Following from
Anders de la Motte's Game, we have the second book in the trilogy, Buzz,
in which our ne'er-do-well slacker, having taken revenge on the organizers of
the Game and after a long foreign holiday, finds himself in a Dubai prison on
murder charges after a night of drug-infused partying. Meanwhile, his sister,
the bodyguard, finds herself brought up on charges for waving off the arrival
of a Swedish diplomat to a meeting in an African country. The slacker takes a
real job, under an assumed name, infiltrates a company he thinks may be
involved in the Game, takes up with an attractive woman, becomes a party to
some insider trading. His sister fights the charges, argues with her boyfriend,
carries on a clandestine affair, meets a long-lost uncle, finds a plot to
invade the royal palace on New Years Eve. Like Game, quite the
page-turner, with a lot of local color from Stockholm, a city which I wish I
knew better.
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