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A review by michael5000
Cop Killer by Maj Sjöwall
4.0
The last-for-me Martin Beck book is as satisfying as others in the series, another grimly amusing hard-boiled police procedural from Sweden's underbelly.
A lot of the fun, reading these novels 50 years on, is noting the contrast between their basic theme -- that the world is going to hell in a violent, soulless handbasket -- with the subsequent decades of, by the standards of our planet, unprecedented peace, prosperity, and opportunities for individual self-realization. What felt like righteous clear-eyed social critique at the time, now sounds more than a little like your surly neighbor who can't handle the damn kids these days with their cells phones and tattoos and loud music.
A lot of the fun, reading these novels 50 years on, is noting the contrast between their basic theme -- that the world is going to hell in a violent, soulless handbasket -- with the subsequent decades of, by the standards of our planet, unprecedented peace, prosperity, and opportunities for individual self-realization. What felt like righteous clear-eyed social critique at the time, now sounds more than a little like your surly neighbor who can't handle the damn kids these days with their cells phones and tattoos and loud music.