The Burning Hill

‘Fast-paced, tightly plotted. An impressive debut.’ i Newspaper.A Brit on the run. A boy marked for death. A city that refuses to let them escape.In the deep shadows beyond the beachfront lights of Copacabana, a botched late-night robbery leaves a young Brit, Jake, lying injured on the sand. His assailant, a desperate favela teenager named Vilson, barely escapes the chaotic violence that arrives with a bunch of trigger-happy cops. When Jake learns that Vilson is responsible for saving his life, an inextricable, if uneasy, bond is created.Vilson has lost everyone that ever meant anything to him, leaving him powerless, timid. But maybe fate has saved him for a reason. Maybe now is the time to escape the favela for a reunion he has prayed for since childhood. But he is caught in a spiralling power struggle, with a sadistic favela gangster pursuing him for an unpayable debt and a corrupt cop needing to make an example of him.Jake doesn’t believe in fate, but he has faced down death before and suffered terrible injustice in the fallout. Carrying his trauma and rage to Brazil, he launches into a reckless crusade to save Vilson.Mistrust, fear and superstition lead to devastating betrayals and shattered beliefs, and when a terrifying presence spooks the favela, an all-out turf war erupts.Consumed by his obsession to right a wrong, Jake is losing his ability to judge how far is too far. Go too far and the notorious Burning Hill might claim another victim.The Burning Hill is a gritty, fast-paced noir crime thriller set in Rio de Janeiro’s dark underbelly — perfect for fans of City of God, Cormac McCarthy, Dean Koontz and Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog.