Grens & Sundkvist book #6

This is a bleak tale of teen gang running amok.

Stockholm is being terrorized by a teenage gang’s reign. The crime wave is being directed from inside a maximum security prison by an 18 year old named Leon. His blood brother Gabriel’s girlfriend Wanda regularly smuggle in pills as a mule. The gang has no reservation about recruiting 12 years old ....and the book goes on. I suggest you read the synopsis to get a better idea what you’ll be into....I lost interest and abandoned it before I reached to end...Now did I bailed out too fast? Maybe.

The premise of this book sounded so good that I finally brought it up from my very long TBR list to give it priority. Frankly it should have stayed at the bottom even forgotten. The beginning is very disjointed and difficult to follow. I had a hard time getting into a narrative that is not told in chapters but in short clips of a page or two where we have point of view that changes on a wimp. This choppy narrative and the merry-go-round changing point of view are very confusing.

“Two Soldiers” is a difficult 600 pages read that focusses on the street gang, it is raw and brutal.

This is one book that will indeed divide readers.....It was far from being my cup of tea... ( )

GR's Nancy Oakes is correct: this series is "edgy, gritty and contemporary;" however, this book was at least 200 pages too long. Heck, Superintendent Detective Ewert Grens did not even come into the novel until almost page 240. The story centers on Stockholm’s youth gangs, and typically kids from broken homes, becoming hardened criminals to find "family." Gabriel Milton and Leon Jensen are the leaders of the Raby Warriors (Ghetto Soldiers) gang, with its Bob Marley philosophy of “one love, brother.” In one single night of mayhem, Leon breaks out of prison, breaks out his brothers from other prison, kills a guard, and seeks refuge in the Raby ghetto. Then, to become the most feared gang, they detonate a bomb, killing the head of the police's gang unit in his office. Things begin to go awry when Gabriel discovers he is going to be a father, and discovers real versus artificial love. My ratings for this series have moved from 4 to 3 to 2 stars.

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Blood brothers Leon and Gabriel have spent their young lives establishing a formidable criminal enterprise known as the Warriors, which is now poised to secure domination in the area. DCI Ewert Grens is investigating a recent prison break from a maximum-security facility, and discovers that the incident is linked to the Warriors. Jos�e Pereira, head of the police's Organized Crime and Gang Section in a southern suburb of Stockholm, is facing a rapidly growing problem with juvenile gang crime. All four men are on a collision course, heading toward an explosive convergence HARD

I read the Previous author books, and I read them eagerly. When I took this book, I was full of expectations. I survived about 50 pages in continuous reading. I only didn't connect and decided that it was a pity. It does not happen to me much that I give up. But I respect the author who writes a book to keep on trying to read. This time I decided it was better to move on. Maybe one day I'll come back to it to reread it.

Merry Christmas!!! ( )

After a slow start, the book started to get interesting and then it was hard to put down. Nessheim is on another case, this time in L.A. One of his Japanese informants has gone missing, and Nessheim goes all over the place trying to find him before the bad guys do. Lots of red herrings and little jaunts here and there keep the plot moving. ( )