From the foremost Brazilian novelist of the twentieth century: an exotic tale of greed, madness, and seduction set in Brazil's lush, cocoa-growing forests.

Two powerful families scheme to control Brazil's cocoa bounty in this epic novel that does for Brazil's cocoa rush what Upton Sinclair's Oil! does for the early days of California oil prospecting.  With its cast of assassins, gamblers, opportunists, and beautiful women, The Violent Land is an unbridled adventure novel set among the power dealers of Brazil's most profitable and coveted natural resources.