Description
As an American senator arrives in Stockholm, Detective Martin Beck is pulled into a high-stakes operation to safeguard a visiting dignitary from an international terrorist threat. But the city’s tense diplomatic atmosphere is quickly complicated by a bank robbery accusation against a young, peace-loving woman—and by the shocking murder of a millionaire pornographer found dead in his own bathtub. Beck follows the threads through shifting alliances, institutional delays, and the uneasy collision of public spectacle with private desperation. In the final installment of the groundbreaking Martin Beck series, Sjöwall and Wahlöö blend razor-edged procedural detail with social critique, exploring themes of justice, bureaucracy, and the ways fear can distort truth.
Available Editions
paperback
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published Dec 8, 2010
305 pages
ISBN: 9780307744333
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Details
First Published
1976
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Terrorists by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö.