Leighton Gage
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Leighton Gage, born 1942, is an author best known for a series of crime novels set in Brazil. He was inspired to write these novels after spending over 20 years living in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and being immersed in the Brazilian culture. The subjects in his novels are often real problems that exist in Brazil today, problems that are foreign to the American culture. The New York Times has called his books “top notch…controversial and entirely absorbing” and deemed his protagonist, Chief Inspector Mario Silva, “irresistible”. Prior to his literary career, Leighton was an international creative director for a major worldwide advertising agency. He won over 120 awards for advertising excellence and served on the juries of the Lions Festival in Cannes, the Art Director’s Club of New York, the Clio Awards, and the Australian Writers and Art Directors Association. He is also the co-author of O Filme Públicitário, a non-fiction work in Portuguese. It was widely sold in Brazil, Portugal, and the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa and was adopted as a textbook in many universities in those countries. Born in the United States, he has lived for extended periods in Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Australia, Argentina and Brazil. He speaks English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese. He visited Spain in the time of Franco, Portugal in the time of Salazar, South Africa in the time of apartheid, Chile in the time of Pinochet, Argentina in the time of the junta, Prague, East Germany and Yugoslavia in the days when the Soviet Union held sway and also lived in Brazil during the time of the military government. He and his Brazilian-born wife spend much of the year in a small town near São Paulo and the remainder of the time visiting children and grandchildren living in three other countries. His books have been translated into a number of languages. There are currently four books in print, and the whole collection is known as “The Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigations”. The books cover a vast array of subjects, including underage prostitution, organ theft, smut videos, and much more.
Bibliography:
Blood of the Wicked
Buried Strangers
Dying Gasp
Every Bitter Thing
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{{Praise for Leighton Gage’s Chief Inspector Mario Silva Series:
Top notch - New York Times
Masterful - Toronto Globe and Mail
Compelling - The Boston Globe
Fascinating, complex and riveting - Florida Sun Sentinel
Intelligent and subtle…suspenseful and sophisticated - Publisher’s Weekly
Highly recommended - Library Journal
Blurring the distinction between literary fiction and crime fiction, this is a book that…needs to be read - Sherbroke Herald (Quebec, CA) Colorful characters and crackling banter' - Kirkus Review }}