Before I Go to Sleep meets Law and Order in an epic, thrilling new crime story from Anders de la Motte, author of the internationally sensational Game Trilogythe prodigiously talented Swedish novelist returns with an ambitious and hugely entertaining tale reminiscent of Memento, Breaking Bad and LA Confidential
David Sarac wakes up behind the wheel of a car after suffering a momentary stress-induced stroke. He crashes violently inside a tunnel, and awakens to find his whole world changed. David works in intelligence for the Stockholm police, recruiting and handling secret informants who help the police in the battle against organized crime. And David is very good at what he does: manipulation, bribes and threatsanything goes, as long as he delivers. Other law-enforcement agents look on with envy from the sidelines, sharing whispers and rumours about the top-secret, high level informant named Janus who is the key to David's success.
But after the accident, David remembers nothing about the past two years. Not even Janus, the man everyone wants to findfrom Atif Kassab, a former hit man who's just returned to Sweden to live the straight life, to Jesper Stenberg, a politically ambitious attorney with a fatally compromising personal secret, to Natalie, a medical student-turned-conwoman. David knows he has to re-establish contact with Janus in order to protect himself and his network of secret informants. Luckily, he is surrounded by friends and colleagues who are more than happy to help him remember. Or maybe forget?
Anders de la Motte brings his signature contemporary energy to a kaleidoscopic modern noir story that braids together the criminal underworld, law enforcement and high-level politicsand shows us how deeply and irreversibly those worlds are intertwined, and that anyone can be corruptedfor a price.
PRAISE FOR MEMORANDOM
"With MemoRandom Anders de la Motte establishes his place among the very best in the genre." DECKARHUSET (SWEDEN)
"High quality all the way. . . . A raw, bloody, effectively told story about organized crime, police officers with double agendas, and corruption on high levels in the political sphere."AFTONBLADET (SWEDEN)
Industry Reviews
`A turbocharged thriller ... With breakneck pace and a mature narrative command, de la Motte deftly spins out these divergent strands, until the intricate outlines of a deadly spider's web finally becomes visible-and inescapable' Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*
`For all the book's twists and turns, de la Motte is completely at ease in thickening and expanding the plot. He never forces the action, instead tightening the web in which Sarac seems to be caught. The cast of characters is nicely varied; part of the pleasure is seeing through the bad guys before the protagonist does' Kirkus
`An action-filled thriller that makes good use of an unreliable narrator ... An intriguing premise and a compelling lead character' Booklist
`MemoRandom provides high quality all the way. The end is so violent and Pulp Ficition-like that I almost started giggling. This is a raw, bloody, effectively told story about organized crime, police officers with double agendas, and corruption on high levels in the political sphere' Aftonbladet
`A thrilling novel about secret informants among the police force' Mariestads Tidning
