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Indlæser... Finnigans ære (2006)af Anders Roslund, Börge Hellström
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. 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.
"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.
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Nadie, excepto el detective Ewert Grens. Preocupado por los detalles del informe del caso, Grens no puede evitar pensar que alguien capaz de tal violencia debe tener antecedentes. Como medida de precaución, ordena arrestar a Schwarz, algo que, aparentemente, está justificado cuando Schwarz ofrece tal resistencia que tiene que ser sedado.
La sospecha se convierte en sorpresa cuando Grens descubre que John Schwarz no existe. Cuando se entera de que el hombre bajo su custodia es en realidad John Meyer Frey, un ciudadano estadounidense de Marcusville, Ohio, se sorprende aún más. John Meyer Frey no puede estar sentado frente a él: John Meyer Frey murió en el corredor de la muerte el año anterior.
Este misterio iniciará la investigación criminal más notable de la carrera de Ewert Grens, cuyas repercusiones alcanzarán el nivel más alto de la política internacional y harán estallar el debate mundial sobre la pena de muerte.