His name was Antonio, however they would contact him Nem. From the infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, he was a hardworking youthful father forced to produce a decision that could turn his world upside down.

Nemesis may be the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of the drug cartel and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal. A guy who attempted to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang lifestyle and destitution, while everyone around him drew weapons and partied. It’s a fascinating tale of gold-hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with maths degrees.

Spanning rainforests and high-security prisons, filthy slums and glittering stores, that is also the story of how change came to Brazil. Of a country’s journey in to the global spotlight, and the fight for the stunning but damned city of Rio, as it struggles to liberate from a tangled internet of corruption, violence, drugs and poverty. With Nem at its centre, locked in a combat for his country’s future.