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A Window in Copacabana

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Three policemen have been killed over the course of a few days. They were mediocre cops, and their deaths have a lot in common: a cold-blooded assassin, who leaves no trace and likes to fire at point-blank range, eliminated them.
Immediately the police world is thrown into turmoil. Who would risk running around the city killing cops, even unpopular ones? People involved in drug trafficking? Other policemen? Espinosa, chief of the 12th Precinct, doesn’t have much to go on. And when the body of a woman connected to one of the dead cops is found on the sidewalk below her apartment window, things get even more complicated, as a reputed “witness”-the wife of a high-ranking government official–becomes obsessed with the case, and with Espinosa.

Nothing is quite as it first appears as Espinosa finds himself in his old haunts of Leme and Copacabana, and in the all-too-familiar murky terrain of corruption, secret lives, greed, and fear.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Luiz
Alfredo Garcia-Roza

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Benjamin
Moser

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Brazil
Original Language
Portuguese
Publisher
Henry Holt
Translator
Benjamin Moser

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