John Elliott (1935-2017) was a retired businessman, living in England after a forty year career in Europe and South America and five years living and working with emergency aid age...view moreJohn Elliott (1935-2017) was a retired businessman, living in England after a forty year career in Europe and South America and five years living and working with emergency aid agencies in Africa and the Middle East. Fluent in Portuguese and French, and enjoyably conversant in Spanish and Italian, he was settling down to write thrillers set in Brazil seen through Brazilian and foreign eyes.
Married to a Brazilian, with family and friends in Brazil, he follows the uncertain future of this BRIC country. Once the darling of emerging economies, now riven by crime, political and civil unrest, the result of decades of corruption and poverty, barely restrained by military control.view less