'As vibrant, colourful and complex as South America's largest city'
São Paulo, 2013: a city at an extraordinary moment in its history.
Mario Leme, a detective in the civil police, has developed a
friendship with a young English investigative journalist, Ellie.
When she goes to meet a contact in central São Paulo, Mario
observes from the street as she walks into a building and doesn't
come out. Inside, he discovers the dead body of a young man he
doesn't recognise, and Ellie's phone lying on the floor. Told
partly from Leme's point of view, partly from Ellie's, Gringa takes
us through five days during the redevelopment of the centre of Sao
Paulo in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup. Ellie's disappearance
links characters at every level of the social hierarchy, from the
drug dealers and civil and military police to the political class
she witnesses the feral brutality of urban breakdown. Gringa, with
shades of Don Winslow and James Ellroy, is a portrait of São Paulo
in all its harshness and dysfunction, its corruption and social
divisions, its kaleidoscopic dynamism, its undercurrent of
derangement, and its febrile, sensual instability, executed with a
deep knowledge of the city's a PRAISE FOR JOE THOMAS 'Brilliant'
The Times 'Feverish energy' Guardian 'Wonderfully vivid' Mail on
Sunday 'Sophisticated, dizzying' GQ 'Vivid and visceral' The Times
'Superbly realised vivid and atmospheric' Guardian 'Original' Mail
on Sunday 'A stylish, atmospheric treat an inspired blend of David
Peace and early Pinter' Irish Times 'Sparse, energetic, fragmented
prose' The Spectator 'Vibrant, colourful, and complex' Irish
Independent 'Stylish, sharp-witted, taut. A must for modern noir
fans' NB Magazine 'Definitive confident and energetic' Crime Time
'Brilliant manic energy' Jake Arnott 'Wildly stylish and hugely
entertaining' Lucy Caldwell 'Vivid, stylish, funny' Mick Herron
'Gripping, fast-paced, darkly atmospheric' Susanna Jones 'Snappy,
thoughtful, moving' John King 'Exciting, fresh, incredibly assured'
Stav Sherez 'Happy days!' Mark Timlin 'Utterly brilliant' Cathi
Unsworth 'Had James Ellroy and David Peace collaborated on a novel
they'd have written something like this' Paul Willets
General
Imprint: |
Arcadia Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
São Paulo Quartet |
Release date: |
August 2022 |
Authors: |
Joe Thomas
|
Dimensions: |
196 x 128 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5294-2660-1 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-5294-2660-X |
Barcode: |
9781529426601 |
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