The Patriots (2017)

Fear is spreading at Stockholm’s newsrooms after the murder of a female journalist. Employees who are used to receiving daily threats now fear for their lives.

The young journalist Madeleine Winther at Nyhetsbladet has, however, her aim on something completely different. She knows just how to move forward in her career – and she’s about to do a real scoop.

Carl Cederhielm has made a holy promise to protect the country from enemies. He and his two accomplices have put together a list of ten names. They will avenge those who can not be avenge themselves.

In a country far away, a man longs home to Sweden. The inhabitants of the small city are afraid of him, he who works as a bodyguard for the weapons and drug smuggling Russian.

Soon their lives paths are crossed and Sweden wakes up to a new, unscrupulous reality. However, for Carl Cederhielm, the mission is far from completed. It’s time to eliminate the next person on the list.

The Patriots, originally published in Swedish as Patrioterna, is journalist Pascal Engman’s thrilling debut novel. With his novel, he renews the crime fiction genre as a reflection of society and politics. With large pathos, like Sjöwall & Wahlöö and Mankell, he brings us into the brutal present.