The Swede (27 page)
ROBERT KARJEL
is a lieutenant colonel in the Swedish Air Force. His job as a helicopter pilot has taken him all over the world, from peacekeeping in Afghanistan to pirate-hunting in Somalia. He is the only Swedish pilot who has trained with U.S. Marine Corps and flown its attack helicopters. He lives in Stockholm.
The Swede
is his first novel published in English.
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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE SWEDE
. Copyright © 2015 by Robert Karjel. English translation © 2015 by Nancy Pick and Robert Karjel. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Originally published as
De redan döda
in Sweden in 2010 by Wahlström & Widstrand.
FIRST U.S. EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Karjel, Robert, 1965–
[De redan döda. English]
The Swede / Robert Karjel ; translation from the Swedish by Nancy Pick and Robert Karjel. — First U.S. edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-06-233958-4 (hardback)
EPub Edition July 2015 ISBN 9780062339621
1. Intelligence service—Fiction. I. Title.
PT9876.21.A67D4313 2015
839.73'8—dc23
2015003363
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