No one has covered Sweden's violent gang wars with as much insight, nuance and empathy as Diamant Salihu. His book is a cinematic tale of shady characters, blood feuds and international intrigue, all set in a Scandinavian welfare state fraying at the edges. A must-read for anyone interested in the evolution of European organized crime. Sune Engel Rasmussen, Security Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and author of Twenty Years: Hope, War and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation
Mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand the mechanisms of gang crime with an energy that makes it hard to put down. Jönköpings-Posten
The story [ Diamant Salihu] has pursued for the last decade is, in effect, one giant, unsolved murder mystery: why has Sweden, long the envy of the rest of Europe for its peace and prosperity, suddenly seeing so many gangland killings? The Telegraph
Salihu tells a story not of heroes and villains but of the brave and the cowardly, where no one has an unlimited wellspring of either trait. Charlie Bentley-Astor, The Critic
