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From the same author of Cocaína: A rota caipira , Cabeça Branca tells the story of the escape and capture of one of the biggest drug traffickers in Latin America.

Cabeça Branca chronicles the capture of Brazil's biggest drug trafficker, with powerful international connections, considered the Brazilian Pablo Escobar, a smuggler of millions in goods and cash over the course of three decades. Despite being considered by the Federal Police to be one of the ten biggest drug traffickers in the world, little was known about Cabeça Branca: a discreet, cold, invisible man for many years, he was able to reinvent himself physically—through countless plastic surgeries—to evade the police. It's no coincidence that police, investigators, and journalists refer to him as "The Ghost."

Luiz Carlos da Rocha, known as Cabeça Branca, already stood out as a character in *Cocaína: a rota caipira *, Allan de Abreu's debut book, also published by Record and which has become an essential reference for anyone interested in studying drug trafficking in Brazil (and even in Latin America). While *Cocaína: A rota caipira *, a masterpiece of reporting, provides a courageous snapshot of the country's drug market, showing the rise and fall of the major cocaine barons and their skill in eluding the police, *Caixa Branca* focuses on the story of the country's biggest drug trafficker and the manhunt that, after decades of frustration, finally resulted in his arrest. It is also a portrait of an era of organized crime in Brazil.