Jonas Jonasson

SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 FICTION BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED Just because the world ignores you, doesn’t mean you can’t save it . . .

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

Haikal Satria

Very smart humor that manages to stay interesting without isolating the average reader (namely, myself)

Ellen

I really enjoyed this book! It was such a weird, different story. No idea how someone could make this up. I almost started to think it really happened. 
Halfway through the book I wondered how this story could possibly end well. Then suddenly it ended, it seemed like no time had passed since the middle, but there the ending was. Nothing bad to say about this book.

Amanda S

A wild ride of a story, and knowing what apartheid was like in South Africa, parts of it were highly believable. A fun, summer holiday kind of read.

Siddhi Nagda 

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Elizabeth Anderas

Pepper

Sarah

Gloria Baeuerlein

Darren O’Callaghan

Seth

Ruby Emmeline Fisher

Stephanie Honour

Rachel Willson-Broyles

Jonas Jonasson's picaresque tale of how one person's actions can have far-reaching—even global—consequences, written with the same light-hearted satirical voice as his bestselling debut novel, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. On June 14th, 2007, the King and Prime Minister of Sweden went missing from a gala banquet at the Royal Castle. Later it was said that both had fallen ill: the truth is different. The real story starts much earlier, in 1961, with the birth of Nombeko Mayeki in a shack in Soweto. Nombeko was fated to grow up fast and die early in her poverty-stricken township. But Nombeko takes a different path. She finds work as a housecleaner and eventually makes her way up to the position of chief advisor, at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects. Here is where the story merges with, then diverges from reality. South Africa developed six nuclear missiles in the 1980s, then voluntarily dismantled them in 1994. This is a story about the seventh missile . . . the one that was never supposed to have existed. Nombeko Mayeki knows too much about it, and now she's on the run from both the South African justice and the most terrifying secret service in the world. She ends up in Sweden, which has transformed into a nuclear nation, and the fate of the world now lies in Nombeko's hands.

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

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