Worst of all: Sergeant Gomes, personified violence, the representative of the repression of the dictatorship years, willing to do anything to capture the two little heroes.

In search of evidence of alien presence on our planet, the boys will come across unscrupulous and treacherous enemies. Now he needs to convince Eduardo and the rest of his friends from school to unveil the evil plan of the invaders. All clues lead to this conclusion, at least that's what he believes. Joaquim is convinced that the Martians are preparing an invasion of Earth. Invaders from Mars is the first part of this saga, which begins in 1969. Joaquim is a freckled boy of 11 who is not content with being a normal child and, in the company of his best friend, Eduardo, gets to investigate strange, mysterious and dangerous events. The first story will bring back to young readers, the pleasure of investigation and deduction, with a plot that takes place at a time when there were no mobiles, personal computers were only seen in science fiction movies and, to have fun, was enough to leave home to hang out with mates to play ball, ride a bike or. 'The adventures of Joaquim and Eduardo' is my first released book and it is part of a series of seven adventure stories inspired by authors such as João Carlos Marinho ('The criminal mastermind'/O gênio do crime), the children's book-series of the 70’s called 'Firefly Collection' (Coleção Vagalume), and many classics of youth literature. I also edited 10 feature films and about 30 short films. I'm a film and television director, editor and writer.Īs a director my works include the feature film “Os xeretas” (aka X kids), the drama-series '9mm São Paulo' (Fox Television), a children's series, 'Disney Cruj' (Disney Channel and SBT network), and 5 short-subject films.

O Gênio do Crime by João Carlos Marinho