The Body Snatcher
Patricia Melo; Clifford E. Landers
(translator)
Bitter Lemon, Sep 8 2015, $14.95
ISBN 9781908524539
He lost his telemarketing job in São Paolo so he moved to Corumba
on the Bolivian border. There he sleeps
with Sulamita who keeps telling him to leave the small village to find work in
the big city.
When he observes a plane crash into the nearby Paraguay River, he
rushes to the site. Realizing
immediately he cannot help or get help in time to save the life of the dying
pilot, he steals a watch and a backpack filled with cocaine that he later tries
to sell. When the police arrive, the
body is missing. At the same time the
man’s drug sales angers the local mob who demand full remittance for the
cocaine he “purchased”. Abetted by
Sulamita and a morgue’s employee, he blackmail’s the pilot’s affluent family
who agree to pay him if he returns the corpse.
Now all he needs is an unrecognizable body.
This brilliant Brazilian corruption crime caper stars an antihero
who’s spiraling out of control escapades lead to a series of misadventures to
the audience’s reading pleasure.
Fast-paced from the start, the tremendous Body Snatcher will have fans seeking other works by
Patricia Melo (see The Killer and Lost World).
Harriet Klausner
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