Retired American detective Mike Devere reluctantly takes on a case in São Paulo, Brazil that leads him into the underworld of commercial sex. The only thing worse than his stumbling upon the corpses of tortured prostitutes, is falling in love with one. Especially one marked for the same fate. Devere yields to twisted temptation, thinking he's in control as the bodies pile up around him and the sociopaths close in. São Paulo Blues is a chillingly authentic, exhaustively researched study of the sex industry as it exists today in Brazil.
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September 09, 2009: Sao Paulo Blues brings you deep into the realities of the Brazilian sex trade. From a safe distance you see the traps set and sprung for the novel's victims. You wish that you could warn them, but they are helpless. This book is disturbing, and contains graphic violence, but like a Peckinpah movie, or a hell-fire sermon, you walk away cathartically cleansed.
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