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Free Falling, As If in a Dream

The Story of a Crime

By: Leif GW Persson

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Free Falling, As If in a Dream

The Story of a Crime

By: Leif GW Persson

From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction—and one of the best crime writers of our time—here is the final volume in the critically acclaimed Story of a Crime trilogy, centered on the assassination of Olof Palme in 1986. It’s August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Sweden, is determined once again to reopen the dusty files on the unsolved murder of Prime Minister Palme. With his retirement quickly approaching, Johansson forms a new group, comprised of a few trustworthy detectives who doggedly wade through mountains of paperwork and pursue new leads in a case that has all but gone cold despite the open wound the assassination has left on the consciousness of Swedish society. But the closer the group gets to the truth, the more Johansson compromises the greater good for personal gain, becoming a pawn in the private vendetta of a shady political spin doctor. A detailed and boldly plotted police procedural, Free Falling, As If in a Dream lifts the veil on one of history’s greatest unsolved crimes, bringing dark humor, suspense, and wit to bear on a case long thought to have no answers.

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0307907856

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9780307907851

Linda, As in the Linda Murder

A Backstrom Novel

By: Leif GW Persson

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Linda, As in the Linda Murder

A Backstrom Novel

By: Leif GW Persson

The irascible, obdurate, and very thirstyDetective Superintendent Evert Bäck-ström of the National Murder Squad returns in a new novel from the reigning master of Scandinavian fiction. It’s the dead of summer in the sleepy town of Växjö when twenty-year-old police cadet Linda Wallin is found lying facedown in her mother’s apartment, brutally murdered and raped. With no clear motive or suspect in sight, a series of bureaucratic mix-ups causes the National Crime Unit to send Bäckström and his team into the countryside to solve the case. The ever-irritable Bäckström leaves his beloved goldfish behind, checks intoa local hotel, and begins to reconstruct the night of Linda’s murder. But with more than a few bottles in tow, and a constantly growling stomach to look after, things don’t go so well, and Bäckström has to rely on the help of his colleagues to solve the crime—no matter how angry that makes him.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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030790766X

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9780307907660

Backstrom: He Who Kills the Dragon

By: Leif GW Persson

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Backstrom: He Who Kills the Dragon

By: Leif GW Persson

From a master of Scandinavian crime fiction--the first in a brilliant series of novels centered around the investigations of one irascible, obdurate, and very thirsty Swedish police officer: Detective Superintendent Evert Bäckström of the National Murder Squad. Detective Bäckström is Persson's persistently repulsive yet undeniably brilliant comic creation--an unforgettable cop winding his way through the black comedy of a crime scene, and managing to upset nearly everyone in the process.When a newspaper delivery boy finds a 68 year-old alcoholic lying dead in his apartment--beaten with a saucepan lid and hammer, and then strangled--everyone expects an open-and-shut murder case, everyone that is but Hawaiian-shirt clad Detective Bäckström who's been assigned to lead the investigation team. Under strict orders from his doctor to improve his health as quickly as possible, Bäckström has begun stumbling to work on foot, and even eating vegetables. The police force isn't what it used to be though, and now that it's crowded with women and foreigners resisting a drink is harder than ever before. But when the newspaper boy goes missing Bäckström's suspicions are proven correct, giving his irrepressible mix of luck and laziness a chance to save the day, while managing to upset nearly everyone in the process.

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369

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0307907686

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9780307907684

Self-interest and Public Interest in Western Politics

By: Leif Lewin

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Self-interest and Public Interest in Western Politics

By: Leif Lewin

Although Professor Lewin is not testing existing views that, for people in politics, 'egoism rules' on deep theoretical grounds, he strongly argues that empirical facts do not support such views and thus opens a new chapter in the debate on individuals' rationality.

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153

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Oxford University Press

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0198277253

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9780198277255

Self-interest and Public Interest in Western Politics

By: Leif Lewin

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Self-interest and Public Interest in Western Politics

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146

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0191599778

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9780191599774

Ideology and Strategy

A Century of Swedish Politics

By: Leif Lewin

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Ideology and Strategy

A Century of Swedish Politics

By: Leif Lewin

Ideology and Strategy is an analysis of issues in Swedish parliamentary history over the past 100 years. Leif Lewin has chosen eight issues and scrutinized them using traditional analysis and, importantly, game-theoretic reasoning.

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356

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Cambridge University Press

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0521343305

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9780521343305

Democratic Accountability

Why Choice in Politics Is Both Possible and Necessary

By: Leif Lewin

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Democratic Accountability

Why Choice in Politics Is Both Possible and Necessary

By: Leif Lewin

It is common for political leaders to claim they have no control over bad outcomes. Indeed, they often cite the arguments of political theorists and public intellectuals as to why: history rushes onward oblivious of human will; force and violence overcome political aims; globalization undermines the actions of national leaders; the bureaucracy sabotages their intentions; bad outcomes are often the unintended result of actions. In Democratic Accountability, Leif Lewin examines these reasons and argues that they are unconvincing. He makes his case by describing and analyzing counterexamples in seven cases, including the prevention of a communist takeover in Europe after World War II, the European Union's preventing another European war, and Margaret Thatcher's taming of the bureaucracy in Britain. In a staunch defense of the possibility for meaningful and profound democratic decision making, Lewin finds that, in fact, not only do political leaders exert a good measure of control and therefore can be assigned responsibility, but the meaning of the functioning democracy is that the people hold their leaders accountable.

