Acknowledgments Acknowledgments Thanks— to Joãozinho, the first to hear and discuss with me the story in this book, before I even started writing it; to Elaine, for her constant and engaging inspiration; to Nilton da Silva Nascimento, a model public servant, who was my guide through the House of the Marquise de Santos, today The Museum of the First Reign; to José Minervino, who led me through the fascinating gravestones and tombs of the English Cemetery, where I intend to be buried one day; to Edu Goldenberg and Paulo Klein, for all of the information and resources they shared with me concerning the administrative history of the civil police of Rio de Janeiro (they should not, of course, be held accountable for my small fictional liberties); to André Luiz Lacé Lopes, for his bibliographical suggestions and for having revived in me memories of capoeira from my adolescence; to Fred Mussa, an angoleiro master and a dear brother, for sharing with me his intellect and his wealth of resources concerning the history of capoeira; to Luiz Carlos Fraga and Ronald Cavaliere, whose deep literary knowledge and whose immense enthusiasm for crime fiction I have found very inspiring; to Miguel Sanches Neto, for his striking critical abilities and his profound literary knowledge; to Stéphane Chao, for his indispensible erudition on all things mythological; to all the people who directly, indirectly, and emotionally contributed, and will continue to contribute, to this adventure: Adriana Fidalgo, Ana Lima, Ana Paula Costa, Andréia Amaral, Beatrice Araújo, Bruno Zolotar, Camila Dias, Carolina Zappa, Cecilia Brandi, Cécilia Maggessi, Elisa Rosa, Fátima Barbosa, Gabriela Máximo, Guilherme Filippone, Ivanildo Teixeira, Juliana Braga, Leonardo Figueiredo, Leonardo Iaccarino, Livia Vianna, Magda Tebet, Márcia Duarte, Maria da Glória Carvalho, Regina Ferraz, Sérgio França, Tatiana Alves, Vivian Soares; and to Luciana Villas-Boas, as always, for everything.
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