Lost World by Patricia Melo

Lost World by Patricia Melo

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Translated from the Portuguese by Clifford Landers From the author of The Killer and Inferno and Black Waltz - a hard-hitting revenge story that takes the reader on a cool, cruel rollercoaster ride from downtown Rio to the depths of the Amazon jungle.

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Lost World by Patricia Melo

Maiquel is an ex-contract killer who's been a fugitive for ten years - ever since his girlfriend Erica ran off with his daughter Samantha, took up with an evangelical pastor and disappeared as completely from his life as Maiquel himself has disappeared from the front pages of the Brazilian newspapers. Then his aunt dies, leaving him a house and a savings account and a fresh chance to find the lost world of his onetime family. Converting his new assets to cash and breaking all the rules in the book (including his own), Maiquel sets out to find the man who stole his girlfriend and daughter.
Praise for The Killer 'Melo's success in creating a voice that renders Maiquel repellent yet intriguing, convincingly brutal yet residually sympathetic, makes The Killer gruesomely readable' TLS 'A terrific, poetic and imaginative achievement, embracing with a fluent and suspenseful confidence the insane logic of a brutalised mind' Glasgow Herald 'Chillingly violent holds the reader remorselessly' TLS
Patricia Melo is a novelist, scriptwriter and playwright. In 1999, Time magazine included her among the fifty 'Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium'. She lives in Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo.
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ISBN 13 9780747595175
ISBN 10 0747595178
Title Lost World
Author Patricia Melo
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2009-10-05
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.