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264

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Harvard University Press

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0674024753

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9780674024755

Governing Trade Unions in Sweden

By: Leif Lewin

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Governing Trade Unions in Sweden

By: Leif Lewin

Study of trade union decision making in Sweden - discusses the theoretical and historical background, trade union structure, geographic distribution, affiliation with political partys, internal conflicts between leadership and membership, attitudes on wage policies, governance types, authority and problems of democracy within the movement, successes and failures, etc.; attempts to develop an interactive democratic model of collective participation. Graphs, illustrations, map and references.

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Harvard University Press

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0674358759

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Free Falling, As If in a Dream

The Story of a Crime

By: Leif GW Persson

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The Story of a Crime

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Sveriges statsministrar under 100 år : Arvid Lindman

By: Leif Lewin

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Sveriges statsministrar under 100 år : Arvid Lindman

By: Leif Lewin

Amiral Arvid Lindman var en legendarisk högerledare, som i början av 1900-talet räddade sitt parti från att utplånas av den tidens vänster, liberalerna och socialdemokraterna. Han var statsminister åren 1906–1911 och 1928–1930. Med sin rösträttsreform, som gick tvärs emot högerns ideologi, gav Lindman svensk politik en annan inriktning än den vänstern drömde om. Samarbete, moderation och bevarad monarki hette ledstjärnorna, inte strid och majoritetsdemokrati. Som person utmärktes Lindman av kylig realism, social kompetens, humor och en dräpande replikkonst som gjorde honom till en uppskattad talare. Mot slutet av sin levnad kände Lindman politisk vantrivsel. Socialdemokratisk planhushållning, ombudsmannavälde och den framväxande nazismen hotade enligt amiralen det han satte främst: den personliga friheten.

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Albert Bonniers Förlag

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9100132519

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9789100132514

Linda, as in the Linda Murder

By: Leif G. W. Persson

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Linda, as in the Linda Murder

By: Leif G. W. Persson

In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is brutally murdered. Police Inspector Evert Bäckström is unwillingly drafted in from Stockholm to head up the investigation. Egotistical, vain and utterly prejudiced against everything, Bäckström is a man who has no sense of duty or responsibilty, thinks everyone with the exception of himself is an imbecile and is only really capable of warm feelings towards his pet goldfish and the nearest bottle of liquor. If they are to solve the case, his long suffering team must work around him, following the scant few leads which remain after Bäckström's intransigence has let the trail go cold. Blackly comic, thrillingly compelling and utterly real, Linda, As in the Linda Murder is the novel which introduces the reader to the modern masterpiece that is Evert Bäckström, a man described by his creator as 'short, fat and primitive'. He is, without doubt, the real deal when it comes to modern policing.

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Random House

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0857520865

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9780857520869

Falling Freely, As If In A Dream

(The Story of a Crime 3)

By: Leif G W Persson

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Falling Freely, As If In A Dream

(The Story of a Crime 3)

By: Leif G W Persson

From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction—and one of the best crime writers of our time—a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. It's August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Sweden has opened the files on the unsolved murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme. With his retirement quickly closing in, Johansson forms a new group comprised of a few trustworthy detectives who doggedly wade through mountains of paperwork and pursue new leads in a case that has all but gone cold despite the open wound the assassination has left on the consciousness of Swedish society. Yet the closer the group gets to the truth, the more Johansson compromises the greater good for personal gain, becoming a pawn for the private vendetta of a shady political spin doctor. Sharply detailed and boldly plotted, Persson's work lifts the veil on one of history's greatest unsolved crimes in a novel that goes toe-to-toe with the best of true crime books.

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Random House

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1448171202

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Book's by Leif Lewin

Free Falling, As If in a Dream

Free Falling, As If in a Dream

Linda, As in the Linda Murder

Linda, As in the Linda Murder

Backstrom: He Who Kills the Dragon

Backstrom: He Who Kills the Dragon

Self-interest and Public Interest in Western Politics

Self-interest and Public Interest in Western Politics

Self-interest and Public Interest in Western Politics

Self-interest and Public Interest in Western Politics

Ideology and Strategy

Ideology and Strategy

Democratic Accountability

Democratic Accountability

Governing Trade Unions in Sweden

Governing Trade Unions in Sweden

Free Falling, As If in a Dream

Free Falling, As If in a Dream

Sveriges statsministrar under 100 år : Arvid Lindman

Sveriges statsministrar under 100 år : Arvid Lindman

Linda, as in the Linda Murder

Linda, as in the Linda Murder

Falling Freely, As If In A Dream

Falling Freely, As If In A Dream

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