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Nemesis

One Man and the Battle for Rio

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Nemesis

By: Misha Glenny
Narrated by: Misha Glenny
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His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem. From the infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a decision that would turn his world upside down.

Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal. A man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang culture and destitution while everyone around him drew guns and partied. It’s a captivating tale of gold hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with maths degrees.

Spanning rainforests and high-security prisons, filthy slums and glittering shopping malls, this is also the story of how change came to Brazil. Of a country’s journey into the global spotlight and the battle for the beautiful but damned city of Rio as it struggles to break free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs and poverty. With Nem at its centre, locked in a fight for his country’s future.

©2015 Misha Glenny (P)2015 Random House AudioBooks Americas Caribbean & Latin America Organised Crime Politics & Government Poverty & Homelessness Social Sciences Sociology South America True Crime Urban Violence in Society World Latin America Crime Caribbean
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What did you like most about Nemesis?

The amount of research that the author must have done to produce such a vibrant picture of life in the favelas

What did you like best about this story?

The way the characters were brought to life

How could the performance have been better?

Using a professional actor

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

No

Any additional comments?

What a shame that the author narrates his own book. He tries hard and much of the narrative is well done but the voices are aweful. Nearly all the characters (crims, police, women, children) sound the same, as if they have learned their English from watching back episodes of EastEnders. I almost expected Nem, a tragic figure, to complain "Cor, luv a duck, the favelas ain't wot they used te be"

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lots of political and geographical descriptions that I found hard to follow. it made it hard to stay interested and thus sometimes i didnt know who they were talking about.

factual

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