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In this second installment of Perssonâe(tm)s trilogy of police procedurals featuring the "small, fat and primitive" Evert Bäckström, the grand masterâe(tm)s most appallingly repulsive (and funniest) character is finally given his fifteen minutes of fame by way of his patented combination of laziness, luck, and an unbelievable sense of timing. A seemingly ordinary murder puzzles Bäckström, who is struggling with strict orders from his doctor to lead a healthier life. His gut feeling proves him right: within days, his team has another murder linked to the first on their hands, and reports of alleged ties to a Securicor heist gone out of control, killing two. The nation needs a hero, and the newly appointed head of the Västerort police force Anna Holt needs somebody to kill the dragon for her. Who better to heed to the task than Evert Bäckström: self-sufficient, ostentatious, devoid of moral, Hawaii shirt-clad, and, latterly, armed?
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He Who Kills the Dragon, Leif G. W. Persson
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- Released
- 2013
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Leif G. W. Persson
- Publisher
- Random House UK
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0857520733
- ISBN13
- 9780857520739
- Series
- The Case of the Missing
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Gifts for grandpa, Detective Fiction, Adapted for Film, Scandinavian Literature, Sweden, Nordic Noir, Swedish literature, Stockholm, Swedish detective stories
- First published
- 2008
- Original title
- Den som dödar draken. En roman om ett brott
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- In this second installment of Perssonâe(tm)s trilogy of police procedurals featuring the "small, fat and primitive" Evert Bäckström, the grand masterâe(tm)s most appallingly repulsive (and funniest) character is finally given his fifteen minutes of fame by way of his patented combination of laziness, luck, and an unbelievable sense of timing. A seemingly ordinary murder puzzles Bäckström, who is struggling with strict orders from his doctor to lead a healthier life. His gut feeling proves him right: within days, his team has another murder linked to the first on their hands, and reports of alleged ties to a Securicor heist gone out of control, killing two. The nation needs a hero, and the newly appointed head of the Västerort police force Anna Holt needs somebody to kill the dragon for her. Who better to heed to the task than Evert Bäckström: self-sufficient, ostentatious, devoid of moral, Hawaii shirt-clad, and, latterly, armed?