Elite Squad: (Tropa de Elite)

A life in Rio's numerous favelas is one forever at risk. Violent death is always around the corner, and enemies may be just those colleagues kept closes. The members of the Special Police Operations Battalion (BOPE) are faced with a single duty: to derail the drug traffic, which often has greater firepower than they. Elite Squad is the semi-fictional account of the authors' experience in BOPE and details, in gruesome and shocking prose, life inside this select cadre of highly skilled men. Released to coincide with the controversial and award-winning film version.