Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio
by Glenny, Misha
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 184792266X
- ISBN 13
- 9781847922663
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
US: The Bodley Head, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. An explosive vision of contemporary Brazil's underbelly by one of our greatest investigative reporters.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; about Rio, the beautiful but damned city that Rocinha exists in; and about the battle for Brazil. Nemesis pans in and out from the arc of Nem's individual, astonishing trajectory to the wider story of the country that he exists in.It's about drugs and gangs and violence and poverty. It's about a man who made a terribly dangerous and life-altering decision for the best and most understandable of reasons. And it's about the wider forces at work in a country that is in the world's spotlight as never before and is set to stay there. Those forces include the evangelical church, bent police and straight police, drug lords, farmers, TV magnates, crusading politicians, and corrupt politicians.And what they are engaged in is nothing less than the battle for Brazil's soul.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000065978
- Title
- Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio
- Author
- Glenny, Misha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 184792266X
- ISBN 13
- 9781847922663
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2015
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Non-Fiction;
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