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The Body Snatcher
Patricia Melo
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Description for The Body Snatcher
Paperback. A dead pilot and a kilo of cocaine are found by our hero in the wreck of a small plane. Pressured by a Bolivian drug gang our man agrees to give up the body of the pilot to his family for serious money. Only he doesn't have the body so someone else's will have to do. Or so he thinks. Translator(s): Landers, Clifford. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 184.
The novel is set in the Pantanal, the vast untamed Brazilian lowlands bordering Bolivia. One bright Sunday, alone on the banks of the Paraguay River, the narrator witnesses the fatal crash of a small 'plane. He finds a kilo of cocaine in the dead pilot's backpack. After but a moment's hesitation he pockets the coke and the pilot's expensive watch. Thus begins the protagonist's long slide into corruption. When the crash site is located several days later, the pilot's body is missing and remains unfound for months despite a large-scale police search. Our hero gets involved in a busted cocaine ... Read more
The novel is set in the Pantanal, the vast untamed Brazilian lowlands bordering Bolivia. One bright Sunday, alone on the banks of the Paraguay River, the narrator witnesses the fatal crash of a small 'plane. He finds a kilo of cocaine in the dead pilot's backpack. After but a moment's hesitation he pockets the coke and the pilot's expensive watch. Thus begins the protagonist's long slide into corruption. When the crash site is located several days later, the pilot's body is missing and remains unfound for months despite a large-scale police search. Our hero gets involved in a busted cocaine ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908524539
SKU
V9781908524539
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About Patricia Melo
Patricia Melo is an author and playwright born in Sao Paolo (1962) but now sharing her time between Brazil and in Switzerland. Her novels Lost World, The Killer, In Praise of Lies and Inferno have been published in English to rave reviews. In 1999, Time magazine included her among the fifty "Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium." Her works ... Read more
Reviews for The Body Snatcher
Praise for The Body Snatcher: "An excellent and atypical book, a fantastic adventure."
Huffington Post Canada "An explosive mixture of dread, greed and corruption. You won't put it down until you've read the very last page."
Cosmopolitan Brazil Praise for Patricia Melo': 'Melo (The Killer and In Praise of Lies) is a promising literary crime novelist, one ... Read more
Huffington Post Canada "An explosive mixture of dread, greed and corruption. You won't put it down until you've read the very last page."
Cosmopolitan Brazil Praise for Patricia Melo': 'Melo (The Killer and In Praise of Lies) is a promising literary crime novelist, one ... Read more