Two soldiers / Roslund & Hellström ; translated from the original Swedish by Kari Dickson.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: New York : Quercus, 2014Description: 596 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1623651352
- 9781623651350
- Två soldater. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Mystery | Roslund Anders | EG 6 | Available | 33111007582659 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 Chief Superintendent Ewert Grens joins the investigation, a maverick detective who never gives up. For Grens, this case awakens troubled ghosts from his past. Soon all four are on a violent collision course that will irrevocably change all their lives.
Blood brothers Leon and Gabriel have spent their young lives establishing a formidable criminal enterprise known as the Warriors, which is now poised to secure domination in the area. DCI Ewert Grens is investigating a recent prison break from a maximum-security facility, and discovers that the incident is linked to the Warriors. José Pereira, head of the police's Organized Crime and Gang Section in a southern suburb of Stockholm, is facing a rapidly growing problem with juvenile gang crime. All four men are on a collision course, heading toward an explosive convergence, and a revelation powerful enough to tear each of them apart.