In search of a missing treasure, Da Silva returns to an old caseOff the island of Barbados, the crew of a Brazilian ocean liner hear the sounds of Carnival coming from shore. A small boat pulls alongside, and a band of steel drummers offer to play for them. As they make their rounds on the ship, the bandleader slips away. He forces one of the crew to open the ship's safe, and escapes before the song has ended, taking half a million dollars in gems with him....

To recover a lost treasure, an American and a Russian face off against a killerBerlin is lost, but the Nazis have not given up hope. As their soldiers battle the Red Army, a detachment of Russians search the bunker where Hitler's army stored the Reich's finest art treasures. The bunker is empty by the time they enter – save for a rusted old trunk that holds nothing but gold knickknacks. Kolenko's men don't know it yet, but they have unearthed the treasures of the l...

A New York cop goes after an escaped prisoner with murder on his mindFor a hit-and-run with a stolen car, Lenny Cervera bought himself five to ten in Sing Sing. When his sentence comes down, this two-bit thug vows revenge on everyone who helped put him there. He swears to kill the judge, the district attorney, and the cop who cuffed him: Lieutenant Clancy. But Clancy pays his tough talk no mind, but he has no idea that Lenny Cervera is about to arrange an early rel...

A fraud case leads Da Silva on a wild search across BrazilIt's snowing in New York, and Jimmy Martin is pleading for his life. He owes a loan shark $100,000, but he knows he will make his fortune if he can just hop a plane to Brazil. The lender gives him a thirty-day extension, and Jimmy is on his way. But he will find Brazil a better place in which to end a life than to save one.Interpol detective JoséDa Silva has seen many schemers undone by Brazil. Jimmy...

A search for an American's missing brother draws Da Silva into the jungleIn a blighted stretch of the Amazon, three men have come to blow up a bridge. Just before they complete their mission, one of them turns on the others, gunning one down and burying the other with the force of the explosion. He is stepping into his getaway plane when he notices that the first man's body is gone. It doesn't matter, he thinks. An injured man could not last a day in the jungle.

A quartet of kidnappers make the mistake of hiring Da Silva as their driverChico Xavier needs cash. His father has cut off his allowance, and for a student with expensive taste this is a death sentence. He and his friends arrange to kidnap one of their school friends who allows himself to be taken in exchange for a cut of the ransom. Two days of criminal behavior and they'll all live happily ever after – or Chico thinks.To store the victim of their faked ki...

A traveler is murdered in Rio for the sake of a stuffed snakeThe man in white has money to fly, but he boards a bus instead. When he arrives in Rio de Janeiro well after midnight. He is on his way to make his fortune when he spots the killers following him and knows is life is through.A few hours after dawn, the man in white is brought to the city morgue – another anonymous corpse to be inspected by Captain JoséDa Silva, liaison between Interpol and the Bra...

In the diamond fields of South Africa, a London boy makes a fortuneOn a Dutch plantation in South Africa, two bored children are throwing rocks when their mother calls them inside and notices that one of her sons is holding a glittering, uncut diamond. When word reaches Europe that there are diamonds in South Africa just waiting to be plucked from the ground, men and women of all nations race to make their fortune. Among them is young Barney Isaacs – who will be lu...

At an international summit, Da Silva searches for an assassinOff the coast of Rio de Janeiro, a freighter battles the waves. The steward has been stricken with appendicitis and a coast guard helicopter brings him to shore, where he is put in an ambulance and rushed to hospital. But when the ambulance arrives, the patient has disappeared. He was never sick, and he is not a sailor. He is an assassin, and he's vanished into thin air.The Organization of America...

A gang of assassins draw Da Silva into Brazil's rugged interiorGeorge Chaney may have been raised in the roughest neighborhoods of the United States, but he's never been anywhere quite as dangerous as Paraíso. On the run from the mob, Chaney comes here in search of sanctuary. But he will find that though the city's name means paradise, its reality is much closer to hell.Chaney is found gunned down execution style, with a tag around his neck that re...

A lawyer agrees to defend an ex-baseball prospect accused of murderIn 1964, nineteen-year-old Billy Dupaul was on his way to stardom. A modest farm boy with a lightning fastball, he had just signed a record contract with the New York Mets when a single gunshot changed his life forever. Dupaul went down on an attempted murder rap, and the Mets washed their hands of him. Eight years later, the man he was said to have shot drops dead. After eight summers in Attica, Bi...

To protect a witness, a loose cannon of a cop takes on the whole mobClancy doesn't care that the shooter is a witness in an important trial. All he knows is that the guy has a gun – and no one pulls a gun on Lieutenant Clancy. Shooting the state's witness earns Clancy a transfer to the backwater 52nd Precinct. To get his career on track, he is forced to accept a humiliating assignment: babysitting mob kingpin Johnny Rossi while he waits to testify before the crime ...