The Father (Made In Sweden: Part 1) by Anton Svensson

Paperback:  How does a child become a criminal?

How does a father lose a son?

An epic crime novel with the excitement of Jo Nesbø's Headhunters and the narrative depth of We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Father is inspired by the extraordinary, intoxicating and heartbreaking true story of three brothers who committed ten audacious bank robberies in Sweden over the course of just two years.  It tells the story of how three boys are transformed over the course of their lives from innocent children to the most wanted criminals in Sweden.

None had committed a crime before. 

All were under 24 years old. 

All of them would be changed forever as individuals and as a family.

And of the man who made them that way:  their father.

The Father (2015) is the first instalment in the Made In Sweden series and is translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Clark Wessel. 

More information on how the real case inspired this novel can be found in The Father.

The second book in the series - The Sons - is expected to be released on 9 January 2018.

About the author:  Anton Svensson is a pseudonym for Anders Roslund and Stefan Thunberg. 

Anders Roslund is an award-winning investigative journalist and one of the most successful and
critically acclaimed Scandinavian crime writers of our time.  Roslund is part of the New York Times bestselling author duo Roslund & Hellström, who are recipients of many prestigious awards, including the CWA International Dagger, The Glass Key and the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award, and who boast sales exceeding five million copies.  Films and TV-series based on Roslund & Hellström’s novels are in the works, both in Hollywood and Europe.

Stefan Thunberg is one of Scandinavia’s most celebrated screenwriters.  His body of work spans popular TV-series such as Henning Mankell’s Wallander and Håkan Nesser’s Van Veeteren as well
as two of Sweden’s biggest box office successes in recent years:  Hamilton and Jägarna 2.  While Thunberg achieved fame as a screenwriter, the rest of his family became infamous in an entirely different way:  his father and brothers were Sweden’s most notorious bank robbers, dubbed Militärligan (The Military Gang) by the media.

Rating:  5/5