Blood of the Wicked
by Leighton Gage

Sarah Reidy of Soho Press sent me a copy of this book. It’s part of this Soho Crime selection. It’s one of the greatest book I have read. It reminds me of the time I started reading Hostage by Robert Crais. Remember the movie with Bruce Willis? Well, this is another book I’d love to see in a movie.

Leighton Gage is very compelling. I love the setting: Brazil. I know nothing of Brazil, and this book brings me there. To the bad parts, the good parts and the intriguing parts. Did you know that you have to be a lawyer to progress in rank in the police department? I thought that’s very interesting.

This book is 324 pages long, but when you get to the end, it feels like you’ve just reach the end of a wonderful epical journey. Leighton Gage manage to pack so much into this book, it’s one great satisfying read.

Synopsis from Soho Press site:

In the remote Brazilian town of Cascatas do Pontal, where landless peasants are confronting the owners of vast estates, the the bishop arrives by helicopter to consecrate a new church and is assassinated.

Mario Silva, Chief Inspector for Criminal Matters of the Federal Police of Brazil, is dispatched to the interior to find the killer. The Pope himself has called Brazil’s president; the pressure is on Silva to perform. Assisted by his nephew, Hector Costa, also a federal policeman, Silva must battle the state police and a corrupt judiciary as well as criminals who prey on street kids, the warring factions of the Landless League, the big landowners and the Church itself, in order to solve the initial murder and several brutal killings that follow. Justice is hard to come by. An old priest, a secret liberation theologist, finally metes it out. Here is a Brazil that tourists never encounter.

Isn’t it great that I have two copies to giveaway, plus one of the newest release: Burried Strangers!

The Contest:

There will be 3 winners: 2 for Blood of the Wicked and 1 Burried Strangers.

Contest is open worldwide.

Contest open: January 26 - February 14.

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Winners will be randomly drawn on February 14.

I’m currious. What are your memorable read? What book just made you want to tell every one to try and read it because it’s so good? I’m making this part of Bloggy giveaways.