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I am no fan of violence --no gratuitous violence that is; and this is an R-rated novel with nearly unbearable scenes. But there is nothing gratuitous about it. Gage knows how far he can go and where to stop. That's the mark of an author who knows his craft; how to make it a tool as efficient as possible to send a message without being didactic. Here, the blades are sharpened to the max.

We are in Brazil, but certainly not at the Carnaval do Rio, for levity has no place here. In this thriller with many victims no one is really innocent; in some locales, innocence can be a dangerous luxury. Who killed a bishop and left a whole trail of bodies only contours the plot. The core lies in the social injustice of a system that tortures and, while doing so, is absurdly applying self-torture as well --that can only lead to the victim's revolt whose response will emulate its torturer's.

The Brazilian landowners who kill for more land while depriving the landless of their due are reminiscent of feudalism, as well as of the omnipotence of an overfed capitalism that exploits the workers and sends them home with hardly enough income to live with dignity. Countries like the US have smoothed out the system and basically legalized theft. Powers that be will deny this. But when a majority of workers produce the greatest amount of work and few at the top collect most of the benefits of that work, what do you call it?

The decor that Gage chooses to depict is in appearance cruder, rougher; yet based on similar principles. The wealthy buy the complicity of the police (this could never happen here; of course not) who are as greedy and power hungry as their payers. The massacres, body cutting and rapes authored by aforementioned police are not only unendurable because of the cruelty involved, but because the reader senses that such cruelty does not only occur four thousand miles away. Injustice, no matter how it manifests itself, is always a form of cruelty. Leaving the poor in a state where we know there will find no way out, what do we call that? ( In a crushing scene Gage depicts that poverty, where a room contains a bed for a whole family, a black and white TV, and little less. And outside the rickety door, a fifty-fifty live or die possibility, with gangs at every corner.)

It's just in-your-face with Gage's depiction of Brazilian landless workers who fight the owners of huge fazendas. The reader will side with the rebels, not necessarily with their ruthlessness, even if she sees some justification there. The whole panorama --or lack thereof-- is an open wound. The victims lay deep within it; and the powerful think they can play with it. But all are blinded by blood, including Father Angelo (note his name here), one of Gage's tragic figures and in my view his most successful character.

As effective as this novel is --sustained here by Gage's incredibly strong prose-- the novel could have benefited from one or two more developed characters. I must admit that in the huge tableau the author proposes this might have been a nearly impossible task. If the symmetry of the chapters contributes to the solidity of the plot, it occasionally slows it to the point of near immobility. Had Gage decided to let some chapters run in a more natural way, less evenly, with less control on his part, the problems mentioned above might have been resolved. Still, this is one important book, and Gage is an author who cannot be ignored.


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Blood of the Wicked Leighton Gage 9781569474709 Books Reviews

Blood of the Wicked

I started reading this book on a whim because my kids are finally asleep and I wanted to relax with a good book. It was a great choice. This book keeps me on my seat. I don't know much about Brazil, and this book introduce me to a Brazil beyond bikini-clad bodies. I find the tidbits about Brazil very entertaining.

This is a crime book, and it's written well. Sure the body count is high, but it's part of the story. Some innocents die; that's real-life too. A book should entertain, and this book does it very well.

I hope it makes it to the movies. I got the same excitement reading this book as I did reading Hostage by Robert Crais. It's got that same can't-peel-my-eyes-off-the-pages quality.
The characters lack depth and warmth, the violence is more than I care to know about. I presume it reflects the developmental stage of its setting in Latin America. Similar effects were achieved by Louis de Bernieres in his South American series but with more warmth and humour. This being the first in the series, perhaps some of the pivotal characters get fleshed out a little. I will eventually read the next in the series to see if it develops into something more interesting and less aversive.
We're used to crime novels involving police corruption in big-city America, Russia, and the UK. The setting of Blood of the Wicked is Brazil. I imagine that most of us who've never been know the iconic images of Brazil - the beaches, Sugar Loaf, Christ of the Andes, carnival. Not in this novel of powerful landowners, powerless peasants, corrupt state police, liberation theologists, disposable street kids, ambitious media stars, the frail and the wicked. And, yes, honest federal cops, one with his own dark secrets.

