{"product_id":"the-body-snatcher-paperback","title":"The Body Snatcher - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia Melo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eClifford E. Landers\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Body Snatcher\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn excellent and atypical book, a fantastic adventure.--\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn explosive mixture of dread, greed and corruption. You won't put it down until you've read the very last page.--\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis tightly plotted novel by Brazil's best-selling crime author is a tale of drug dealing gone wrong, police corruption, and macabre blackmail, set in a heat-soaked town in the vast untamed Brazilian lowlands bordering Bolivia. One bright Sunday, alone on the banks of the Paraguay River, the narrator witnesses the fatal crash of a small plane. He finds a kilo of cocaine in the dead pilot's backpack and pockets it along with the pilot's expensive watch. Thus begins the protagonist's long slide into corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen police locate the crash site, the pilot's body is missing and a large-scale search ensues. Our hero, now involved in a busted cocaine deal, ends up owing a Bolivian drug gang so much money that blackmailing the wealthy family of the dead pilot seems to be the only way out. When the family secretly agrees to pay serious money to recover the body of their son, our hero, who does not have the pilot's body, decides someone else's will do. . . . Or so he thinks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Melo \u003c\/b\u003eis an author and playwright born in Sao Paolo (1962). Her novels \u003ci\u003eLost World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Killer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Lies, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eInferno \u003c\/i\u003ehave been published in English to rave reviews. Her works have also been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Dutch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia Melo: Patricia Melo is an author and playwright born in Sao Paolo (1962) but now sharing her time between Brazil and in Switzerland. Her novels Lost World, The Killer, In Praise of Lies and Inferno have been published in English to rave reviews.\u003cbr\u003eClifford Landers: Clifford E. Landers has translated Brazilian Portuguese novels by Rubem Fonseca, Jorge Amado, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Patrícia Melo, and Paulo Coelho. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 220\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165478588551,"sku":"9781908524539","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/2f886b3495eb81d35a0c0ef71f1ce302.webp?v=1733313846","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-body-snatcher-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}