false 56451934 281393 4285485 1847671187 9781847671189 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1219160346m/4285485.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1219160346s/4285485.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4285485.Gentlemen 4.00 2
It all began a year earlier, when he was rooming with Henry Morgan, a boxer, piano player, composer, bartender, and old-fashioned gentleman with a Gatsby-like capacity for turning life into a feast and absolutely no talent for keeping secrets.

The two friends led the high-life in Stockholm until the day Henry’s younger brother Leo – a star poet, drunk, political provocateur – showed up. Leo drags them into a scandal involving illegal weapons and gangsters, and soon the three men find themselves unwittingly and irreversibly trapped in a dangerous plot.

Written with an intense regard for storytelling and style, Gentlemen is the most important literary work to emerge from Sweden in the past thirty years – simultaneously celebrating and mourning the post-WWII era with its jazz music, poetry, hidden treasures, and espionage.]]> 778911 3.88 42 5 1995 3 0 false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 00:57:08 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 07:55:42 -0700 2009 once more...]]>