A Mahmud no le queda otra que acabar trabajando para el capo yugoslavo Radovan tras su paso por la cárcel. Niklas vuelve a casa de su madre después de unos difíciles años en Irak enrolado en una organización militar. Y Thomas Andrén se debate entre policía corrupto y delincuente de poca monta. Un caso de asesinato en el que hay más sombras que luces se convierte en una niebla que envilece las calles de la capital, y además hace que los protagonistas tropiecen con algo que podría resultar demasiado grande… Incluso para la propia Suecia: la muerte del primer ministro, Olof Palme.

The one who expects a `normal` scandinavian crime story will be disappointed because it`s nothing like that. Like the other books of the trilogy, it`s more like a crime-thriller in which the life of three people (a petty criminal immigrant, a psycho ex-soldier and a bad cop) intertwine fatally in the Stockholm underworld. ( )

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After reading part one, I was very curious about part two too. In the beginning I was a bit confused though.

There are more resons for that. One is, that this new book doesn't start where the first one finished. I had the feeling for quite some time, that I was rading a whole new book without any links to the first. Started to wonder where the 'trilogy idea' came from.
Secondly, there was the language part. Altough this book two was translated by the same translator, the use of language, slang, was different from the fist part. So I had to start all over again learning new words, guessing from the context what certain terms would mean.

For the rest this book is as nice, fast paced and interesting as the first book. New players, different circumstances, but gradually they grew into the scenes I remembered from the fist book. I liked the new person of Nick, who wants to save women, but forgets that the way he does things may seem aggressive to them, may scare them more than that it is helping. He's a little crazy, his visions and ideas caused by all he has been through.

The end is nice. Unexpected, but despite that it is built on a little thing that is a bit unbelievable, nice. And all in the end the author chose to let the reader find out once again tht in his book(s) an end is not neccessarily a nice end. This time he shows that power (money, political power, pulling rank) often wins and this situation is no difference.
I'm very curious for the last part of the trilogy.... ( )

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