Stormlash

About the Book

During the Brazilian dictatorship in the seventies, Robert, a British executive, lives and works in Brazil. Brought up in rough industrial England, he achieved what he wanted by fists and daring and survived years of night school to become an engineer. His wife has taken their children back to England, but he prefers Brazilian life and speaks Portuguese. But his social life is uneven. Unlucky in his relations with women, he is befriended by a disaffected army officer who later deserts to a guerrilla group, compromising Robert. He abhors the way men treat women and the way corruption is not punished. His company is failing. A Brazilian called Falcone is hired, claiming access to high government officers, but he is a fraud with criminal associates. Eventually Robert discovers and denounces Falcone who disappears but sends men to kill Robert, who himself has to flee Brazil along clandestine guerrilla safe houses.

About the Author

John Elliott (1935-2017) was a retired businessman, living in England after a forty year career in Europe and South America and five years living and working with emergency aid agencies in Africa and the Middle East. Fluent in Portuguese and French, and enjoyably conversant in Spanish and Italian, he was settling down to write thrillers set in Brazil seen through Brazilian and foreign eyes. Married to a Brazilian, with family and friends in Brazil, he follows the uncertain future of this BRIC country. Once the darling of emerging economies, now riven by crime, political and civil unrest, the result of decades of corruption and poverty, barely restrained by military control.