Nemesis - One Man and the Battle for Rio
Author(s): Misha Glenny
'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil?s most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang culture and destitution, while everyone around him drew guns and partied. DRUG LORD. It?s a story of gold-hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, politicians and drug lords and the battle for the beautiful but damned city of Rio. MOST WANTED CRIMINAL.
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An explosive vision of contemporary Brazil's underbelly by one of our greatest investigative reporters
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Misha Glenny is a distinguished investigative journalist and historian. To write Nemesis, he has divided his time between Brazil and London, living for several months in Rocinha, the favela at the heart of this story. Glenny also conducted many interviews at the Maximum Security Federal Penitentiary with Antonio Lopes, who is the 'Nem' of this book. As the Central Europe Correspondent first for the Guardian and then for the BBC, Glenny chronicled the collapse of communism and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He has won several major awards for his work, including the Sony Gold Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting and is the author of five books, including the acclaimed McMafia and DarkMarket.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Jonathan Cape
- : 0.486
- : 17 September 2015
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : Misha Glenny
- : Misha Glenny
- : 352
- : 352
- : 363.45092
- : 363.45092
- : English
- : English
- : 1
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Paperback