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Zusatztext “Rendered with crisp! elegant prose and tension so thick the reader could crack a tooth.”—Dennis Lehane! from the introduction “Of all the Sjöwall/Wahlöö books! The Terrorists be the tightest in organization and the most suspenseful.”— The New York Times "One of the most authentic! gripping and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished."--Michael Connelly “Lively! stylistically taut . . . Sjöwall and Wahlöö changed the genre.”—Henning Mankell “The Sjöwall-Wahlöö style and stories are dramas that expose fascinating truths about modern life.”— Chicago Tribune “The most superb new police mystery writer of recent years has been the tandem Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö.”— Los Angeles Times “Sjöwall and Wahlöö are still the best writers of police procedure in the world.”— Birmingham Post “The whole series has an immediacy to it that is both honest and awesome. These are the kind of books you can’t help but read in one sitting.”— Minnesota Daily "The [Martin Beck] series has maintained such a degree of excellence that comparisons are near impossible."-- Minneapolis Tribune Informationen zum Autor Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö With a New Introduction by Dennis Lehane Klappentext The final novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is a masterful, all consuming tale that rushes toward a thrilling, unexpected climax. With a new introduction by Dennis Lehane: "Tension so thick the reader could crack a tooth." An American senator is visiting Stockholm and Martin Beck must lead a team to protect him from an international gang of terrorists. However, in the midst of the fervor created by the diplomatic visit, a young, peace-loving woman is accused of robbing a bank. Beck is determined to prove her innocence, but gets trapped in the maze of police bureaucracy. To complicate matters a millionaire pornographer has been bludgeoned to death in his own bathtub. Filled with the twists and turns and the pulse pounding excitement that are the hallmarks of the Martin Beck novels, The Terrorists is the stunning conclusion to the incredible series that changed crime fiction forever.Chapter 1 The National Commissioner of Police smiled. He usually reserved his smile, boyish and charming, for the press and television and only seldom bestowed it on such members of the inner circle as Superintendent Stig Malm, of the National Police Administration, Eric Möller, chief of Security Police, and Martin Beck, chief of the National Homicide Squad. Only one of the three men smiled back. Stig Malm had beautiful white teeth and liked smiling to show them off. Over the years he had quite unconsciously acquired a whole register of smiles. The one he was using now could only be described as ingratiating and fawning. The chief of the Security Police suppressed yawn and Martin Beck blew his nose. It was only half-past seven in the morning, the National Commissioner’s favorite time for calling sudden meetings, which in no way meant that he was in the habit of arriving at the station at that time. He often did not appear until late in the morning and even then he was usually inaccessible even to his closest colleagues. "My office is my castle" might well have been inscribed on the door, and indeed it was an impenetrable fortress, guarded by a well-groomed secretary, quite rightly called "The Dragon." This morning he was showing his breezy and benign side. He had even had a Thermos of coffee and real china cups brought in, instead of the usual plastic mugs. Stig Malm got up and poured out the coffee. Martin Beck knew that before he sat down again he would first pinch the crease in his trousers and then carefully run his hand across his well-cut wavy hair. Stig Malm was his immediate s...
