Word: bahia
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...center of the plot, and the figurative protagonist, is the city of Bahia, capital of Brazil from...
...Bahia was an amoral place peopled by adventurers of all nationalities--the equivalent of the rough-and-tumble outlaw towns of the Old West or the exotic Casbah in Algiers. here, fortunes were won and lost and vice and corruption were the order of the day--hence the novel's title...
...story begins with the murder of the Captain-General of Bahia, a corrupt politician and the Governor's flunky. The Governor orders an investigation and detains suspects who are members of the aristocratic Ravasco family, his archrivals...