Crime -- Brazil

This is a book about a man known as Nem; about Rocinha, the slum or 'favela' he grew up in and came to run as a private fiefdom; and about the battle for Rio, the beautiful but damned city at whose heart lies Rocinha. Nemesis pans in and out from the arc of Nem's individual, astonishing trajector...

This is a book about a man known as Nem; about Rocinha, the slum or 'favela' he grew up in and came to run as a private fiefdom; and about the battle for Rio, the beautiful but damned city at whose heart lies Rocinha. Nemesis pans in and out from the arc of Nem's individual, astonishing trajector...