Book Three of the Sao Paulo Quartet: A Mail on Sunday thriller of the month
Joe Thomas Karackattu Livres
The second thrilling crime novel in the hardhitting Sao Paulo Quartet
The second book in the acclaimed United Kingdom Trilogy takes us from Live Aid to Broadwater Farm, exposing the seedy underbelly of Thatcher's Britain
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 known 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.
A blockbusting novel of our times, Brazilian Psycho introduces and completes Joe Thomas's acclaimed Sao Paulo quartet.
A 'non-fiction crime novel' charting the rise of Thatcher, supercharged by the music and counterculture of the 70s and 80s