Paradise City
$32.07
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
13 February 2023
Summary
Paradise City: A Detective’s Dark Pilgrimage
Mario Leme, a low-ranking detective in Sao Paulo, begins each day with a somber drive through Paraisopolis - Paradise City. This favela is where his wife Renata was tragically killed a year ago, a victim of a stray bullet during a drug conflict.
One morning, near the site of Renata’s death, Leme witnesses an SUV crash. The driver, Leo, dies, but Leme suspects foul play, noticing bullet wounds before the body is removed.
Le…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529426618 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529426618 |
| Series: | São Paulo Quartet |
| Author: | Joe Thomas |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Arcadia Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 22mm |
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Joe Thomas, who lived in S
Joe Thomas, who lived in São Paulo for a decade, uses his first-hand knowledge to convincingly bring the city to life – Nick Caistor * Latinolife *Great crime fiction hinges on a sense of place, and after returning to London after ten years living in the world in which he’s set his sophisticated debut, Thomas proves an adroit guide to a city that has developed at dizzying speed * GQ *
About The Author
Joe Thomas
JOE THOMAS was born in Hackney in 1977. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Sao Paulo quartet - Paradise City, Gringa, Playboy, and Brazilian Psycho - and Bent, which was a Guardian Best Book of 2020 and an Irish Times pick of the best crime fiction of 2020. His new novel, White Riot, the start of a trilogy set in Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s, is to be published by Arcadia in January 2023, and will be followed by Red Menace and True Blue. Joe lives in London with his partner and son, and teaches at City, University of London.
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