Nemesis
Subtitle: One Man and the Battle for Rio
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781847922670
Subjects: Criminals, biography; Drug dealers; Drug traffic; Brazil, biography; Crime, latin america; Criminals, south america; Brazil, social conditions; Rio de janeiro (brazil)
Description: His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem. From the infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, he was a hard working young father forced to make a decision that would turn his world upside down. Nemesis is 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.