num_pages: 360
description: An explosive vision of contemporary Brazils underbelly by one of our greatest investigative reporters. This is a book about a man known as Nem; about Rocinha the slum or favela he grew up in and came to run as a private fiefdom; about Rio the beautiful but damned city that Rocinha exists in; and about the battle for Brazil. Nemesis pans in and out from the arc of Nems individual astonishing trajectory to the wider story of the country that he exists in. Its about drugs and gangs and violence and poverty. Its about a man who made a terribly dangerous and life-altering decision for the best and most understandable of reasons. And its about the wider forces at work in a country that is in the worlds spotlight as never before and is set to stay there. Those forces include the evangelical church bent police and straight police drug lords farmers TV magnates crusading politicians and corrupt politicians. And what they are engaged in is nothing less than the battle for Brazils soul.
language: English
title: Nemesis: One Man and the Battle For Rio
publisher: Anansi International