Two Soldiers

Två soldater fristående del serien, en kriminalroman med fokus på gängkriminalitet. Roslund & Hellströms böcker handlar om olika samhällsproblem och i denna bok är en ingående beskrivning av livet i de utsatta områden i Stockholm och hur barn successivt dras in den kriminella livstilen som slutar i bästa fall mee bortskjutna knäskålar eller i värsta fall under markytan. Det är viktiga problem som dessa två författare lyfter fram, men trots att i flera recensioner som jag har läst där flera skriver det är deras bästa bok så har jag haft flera peoblem med Två soldater .
Jag håller med om att det en bra handling. Kanske t om den bästa i serien. Däremot är det språket och uppbyggnaden som jag har haft problem show more med.

Det tog längre tid att komma in i boken på grund av att texten är hoppig mellan då och nu utan förklaring eller rubriker och man får gissa sig . Man vill få reda på mer om personerna men man lär aldrig känna någon vilket skapar känslolös och oengangemang för hur det ska gå för alla.
Men när man väl komner in i handlingen då var jag fast. Första delen av handlingen är uppdelad mellan dessa två brödrar, sedd ur deras perspektiv. En av bröderna sitter inne och vi får inblick i den våldsamma verkligen som utspelar sig där, den andra brodern är ute. Två brödrar med ett och samma mål.
Kriminalkommissarie Evert kommer in i andra delen av boken och då får vi följa polisens arbete. Men det som är gör handlingen så bra att författarna har lyckats bygga ett puzzel där alla bitar passar in.

Handling & Tema : 4/5
Karaktärerna: 3/5
Miljöbeskrivning: 4/5
Språk och berättarkonst: 4/5 show less

GR's Nancy Oakes is correct: this series is "edgy, gritty and contemporary;" however, this book was at least 200 pages too long. Heck, Superintendent Detective Ewert Grens did not even come into the novel until almost page 240. The story centers on Stockholm’s youth gangs, and typically kids from broken homes, becoming hardened criminals to find "family." Gabriel Milton and Leon Jensen are the leaders of the Raby Warriors (Ghetto Soldiers) gang, with its Bob Marley philosophy of “one love, brother.” In one single night of mayhem, Leon breaks out of prison, breaks out his brothers from other prison, kills a guard, and seeks refuge in the Raby ghetto. Then, to become the most feared gang, they detonate a bomb, killing the head of show more the police's gang unit in his office. Things begin to go awry when Gabriel discovers he is going to be a father, and discovers real versus artificial love. My ratings for this series have moved from 4 to 3 to 2 stars. show less

A book that was okay. An awful lot of pages to describe much more than the lives of Leon & Gabriel alone.

The book was filled with hatred, brotherly love, mother's love, gang formation, wishes to belong, and much more.

I disliked the style of writing, the fragmentation, often I did not know whether there were 2 he's in a sentence (and who did what), or that there was just one. I disliked Leon as a character as well.

At the end of the book, a full circle has been made. Will life start anew with the next one?

Grens & Sundkvist book #6

This is a bleak tale of teen gang running amok.

Stockholm is being terrorized by a teenage gang’s reign. The crime wave is being directed from inside a maximum security prison by an 18 year old named Leon. His blood brother Gabriel’s girlfriend Wanda regularly smuggle in pills as a mule. The gang has no reservation about recruiting 12 years old ....and the book goes on. I suggest you read the synopsis to get a better idea what you’ll be into....I lost interest and abandoned it before I reached to end...Now did I bailed out too fast? Maybe.

The premise of this book sounded so good that I finally brought it up from my very long TBR list to give it priority. Frankly it should have stayed at the bottom even show more forgotten. The beginning is very disjointed and difficult to follow. I had a hard time getting into a narrative that is not told in chapters but in short clips of a page or two where we have point of view that changes on a wimp. This choppy narrative and the merry-go-round changing point of view are very confusing.

“Two Soldiers” is a difficult 600 pages read that focusses on the street gang, it is raw and brutal.

This is one book that will indeed divide readers.....It was far from being my cup of tea... show less

I read the Previous author books, and I read them eagerly. When I took this book, I was full of expectations. I survived about 50 pages in continuous reading. I only didn't connect and decided that it was a pity. It does not happen to me much that I give up. But I respect the author who writes a book to keep on trying to read. This time I decided it was better to move on. Maybe one day I'll come back to it to reread it.

Merry Christmas!!!

Blood brothers Leon and Gabriel have spent their young lives establishing a formidable criminal enterprise known as the Warriors, which is now poised to secure domination in the area. DCI Ewert Grens is investigating a recent prison break from a maximum-security facility, and discovers that the incident is linked to the Warriors. Jos�e Pereira, head of the police's Organized Crime and Gang Section in a southern suburb of Stockholm, is facing a rapidly growing problem with juvenile gang crime. All four men are on a collision course, heading toward an explosive convergence HARD

After a slow start, the book started to get interesting and then it was hard to put down. Nessheim is on another case, this time in L.A. One of his Japanese informants has gone missing, and Nessheim goes all over the place trying to find him before the bad guys do. Lots of red herrings and little jaunts here and there keep the plot moving.