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Der Fluch der bösen Tat (ungekürzt)
Written by Leif Davidsen
Narrated by Samy Andersen
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&Vieles in seinem Leben hätte anders sein können, wenn er andere Entscheidungen getroffen hätte. Falls nicht ohnehin schon alles von vornherein feststand.& So räsoniert der serbische Auftragskiller Vuk, der für den Balkankrieg zu einer hoch spezialisierten Kampfmaschine ausgebildet wurde. Vuk soll für die iranischen Mullahs eine ungeliebte und mit der Fatwa belegte Schriftstellerin während einer Pressekonferenz töten, nachdem der grausame Krieg auf dem Balkan sich dem Ende zuneigt. Kommissar Per Toftlund wird die undankbare Aufgabe übertragen, mit geringstem Einsatz von Hilfsmitteln für die Sicherheit der Künstlerin auf dänischem Boden zu sorgen. Lise Carlsen, Journalistin und PEN-Vorsitzende, soll mit ihm zusammenarbeiten. Ohne etwas Genaues voneinander zu wissen, planen Killer und Polizist Zug und Gegenzug in einem nervenaufreibenden Wettlauf mit der Zeit. Leif Davidsen hat, von Salman Rushdies heimlichem Besuch in Kopenhagen inspiriert, einen packenden politischen Thriller und ein ergreifendes menschliches Drama geschrieben. Eine brisante Mischung aus Fakten und Fiktion, Politik und Gefühl, die den Leser bis zur letzten Seite in Atem hält.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoyed this book and wanted the assassin to succeed. Set in Copenhagen with flashbacks to Serbia. Is about Danish politics and about immigrants who are brought up in Denmark but have strong ties to Serbia.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I can't remember the last thriller styled book from a Scandinavian author that I've read - but I certainly hope I'll find another one soon. THE SERBIAN DANE lingered too long on the unread piles around here - but once started it was fascinating. A Serbian hitman, Vuk, born in Denmark but very much formed by the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, is hired to kill an Iranian author. Sara Santanda has decided to come out of hiding, and her first appearance is scheduled for Copenhagen. Santanda's contact in Denmark, Lise Carlesen works for the newspaper Politiken. Despite the Danish government's reservations about their relationship with Iran, they agree to provide security protection, and the man in charge is Per Toftlund. Lise's marriage is already on the skids, and Per is a very attractive man. In an interesting twist her increasing absence allows a mysterious stranger to befriend her husband, a combination of all the relationships and events combining to form the catalyst for a quite dramatic conclusion. Given that this book is a thriller in style, there is quite a lot of action. Alongside that though there are some great character explorations - particularly that of Vuk, the hitman with so many identities that he seems to have lost who he really is. It's strange, but there's something quite vulnerable and complicated about Vuk - as cold-blooded and as ruthless a killer as he is. It seems that you get a real glimpse into the damage that war can do. At the same time Per and Lise's relationship is an interesting development. What is most interesting, however, is that this is a book that was originally published in 1996, yet the issues discussed, the action portrayed and the tension engendered really felt quite contemporary and believable. This is a really good thriller with a full range of the required elements (tension / pace / threat and a sense of menace), alongside some suprisingly good characterisations and just a touch of human insight.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sara Santanda is a female Iranian author who is the subject of a fatwa due to the criticisms she has made of her country. She is in hiding in London but wants to make a public appearance and chooses Copenhagen, Denmark to do so. Lise Carlsen is the arts journalist for the newspaper that has invited Santanda and will be the paper’s main contact for the event. Per Toftlund is the ex-Navy frogman that the secret service puts in charge of security for Santanda’s visit. Vuk is the assassin hired to carry out the contract on Santanda’s life. How these lives intersect is the subject of the book.
The story unfolds in alternating chapters told from the view points of the three main characters though the majority are from either Vuk’s or Lise Carlsen’s perspective. The characterisations are multi-faceted and very engaging, though I found myself a little more compelled by and even empathetic towards Vuk the assassin. Perhaps because we first meet him as he kills a bigoted, hate mongering radio announcer (a sub-species of humanity I believe the world could well do without) but I always retained more sympathy for him than I suspect I was supposed to. The depiction of him as man who could have been a ‘normal’ member of society but who was broken by events largely beyond his control was superbly done. The other two main characters were also well-rounded as we see both their professional and personal lives impacted by events. I must admit thought that I didn’t find Lise Carlsen quite as realistic as the two male characters, particularly in the fairly passive attitude she displays towards the potential breakdown of her marriage.
The other standout feature of the novel for me was its depiction of both international and local politics. The background to Vuk’s part of the story is the war that is still ongoing at the time of the story in the former Yugoslavia between the Croations and the Serbs and, like all wars, it has created its share of living victims. Within Denmark, and this is long before the ‘war on terror’, the politicians are shown to be like politicians pretty much everywhere: self-serving people more intent on preserving trade links and looking important than standing up for anything that remotely resembles a principle.
I will admit here on the blog that my woefully inadequate knowledge of Danish society has pretty much been gained from reading the Australian women’s magazines that populate local hairdressing salons in which there are endless stories of the tribulations of ‘our Mary’ who married their Prince Frederik (who even gets a mention in the book) in 2004. So I’m not sure I’d know the real Denmark if I tripped over it but I feel I did get some sense of the real country here. Denmark was shown as a relatively safe country where the media makes mountains out of whatever molehills they come across because, by and large, things are really pretty good there and the country struggles a bit to project an international image without the benefit of a huge population and/or a nice long history of being strife-torn like all the really cool countries. If this is remotely true then ‘our Mary’ would have felt right at home because that could describe Australia perfectly (though we do a nice line in venomous creatures to single us out a bit).
But I digress.
Rather than a whodunnit The Serbian Dane is a highly compelling ‘will it be done?’ novel. The suspense built in a gradual, quite understated way as the date for Santanda’s visit draws closer and you know that everyone will intersect somehow but are never quite sure how this will happen and what the resolution will be. The flow of the writing appears to have been expertly captured by Scottish born translator Barbara Haveland as the novel was a particularly easy and engaging read and I would recommend it heartily. As someone who tends to bang on a bit about politics in books being done poorly in fiction I’d especially recommend this as a great example of making the politics part of the story instead of a lecture. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've read (and I own) this book in the Dutch translation. A thriller with a political background: a Serbian from Bosnia turns killer after his family are massacred, and is used by the Russians for the contract to eliminate an Iranian woman writer who has become an enemy of the ayatolllahs. The writer is going to visit Danmark and give a press conference there. The story is told from three different viewpoints: that of the killer Vuk, of journalist Lise and that of Per, the man responsible for the security during the writer's visit to Danmark.Well-told, a bit slow to get going but turning into a real page-turner after a while.”