Den agtværdige morder by Jan Guillou

In English on the book
Retired high-ranking Swedish officers are being brutally murdered, and the murderers are leaving traces to a supposed Nazi past. While Sweden is in turmoil from racist movements, Hamilton and his colleagues in the military intelligence are tasked to conduct their own investigation of the murders, searching the military archives and learning the dark past of their predecessors.

In English on the series
The Carl Hamilton novels is a book series by Swedish author and journalist Jan Guillou centered on the fictional Swedish spy Carl Hamilton. The main character is an elite military officer working for the Swedish Security agency and Intelligence agency during the end of the Cold War, residing in Stockholm but active internationally.

På dansk om bogen
En pensioneret general og en pensioneret admiral bliver dræbt.
Den ene har fået et hagekors skåret ind i brystet, inden han døde. Og selve mordet er udført med en nærmest manisk hadefuldhed, som et langtrukkent ritual, hvor morderen eller morderne har forsøgt at holde ofret i live så længe som muligt for at forøge lidelsen og ydmygelsen.
Carl Hamiltons chef har personlig interesse i opklaringen, og Carl og hans to medarbejdere sættes i gang med en undersøgelse parallelt med politiets. Sagen viser sig snart at have forbindelse tilbage til Anden Verdenskrig, og Carl Hamilton bliver konfronteret med et ikke særligt flatterende kapitel af sit lands fortid, der handler om bedrag, menneskeforagt, racisme og ligegyldighed.

Turning MAM a little more Danish – one book at a time. #5