Patricia Melo is a critically acclaimed author who has received outstanding reviews, and an increasingly well known voice in South America A dramatic chase novel that travels through the fascinating landscape of Brazil, in the world of City of Gods and with the chilling and gripping narration of a Patricia Highsmith novel

Maiquel is an ex-contract killer who's been a fugitive for ten years - ever since his girlfriend Erica ran off with his daughter, took up with an evangelical pastor and disappeared from his life. When his aunt dies, leaving him a house and a savings account, Maiquel has a fresh chance to find the lost world of his onetime family. Breaking all the rules in the book, including his own, he sets out on a relentless journey to seek revenge.