Other American Dreams

Author(s): Sérgio F. Monteiro

Location(s): Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Contemporary

On a quiet island nation in the Atlantic Ocean, where the easy pace of life draws thousands of tourists a year to its serene beaches, a boat full of dead migrants has washed up on its shores unannounced. Shocking the residents of this sleepy tourist destination as well as local policeman, Sergeant Abel ‘Aranha’ Teixeira. But there is a secret world hidden from the view of tourists and Aranha is no stranger to the corruption that plagues his otherwise picture perfect island home. He is man with his own dark allegiances that he thought were in his past but as he probes the mysterious circumstances that brought the doomed migrants to his country’s shores, he finds that the case is layered in something far worse than organized corruption and far more deadly. To solve the case and bring a measure of closure to the human tragedy it created, Aranha knows he has to expose the secret world of the powerful and bring to justice those responsible, even if it means exposing his own dark past.

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