The Ways of Evil Men

A Brazilian detective hunts a killer in the rain forest: The Silva investigations have all the step-by-step excitement of a world-class procedural series (The Wall Street Journal). As Chief Inspector Mario Silva has learned, justice is hard to come by in Brazil, so when his niece tells him about a possible genocide deep in the jungle, he agrees to round up his team and charter a plane to Pará to check it out. Thirty-nine natives have recently dropped dead of mysterious causes. Given the tense relationship between the Awana tribe and the white townsfolk nearby, Parás sole government-sponsored advocate for the native population, Jade Calmon, immediately suspects foul play and takes the two remaining Awanaa father and his eight-year-old soninto her custody. But when the father is discovered holding a bloody machete next to the body of a village big shot, just before Silvas arrival, the plot thickens. Why would a peaceful man who doesnt believe in alcohol turn into a drunken killer?