Two Soldiers, by Anders Roslund, Borge Hellstrom
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With over 4 million copies sold worldwide and translated in 28 languages The New York Times bestselling authors, ex-con Borge Hellstrom and investigative journalist Anders Roslund combine inside knowledge of the brutal realities of criminal life with searing social criticism in complex, intelligent plots that have propelled them into the forefront of international crime writing. Now in Two Soldiers comes an explosive thriller of drugs, gang warfare, and two fatherless teenage boys on the wrong side of the law. In a bleak Stockholm suburb where juvenile gang crime is rapidly on the rise, two 19-year-old boys, best friends since third grade and drug addicts since age 9, have spent their young lives establishing a ruthless criminal enterprise--known as the Raby Warriors. With the recruitment of children as foot soldiers, the Warriors are now poised to become the most powerful syndicate in the region. Twenty years on the force, Jose Pereira now heads the Organized Crime and Gang Section in Raby. If it was not so deadly, Pereira might appreciate the absurdity of watching boys like Leon and Gabriel, raised on Hollywood images, morph themselves into characterizations of gangsters. After Leon and Gabriel execute a maximum-security prison break, in which a female guard is kidnapped and feared murdered, Pereira is joined in his investigation by Chief Superintendent Ewert Grens, whom Roslund and Hellstrom readers will recognize as the maverick detective who never gives up. For Grens, this case awakens troubled ghosts from his past. Soon all four men are on a violent collision course that will irrevocably change all their lives.
Two Soldiers, by Anders Roslund, Borge Hellstrom- Amazon Sales Rank: #2841777 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Released on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.50" w x 4.25" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 352 pages
From Booklist *Starred Review* Eighteen years ago, Leon Jenson was born in a Swedish prison. Now incarcerated himself, Leon launches a cunning plot to escape and free five other gang members so that he and his blood brother, Gabriel, can catapult their gang to the top of the criminal underworld preying on Stockholm’s suburbs. Stockholm Detective Sergeant Ewart Grens and his team are hunting the escapees, racing to stop the storm of violence the newly reborn Ghetto Soldiers have unleashed to ensure their rise. However, for Grens (Cell 8, 2012) this case is life-changing, not least of all because he believes the secrets he holds make him complicit in the bloody tragedy. This powerful sixth series entry upholds the high literary standards of the previous award-winning Grens & Sundkvist novels; jarring dialogue and alternating first-person narratives offer an unsettling portrait of the gangland cycle of violence, desperation, and hope. It’s an ugly yet beautiful story that readers will find themselves immediately buried in. Highly recommended for fans of the violently realistic social commentary in Richard Price’s Clockers (1992). --Christine Tran
Review "A gritty and worrying yarn... What sets Roslund and Hellstrom apart is their background of working cons, which comes through almost as a subtle sympathy."―Jon Wise, The Daily Sport"Filled with drama and tough action, it is as authentic as it is disturbing, taking a peek below the shadows that form what we term a civilized society."―Ali Karim, Shots"[A] riveting crime thriller... [a] psychologically driven plot, which reveals how criminal behavior is perpetuated from generation to generation through dysfunctional family conditions. Complex characterizations boost the action."―Publishers Weekly"This powerful sixth series entry upholds the high literary standards of the previous award-winning Grens & Sundkvist novels; jarring dialogue and alternating first-person narratives offer an unsettling portrait of the gangland cycle of violence, desperation, and hope. It's an ugly yet beautiful story that readers will find themselves immediately buried in. Highly recommended for fans of the violently realistic social commentary in Richard Price's Clockers."―Christine Tran, Booklist (starred)"You will find yourself utterly engaged from the very first chapter."―Barry Forshaw, The Independent"Suspenseful and at times unexpected, frightening and engaging... a skillfully constructed story."―Monika Silen, Tidningen Kulturen (Sweden) From the Hardcover edition
About the Author Award-winning journalist Anders Roslund and ex criminal Borge Hellstrom are Sweden's most acclaimed contemporary fiction duo. Their unique ability to combine inside knowledge of the brutal reality of criminal life with searing social criticism in complex, intelligent plots has put them at the forefront of modern Scandinavian crime writing.Translator Kari Dickson was born in Edinburgh, but grew up bilingual, as her mother is Norwegian. She has a BA in Scandinavian studies and an MA in translation. She currently teaches in the Scandinavian department at the University of Edinburgh.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Translation could be the problem here By Neal Reynolds This book was a real downer for me. Generally, I can take downbeat plots, but nothing worked for me here. The style was choppy. The plot was needlessly coverly complex. And the characters didn't win me over. All in all, this didn't satisfy at all. I don't really think everything can be blamed on the translation, but that might easily be at the root of the problem.