Jeremy Duns:
> Anders, thanks for the heads up. I started
reading
> Enemy's Enemy, and it did seem like it might
be
> "boring, bland bestseller-type prose", which is a
pity
> - it was quite hard to track down.
To elaborate a bit, Guillou really can't write about people,
and IIRC there was also far too many technical descriptions
of various weaponry. In fact I recall Guillou being accused
of being something of a gun fetischist, something that pissed
him off no end.
However, he *is* very good at drawing plausible political
scenarios. In fact, I suspect that may even have been the
main purpose of the series.
As for Hamiltons, I'd like to take the opportunity to confuse
matters further by mentioning that there is a real-life Carl
Hamilton who happens to be a columnist at the same newspaper
as Guillou:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/kolumnister/
(Swedish only)
And it does not stop there, we also have a liberal MP called
Carl B. Hamilton!
But I guess that's enough offtopicality for now.
/ Anders
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