(Paperback)

This important new study is an inquiry into the origins and purposes of downwardly directed violence by economic and political elites in Brazil - violence that has led to the invention and tacit approval of contemporary death squads.

(Hardback)

An examination of the long-ignored vicious side to the legend of Brazilian President Getlio Dornelles Vargas, this is the tale uncovered by the first civilian to spend months in the secret police archives of Rio de Janeiro.