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After a kind of in-between book, Anna Tell has once again found her strength, writing gripping thrillers initiated in an international setting. Kerstin Bergman has read “North of Beirut”.
In 2014, a Swedish soldier dies in Afghanistan. In Stockholm 2018, negotiator Amanda Lund from the National Task Force fails to save a jumper in the Västerbron. But before disappearing into the dark, he says things that make her wonder if the suicide is voluntary. She and her colleagues start sniffing it all out, and soon she’s sitting on a plane to Beirut. In parallel, we follow Aliza, who flees from Afghanistan to Sweden during the refugee crisis.
Anna Tell expertly portrays settings and authorities and has a good drive for storytelling. The story is cleverly constructed and step by step the initially disparate threads come together. The balance between vigilance and action is good, and although the result is expected when it arrives, Tell manages to maintain the tension until the end.
