Terrified that word might leak out and cause
a highly embarrassing scandal, the Palace calls on Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch to solve the murder, quickly and discreetly.
His
highly - sexed relations with the Brazilian people were another,
scandal - baiting distraction, and his open fascination with samba culture, voodoo, and Rio's ghetto - dwellers (all sensuous, rebellious embarrassments to Dictator Vargas) placed him on a collision course with the regime, which in turn
embarrassed Rockefeller, back in Washington.