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Unreformed, Leo has spent his imprisonment plotting one final heist, but he only has a brief window following his release to pull it off. The plan is to steal more than 100 million Swedish crowns from Sweden's largest police station and then disappear forever. It is a decision that will threaten what remains of his relationships with his father and brothers, who also went to prison for the earlier robberies, and set him on a collision course with the aggressive cop who sent them to jail, John Broncks.
Detective Broncks quickly figures out that the newly released Leo is up to something and vows to stop him once and for all, no matter what rules have to be broken. Before it is all over, these two men will play out the consequences not just of the crime spree that first brought them into each other's orbits, but of their earliest childhoods, when their destinies were being written by violence and abuse.
Each will have to look into the abyss and answer a terrible question: is he prepared to sacrifice everything, even family, to succeed?
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January 10, 2018 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780525501206
- File size: 412604 KB
- Duration: 14:19:35
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- English
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Narrator Gunnar Cauthery's engaging accent and faultless timing engage the listener at the start of this riveting psychological thriller from award-winning Scandinavian authors Thunberg and Roslund (the pseudonymous Anton Svensson). This sequel to THE FATHER continues the story of how abuse and violence affect a family bound together by darkly twisted versions of loyalty and love. It's a thriller that keeps the listener in suspense until the final paragraphs. Cauthery's seamless transitions from English to Swedish lend authenticity to his performance, while his mastery of pacing and volume delivers intensity as this gripping plot races to its conclusion. Knowledge from the previous volume is unnecessary as there is sufficient backstory for the book to stand alone. Put this one on your must-listen list. M.O.B. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine -
Starred review from January 29, 2018
Actual bank robberies, the planned bombing of Stockholm’s Central Station, and the largest weapons theft in northern Europe’s history inspired the events in this superb finale of the Dostoyevskian saga that began with 2016’s The Father from Svensson (the pseudonym of Anders Roslund and Stefan Thunberg). The abusive Ivan Duvnjac, an emigré from the former Yugoslavia, drives his three sons, Leo, Vincent, and Felix, into crime. Leo, the oldest, masterminds a daring robbery, but he goes to prison after he’s apprehended by Stockholm police detective John Broncks. There Leo plots to steal the millions recovered in the arrest, now housed in the Stockholm police station. After Leo’s release from prison, Broncks, aided by ultralogical detective Elisa Cuesta, follows his gut instinct and tracks Leo, only to discover that Leo’s accomplice Sam Larsen is his own convict brother, to whom Broncks owes a staggering debt. Seldom in fiction have a father’s sins been so brutally visited on sons as in this shattering tribute to the terrifying complexity of familial life and love. Agent: Niclas Salomonsson, Salomonsson Agency (Sweden).
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