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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Leaving it all on the field

The Terrorists by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

April 12, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

Is this it? Really it? All I get from the Martin Beck series? Damn. What great books these are. They’ve ruined the police procedural for me forever. When I first sat down to read Roseanna about five years ago, I would have never guessed this would become one of my favorite book series of all time. I found it to be a drab, uninspiring procedural novel. Fun if you like reading about shoe leather detective work but otherwise nothing special. And then someone turned me on to […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Martin Beck, mystery, Sweden, the terrorists

Jake's CBR12 Review No:64 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Martin Beck, mystery, Sweden, the terrorists ·
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We can take preventative measures.

The Terrorists by Maj Slowall and Per Wahloo

November 29, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The final Martin Beck novel (though it’s not entirely clear from the novel — with Per Wahloo dying) is about Beck being hired (involuntarily enlisted) to design and execute a security plan with a visiting US Senator of dubious reputation and politics. It’s 1975 and politics are fraught. We start with a terrorist bombing in a far away country showing a sophisticated network of terrorists (more so mercenaries for hire) who specialize in precision attacks. We then jump to a court case in which a […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, the terrorists

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:649 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, the terrorists ·
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Martin Beck thought about these things a lot.

Cop Killer by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

June 13, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the ninth of the Martin Beck mystery/police procedurals written by Maj Slowall and Per Wahloo in the 60s and 70s. They’ve adapted to several different films and tv shows, probably the most famous one, The Laughing Policeman written for Walter Mathau in the early 1970s. I have only read the first of the series besides this one, and they have about the same kind of meta-narrative as say the Harry Hole novels in that events do happen that carry over from book to […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: cop killer, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, The Laughing Policeman, the terrorists

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:347 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: cop killer, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, The Laughing Policeman, the terrorists ·
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