- Published: 17 September 2015
- ISBN: 9781473521384
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 10 hr 7 min
- Narrator: Misha Glenny
Nemesis
One Man and the Battle for Rio
- Published: 17 September 2015
- ISBN: 9781473521384
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 10 hr 7 min
- Narrator: Misha Glenny
Breaking Bad meets City of God
Roberto Saviano
A magnificent work of reportage by turns raw and courageous
Ian Thomson, Evening Standard
A thrillingly vivid picture of another Rio… [Nemesis] confirms Glenny’s status as one of the most daring and original true-crime writers of today... A rich and riveting book
Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday
A dynastic 50-year Shakespearean sweep of organised crime that manages to be both intimate and alarming
John Kampfner, Observer
A fast-paced crime story that paints a vivid picture of life in the sprawling favelas
Joe Leahy, Financial Times
Misha Glenny, an award-wining investigative journalist and expert on organised crime, has turned his attention to the drugs, violence and poverty that thrive in Rocinha, Rio’s most infamous favela
Andreas Campomar, Spectator
Glenny doesn’t just write books; he lives them
John Kampfner, Guardian
gripping narrative of cocaine and slaughter
Andreas Campomar, Spectator
fascinating dive into Brazil’s terrifying underworld, where the stakes are all or nothing...Nemesis reads like a fast-paced thriller
James Hider, The Times
Glenny’s book is fast paced and journalistic.
Bryan McCann, Times Literary Supplement
Nemesis is revelatory.
Tony Allen-Mills, Sunday Times
A taut and thrilling narrative…his hands-on research is exemplary… Nemesis is a triumph: the violent, kinetic City of God brought up-to-date on the page.
Alan Bett, Skinny
A gripping picture of an ordinary man driven to fateful choices.
Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday