“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