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We talk about people being treated equally in the eyes of the law. But if some criminals can frighten witnesses into silence, and in that way get off free – what is the law worth then? And wouldn’t that perhaps give you the right to defend yourself and your property, whatever the law says?
Claes Backe is the public prosecutor in a large Swedish town. A man with a passion for justice who is guided by a strong personal sense of what is morally right. He is happily married to Gunilla, who is a vicar, and they have two teenaged children.
But the residential suburb where the family lives is badly affected with robberies. A neighbourhood committee is formed and this is transformed into an active citizens’ vigilante group when a gang of bikers move into a barn in the immediate vicinity and turn it into their clubhouse. Claes Backe keeps his distance from the neighbourhood-watch group, because it goes against all he believes in. But when he has a setback in the court because a couple of his witnesses have been frightened into silence in a serious case of assault, he finds himself forced to reconsider his stance – and step-by-step he ends up on a collision course with his previous morals.
Claes Backe is the public prosecutor in a large Swedish town. A man with a passion for justice who is guided by a strong personal sense of what is morally right. He is happily married to Gunilla, who is a vicar, and they have two teenaged children.
But the residential suburb where the family lives is badly affected with robberies. A neighbourhood committee is formed and this is transformed into an active citizens’ vigilante group when a gang of bikers move into a barn in the immediate vicinity and turn it into their clubhouse. Claes Backe keeps his distance from the neighbourhood-watch group, because it goes against all he believes in. But when he has a setback in the court because a couple of his witnesses have been frightened into silence in a serious case of assault, he finds himself forced to reconsider his stance – and step-by-step he ends up on a collision course with his previous morals.
- GenresFiction
311 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2004
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