{"product_id":"9781529426601-gringa","title":"Thomas Joe - Gringa - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: As vibrant colourful and complex as South America's largest city's o 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 Ellie. When she goes to meet a contact in centrals o 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 Cup. Ellie'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 ofs o 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 taut. A 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\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Gringa\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Thomas Joe\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Quercus Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781529426601\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 288 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 8\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: Sao Paulo Quartet\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Thriller \/ Suspense","brand":"Thomas Joe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49618459820337,"sku":"IN-G-9781529426601","price":15.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781529426601-gringa","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}