{"product_id":"9781569476765","title":"Blood of the Wicked (Chief Inspector Mario Silva Series #1)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis “gripping crime fiction” is the first in the acclaimed police procedural series set in Brazil (\u003ci\u003eFlorida Sun-Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil’s federal police is a good cop in a bad system—Brazil’s justice system is rife with corruption, and constantly a beat behind criminal elements. But Silva and his team of colorful sidekicks—baby-faced Gonçalves, who is irresistible to lady witnesses, chubby, crass Nuñes, and Mara Carta, the chief of intelligence with a soft spot for Silva—still manage to crack their difficult and sometimes ugly cases.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In the interior of Brazil, landless workers are battling the owners of vast \u003ci\u003efazendas\u003c\/i\u003e. When a visiting archbishop is assassinated, Silva is called upon to investigate. Then a newspaper owner, a TV journalist, a landowner’s son, and a priest are brutally killed, and Silva’s team faces a challenge unlike any before . . .\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Soho Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128688918768,"sku":"9781569476765","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781569476765_p0.jpg?v=1763767941","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781569476765","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}