''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, EllieWhen 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 CupEllie''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, tautA 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



Format Häftad Omfång 288 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Quercus Publishing Utgivningsdatum 2022-08-18 ISBN 9781529426601