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ENEMY’S ENEMY by Jan Guillou reads like a classic John Le Carré spy thriller instead of the lightweight, flash-and-dazzle escapism of Fleming or Ludlum. The emphasis is on the real, down-and-dirty, nitty gritty assignments of field operative Carl Hamilton. A man who will go to any lengths in the interest of his country. That this may have a severe toll on him is of no concern. He will maintain his stoic image as ugly hauntings eat his soul.

The book is decidedly Sweden-centric with Sweden’s best interests in mind at all times. If that requires coordinating with the Palestinian PLO to rescue kidnapped Swedish citizens, or with the Russian GRU to stop a home-grown fascist dilemma, so be it. ENEMY’S ENEMY also takes a close look at the Swedish political mindset of the time. The scandal tabloid, “Expressen,” ran a series of articles from “well-informed sources” inside Säpo (Swedish Security Service) of a “vendetta between Swedish and Soviet intelligence services,” an “agent war,” which led to it outing Hamilton and forcing a constitutional committee hearing. It’s interesting (and amusing) to watch the various committee members from the Social Democrats, moderate conservatives, Center Party, Liberal Party, Communist Party and others attempt to twist and turn their questions and Hamilton’s answers to their particular advantage (sort of like watching one of our congressional witch hunts).

But Carl beats them back as adroitly as he does physical opponents and ends his testimony saying, “if you’ve caused people as much harm as I have, then in every lonely hour you ask yourself whether it’s worth it, whether you’ve been doing the right thing. I’ve asked myself all these questions every day for years . . . But I became an officer because I wanted to use my skills to defend Sweden’s independence . . . I don’t run away from anything, but neither do I strive for anything -- except to do a job that’s so difficult that many people don’t want to handle it. It has to be done, it’s part of our defense, and I am part of our defense.”

ENEMY’S ENEMY is a 5-star, often gut-wrenching, ride. It was translated by Steven T. Murray using the pseudonym Thomas Keeland. Murray also translated Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series (pseudonym Reg Keeland) as well as novels by Henning Mankell and others.

A few words about the author: Swedish investigative journalist Jan Guillou, writing for a left-wing Swedish magazine in 1973, published a series of articles exposing a Swedish secret intelligence agency called Informationsbryån (The IB affair). Guillou and three others were convicted of espionage and sentenced to prison. Guillou’s sentence was reduced to 10 months. In 1976, Guillou placed an article in a major newspaper about a colleague who had been recruited by the CIA in Stockholm. Because of the exposure, the CIA operative was ordered to leave Sweden. No criminal charges were made against Guillou that time. In 1986, Guillou created his fictional spy in a long series of novels (unfortunately, only this one is in English) that have been filmed several times.


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This is one of the best books I have ever read! It is definitively just as good(or better) as Tom Clancys, although they are a bit different. Technologically they are great, but the best part is the psychological part. Read it, and you would know what I mean. -)
And learn Swedish,Norwegian or Danish, since the rest of the series(10 books + a epilogue) is just as great..
Jan Guilou is without doubt the best scandinavian spy-novellist. I've read three books in this serie and trying hard to get the last seven (I don't know how many are translated into english). But the books in general give you a great picture of the sitiation in which the spyagencies are at that time. So great exciting mixed with the true "spy-history". I've read this book (500+ pages) in 2-3 days. To be honest, this is least exellent book of whose three books I've read, so it's only third best I've read...
Enemy's Enemy is one of Guillous finest in the 10 book "Coq Rouge" series, chronicling the career of Naval Commander Carl Gustaf Gilbert Hamilton, Sweden's reluctant James Bond. The leading Scandinavian master of intrigue and suspense has created a character in the psychological mold of le Carre and with the flare of Flemming. Hamilton is a Swedish noble, recruited by the Swedish navy and trained by the CIA and Navy Seals, to become Sweden's one-man secret army. His mission hunt down and liquidate a defected Swedish spy in Moscow, to avoid a destructive international secret service war. However, the very men who recruited him are painfully unaware of the extent his of capabilities, and embarrassingly unprepared for the consequences... A beautifully composed and thought provoking novel in a series and by an author unfortunately largely unknown outside of Scandinavia.
You should read the other early books. Of the eight first so called "Coq Rouge" novels five are definitely Five Stars Plus! I guess this one was translated to English because so much of the story centered around Russia and Moscow. Perhaps more of the Story is distributed in Germany, Italia, The Middle East, Scandinavia and the Russian penisula Kola in the other books, and this was a reason for not translating these books to English first. What a shame They are the best!
To read - or listen - to the first of the books, Coq Rouge, today (spring 2002) can make you drop your jaw "Was that really written in the 1985? It sounds like it should have been written this winter!"
I wonder if there are other authors of this caliber out there that I've never learnt to know, because their native language isn't English?
Great. This was made into a tv series and could be seen on MHZnetworks.org. Sweden's James Bond.
fast, accurate
The first of Guillou's books I have read. I look forward TO READING MORE.
ENEMY’S ENEMY by Jan Guillou reads like a classic John Le Carré spy thriller instead of the lightweight, flash-and-dazzle escapism of Fleming or Ludlum. The emphasis is on the real, down-and-dirty, nitty gritty assignments of field operative Carl Hamilton. A man who will go to any lengths in the interest of his country. That this may have a severe toll on him is of no concern. He will maintain his stoic image as ugly hauntings eat his soul.

The book is decidedly Sweden-centric with Sweden’s best interests in mind at all times. If that requires coordinating with the Palestinian PLO to rescue kidnapped Swedish citizens, or with the Russian GRU to stop a home-grown fascist dilemma, so be it. ENEMY’S ENEMY also takes a close look at the Swedish political mindset of the time. The scandal tabloid, “Expressen,” ran a series of articles from “well-informed sources” inside Säpo (Swedish Security Service) of a “vendetta between Swedish and Soviet intelligence services,” an “agent war,” which led to it outing Hamilton and forcing a constitutional committee hearing. It’s interesting (and amusing) to watch the various committee members from the Social Democrats, moderate conservatives, Center Party, Liberal Party, Communist Party and others attempt to twist and turn their questions and Hamilton’s answers to their particular advantage (sort of like watching one of our congressional witch hunts).

But Carl beats them back as adroitly as he does physical opponents and ends his testimony saying, “if you’ve caused people as much harm as I have, then in every lonely hour you ask yourself whether it’s worth it, whether you’ve been doing the right thing. I’ve asked myself all these questions every day for years . . . But I became an officer because I wanted to use my skills to defend Sweden’s independence . . . I don’t run away from anything, but neither do I strive for anything -- except to do a job that’s so difficult that many people don’t want to handle it. It has to be done, it’s part of our defense, and I am part of our defense.”

ENEMY’S ENEMY is a 5-star, often gut-wrenching, ride. It was translated by Steven T. Murray using the pseudonym Thomas Keeland. Murray also translated Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series (pseudonym Reg Keeland) as well as novels by Henning Mankell and others.

A few words about the author Swedish investigative journalist Jan Guillou, writing for a left-wing Swedish magazine in 1973, published a series of articles exposing a Swedish secret intelligence agency called Informationsbryån (The IB affair). Guillou and three others were convicted of espionage and sentenced to prison. Guillou’s sentence was reduced to 10 months. In 1976, Guillou placed an article in a major newspaper about a colleague who had been recruited by the CIA in Stockholm. Because of the exposure, the CIA operative was ordered to leave Sweden. No criminal charges were made against Guillou that time. In 1986, Guillou created his fictional spy in a long series of novels (unfortunately, only this one is in English) that have been filmed several times.