Hornets' Nest

A bloody romp through Brazil's underbelly

As fireworks explode over Our Lady of Nazareth church in the Amazonian city of Belém, a family gathered for a local festival is gunned down in cold blood. In New York, the boyfriend of an international pop star disappears after receiving a disturbing message. A football referee stumbles upon some politically devastating documents. A woman whose life has been destroyed by an ambitious and corrupt politician exploits Brazil's ruthless underbelly for revenge.

With these taut threads, Augusto weaves a thriller that does for crime writing what Tarantino's Pulp Fiction did for the cinema, set in a Brazil far from the beaches and favelas of the big cities.

'With fast and constant cuts, short sentences, and constant shifts of perspective, Hornets' Nest speeds along...It's a bit excessive and over-the-top, but Augusto's clipped style and the elaborate plans in the novel make for a decent, if very bloody thriller'
Literary Saloon

'A deep-fried rib of revenge with a lusty hot sauce cooked in a steaming Amazonian boiler - then served up with blood'
Latin American Review of Books

'A story of revenge, but dressed up as a detective film, in which Edyr speaks, via Belém, of a Brazil which plays with power and Carnival.'
Marcelino Freire, Brazilian author

'In my book there are neither heroes nor villains. What there are, are normal people. And their abnormal emotions.'
Edyr Augusto

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