Box 21, Anders Roslund
Box 21, Anders Roslund
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Box 21

Author: Anders Roslund, Börge Hellström

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 10 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/04/2011

Synopsis

Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. Suddenly they are given an unexpected chance at freedom and with it the opportunity to take revenge on their enslavers and reclaim the lives and dignity they once had. What will happen now that the tables are turned and the victims fight back? Box 21 is a mind-blowing psychological thriller of the highest order.“Superb...Roslund and Hellström play out the tale in taut, short scenes, meting out revelations and shocks in sure, knowing fashion, ending with the shock that all but undoes the rest.... Box 21 is profound.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer“This dark, explicit novel is another impressive crime thriller from Scandinavia.... A good read.” —Arizona Republic“Gripping...the story takes a number of surprising twists and turns.” —The Washington Post Book World“This excellent crime thriller is bound to please fans of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series.” —Library Journal

About Anders Roslund

Award-winning journalist Anders Roslund and ex-criminal Börge Hellström are Sweden’s most acclaimed crime fiction duo. Their unique ability to combine inside knowledge of the brutal reality of criminal life with penetrating social criticism in complex, intelligent plots has put them at the forefront of modern Scandinavian crime writing. In 2009, their book Three Seconds, which was awarded the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award for Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, previously won by both Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, became a top-10 bestseller in Sweden for eight months, and hit The New York Times bestseller list in the United States.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Minty on February 23, 2018

If you like a crime book where justice is served and the villains pay for their crimes, don't read this novel. I was very frustrated and saddened by the ending.......more

Goodreads review by John on March 11, 2018

A novel that's pretty tough reading in places because of its agenda, which is to make you aware of and furious about the widespread crime of sex slavery -- in particular, the vile trafficking of gullible young women from Eastern Europe into the West's prostitution industry, and the rapes and beating......more

Goodreads review by Maddy on May 31, 2010

PROTAGONIST: Detec. Ewert Grens SETTING: Stockholm RATING: 4.5 It’s really disheartening to think of the thousands (millions?) of women’s lives that have been destroyed by the sex slave industry. BOX 21 takes us deep into that world by focusing on the situation of two Lithuanian women who were forced i......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on February 17, 2010

Having read somewhere that fans of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo would also like this book, I picked it up. It's nothing like Stieg Larsson's book at all. In his novel, there's a mystery to be had as well as a strong heroine who lives by her own inner sense of morality and never wavers. Here, what you......more

Goodreads review by Brad on November 09, 2010

This novel centers around the trafficking of sex workers from the Baltic states to Sweden, which is apparently a big problem, as it seems to pop up in a lot of Swedish crime novels (and was the subject of a harrowing film called Lilya-4-Ever). Though I found this book tautly written and difficult to......more

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