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Publication Date: 3 Dec 2007 | Series: The Martin Beck Series (Book 10)

The final classic installment in the excellent Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s and 70s – the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since.

Widely recognised as the greatest masterpieces of crime fiction ever written, these are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre.

Written in the 1960s, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo – a husband and wife team from Sweden. The ten novels follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction. The novels can be read separately, but do follow a chronological order, so the reader can become familiar with the characters and develop a loyalty to the series. Each book will have a new introduction in order to help bring these books to a new audience.

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial (3 Dec 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0007243006
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007243006
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 289,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Praise for ‘Roseanna’:

‘The writing is elegant and surprisingly humorous – if you haven’t come across Beck before, you’re in for a treat.’ Guardian

‘I have never read a finer police story.’ Los Angeles Times

‘The decalogue about the Swedish Chief Inspector Martin Beck created by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo during the 1960s and 1970s are indeed classic police fiction. They changed the genre. Whoever is writing crime fiction after these novels inspired by them in one way or another.’ Henning Mankell

‘If you haven’t read Sjowall/Wahloo, start now.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Their mysteries don’t just read well; they reread even better. Witness, wife, petty cop or crook – they’re all real characters even if they get just a few sentences. The plots hold, because they’re ingenious but never inhuman.’ New York Times

About the Author

Per Wahlöö was born in Göteborg, the son of Waldemar and Karin (Svensson) Wahlöö. After graduating from the University of Lund in 1946, he worked as a journalist, covering criminal and social issues for a number of newspapers and magazines. In the 1950s Wahlöö was engaged in radical political causes, activities that resulted in his deportation from Franco's Spain in 1957. After returning to Sweden, he wrote a number of television and radio plays, and was managing editor of several magazines, before becoming a full-time writer.
Maj Sjowall is a poet. She lives in Sweden.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Martin Beck exits on a very high note 11 Oct 2011
By Blue in Washington TOP 500 REVIEWER
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"The Terrorists" is the last book in the terrific Martin Beck series by the Swedish writing team of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. In his introduction to the book, American mystery writer Dennis Lehane makes the apt observation that the authors "write of modern violence with clarity so fluid it achieves a kind of musical grace." And the masterful writing here, which certainly goes way beyond the description of violence, really is intelligent and entertaining. There is a wonderful central plot that is preceded and enhanced by two sub-stories relating to the main event, but which also serve to establish the political and social context in which the latter unrolls.

In a nutshell, the book is about the hunt for a team of hired terrorists which has arrived in Stockholm to assassinate a prominent right-wing American politician (circa 1975); a man who invited himself to the Swedish welfare state to score some kind of political points at home by celebrating the old order i.e. the late king of Sweden. Martin Beck is chosen to head the police team that is to protect the visitor and eradicate the terrorist threat. At about the same time, Beck is drawn into two other "lesser" crimes that will eventually intersect with the threatened assassination. One involves the alleged attempt to rob a bank by a young woman carrying a baby and the second is the murder of a highly successful pornographic film maker. The authors ultimately make clear that in their view these two events are far more important to the country's welfare than the possible death of an important political figure.

As extraordinary as the book's plot is, it is the terrific cast of characters that Sjowall and Wahloo have created that sticks with you at the end of the book.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Martin Beck Series the whole series 19 May 2012
By Mrs. E. Green
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I am reviewing the whole series as my husband enjoyed them so much that I bought them all for him - they cheered and intrigued him while he was housebound during the endless rain and has passed them round the family when finished
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5.0 out of 5 stars Never lets you down. 16 May 2013
By bookworm8 VINE™ VOICE
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I was hoping the last book in the series would not disappoint - it didn't.
The changes in the society portrayed and in Martin Beck were believable and interesting, an effective ending to the series.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Book review 15 May 2013
By Mrs D C Simonard
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Cannot say much about this as I bought it on behalf of a friend who has no computer. She was delighted as she enjoys the books by this author very much.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Terrorists 14 April 2013
By john hughes
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The Last in the series i sad to say. Even though the story's are late 60's early 70's they are as fresh today as they were back then when i first read them. Wonderful stuff
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great 9 Feb 2013
By Michael Bolton
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If you haven't read the Martin Beck books yet, start with Rosanna - the first in a series of ten
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5.0 out of 5 stars martin beck series, the terroists 30 Jan 2013
By angelas parr
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the terrorists- last book in the series -bran new book. arrived on time . compleats my collection. would buy other in this way.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fitting end to an influential and essential crime series 28 Dec 2012
By Jl Adcock VINE™ VOICE
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The final instalment of the much-praised Martin Beck series finds Beck and his colleagues on the hunt for international terrorists as an American Senator comes visiting Stockholm, and comes under threat of assassination. The book has a more global feel to it than some of the previous titles, and in places may well have been influenced by the manhunt style documentary thriller of Frederick Forsyth's The Day of The Jackal which had appeared at the start of the 1970s.

As usual, dry, scathing attacks on the rotten nature of Swedish society as Sjowall and Wahloo saw it, permeate the text, and in fact it's this sense of uncaring society despite the sham of saying otherwise that lies at the heart of the tragedy that unfolds in this final volume.

The characters remain well-drawn and convincing, although I did think the plot slackened a bit at the end and there was some slight padding before the final strands were drawn together. Coming through 10 books with the same characters, it's hard not to feel some sense of sadness that this is the last volume in what, overall, is a cracking good series that holds up superbly well over the course of time.

But it is the fact that the series is limited to 10 novels that in many ways gives the books enduring appeal and strength. Thankfully, no-one has attempted to update them and write new titles, which can't be said for some series' characters who get given a new lease of life when another author is given the task of adding to the canon. Classics are best left alone and enjoyed for the masterpieces they are. Enduring, entertaining, educational, influential - pretty much sums up the Martin Beck series.
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