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love this series. It turns my stomach now and then, I must read them all,
Part thriller, part real world commentary, the Hoffman and Grens series by Roslund and Hellström keep the reader on the edge of their seat but are hard to swallow at times.
Börge Hellström was an excon he passed away since the writing of this book and his firsthand knowledge of the criminal underworld heavily comes into play through Piet Hoffman's character who is a criminal operations infiltrator.
Seriously. The previous book in the series has, handsdown, the worst torture method I've ever heard of in my life.
Like I think about it more often than I should, and I haven't told anyone about it.
For some reason, my gut says to not to, These books aren't for the squeamish, by any means,
Anders Roslund actually had someone from the drug cartel reach out to him and take him to see their operation as a result of reading his books no one said criminals are always super smart, 'k'.
Roslund also has had death threats against him and had to live in a hotel under another name presumably as a result of going to see the drug cartel operation no one said authors are always super smart, 'k'.
I
say all that to say these books are stellar, Filthy. Realistic. But I don't recommend them to everyone, And while the last couple books may have been more palatable in terms of violence because it's easier to shrug off the deaths of prison inmates and drug cartel members, this one was tough because it's not so easy to shrug off the deaths of dozens of human trafficking victims.
Especially when the author wrote a few blurbs from the perspective of one of the victims.
Addendum: the books, in their original format were written in Swedish, With a couple rare exceptions, it's not noticeable, Or at leaat noticeable to be distracting, From what I can tell, the fourth book has been translated but any following that one have not yet.
I'd rate this book an R for swearing, violence and gore, adult themes, and more.
Betyg:av.
Tre timmar är den åttonde boken om polisen Ewert Grens, Och det är den tredje boken om Piet Hoffman, Jag har läst alla dom tidigare böckerna och jag har tyckt väldigt mycket om dom allihopa.
Dom sju tidigare böckerna har skrivits tillsammans av Anders Roslund och Börge Hellström.
Men den här senaste boken är skriven av Anders Roslund ensam,
Tre timmar var inget undantag mot dom tidigare böckerna, Den var precis lika bra, om inte ännu lite bättre,
Jag älskar hela den här bokserien, mycket för att samtidigt som dom är spännande kriminalromaner, så tar dom alltid upp aktuella ämnen i varje bok.
Samhällskritiska och politiska är dom också,
Den här boken handlar bland annat om människosmuggling och flyktningar, Den är väldigt spännande och mycket gripande,
Rekommenderas absolut. Men läs gärna dom två tidigare böckerna i serien först, Tre sekunder och Tre minuter.
The Ewert Grens series by Anders Roslund and the late Börge Hellström is one of those rare canons where someone like myself is often at a loss to put forth appropriate superlatives.
The novels straddle genres police procedural, international thriller, suspense, and even horror here and there but in different ways each time.
So even though there are characters who make their way from book to book, the viewpoints and geographical backdrops are varied and often surprisingly different.
The character development and plot pacing are given equal importance as well, so that even if you guess who did what to who, and how, the characters are so spellbinding that you have no choice but to finish.
And about that guessing thing You probably will be wrong, or at least not completely right.
That brings us to the newly published THREE HOURS thanks to the very well done translation by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, which is the third book to feature Grens former nemesis, Piet Hoffmann.
Things start off with the dour, grieving Detective Superintendent Grens of the Stockholm Police called to a local morgue to investigate a somewhat unique problem: the facility has somehow acquired one body too many.
The problem repeats itself the next day, while Grens and company are in the midst of their investigation.
Now, let me stop for just a moment, This puzzle would be, for some very good crime fiction writers, the mystery that takes them through an entire book.
In THREE HOURS, though, it is solved almost immediately, The solution takes Grens to a seaport, where a horrific discovery is made, which then sends him overseas where he encounters his old frenemy Hoffmann, as well as Hoffmanns family.
Hoffmann is off on a frolic of his own, breaking promises to his wife for the best of reasons, though at the same time he is unknowingly putting her and their two sons in danger.
By the end of the book, there are bodies all over the place, we learn a bit more about Hoffmann, Grens keeps a couple of secrets from Hoffmann about his sons, and Grens discovers a secret about Hoffmann before Hoffmann does.
Oh, and an injustice is righted, justice is done thats two separate things here, and Grens slowly and tentatively allows himself to feel something other than sorrow.
While the book is hardly a slow boil, the last third moves so quickly that even the fastest of readers will find themselves barely able to keep up.
