Leighton Gage
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"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 Para 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, Jade Calmon, Para's sole government-sponsored advocate for the native...
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...