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The Bishop: A Novel is the initial effort by author Brooks Brownlee. It is the inspirational story of a young man named Fernando Carvalho. Fernando was born into extreme poverty in one of Brazil's largest slums in the city of São Paulo. Fernando experiences a series of very bad breaks that create severe challenges. He overcomes his difficulties and becomes a covert agent for the Brazilian National Intelligence Association ABIN. In that role he fights crime and evil in Brazil and throughout the world."Brooks Brownlee's debut thriller The Bishop offers an adventurous and thrilling ride through Brazil—our beguiling protagonist "the Bishop" goes from the lowest lows in a slum life, to the highest highs, hob-nobbing with the country's elite. A moving and ambitious book, Brownlee's debut offers nonstop excitement, and a great view into a precarious and beautiful Brazil that is at once ravaged by drugs and poverty, and awash in beauty and opportunity."-Peter Mountford, author of A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism, and The Dismal Science"The Bishop is a riveting novel. It is well written, detailed, and a book with which I can personally identify. Moreover, this fine work is authored by an individual with whom I can also identify. Like Brooks, I am a stroke survivor and yet have published in book form, in think-tank publications, law review journals, magazines, collegiate anthologies, and so on.What made this novel especially interesting to me is that, with but one exception, I have visited every venue mentioned in The Bishop. Yet, due to Brooks' exacting detail, I was further educated about each country, city, or slum mentioned.Also, descriptions of the main characters in the book, especially of the “Bishop†himself, are colorful and make the book particularly readable, but by the end, one realizes that the main thesis or thrust of the book centers on the evils of totalitarian movements and governments. The author brings this home forcefully."-Omer L. Rains, author of the International Best Seller Back to the Summit. Mr. Brownlee experienced a severe stroke in early 2014. He lost the use of his left arm and leg and has overcome cognitive difficulty completely. Thanks to surgery received in late 2020, he anticipates some modest recovery of the idled limbs by late 2022.He wanted to write fiction throughout his thirty-plus years as a business professional. In late 2017, he resolved to write and began writing The Bishop: A Novel.He lived in Brazil for one year as an exchange student. He thought up his protagonist as a character a favorite Brazilian actor could portray.He is a retired businessman who served as a CFO and CEO and COO in several businesses in the western USA.
Brooks Brownlee | 9781636926858 | FIC022080 | book-has-featured-image
