Pedro Marangoni

PEDRO MARANGONI is a Brazilian author from Italian and Portuguese descent. He has lived most of his adult life in Africa and the Amazon region, either in the military or working as a helicopter and airplane pilot. His first book, entitled Angola, Comandos Especiais Contra Cubanos (“Angola, Special Commands Against Cubans,”) was published in Portugal in 1979 and became a bestseller, with two editions sold out within a month. His war memoir A Opção pela Espada (“Opting for the Sword,”) is currently in its second edition. He has also published social critique poetry with Maria da Silva e a Era do Não (“Maria da Silva and the Era of No,”) and some philosophical material with O Infinito Não Tem Pressa (“The Infinite is in No Hurry.”) Later in life, in his sixties, he went back to his hometown inland in the State of São Paulo, where he lives by himself in an old historic house from the early 1900s. As narrated in the Prologue to Incan Chimera, that is where he keeps all the pictures and flags on the walls to remember his past adventures, most of them dangerous ones...