An excellent read - a book which kept me turning the pages and constantly intrigued about what might happen next.
The structure of two separate timelines worked very well, but, to me, raised some questions. Were the past events supposed to be fact or the ramblings of an old man? Were they just an excuse for the author to take a romp through 20th century political history? In any case, they seemed so unlikely that they made the main story line seem almost plausible.
I was amused to see the book described as "feel good" in a review, which seems surprising as, early on, two young men meet an untimely end. But I guess that, by contrast to other "Scandlit" like Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson, it is rather tame.
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