Patricia Melo’s “Lost World” confirms just why _Time_ magazine included her among their fifty “Latin American Leaders for the New Millenium”. A brilliant piece of noir fiction, “Lost World” is a hard-edged revenge story that takes the reader from downtown Rio to the depths of the Amazon jungle.Máiquel is an ex-contract killer who’s been a fugitive for ten years – ever since his girlfriend Erica ran off with his daughter, took up with an evangelical pastor and disappeared from his life. When his aunt dies, leaving him a house and a savings account, Máiquel has a fresh chance to find the lost world of his onetime family. Breaking all the rules in the book, including his own, he sets out on a relentless journey to seek revenge._‘A hero’s journey with a difference… uncompromising and very, very dark, Lost World is a grimly compelling and superbly atmospheric read’_ *The Guardian*