Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna.
It doesn’t occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors – which have him running back to Stockholm as fast as you can say circumcision without anaesthetic.
Back in Stockholm, Kevin’s path crosses with Jenny’s – and they have an awful lot to talk about, not least a shared desire to get even with Victor. So it’s convenient when they run into a man selling revenge services, who has an ingenious idea involving Victor’s cellar, a goat, some forged paintings, four large boxes of sex toys, and a kilo of flour …
It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they’re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un …
Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated …
Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man:
‘A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully’ Sunday Times
‘Imaginative, laugh-out-loud . . . a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind’ Daily Telegraph
‘Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny’ Guardian
When Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavik police is forced into early retirement, she is told she can investigate one last cold case of her choice - and she knows which one.
What she discovers is far darker than suicide . . . And no one is telling Hulda the whole story.
When her own colleagues try to put the brakes on her investigation, Hulda has just days to discover the truth. A truth she will risk her own life to find.
On june 14th, 2007, the king and prime minister of sweden went missing from a gala banquet at the royal castle. Later it was said that both had fallen ill, the truth is different. The real story starts much earlier, in 1961, with the birth of nombeko mayeki in a shack in soweto. Nombeko was fated to grow up fast and die early in her poverty-stricken township, be it from drugs, from alcohol or just from plain despair. But nombeko takes a different path. She finds work as a housecleaner and eventually makes her way up to the position of chief advisor, at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects. Here is where the story merges with and then diverges from reality. South africa developed six nuclear missiles in the 1980s and then voluntarily dismantled them in 1994. This is a story about the seventh missile the one that was never supposed to have existed. Nombeko mayeki knows too much about it and now she's on the run from both the south african justice and the most terrifying secret service in the world. She ends up in sweden, which has transformed into a nuclear nation and the fate of the world now lies in nombeko's hands. Jonasson introduces us to a whole cast of eccentrics a nerve-damaged american vietnam deserter, twin brothers who are officially only one person, three careless chinese girls, an angry young woman, a potato-growing baroness and the swedish king and prime minister. Quirky and utterly unique, 'the girl who saved the king of sweden' is a charming and humorous account of one young woman's unlikely adventure.
