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It is the eve of the FIFA World Cup, the globe's premier sporting event. The host country is Brazil. A victory for the home team is inextricably linked to the skills of the country's principal striker, Tico "The Artist" Santos, and all the politicians in Brasilia, from the president of the Republic on down, have their seats squared away for the finale-where they hope to see Argentina, Brazil's bitterest rival, humbled by the Brazilian eleven. But...
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In the woods on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil, a dog unearths a human bone, recently buried. Chief Inspector Mario Silva of the federal police and his team of investigators are called in from Brasilia and discover a clandestine cemetery. And then another. Someone has secretly disposed of the bodies of hundreds of human beings-their corpses often interred in family groups. Now, to get to the bottom of these heinous deeds, Silva must navigate...
3) Dying Gasp
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The Brazilian federal police wouldn't typically get involved in the case of missing teenage girl-but when the girl in question is the granddaughter of a prominent politician, Silva and his team are, of course, put on her trail. It leads them to Manaus, a jungle hellhole in the Amazon.
All sorts of unsavory characters can be found in the seedier corners of this South American country-and as Silva investigates, he finds troubling connections to human...
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As Chief Inspector Mario Silva has learned, justice is hard to come by in Brazil, so when his niece tells him about a possible genocide deep in the jungle, he agrees to round up his team and charter a plane to Pará to check it out. Thirty-nine natives have recently dropped dead of mysterious causes. Given the tense relationship between the Awana tribe and the white townsfolk nearby, Pará's sole government-sponsored advocate for the native population,...
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Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team have a heavy workload with several high-profile cases. First, a suicide bombing that was apparently the work of a militant Islamist group. Then, the assassination of a gubernatorial candidate in broad daylight at a campaign rally. Silva begins to wonder if the two events could be related-and to complicate his investigation even further, a criminal with a very bad grudge against the chief inspector has been...
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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, and Mara Carta, the chief of intelligence with a soft spot for Silva-still manage to crack their difficult and sometimes ugly cases.
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