The Abominable Man Quotes

“But hadn’t it always been generally accepted that a policeman’s lot was riskier and tougher and less well paid than any other? The answer was painfully simple. Yes, but only because no other professional group suffered from such role fixation or dramatized its daily life to the same degree as did the police.”
― Maj Sjöwall, The Abominable Man

“the force it takes to pull a trigger is out of all proportion to the force of the bullet that does the killing.”
― Maj Sjöwall, The Abominable Man

“After five years of marriage their idea of a really pleasant evening was to be at home, alone, help each other make a good dinner and then sit for a long time and eat and drink and talk.”
― Maj Sjöwall, The Abominable Man

“There was a Swedish team that had even managed to torpedo the myth of the English bobby and reduce it to its proper proportions, namely, to the fact that the English police are not armed and therefore don’t provoke violence to the same degree as certain others. Even in Denmark responsible authorities had managed to grasp this fact, and only in exceptional situations were policemen permitted to sign out weapons.”
― Maj Sjöwall, The Abominable Man