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The Swede

by Robert Karjel
Jeff Harding
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Ernst Grip of the Swedish security police has no idea why he's been dispatched to a remote American military base in the Indian Ocean. Met by FBI agent Shauna Friedman, he learns that the U.S. wants him to determine whether a prisoner they're holding is a Swedish citizen. The detainee is a suspect in an Islamist-inspired terror attack in the U.S. Yet all the evidence points to a cabal of survivors from the devastating 2004 tsunami that struck Thailand: a ruthless American arms dealer, a Czech hit man, a mysterious nurse from Kansas, a heartbreakingly naive Pakistani - and a Swede. But the prisoner is not the only one harboring dangerous secrets. In a world ruled by fear, mistrust, and deadly betrayal, these unlikely partners must learn to trust one another if they hope to stay alive.

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  • Release date

    July 7, 2015

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666604597
      • File size: 312706 KB
      • Duration: 10:51:28

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Jeff Harding brings his prodigious skills to the first English translation from Swedish thriller author Karjel. Already optioned for television, this globe-hopping audiobook centers around Grip, a Swedish Security Force agent with his own secrets who is collaborating with the FBI to identify a suspected terrorist. Several chapters are transcripts of interrogations and are are ill suited to audio, although Harding deftly manages the rapid volley of voices. A few minor errors creep into production with several unusual pronunciations and a repeated line. Even so, Harding's voice superbly delivers with the action--whether a fast-paced terrorist attack or a slow, gentle rendition of a romantic encounter. M.L.R. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 26, 2015
      In the first of Swedish author Karjel’s novels to appear in English, Ernst Grip, of Sweden’s security police, is sent on a mission to an American military base in Diego Garcia, a coral reef in the Indian Ocean, in 2008. His assignment is to interview a recalcitrant detainee known only as N and determine if he is a Swedish citizen. As Grip’s FBI contact, agent Shauna Friedman, explains, N is suspected of being conscripted by a wealthy American named Adderloy to rob a bank in Topeka, Kansas. Though the plot is unusually complex, reader Harding’s clear, appropriately dramatic rendition adds mightily to its accessibility and enjoyment. His presentation of the main characters is just as helpful. Ernst’s over-enunciated English mirrors his need for caution. Shauna’s voice, like the agent herself, is authoritative, uncompromising and unflappable. N, for good reason, sounds a bit like Ernst, though more taciturn, cynical, and hopeless. And Adderloy, the mastermind behind the robbery and its aftermath, apparently hails from the American Southwest. He is loud, arrogant, and demanding, and not the novel’s only example of America at its worst. A Harper hardcover.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from May 25, 2015
      Early in Karjel’s English-language debut, a superior thriller set mostly in 2008, Ernst Grip, a member of Sweden’s security police, joins forces with FBI officer Shauna Friedman in New York City. The pair fly to Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean, where Grip’s job is to interview a prisoner, another Swede, who has been tortured for years. Meanwhile, in a subplot set in the wake of the 2004 tsunami that devastated Thailand, a survivor of the disaster known only as N. travels to an isolated beach community where he befriends several other survivors; they fall under the influence of a mysterious American, Bill Adderloy, who persuades them to commit a highly complicated crime that’s to take place in Topeka, Kans. Grip strives to ferret out the details of the impending crime and N.’s part in it. Filled with rich characterization and unforeseeable twists and revelations, this mesmerizing first in a planned series will leave readers gasping for breath.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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