Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Another Time, Another Life: The Story of a Crime
    Unavailable
    Another Time, Another Life: The Story of a Crime
    Unavailable
    Another Time, Another Life: The Story of a Crime
    Audiobook16 hours

    Another Time, Another Life: The Story of a Crime

    Written by Leif G. W. Persson

    Narrated by Erik Davies

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    In 1975, six young people stormed the West German embassy in Stockholm, taking the entire staff hostage. They demanded the immediate release of members of the Baader-Meinhof group being held as prisoners in West Germany, but twelve hours into the siege, the embassy was blown up, two hostages were dead, and many others were injured, including the captors. Thus begins Leif G.W. Persson's Another Time, Another Life.

    The story, based on real events linked to the still-unsolved assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, picks up in 1989, as the seemingly unrelated stabbing death of a civil servant is investigated by officers Bo Jarnebring and Anna Holt. Under the supervision of their cantankerous, prejudiced, and corrupt superior, Evert Bäckström, the case gets surreptitiously swept under the rug, and the victim is tied to a string of sex-related crimes, despite evidence to the contrary.

    Another ten years pass before the confounding truth about the murder victim is unearthed. Just as Lars Martin Johansson, a friend of Jarnebring's, begins his tenure as the head of the Swedish Security Police, he inherits two files from his predecessor, one of which is on the murder victim-who turns out to have been a collaborator in the 1975 embassy takeover. Revealed now are not only the identities of the other collaborators but also the identity of the murderer: an intelligent, capable lawyer a heartbeat away from the top position in Sweden's Ministry of Defense. With masterfully interlaced plotlines pulled from the darkest corners of political power and corruption, Another Time, Another Life bristles with wit, insight, and intensity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 13, 2012
    ISBN9780449009567
    Unavailable
    Another Time, Another Life: The Story of a Crime

    Related to Another Time, Another Life

    Related audiobooks

    Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Blood On The Snow

      Jan 24, 2020

      Blood On The Snow
      9 min read

    • Article

      Hitler’s Hangman

      Aug 31, 2023

      Hitler’s Hangman
      13 min read

    • Article

      Arresting Artifacts

      Oct 27, 2023

      Arresting Artifacts
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Mystery Of Jack The Ripper

      Jun 11, 2020

      The Mystery Of Jack The Ripper
      3 min read

    • Article

      Spies On Opposite Sides Of The Cold War Unite In 'From Warsaw With Love'

      Nov 4, 2021

      Reporter John Pomfret interviewed government officials and intelligence operatives and mined declassified files in Poland to write his fascinating story of the Polish-U.S. intelligence relationship.

      3 min read

    • Article

      On The Record

      Jul 16, 2023

      On The Record
      3 min read

    • Article

      US Deports Former Nazi Concentration Camp Guard To Germany

      Aug 21, 2018

      WASHINGTON_The last-known former Nazi camp guard living in the United States was deported to Germany, an action that the White House trumpeted Tuesday in an apparent effort to show its harsh immigration enforcement policies are not just aimed at migr

      2 min read

    • Article

      After Arrests, Germany Confronts Issue Of Far-Right Extremism In Its Military

      Jun 18, 2017

      The arrests in April of two army officers accused of plotting assassinations have raised serious questions about the extent to which far-right and neo-Nazi sympathizers are present in the military.

      3 min read

    • Article

      In Evil’s Footsteps

      Jul 30, 2019

      In Evil’s Footsteps
      13 min read

    • Article

      Killed By Hatred

      Mar 10, 2022

      For German politician Walter Lübcke, death threats were sadly part of the job. After a speech at a political event in October 2015, he’d been inundated with threats to his life from far-right groups. Shoot him now, this b*****d, one commenter wrote.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Treachery And Betrayal

      Jul 8, 2021

      Treachery And Betrayal
      4 min read

    • Article

      Slain At Sea

      May 11, 2023

      Slain At Sea
      4 min read

    • Article

      Nazis In, Jews And Slavs Out

      Aug 8, 2021

      New Zealand inadvertently allowed Nazis to migrate here aft er the war, but it excluded Jews and coloured people on purpose. Officials and politicians believed that Jews and people of colour would not “fit in”. New Zealand chose about 4500 immigrants

      1 min read

    • Article

      Alderney's Inconvenient Truth

      Sep 20, 2023

      What happened on Alderney during the war? A government ‘Review into the number of prisoners who died on Alderney during the Nazi occupation’ has been greeted with headlines about ‘Britain's Holocaust Island’ – allegations of cover-up and conspiracy,

