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If you like to lose yourself in stories of clandestine American CIA spies, brilliant Swedish women who work in law firms, thrilling gun battles and car chases, than this novel is for you. Great escape and just plain fun for a summer read on the beach or by the pool.
AUTHOR Zander, Joakim
TITLE The Swimmer
DATE READ 12/01/2019
RATING 4/B
FIRST SENTENCE Every time I hold you is the last time I hold you. I've know that since the very first time.
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2013/Harper Collins/555 LP
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CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 180/111; Around the World in 80 Countries 2019-2021 Sweden 28/80; Random Travel Challenge 6 assigned countries Sweden 3/6
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TIME/PLACE 1980-2013/ Sweden, Syria, Belgium
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TITLE The Swimmer
DATE READ 12/01/2019
RATING 4/B
FIRST SENTENCE Every time I hold you is the last time I hold you. I've know that since the very first time.
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2013/Harper Collins/555 LP
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 180/111; Around the World in 80 Countries 2019-2021 Sweden 28/80; Random Travel Challenge 6 assigned countries Sweden 3/6
GROUP READ GR
TIME/PLACE 1980-2013/ Sweden, Syria, Belgium
CHARACTERS ...more
If you're looking for a competently executed war on terror-era thriller, I suppose this is as good as any. Opening in Damascus in 1980, it proceeds to jump around in time and space as so many of these stories do, drawing unsubtle connections between individual, institutional, and imperial sins of the past and their long-term consequences. From Syria we go forward 33 years to a remote Swedish archipelago, then Brussels, then CIA headquarters (1980), Brussels, Stockholm (1985), Brussels, Afghanist
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this was a 2.5 read for me
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