BLOOD OF THE WICKED

Gage, Leighton

ISBN 10: 1569474702 / ISBN 13: 9781569474709

Published by Soho Press, New York, 2008

About this Item

First edition, first printing, hardcover. 324 pages. Near fine with spine ends lightly pushed, in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. NOT price-clipped. SIGNED (signature only) by the author on the title page. NOT ex-library. NOT a remainder. Author's first novel, introducing Mario Silva, Chief Inspector for Criminal Matters of the Federal Police of Brazil, who is sent to the remote Brazilian town of Cascatas do Pontal to find the killer of of Catholic bishop.

Seller Inventory # 141262

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BLOOD OF THE WICKED
• Publisher: Soho Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1569474702
• ISBN 13: 9781569474709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery

About this title

Synopsis

In the remote Brazilian town of Cascatas do Pontal, where landless peasants are confronting the owners of vast estates, the bishop arrives by helicopter to consecrate a new church and is assassinated. Mario Silva, chief inspector for criminal matters of the federal police of Brazil, is dispatched to the interior to find the killer. The pope himself has called Brazil's president: the pressure is on Silva to perform. Silva must battle the state police and a corrupt judiciary as well as criminals who prey on street kids, the warring factions of the Landless League, the big landowners, and the church itself, in order to solve the initial murder and several brutal killings that follow. Here is a Brazil that tourists never encounter.

About the Authors

Leighton Gage is married to a Brazilian woman and spends part of each year in Santana do Parnaiba, Brazil, and the rest of the year in Florida and Belgium. This is his first novel.

Leighton Gage is married to a Brazilian woman and spends part of each year in Santana do Parnaiba, Brazil, and the rest of the year in Florida and The Netherlands. He is the author of two novels in the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series.

Leighton Gage is the author of five novels in the Mario Silva series: Blood of the Wicked, Buried Strangers, Dying Gasp, Every Bitter Thing, and A Vine in the Blood. He spends part of each year in Santana do Parnaiba, Brazil, and divides the rest of the year between Florida and the Netherlands. He is married with four daughters.