      3 min read

    Reviews for Another Time, Another Life

    3.5/5

    70 ratings4 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      Interesting, but not quite as layered & complex as I had expected from reading Between Summers longing...
    • 4/5
      This book takes us from the (factually real) bombing of the West German embassy in Stockholm in 1975 to a (fictional) murder investigation in 1989, and finally to a revisiting of that murder in 1999 when a link to the 1975 event suggests itself. The book, in making use of a real life event from 1975, and later documenting the establishment of the swedish secret security service in order to contextualise to some degree the fictional story, blends the real with the fictional in a way that serves to emphasise (as I see it) Persson's desire to have his works act as a form of commentary on aspects of Swedish society. Therefore there is much more to his books than just the fictional storyline, and the reader needs to be aware of this in order to fully understand what is going on and what the author is attempting. It ought to be said too that the author's expertise as a criminologist, his advisory role to the Swedish Justice ministry and his standing in that respect, lends some weight and authenticity to the book. The book offers plenty of insight into police behaviour and into the various police characters involved in the different events and time frames, with the sexism and bigotry present to some degree in the previous book even more obvious in this. That said, there is a mix of sympathetic police characters and some less than so. This book is a mix of police procedural, political satire and psychological study, and of added interest maybe to the reader with an interest in the murkier side of politics and the establishment. It should be said too that the pace is slow, but that is Persson's style. The one place where I started to lose interest,ironically enough, was towards the middle of the book when, after the 1989 murder investigation, the author goes about describing events around the fall of the Berlin wall, the rush to get hands on former East German intelligence and the establishment of the Swedish secret police. A second reading and I would be better prepared for this venture into documentary and away from the core storyline for an albeit brief time. This book for me was a big improvement on his first (Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End), but its lack of pace and ventures into documentary meant for me it fell just short of 4 stars (out of five). 3.5 stars from me.
    • 5/5
      The synopsis above gives you a pretty good plot outline without giving everything away. So it remains for me to tell you what I thought of it. ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER LIFE is #2 in a trilogy of police procedurals featuring detectives Bo Jarnebring and Lars Johansson. It is currently the only one of the trilogy to be translated into English.To be honest it took me quite a while to get used to what appeared to be the author's sardonic tone. He seemed to have a very poor opinion of both the Swedish police and the secret police, the quality of their personnel and their investigative capabilities. Persson also explores the forms that corruption can take. Sometimes I found his cynicism unpleasant to the point of being distracting.At times I felt lost in the descriptions of political events from 1975 onwards in Sweden in particular although I already had some general knowledge of them. The connections between the events of 1975, 1989 and 1999 weren't obvious at the beginning and made for quite a complicated plot.Persson explores some interesting philosophical ideas too - among them that justice is not always best served by carrying out the letter of the law. Retribution can come in other forms and can even be self-administered.Will I read another? I found the characters of Lars Johansson and Bo Jarnebring intriguing, and so I probably will, should another become available in English.
    • 5/5

      Combining slapstick humor at the expense of lazy cops; international intrigue and espionage at the highest levels of government; and a dose of serious political commentary, the moral of Leif Persson's novel is simple. As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

      Persson is a psychological profiler and adviser to the Swedish Ministry of Justice, and therefore has had intimate knowledge of the kinds of high crimes and low comedy that he writes about. And there are pointers in the book to how he views the creative process. The protagonist, Johansson is a crusty, brilliant policeman. When Mattei, a brilliant police researcher reports that she could "write a whole novel" about the suspect, Johansson muses that if she ever published a book about the case, he would put her into jail. And Mattei tells a colleague, "I don't know how to explain it, but to me it's often been the case that a really good novel has more to say about what we're really like as human beings than the gloomy accounts of people and their lives that we compile here."

      "On the subject of the imagination, thought Johansson, it's probably only when that takes over that even a reasonably good story takes off and the people really come to life. What was true and what was false was actually a rather overvalued distinction. Wasn't it the case that the really great truths, the eternal truths, could only be given life and substance by means of the human imagination?"

      In the end we can't know how much of the book is drawn from history and case files, and how much is reality, thinly disguised as fiction. Perssson is on a level with other masters of crime fiction who combine story telling with social commentary, including: Xialong, Mankell, Larsson, Sjowall & Wahloo.