"An impressive follow up to an excellent debut, with an equally compelling plot, fascinating characters, and a story so real and chilling, it's hard to image it happening anywhere else but Silva's Brazil....Gage's talents include not only captivating characters and realistic plots, but also an intensely realized sense of place and an unrelentingly fast pace that yanks the reader from beginning to end, unable to stop or pause, just as the cops are unable to take a day off. Silva just may be South America's Kurt Wallander"—Booklist

"Intelligent and subtle ... Lovers of suspenseful and sophisticated crime novels will be rewarded"—Publishers Weekly