The Wolf and the Watchman / Niklas Natt och Dag.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: London : John Murray, [2019]Copyright date: �2017Description: 407 pages 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781473692138
- 1793 Engelska
- 839.738 23/swe
- PT9877.24.A88
- Heec.01
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Originally published in Swedish under the title: 1793 by Bokf�rlaget Forum, Stockholm, 2017.
The year is 1793, Stockholm. King Gustav of Sweden has been assassinated, years of foreign wars have emptied the treasuries and the realm is governed by a self-interested elite, leaving its citizens to suffer. On the streets, malcontent and paranoia abound. A body is found in the city's swamp by a watchman, Mickel Cardell, and the case is handed over to investigator Cecil Winge, who is dying of consumption. Together, Winge and Cardell become embroiled in a brutal world of guttersnipes and thieves, mercenaries and madams, and one death will expose a city rotten with corruption beneath its powdered and painted veneer. The Wolf and the Watchman depicts the capacity for cruelty in the name of survival or greed - but also the capacity for love, friendship, and the desire for a better world.
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