A decent storyline but too plodding to be a real thriller
This has the right ingredients to be a decent thriller but somehow it never quite got off the mark for me.
Something about the style of the writing was just too disjointed. We are following the story from the viewpoint of five main characters and I found that the perspective would change suddenly and it would become confusing as to whom you were following at any given time.
Some elements of the tale were swept away in an almost cursory manner where elsewhere it plodded beyond belief.
Essentially a tale of organised crime in Sweden's criminal underbelly, we follow Teddy - an ex con who spent 8 years in jail for his part in a kidnapping - who revisits the crime, after the hostage's son is accused of murder and urges his lawyer to "Get Teddy to unsderstand". As he tries to get to the truth of who was giving the orders for the kidnap of Mats Emanuelsson he finds himself wading through a mass money laundering scheme. There's also the small matter of a computer containing some hard core abuse/pornography.
Who is the Mr Big behind it all - and can Teddy find him before putting himself and his family in danger?
As I said, all the ingredients but just not presented in a very thrilling way. I struggled to read more than a couple of chapters at a time. Clearly there is at least one more instalment to this tale but I don't imagine I'll be checking it out, sadly.
Something about the style of the writing was just too disjointed. We are following the story from the viewpoint of five main characters and I found that the perspective would change suddenly and it would become confusing as to whom you were following at any given time.
Some elements of the tale were swept away in an almost cursory manner where elsewhere it plodded beyond belief.
Essentially a tale of organised crime in Sweden's criminal underbelly, we follow Teddy - an ex con who spent 8 years in jail for his part in a kidnapping - who revisits the crime, after the hostage's son is accused of murder and urges his lawyer to "Get Teddy to unsderstand". As he tries to get to the truth of who was giving the orders for the kidnap of Mats Emanuelsson he finds himself wading through a mass money laundering scheme. There's also the small matter of a computer containing some hard core abuse/pornography.
Who is the Mr Big behind it all - and can Teddy find him before putting himself and his family in danger?
As I said, all the ingredients but just not presented in a very thrilling way. I struggled to read more than a couple of chapters at a time. Clearly there is at least one more instalment to this tale but I don't imagine I'll be checking it out, sadly.