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Loading... De uitlevering (Edward Finnigans upprättelse) (original 2011; edition 2006)by Anders Roslund, Börge Hellström (Author)
Work InformationCell 8 by Anders Roslund (2011)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book had a great plot: opponents of capital punishment smuggle a wrongly convicted man out of prison in Ohio prior to his execution. When he is arrested for attempted murder/aggravated assault of a drunken lout on a ferry crossing into Stockholm, Detective Ewert Grens has to figure out who he is. There was even a good political battle as to whether Sweden would capitulate and extradite a man in contravention of its policy against capital punishment; however, Sweden and Grens both wimp out, leaving retribution as a task for someone else. Disappointing performance by both, but a clever ending. 3.5 stars. ( ) READ IN DUTCH As always when I read a novel by Roslund and Hellstrom, this was a very interesting book which poses some very interesting questions. Since I grew up in a country which abandoned the death penalty a long time ago, it is hard for me to imagine there are places where capital punishment is still supported by a large enough fraction of the population to keep it going. It might not be as much edge-of-your-seat as the other books in the series, but it is definitely worth a read. Grens & Sundkvist book # 3 This is one provocative reading experience that pushes a point of view that is quite controversial: those who advocate capital punishment. Death-row and the conflicting desires for justice and retribution is the premise in this multilayered plot. Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens will deal with this. It opens in a US prison with 17 year old John Meyer Frey on death row for a murder he says he did not commit. While on the other side of the world in Sweden, John Schwartz is remanded to jail after assaulting another man….But it turns out that Frey and Schwartz are one and the same…..How this came to be discovered comprise much of the story. The mesmerising crime narrative will grab you by the throat and never let go. This is one concocted and devious plot that is hard to put down. It is said with flashbacks to the past to provide answers and the manipulations so masterfully told that I was caught off guard, extremely intrigued by the direction the plot was going and even more how it would end. Although I was frantically turning pages hoping for a positive outcome I was off base so many times that I gave up trying. Not being able to predict what would happen is what made reading this mystery all the more enjoyable. I didn’t see the twist at the end coming. This story is not without Grens’ eccentricities, he is a special character whose bizarre attitude is what makes him different. I like him he is so entertaining with is rock and roll music and dancing to the tune….in his office. Other good players add colour and atmosphere to this absolutely original story.
"This book offers fewer thrills and more polemic than the duo's roller-coaster Three Seconds. Opening with a gripping sequence counting down a condemned man's graphic final moments, the novel ends with a cunning twist. But the suspense stalls in between, as the authors couch familiar arguments against the death penalty amid a surprisingly mundane police investigation." På finlandsferga har dansebandvokalisten John Schwarz gått brutalt til angrep på en passasjer. Passasjeren svever mellom liv og død, og politiet står parat når ferga legger til kai. Under forhørene skjønner førstebetjent Ewert Grens etter hvert bare en ting: her er det ingenting som stemmer. Det viser seg at John Schwartz var svart og skal ha dødd i et amerikansk fengsel for seks år siden. En roman om hva trangen til hevn kan gjøre med et menneske. Dette er den tredje romanen hvor du møter politimennene Ewert Grens og Sven Sundkvist. Is contained in
An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier. No library descriptions found.
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