Blood of the Wicked / A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation (ePub)

"A Brazilian Federal cop in a country where there is no FBI or Secret Service, Silva and his men must do it all. Leighton Gage’s crime novels transport you to São Paulo, Manuas, and Brasilia." —Yahoo! Travel, from "5 Must-Read Books that Define Brazil"

"Blood of the Wicked manages to pack a huge amount into a spare three hundred pages; power politics, petty violence, sexual scandal, saintly courage, staggering poverty and obscene wealth. A book that makes you care about its large cast of characters, even when you know that they are going to die—frequently horribly. This is a novel as rich and complex as Brazil itself, with villains who make you want to spit, and heroes whose goodness is heartbreaking." —Rebecca Pawel, Edgar Award–winning author of Death of a Nationalist

"Gage creates a contemporary tapestry of Brazil . . . Gage’s debut builds a compelling foundation for future Silva cases." —Kirkus Reviews

Praise for the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series

“Topnotch . . . Controversial and entirely absorbing.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Realistic characters that readers can care about.” —Detroit Free Press

“Gage's compelling novels are good examples of how talented crime writers use the police procedural form to lay bare a society.” —The Indianapolis Star

“New and convincing.” —Mystery Scene

“An impressive follow-up to an excellent debut . . . [A] story so real and chilling it’s hard to imagine it happening anywhere else but Silva’s Brazil . . . Silva may just be South America’s Kurt Wallender.” —Booklist, starred review

“A gritty police procedural that benefits from its offbeat locale and an impressive tapestry of believable characters.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A dark, violent book with characters