Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio Audiobook (Free)
- Misha Glenny
- 10 h 7 min
- Random House UK
- 2015-09-17
Summary:
His name was Antonio, however they would contact him Nem. From your infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, he was a hardworking youthful father forced to make a decision that could turn his globe upside down.
Nemesis may be the story of a typical man who became the king of the biggest slum in Rio, the head of the drug cartel and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted offender. A man who attempted to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang lifestyle and destitution, while everyone around him drew weapons and partied. It’s a captivating tale of gold-hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid lovers, quixotic politicians and medication lords with maths levels.
Spanning rainforests and high-security prisons, filthy slums and glittering shopping malls, this is also the storyplot of how alter found Brazil. Of the country’s journey in to the global limelight, and the battle for the beautiful but damned city of Rio, since it challenges to liberate from a tangled web of corruption, assault, medicines and poverty. With Nem at its centre, locked within a combat for his country’s future.
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