El Urracaõ: THEY CALLED IT PARADISE

Jorge, the protagonist of this story, was born in a very poor favela in Rio and is forced to use a thousand tricks to survive. But he is a smart child and one day, thanks to an encounter with a cunning magpie, he finds a real treasure. Jorge, however, is not satisfied, he makes a career in drug trafficking and in a few years becomes a feared international trafficker, known by the people and the police as El Urracaõ. But rival groups want him dead and Jorge finds refuge in Switzerland. In Locarno he does business in the world of nightclubs and prostitution, finds love, for the beautiful Sharon, and lets himself be seduced by the riches of a golden and persuasive paradise, where the plots of greedy bankers, unscrupulous financiers, new and old mafia bosses who offer him a lucrative and easy deal, like child's play, a deceptive game in which all the protagonists seem to be pursuing a dark personal objective.

With this novel Arson Cole drags us into a dizzying plot that is also a long journey in search of a personal paradise always dreamed of and yet painfully difficult to find.

The author of this novel is a mystery: no one knows where he lives, there are no images of him and it is impossible to find information on his biography. We only know that he uses a different pseudonym for each of his novels and that Arson Cole is the name he chose to sign El Urracaõ.