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Nemesis

Nemesis

One Man and the Battle for Rio

by Misha Glenny
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/2015

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'Breaking Bad? meets 'City of God? in this gripping account of an ordinary man who became Brazil?s most wanted criminalHis name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem. From the infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a decision that would turn his world upside down.Nemesisis the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and perhaps Brazil?s most wanted criminal. A man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang culture and destitution, while everyone around him drew guns and partied. It?s a captivating tale of gold-hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with maths degrees. Spanning rainforests and high-security prisons, filthy slums and glittering shopping malls, this is also the story of how change came to Brazil. Of a country?s journey into the global spotlight, and the battle for the beautiful but damned city of Rio, as it struggles to break free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs and poverty. With Nem at its centre, locked in a fight for his country?s future.As read on Radio 4 Book of the Week
ISBN:
9781847922670
9781847922670
Category:
Politics & government
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
233x153x27mm
Weight:
0.49kg
Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny was born in 1958 and educated at Bristol University and Charles University in Prague. His coverage of the fall of communism in 1989-90 was widely acclaimed. During the Yugoslavia crisis of the early 1990s he was Central Europe correspondent for the BBC World Service.

In 1993 he won a Sony Award for his coverage of Yugoslavia. Glenny speaks German, Czech and Serbo-Croat and has lived and worked all over the Balkans.

His books include DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You and the highly praised McMafia, 'one of the essential non-fiction works of our time', which has been adapted as a major BBC 1 drama for 2018.

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