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Sabotagegruppe BB #1
The Informer
A World War II Crime Noir novel.
There is an informer inside the Sabotage Group BB. Death is waiting around every corner. It is time to ask yourself this one question: Who can be trusted?
German-occupied Copenhagen, fall 1944. It has been four and a half years since the Nazi tanks crossed the border. Last year, the Danish Government’s policy of cooperation with the Third Reich failed.
The Danish police force was rounded up a few months ago and deported to concentration camps in Germany; now criminals rule the city streets. There is shortage of almost everything and easy money to be made.
There is an informer inside the Sabotage Group BB. Death is waiting around every corner. It is time to ask yourself this one question: Who can be trusted?
German-occupied Copenhagen, fall 1944. It has been four and a half years since the Nazi tanks crossed the border. Last year, the Danish Government’s policy of cooperation with the Third Reich failed.
The Danish police force was rounded up a few months ago and deported to concentration camps in Germany; now criminals rule the city streets. There is shortage of almost everything and easy money to be made.
- GenresHistorical Fiction
135 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2003
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October 26, 2012
THE INFORMER is the first novel by Danish horror writer Steen Langstrup published in English. It was nominated Best Nordic Crime Novel of the year and selected as one of the best thirty-six novels for a relaxing beach read by a major Danish newspaper.
And it's every bit of it.
Set during 1944, a dark time for the Danish people, it's the story of a hunt for an informer in Sabotage Group BB. Germany had invaded Denmark four years before and the government's attempt to co-operate with them has gone awry. A few months before, the Gestapo had rounded up most of the police force and deported them to concentration camps. Criminals run the streets now. The Gestapo replaced the police with the Hipo, a hand-picked force that are bullies more than anything.
All that is history.
Sabotage Group BB has a traitor in it's midst. Suddenly, missions are going wrong. The German authorities were waiting for them when they rolled in. They barely escape.
It's a mixed group: a minister, a prostitute, an ex-cop, a sixteen year old raw recruit. The hooker's life is saved on the second mission by the kid, killing two Germans about to shoot her.
It has to be one of the group. A small unit unknown to other resistance teams, it has to be one of them. Unthinkable though.
The author of fifteen novels, Steen Langstrup was unfamiliar to me. Based on this novel, THE INFORMER likely won't be the last for me. The man knows how to tell a story and showed me a bit of history about WWII. Several of his works have been translated into English, with more to come, including Sabotage Group BB tales.
Recommended. Should be on a lot of reading lists.
And it's every bit of it.
Set during 1944, a dark time for the Danish people, it's the story of a hunt for an informer in Sabotage Group BB. Germany had invaded Denmark four years before and the government's attempt to co-operate with them has gone awry. A few months before, the Gestapo had rounded up most of the police force and deported them to concentration camps. Criminals run the streets now. The Gestapo replaced the police with the Hipo, a hand-picked force that are bullies more than anything.
All that is history.
Sabotage Group BB has a traitor in it's midst. Suddenly, missions are going wrong. The German authorities were waiting for them when they rolled in. They barely escape.
It's a mixed group: a minister, a prostitute, an ex-cop, a sixteen year old raw recruit. The hooker's life is saved on the second mission by the kid, killing two Germans about to shoot her.
It has to be one of the group. A small unit unknown to other resistance teams, it has to be one of them. Unthinkable though.
The author of fifteen novels, Steen Langstrup was unfamiliar to me. Based on this novel, THE INFORMER likely won't be the last for me. The man knows how to tell a story and showed me a bit of history about WWII. Several of his works have been translated into English, with more to come, including Sabotage Group BB tales.
Recommended. Should be on a lot of reading lists.
July 11, 2013
Interesting dark crime novel but not well written. The ending is especially strange with an ambiguous answer to who is the "informer". Much like a TV serial, the ending leaves open the possibility of a future novel. I seemed like the novel ended (only 135 pages) too early and the fate of crucial characters in the story left unattended.
July 27, 2024
Spændende og fængslende historie om en dansk modstandsgruppe. Godt skrevet i et flydende sprog
September 25, 2024
Da jeg læste Kvinden der kom med kage, der var jeg ikke i tvivl, hende ville jeg gerne læse mere om.
En historie som man bliver draget ind i, hvor man hurtigt bliver optaget af at finde stikkeren – er det så oplagt, som det i første omgang bliver lagt op til at være? Hvem af dem er på rette spor? Og når de at finde stikkeren inden det er for sent?
En historie som er bygget på en sort tid i historien, og hvor man sagtens kan se, at det hele kan være sket i virkeligheden.
Spørgsmålet har nok også slået os alle på et tidspunkt – Hvem kan du stole på?
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En historie som man bliver draget ind i, hvor man hurtigt bliver optaget af at finde stikkeren – er det så oplagt, som det i første omgang bliver lagt op til at være? Hvem af dem er på rette spor? Og når de at finde stikkeren inden det er for sent?
En historie som er bygget på en sort tid i historien, og hvor man sagtens kan se, at det hele kan være sket i virkeligheden.
Spørgsmålet har nok også slået os alle på et tidspunkt – Hvem kan du stole på?
Link til anmeldelse 📘
https://mrssiphora.wordpress.com/2024...
#Stikker #SteenLangstrup #SpændingsRoman #Historie #2VerdensKrig #2FeetEntertainment #AnmelderEksemplar #BookLovers #MrsSiphorasAthenaeum
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