The Swimmer, Joakim Zander
The Swimmer, Joakim Zander
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The Swimmer
A Novel

Author: Joakim Zander

Narrator: Peter Ganim, Elisabeth Rodgers

Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 02/10/2015

Synopsis

A deep-cover CIA agent races across Europe to save the daughter he never knew in this electrifying debut thriller—an international sensation billed as “Homeland meets Stieg Larsson” that heralds the arrival of a new master sure to follow in the footsteps of Stieg Larsson, John Le Carré, and Graham Greene.In the end, you cannot hide who you are.Klara Walldéen was raised by her grandparents on a remote archipelago in the Baltic Sea, learning to fish and hunt and sail a boat through a storm. Now, as an EU Parliament aide in Brussels, she is learning how to navigate the treacherous currents of international politics: the lines between friend and enemy, truth and lies.But Klara has accidentally seen something she shouldn’t have: a laptop containing information so sensitive that someone will kill to keep hidden. Suddenly, she is thrown into a terrifying chase across Europe, with no idea who is hunting her or why.Meanwhile, in Virginia, an old spy hides from his past. Once, he was a man of action, an operative so dedicated that he abandoned his infant daughter to keep his cover. Now, he is the only man who can save Klara . . . and she is the only woman who can allow him to lay old ghosts to rest.

About Joakim Zander

Joakim Zander was born in Stockholm, has lived in Syria and Israel, and graduated from high school in the United States. He earned a PhD in law from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and has worked as a lawyer for the European Union in Brussels and Helsinki. Rights to his debut novel The Swimmer were sold in twenty-eight countries. Zander lives and works in southern Sweden with his family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria on July 22, 2017

Sencillamente me ha encantado! Me ha gustado mucho la manera de narrar del autor, el juego entre el pasado y el presente, las diferentes voces de los protagonistas; el que los héroes no lo sean tanto y los no héroes un poco más.......more

Goodreads review by Susan on October 26, 2014

When you discover a new author it’s such a thrill, isn't it? I remember, in my twenties, reading Robert Ludlum’s The Matarese Circle, Ken Follett’s Eye of the Needle, Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal and being blown away. How did these guys write like this? I was hooked on them and, subseq......more

Goodreads review by Razvan on August 27, 2024

Not bad, but not good enough. The Swimmer's interludes do more harm than any good to the book, as they are static and almost pathetic. For a modern type of book there is too much rudimentary violence, when things can be solved more nicely. Not to mention at least three no-brainers: - the villains hav......more

Goodreads review by Richard on March 01, 2015

Another slooooow Continental travelogue with someone shooting or blowing up the cast. This has nothing in common with the tattooed girl. Skip the first two thirds, and jump to the gunfight on the island. The plot will be made clear in case you missed something during the endless retelling from each c......more

Goodreads review by Ed on March 10, 2015

"The Swimmer" is a burned out veteran CIA field operative still haunted by the death of his wife in a car bomb in 1980 Damascus and his abandonment of his infant daughter Klara. Klara, now working in the Swedish diplomatic service at the EU capitol in Brussels, is drawn by an old friend into a world......more

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