| Chat with Leighton Gage |
Leighton Gage has lived in Australia, Europe, and South America and traveled widely in Asia and Africa. He visited Spain in the time of Franco, Portugal in the time of Salazar, South Africa in the time of apartheid, Chile in the time of Pinochet, Argentina in the time of the junta, Prague, East Germany, and Yugoslavia under the Communist yoke. He is fluent in three languages and conversant in three more.
He has a daughter and three grandchildren in Paris, a daughter in The Netherlands, and two more in the United States. He and his wife divide their time between all three of those places and Brazil, her native country.
Leighton writes the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series, centered around a Brazilian Federal Cop. In Mario's country there's no FBI, no DEA, no Secret Service, no DHS, no CBP and most police corporations have no Internal Affairs Department. Mario and his colleagues have to do it all and more. And they do it while traveling a lot. The area of their responsibility is larger than the continental United States.
Blood of the Wicked 
Brazil's rural countryside is anything but peaceful. Conflicts between the owners of great estates and the landless cost many lives, thousands in the last decade alone. It's a tragic situation that lends itself to a fascinating story.
Buried Strangers
 In São Paulo, the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere, more cops are killed each year than in all of the United States, Canada and the UK combined. Not all of them are entirely innocent victims.
Dying Gasp 
In this, the latest addition to the series, Mario and his colleagues travel to an Amazonian hell and battle one of Brazil's gravest social problems - the enforced prostitution of young girls.
Two more books are under contract. Every Bitter Thing, already line-edited, will be released in 2011 and A Vine In The Blood, still being written, in 2012.
WHEN?
Sunday, December 6, 2009
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| Door Prize |
| Leighton has donated a copy of "Blood of the Wicked", the first book in his series. This will be awarded to a lucky chatter during the chat. Remember, you MUST be present to be eligible!
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