And, as an added bonus for longtime fans of the series though you newbies out there can enjoy it as well, there is an authors note that discusses how the duo originally started writing, how and why their collaboration ended, and then started up again, as well as the news that Hellströms death notwithstanding there is promised at least one more book in the series.
On the strength of THREE HOURS, you will want a hundred,
ed by Joe Hartlaub Dernier tome de cette trilogie survoltée,
Anders Roslund écrit se livre seul, en effet Börge Hellström est décédé en.
Nous retrouvons tous nos protagonistes sur fond de migrants africains pour achever cette cartographie du mal.
Tout commence par Ewert Grens, notre enquêteur toujours aussi bougon, qui se retrouve avec des cadavres en trop à la morgue, apparaissant comme par magie durant la nuit.
En remontant le fil, il découvre un container rempli de corps sans vie dans le port de Stockholm.
Un portable dissimulé dans la doublure dun vêtement de lun deux, avec les empreintes de Piet Hoffman dessus.
Et voilà Howard reparti en chasse ! Et il nous embarque avec lui !
A la fin du tome, pourtant, Piet et Howard avait juré ne jamais se revoir, Piet devant se ranger.
Ils vont devoir collaborer. Piet au Niger, et Howard en Suède, où il se rapproche de Zofia et des enfants de Piet.
Il sest même transformé en papy gâteau , détail amusant dans ce condensé dhorreurs.
La vie familiale est privilégiée dans ce tome, avec le rituel de petit déjeuner en live avec le téléphone et Piet à lautre bout du réseau posé sur la table pour maintenir un semblant de contact et de normalité , toute relative.
Ce que ressentent Hugo et Rasmus est également développé, Dans le tome, Zofia nous livrait sa personnalité, ici, ce sont les enfants qui prennent le relais.
Piet Hoffman continue son rôle dantihéros, ni tout blanc, ni tout noir, au caractère extrêmement fort, tout à fait le genre de personnage quil fallait à cette histoire pour nous guider dans les comportements les plus abjects de notre société.
Ce troisième volet tient toutes les promesses engagées lors des deux premiers.
Le rythme est haletant, lécriture incisive, et malgré le fait que le schéma soit toujours identique, il est tout simplement impossible de se lasser.
Seul lenvironnement change, et la documentation est solide, lauteur sattaque ici aux passeurs de migrants, au trafic dêtres humains dans toute son horreur, un marché calqué directement sur le modèle de léconomie libérale et du marketing le plus cynique.
La Libye, pays en lambeau depuis lintervention des armées occidentales offre un refuge idéal aux passeurs et aux criminels de toutes sortes.
Un groupe vil et méprisable, aux ramifications internationales, géré comme une startup, avec conseil dadministration et versements de dividendes.
Un vrai modèle économique ! Abominable,
Dun réalisme sans compromis, le calvaire des migrants est épluché, depuis leurs premiers mètres sur le chemin de lexil jusquà leur arrivée sur le continent européen, les atrocités quils traversent et dont ils sont victimes, lignominie des organisations criminelles, grandes bénéficiaires de la fermeture des frontières.
Je craignais un peu la fin, Peur dêtre déçue après ces trois tomes de bonheur, Non, rien de tout cela, elle est grandiose, inattendue, poignante, ce qui me fait sortir mon panneau Coup de cœur pour cette trilogie.
Jai passé une semaine de lecture fantastique, Je ne peux que vous conseiller de vous jeter à corps perdu dans cette trilogie, A lire dans lordre, à déguster sans modération, Et sans prendre peur quant à lépaisseur de lœuvre, je vous jure, ça passe tout seul ! Presumably the last book in a very good series by coauthors, Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom, the latter author passed away in.
Detective Ewert Grens remains adrift, following the death of his beloved Annie, While pining for her, he is called by his boss about an extra body in one of the city morgues.
As more bodies accumulate, Grens discovers the underground passages through which the bodies were smuggled, and dogs trace the scent back to an abandoned container in the Varta harbor, where there aredead refugees.
Grens finds a cellphone, which connects to Piet Hoffman, and he wonders whether Hoffman has gone back to his criminal ways.
Grens is furious, and seeks justice for the dead, recruiting Hoffman into a dangerous situation, Actionpacked, with some surprises. What I liked most about this book is how the aloof Grens connects with an African refugee and Hoffman's two boys, despite their mother's objection.
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