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. It is raw, brutal and real without being gratuitous in its presentation of violence. By Bookreporter I will confess that any new book by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström boldly shoulders itself to the top of my reading pile. Roslund is an award-winning investigative journalist, while Hellström is an ex-convict; one could not concoct a more intriguing writing team out of whole cloth if they deliberately attempted to do so. Roslund and Hellström have demonstrated time and again that they possess the ability to raise and discuss social issues, particularly regarding criminal justice, incarceration and capital punishment, within the framework of riveting crime fiction --- and to do so in a remarkably even-handed manner.TWO SOLDIERS, their latest novel to be published in the United States, brings their focus to the issue of juvenile gang crime in a way that will satisfy readers who have been on board with them from the beginning, as well as those who are experiencing their work for the first time.This is the sixth proper installment in the series featuring Stockholm DCIs Ewert Grens and Sven Sundkvist. The narrative is not told in chapters, per se, but is presented for the most part in short chops of a page or two, where point of view can change capriciously. This may take a bit of getting used to for the unwary, but it propels the story along very well and does not take long at all before things sort themselves out.The overall focus of the narrative is a street gang known as the Raby Warriors. The group takes its name from the town of Raby, where they are based, an all-but-forgotten hellhole of a place that moves to its own dysfunctional and dystopian rhythm. The gang is led by two toughs named Leon and Gabriel, blood brothers whose ambitions range far beyond the pitiful streets of their miserable suburb. They have gone far with the practice of recruiting children to carry out their criminal enterprises, but they plan to increase both territory and influence by carrying out a daring, all-but-insane prison break at the Aspas Maximum Security facility. Their nemesis on the law enforcement side is Jose Pereira, who is the head of Stockholm’s Organized Crime and Gang section in Raby.When the prison breach is successfully executed, Grens is tapped to lead the investigation into the matter. His efforts uncover the connection to the Warriors, and to Leon and Gabriel in particular. Pereira, already dealing with the fallout occasioned by the Warriors in Raby, joins with Grens in an attempt to shut down the Warriors for good, using methods legal and otherwise to do so.TWO SOLDIERS is not misnamed; it chronicles a war on the streets where the forces of law must often become what they behold in order to be effective. It is raw, brutal and real without being gratuitous in its presentation of violence. Even with all of this, however, Roslund and Hellström never lose control of the intricate plotting and pacing. And yes, that is true even with the choppy narrative and merry-go-round changing of point of view, both of which add to rather than detract from the book’s readability. And while TWO SOLDIERS is a big book, it is also one that you wish would never end.Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Depressing and Disappointing. Not recommended. By J. Gorman To me, this book is very much a matter of taste, more than any other I have reviewed to date. I read the two prior translated books (Three Seconds and Cell 8) and enjoyed both of them, so I was looking forward to the next entry. There was very little this book had in common with the other two, and very little that I enjoyed. Obviously, I point these out based on my personal likes /dislikes and others may find more redeeming qualities in the story.The book was WAY TOO LONG... it moved slowly, and the beginning 100 + pages or so did nothing to "hook" me into reading the rest..though I struggled through it.I thought it lacked suspense, though others seemed to find suspense in the action.The book set the most depressing tone of any I've read...and I average over 100 mysteries, thrillers, action/adventure reads a year from a wide variety of authors. I assume the authors set out to create a very,very depressing environment, and if so, they were very successful. It just wasn't my cup of tea.Related to the depressing environment, the vulgarity was over the top, though I suspect the authors needed to use so much of it to create the proper atmosphere. I know prison and the backstreets are tough and vulgar areas, but enough is enough.Through most of the book I felt law enforcement was inept and frightened to act, and this band of young toughs controlled them at every turn. For me, this fact took away much of the suspense and made the action extremely predictable, but not very believable. I kept hoping the book would change direction, but it never did for me.In conclusion, I did not enjoy reading this book and would not recommend it. Others obviously felt differently. I am very glad it was on loan from the local library as a "free" read.If you enjoyed Three Seconds and Cell 8 and are expecting more of the same, be prepared for a noticeable departure in atmosphere, pace, and suspense when reading Two Soldiers.
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