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FREE THE TERRORISTS (THE MARTIN BECK SERIES, BOOK 10) PDF Maj Sjowall,Per Wahloo,Dennis Lehane | 288 pages | 05 Jan 2012 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780007439201 | English | London, United Kingdom The Terrorists (Martin Beck Series #10) by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® The story opens with a trial where an eighteen-year-old woman is accused of a bank robbery she never intended to commit. Later, a pornographic film producer is found murdered at the home of his mistress. The main plot of the book involves Martin Beck leading a team of policemen to prevent a presumed terrorist attack on a highly unpopular American senator who is paying an official visit to Sweden. The attack is led by terrorist Reinhard Heydt, born by a Danish mother in PietermaritzburgSouth Africapart of the fictitious international terrorist organization Ulag which has already carried out several exceedingly brutal attacks successfully. Beck is appointed head of the protection unit for the state visit and to plan the distance protection with four colleagues. They assume that the attack on a place will be that the convoy must pass, perpetrated presumably in the same pattern as in a previous assassination of Ulag in a Book 10) American country. The four terrorists of Ulag manage to place the bomb. However, they are deceived by a delayed television coverage when triggering the ignition and Einar Ronn, one of four commissioners to Beck manages to clear the square shortly before the explosion. The situation Book 10) seems to be under control, but shortly afterwards there is a shot, but the victim is not the US Senator, but the Swedish Prime The Terrorists (the Martin Beck Series. The perpetrator is the eighteen-year-old woman from the bank robbery storyline. Two of the four terrorists are taken by Book 10) and arrested by the police in their hiding place. The third, Levallois has fled. The police seals off all roads across national borders. As the fourth terrorist Heydt encounters the police, there is an exchange of fire in which Heydt is killed and a policeman injured. The story, and indeed the series, ends with the policemen able to go home to spend Christmas with their families, with the book ending with Beck, happily partnered with Rhea, his girlfriend, enjoying New Year festivities with Kollberg and Gun, Kollberg's wife. Lennart Kollberg has resigned from the force and plays only a minor role in this book. In the novel was adapted for film under the title Stockholm Marathonwith its plot much altered. In the film, the intended victim is a man running the Stockholm Marathon and the motive is revenge. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, Book 10) Terrorist disambiguation. Main article: Stockholm Marathon film. Martin Beck. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. First Swedish edition. The Terrorists (Martin Beck, #10) by Maj Sjöwall Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. Chapter 1 The National Commissioner of Police smiled. Only one of the three men smiled back. Stig Malm had beautiful white The Terrorists (the Martin Beck Series and liked smiling to show them off. Over the years he had quite unconsciously acquired a whole register of smiles. The one he was using now could only be described as ingratiating and fawning. The chief of the Security Police suppressed yawn and Martin Beck blew his nose. He often did not appear until late in the morning and even then he was usually inaccessible even to his closest colleagues. He had even had a Thermos of coffee and real china cups brought in, instead of the usual plastic mugs. Stig Malm got up and poured out the coffee. Martin Beck knew that before he sat The Terrorists (the Martin Beck Series again he would first pinch the crease in his trousers and then carefully run his hand across his well-cut wavy hair. Stig Malm was his immediate superior and Martin Beck had no respect for him whatsoever. His self-satisfied coquettishness and insinuating officiousness toward senior potentates were characteristics that Martin Beck had ceased to be annoyed by and nowadays found simply foolish. What did irritate him, on the other hand, and often constituted an obstacle to his work, was the man's rigidity and lack of self-criticism, a lack just as total and destructive as his ignorance of everything to do with practical police work. That he had risen to such a high position was due to ambition, political opportunism and a certain amount of administrative ability. The chief of the Security Police put four lumps of sugar into his coffee, stirred it with a spoon and slurped as he drank. Maim drank his without sugar, careful as he Book 10) of his trim figure. Martin Beck was not feeling well and did not want coffee this early in the morning. The The Terrorists (the Martin Beck Series Commissioner took both sugar and cream and crooked his little finger as he raised his cup. He emptied it in one gulp and pushed it away from him, simultaneously pulling toward him a green file that had been lying on the corner of the polished conference table. You're not planning to be ill again, are you? You know we can't afford to be without you. He already was ill. He had been drinking wine with his twenty-two-year-old daughter and her boy friend until half-past three in the morning and knew that he looked awful as a result. But he had no desire to discuss his self-inflicted indisposition with his superior, and moreover he didn't think that the "again" was really fair. He had been away from work with the flu and a high temperature for three days at the beginning of March and it was now the seventh of May. A bit of a cold, that's all. There was not even feigned sympathy in his voice, only reproach. I assume we're not here to discuss my appearance or The Terrorists (the Martin Beck Series state of my health. Judging by the contents—three or four sheets of paper at the most—there was some hope that today's meeting would not drag on for too long. On top lay a typed letter with the mark of a large green rubber stamp beneath the scrawled signature and a letterhead that Martin Beck could not make out from where he was sitting. So did Kosygin's, organizationally as well as security-wise. And the Environmental Conference, to take a maybe slightly different example. What I'm referring to is the visit by this senator from the United States at the end of November. It could turn out to be a hot potato, if I may use that expression. We've never been confronted with the problem of VIPs from the States before, but now we are. The date's been set and I've already received certain instructions. Our preparations must be made well ahead of time and be extremely thorough. We have to be prepared for anything. The Commissioner shrugged. You know that as well as I do. I've got my orders to go by and you'll be getting yours. He was still trying to read the letterhead on the letter in the green file. He thought he could discern the word "police" or possibly "policia. Reluctantly he sipped at the bitter coffee. He gave the letter to Stig Malm, to pass The Terrorists (the Martin Beck Series the table before he continued. As the visiting president is not particularly popular in the host country, they will be taking all possible measures to protect him. As in many other Latin American countries, they have had to deal with a Book 10) of The Terrorists (the Martin Beck Series attempts—of both native and foreign politicians. Consequently, they have considerable experience, and I would think that their police force and security services are the best qualified in that area. I'm convinced that we could learn much by studying their methods and procedures. The president's visit was to take place on the fifth of June, hardly a month away, and the representative of the Swedish police was welcome to arrive two weeks earlier, so that he could study the most important phases of the preparatory work. The signature was elegant and totally illegible, but elucidated in typescript. The name was Spanish, long, and appeared in some way to be noble and distinguished. When the letter had been returned to the The Terrorists (the Martin Beck Series file, the Commissioner said, "The problem is, who shall we send? Martin Beck feared that he himself might be suggested. Five years earlier, before he had broken out of his unhappy marriage, he would have been delighted to undertake an assignment that would take him away from home for a while. But now, the last thing he wanted to do was to go abroad, and he Book 10) to say, "This is more of a Security Service The Terrorists (the Martin Beck Series, isn't it? In the second place, we're already experts on these matters and it would be more useful Book 10) someone went who The Terrorists (the Martin Beck Series unfamiliar with security questions.