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Prologue

That poster obsessing Carlos for months was posted to a shining window of a gym in Rio: "First prize 80 thousand dollars."

Those who were used to live one day to the next, with less than 200 dollars a month, could be only dream that amount. And Good only knows how many poor people living in the favelas of Rocinha were tempted by that amount of money.

Rocinha is a quarter of the Southern area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

It is one of 700 favelas composing the town of Rio. It’s the biggest favelas in the world and it counts more than 150 thousand of official inhabitants.

As often occurs in the poor quarters, there are fights among different trafficker gangs, the Amigos dos Amigos and the Comando Vermelho, to take the control of the favela.

Carlos was born and grew up in that favelas, always suspended between life and death.

That amount of money could have changed his life.

Carlos had never seen all that money at once and he just needed it.

It was the money necessary to give a kick to his past.

It was thinking about it constantly, day and night.

Finally, he decided to go and ask him, the legendary man, one of whom everybody knows the deeds and nobody dares contradict.