The Independent raved about Two Soldiers that "you will find yourself utterly engaged from the very first chapter." The best-selling and award-winning journalist Anders Roslund and ex-criminal BOrge HellstrOm are Sweden's most acclaimed and lauded fiction duo. Roslund and HellstrOm combine inside knowledge of the brutal reality of criminal life with searing social criticism in complex, intelligent plots, propelling them to the forefront of the recent Scandinavian crime fiction sensation as heirs apparent to masters of the genre Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell. Jose Pereira heads the police's Organized Crime and Gang Section in RAby, a southern suburb of Stockholm. Here, juvenile gang crime is a rapidly growing and all-too-real problem. Blood brothers Leon and Gabriel have spent their young lives establishing a formidable criminal enterprise'known as the RAby Warriors'which is now poised to secure domination in the area. DCI Ewert Grens is investigating a recent prison break from a maximum-security facility: an incident that is linked to the RAby Warriors'a group Grens knows more about than he first admits. All four men are on a collision course: heading toward an explosive convergence, and a revelation powerful enough to tear each of them apart. From the Hardcover edition.