# Nemesis

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- Book: [Nemesis](https://www.bookquiver.com/misha-glenny/nemesis) ([Nemesis.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/misha-glenny/nemesis.md))
- Authors: [Misha Glenny](https://www.bookquiver.com/misha-glenny)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 10 h 7 min
- Narrated by: Misha Glenny
- ISBN: 978-14-7352-138-4
- Published: 2015-09-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 10 h 7 min

## Description

His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem. From the infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a decision that would turn his world upside down. Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal. A man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang culture and destitution, while everyone around him drew guns and partied. It’s a captivating tale of gold-hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with maths degrees. Spanning rainforests and high-security prisons, filthy slums and glittering shopping malls, this is also the story of how change came to Brazil. Of a country’s journey into the global spotlight, and the battle for the beautiful but damned city of Rio, as it struggles to break free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs and poverty. With Nem at its centre, locked in a fight for his country’s future.