Perfect Hatred

My foray into Brazilian police procedurals was rewarding indeed. A terrorist kills a woman using her baby and carriage to hide a bomb which he detonates just as a policeman is about to inquire as to the baby's lack of response. Some 350 miles south, a popular candidate for political office is assassi......more

“And you must call me Ismail.” I smiled when I read that homage to the opening line of Moby Dick buried in Leighton Gage’s sixth Brazil-based Chief Inspector Mario Silva mystery, PERFECT HATRED. Then I thought about it and realized Gage and Melville reached to explore many of the same issues: class......more

If you don't know anything about Brazil, don't read a guide book to understand what this huge complex country is about. The author will flit from place to place like a butterfly sampling the nectar but never tasting the flower or the fruit. Don't talk to friends who have travelled there because they......more

As Chief Inspector of Brazil's Federal Police Force, Mario Silva knows which way the wind blows, and that it doesn't tend to bring good things with it. So when his investigation of a shocking crime -- a suicide bombing in Sao Paulo, of all places -- gets interrupted by the assassination of a Guberna......more