Part of Ewert Grens, book 6
First published 2014
Leon and Gabriel have been best friends since third grade and drug addicts since age nine. Now nineteen, they run the Raby Warriors, a ruthless criminal organization in a bleak Stockholm suburb. Their enterprise recruits children as foot soldiers and stands ready to become the region's most powerful syndicate. When the pair execute a maximum security prison break and kidnap a female guard, veteran detective Jose Pereira leads the manhunt. Twenty years on the force, Pereira heads the Organized Crime and Gang Section and watches these boys transform themselves into Hollywood gangster caricatures. Chief Superintendent Ewert Grens joins the investigation, bringing his own troubled history to bear on the case. The pursuit sets all four men on a collision course that will change their lives forever. This explosive thriller explores juvenile gang warfare in modern Sweden, where children become soldiers in a drug war that consumes entire neighborhoods.
Genres: fiction, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, pursuit
Setting: Raby, Stockholm, Sweden
Period: 21st-century
596 pages · Hardcover · Quercus
Content warnings: addiction, drug-use, violence