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Author Ribeiro, Edgard Telles, author

Title His own man / Edgard Telles Ribeiro ; translated from the Portuguese by Kim M. Hastings
Published Brunswick, Victoria, Australia : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (341 pages)
Summary In this award-winning novel, acclaimed Brazilian writer Edgard Telles Ribeiro illuminates a dark corner of his country's history. Marcílio Andrade Xavier is a charismatic young diplomat whose intelligence is matched only by his ambition. During the military dictatorship of 1964-1985, Max's artful manoeuvring - political and personal - assures him a meteoric career as democracies topple throughout South America. Yet Max remains an enigma to his colleagues, his friends, and even his wife, who know few details of his involvement with oppressive regimes, let alone the CIA and MI6.>
Notes Translated from Portuguese
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 3, 2014)
Subject Diplomats -- Brazil -- Fiction
Suspense fiction.
Diplomats
Suspense fiction
Brazil
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
Author Hastings, Kim M., translator
ISBN 9781925113013
1925113019
Other Titles Punho e a renda. English