 1 (A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation) - Softcover

Praise for Blood of the Wicked

"A Brazilian Federal cop in a country where there is no FBI or Secret Service, Silva and his men must do it all. Leighton Gage's crime novels transport you to São Paulo, Manuas, and Brasilia."
--Yahoo! Travel, from "5 Must-Read Books that Define Brazil"

"Blood of the Wicked manages to pack a huge amount into a spare three hundred pages; power politics, petty violence, sexual scandal, saintly courage, staggering poverty and obscene wealth. A book that makes you care about its large cast of characters, even when you know that they are going to die--frequently horribly. This is a novel as rich and complex as Brazil itself, with villains who make you want to spit, and heroes whose goodness is heartbreaking."
--Rebecca Pawel, Edgar Award-winning author of Death of a Nationalist

"Gage creates a contemporary tapestry of Brazil . . . Gage's debut builds a compelling foundation for future Silva cases."
--Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Leighton Gage's Mario Silva series

"Top notch . . . controversial and entirely absorbing."
--The New York Times Book Review

"A dark, violent book with characters that seethe on the page . . . compelling writing. Readers will smell the steam and stench of the Amazon and recoil from the torture and depredation from which Gage averts his lens, barely in
time."
--Boston Globe

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 Gonçalves, who is irresistible to lady witnesses; chubby, crass Nuñes; 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.