The sights, smells, oppressive heat, the fear, the class distinctions, are vivid in this truly enjoyable, very suspenseful novel. I truly enjoyed it and recommend it to people who like smart police procedurals in locales more exotic than, oh, Minneapolis.
I must be slow because I didn't have the bishop's killer figured out right away. There were so many bad guys in the story that it seemed like it could almost be any one of them. The book contains quite a line-up of sympathetic characters and then there's the slime balls like Colonel Emerson Ferraz-creeps who make your skin crawl and send shivers down your spine. Mario Silva sometimes seemed a little slow on the uptake for a pretty savvy guy who's dealt with his own personal horrors, but then I realized he was on the evil people's turf and had to tread lightly.

Chief Inspector Mario Silva discovers who killed the bishop and why, but he has to wade through a lot of gruesome murders before he does. An interesting story if you don't mind all the blood and gore, which is what people seem to like these days. I plan on reading more of Gage's stories featuring Mario Silva.
More Freudian escapism than plot. Repetitive bursts of patterened violence. Leighton was much more of an interesting, innovative, rounded person than his book reveals. RIP, "Late". David UConn '62
I started reading this book as a class project assignment for an advance reading college class. And after ive finished the class, i stopped reading it. Now I'm in Puerto Rico without electricity, because of category 5 hurricanr Maria and thanks to having this book on kindle ive got something to read during this hard times. The story is easy to follow and you stsrt making your own judgment calls on what should be done to some characters. I strongly recommend it.
I am no fan of violence --no gratuitous violence that is; and this is an R-rated novel with nearly unbearable scenes. But there is nothing gratuitous about it. Gage knows how far he can go and where to stop. That's the mark of an author who knows his craft; how to make it a tool as efficient as possible to send a message without being didactic. Here, the blades are sharpened to the max.

We are in Brazil, but certainly not at the Carnaval do Rio, for levity has no place here. In this thriller with many victims no one is really innocent; in some locales, innocence can be a dangerous luxury. Who killed a bishop and left a whole trail of bodies only contours the plot. The core lies in the social injustice of a system that tortures and, while doing so, is absurdly applying self-torture as well --that can only lead to the victim's revolt whose response will emulate its torturer's.

The Brazilian landowners who kill for more land while depriving the landless of their due are reminiscent of feudalism, as well as of the omnipotence of an overfed capitalism that exploits the workers and sends them home with hardly enough income to live with dignity. Countries like the US have smoothed out the system and basically legalized theft. Powers that be will deny this. But when a majority of workers produce the greatest amount of work and few at the top collect most of the benefits of that work, what do you call it?

The decor that Gage chooses to depict is in appearance cruder, rougher; yet based on similar principles. The wealthy buy the complicity of the police (this could never happen here; of course not) who are as greedy and power hungry as their payers. The massacres, body cutting and rapes authored by aforementioned police are not only unendurable because of the cruelty involved, but because the reader senses that such cruelty does not only occur four thousand miles away. Injustice, no matter how it manifests itself, is always a form of cruelty. Leaving the poor in a state where we know there will find no way out, what do we call that? ( In a crushing scene Gage depicts that poverty, where a room contains a bed for a whole family, a black and white TV, and little less. And outside the rickety door, a fifty-fifty live or die possibility, with gangs at every corner.)

It's just in-your-face with Gage's depiction of Brazilian landless workers who fight the owners of huge fazendas. The reader will side with the rebels, not necessarily with their ruthlessness, even if she sees some justification there. The whole panorama --or lack thereof-- is an open wound. The victims lay deep within it; and the powerful think they can play with it. But all are blinded by blood, including Father Angelo (note his name here), one of Gage's tragic figures and in my view his most successful character.

As effective as this novel is --sustained here by Gage's incredibly strong prose-- the novel could have benefited from one or two more developed characters. I must admit that in the huge tableau the author proposes this might have been a nearly impossible task. If the symmetry of the chapters contributes to the solidity of the plot, it occasionally slows it to the point of near immobility. Had Gage decided to let some chapters run in a more natural way, less evenly, with less control on his part, the problems mentioned above might have been resolved. Still, this is one important book, and Gage is an author who cannot be ignored.