Nemesis, Misha Glenny
Nemesis, Misha Glenny
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Nemesis
One Man and the Battle for Rio

Author: Misha Glenny

Narrator: Zach Villa

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/23/2016

Synopsis

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. It's a gripping tale of gold-hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with math degrees. Traversing through rain forests 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.

About Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny is the author of Dark Markek McMafia, The Rebirth of History, The Fall of Yugoslavia (which won the Overseas Press Club Award in 1993 for Best Book on Foreign Affairs), and The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Power, 1804-1999. He was a BBC Central Europe correspondent-he covered the fall of Communism and the wars in the former Yugoslavia-and has been regularly consulted by the U.S. and European governments on major policy issues.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Juli on September 13, 2017

As a Brazilian who lived in Rio but also grew up in Germany, Ihave a bit of a different perspective on Rio - but I love that city to bits, even though it's one hell of a crazy dangerous place. I heard about this book on Brazilian websites when it was released in Brazil and I immediately ordered it.......more

Goodreads review by Nina on November 04, 2020

Veľmi dobre spracovaná téma okolo drogových bitiek v Rio de Janeiro. Autor nám predkladá situáciu v celej Brazílii, načrtáva aj Latinskú Ameriku. Práve ta mňa osobne zaujíma viac a želala by som si, aby bola tiež nejak spracovaná. Niektoré pasáže som bohužiaľ preskakovala, pretože to boli také tie n......more

Goodreads review by Hermano on March 08, 2017

Um livro longo que não cansa porque não tem nada que sobre, porque toda informação, além de interessante, acrescenta algo ao que você viu nos noticiários anteontem (e, no meu caso, até sobre o que já se escreveu com muito menos recursos). Mas tão interessante quanto a figura biografada é a relação e......more

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