ISBN: 978-0-307-39. SjÖwall and WahlÖÖ changed the genre. He. The Terrorists is the tenth and final book in Sjöwall and Wahlöö's series featuring Martin Beck. rating for the series as a whole, now that I'm finished with the last installment. In addition some of the police action has bordered on slapstick comedy or plain farce in its ineptitude. He's miserable, has an ulcer, is unhappily married, with kids who don't understand him. It also templates the 1986 assassination of the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme. 1-Click ordering is not available for this item. My list of things to do today has lain untouched on the kitchen table, as has the washing-up from breakfast AND lunch - I just had to know how the plot unfolded. Superb and a fitting ending the the Wahloo/Sjowall series of Martin Beck novels. Start by marking “The Terrorists (Martin Beck, #10)” as Want to Read: Error rating book. For the Martin Beck series, they plotted and researched each book together, and then wrote alternate chapters simultaneously. I gave up on my library getting the audiobook of this last in the Martin Beck series (they have all the rest, which I listened to this winter and spring) and bought it myself. ... only—in desperation—to accomplish what professional terrorists couldn't; and finally a middle-aged porn peddler/corrupter is murdered in the bathtub of the woman he visits on the side. It was as if he had - with enormous pleasure - just witnessed the end of the world.”, “The corpulent, impotent Petrus casts pubescent girls in skin flicks so low-budget sex, from film to film, takes place “on the same old couch, which occasionally changed covers.”, The Terrorists A Martin Beck Police Mystery, Killing the 'Dead Girl' Theme in Crime Fiction. Refresh and try again. Naturally, I liked some of the stories more than others, but all ten are consistently good. The story centers on the visit of an American senator to Stockholm. It is a valedictory and a summing up, as well as being one of the two best procedurals in the series (the other is "The Laughing Policeman", book 4). Try again. There were two different passages where I’d have stood up and cheered if not for fear of waking someone nearby. Terrorists plant a bomb along the route the Senator will be taking (bet you didn't see that coming, given the title of the book! I'm not an habitual reader of police procedurals, and discovered these stories completely by chance. Save for later Send-to-Kindle or Email . Between them and death and destruction lies Martin Beck and his colleagues. Wahlöö developed cancer and died in 1975, in Malmö, at the age of 48. While Beck is busy with trying to keep the would-be assassins from killing the Senator, he is also inve. The Terrorists Sjowall Maj, Wahloo Per. 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