In the remote Brazilian town of Cascatas do
Pontal, where landless peasants are confronting the owners of vast estates, the
bishop arrives by helicopter to consecrate a new church and is assassinated.
Mario Silva, chief inspector for criminal matters of the federal police
of Brazil, is dispatched to the interior to find the killer. Here is a Brazil
that tourists never encounter.
"Blood of the Wicked manages to pack a huge amount into a spare three hundred pages: power politics, petty violence, sexual scandal, saintly courage, staggering poverty and obscene wealth...This is a novel as rich and complex as Brazil itself." -- Rebecca Pawel, Edgar Award-winning author of The Summer Snow
"Terrifically written, intelligent and evocative. Leighton Gage is a master storyteller, a natural; but more than that, he takes us on a breakneck trip to a real world, with real characters, and real issues. This is definitely a not-to-be-missed debut." -- Brian Haig, author of Man in the Middle
Leighton
Gage has two daughters and two grandchildren in the Netherlands. He
has two more daughters in the U.S. When not visiting one or the other, he and
his wife spend much of their time in Brazil, her native country.
