Paperback. Pub Date :2013-07-08 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics From the great Brazilian author. an exotic tale of greed. madness. and a dispute between two powerful families over land on the cocoa-rich coast of Bahia The siren song of the lush. cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all-the adventurers. the assassins. the gamblers. the brave and beautiful women. It is not a gentle song. but a song of greed. madness. and blood . It is a song that promises riches untold. or death for the price of a swig of rum ... a song most cannot resist-until it is too late-not Margot. the golden blond prostitute who comes for love; not Cabral. the unscrupulous lawyer who works for one of the Cacao colonels; and not Juca. whose ruthless quest to reap the jungle's harvest plants the seeds of his own destruction.