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Nemesis
- Author
- Misha Glenny
- Narrator
- Misha Glenny
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 17 September 2015
- Run Time
- 10 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
His 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.
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.
Critics Review
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Breaking Bad meets City of God
Roberto Saviano
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fascinating dive into Brazil’s terrifying underworld, where the stakes are all or nothing...Nemesis reads like a fast-paced thriller
The Times
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A fast-paced crime story that paints a vivid picture of life in the sprawling favelas
Financial Times
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A thrillingly vivid picture of another Rio… [Nemesis] confirms Glenny’s status as one of the most daring and original true-crime writers of today... A rich and riveting book
Mail on Sunday
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Glenny doesn’t just write books; he lives them
Guardian
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gripping narrative of cocaine and slaughter
Spectator
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A magnificent work of reportage by turns raw and courageous
Evening Standard
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A dynastic 50-year Shakespearean sweep of organised crime that manages to be both intimate and alarming
Observer
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Misha Glenny, an award-wining investigative journalist and expert on organised crime, has turned his attention to the drugs, violence and poverty that thrive in Rocinha, Rio’s most infamous favela
Spectator
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Glenny’s book is fast paced and journalistic.
Times Literary Supplement
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Details
- Author
- Misha Glenny
- Narrator
- Misha Glenny
- Duration
- 10 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 September 2015
- ISBN
- 9781473521384
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Drugs trade / drug trafficking, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Corruption in politics, government and society, Violence and abuse in society, Urban communities / city life, Poverty and precarity, True crime
Synopsis
His 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.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.
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