Description: Nombeko Mayeki, a chief adviser at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects in South Africa, holds the fate of the world in her hands when she discovers a nuclear missile that was supposed to have been dismantled.
Brief description:
JONAS JONASSON worked as a journalist for the Expressen newspaper for many years. He became a media consultant and later set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television. He then sold the company and moved abroad to work on his first novel. Today Jonasson is a global phenomenon. His five novels--The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man and The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared--have sold sixteen million copies in forty-six countries. Jonas Jonasson lives on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
Review Quotes:
"In The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, Jonas Jonasson unfurls a wide, whimsical net that readers will relish being caught up in." - BookPage
"A funny and improbable tale with characters from South Africa to Sweden demonstrates how even the most seemingly insignificant people can change the fate of the world." - Denver Post
"A funny and completely implausible farce about a woman, a bomb and a man's frustrated ambition to overthrow the king of Sweden... The rest of the world will chuckle all the way through it." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"What! An internationally best-selling series from Scandinavia that isn't bleak and crime-ridden?... The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden tells the improbable story of a teenager who escapes South Africa with a fortune in diamonds and somehow ends up in league with a pair of Swedish twins, Holger One and Holger Two, intent on kidnapping the king." - New York Daily News
"There's a new offbeat ingénue lurking in the land of "Pippi Longstocking" and "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"--and this one's an expert in thermonuclear weaponry... With a bag of stolen diamonds, this extraordinary orphan seeks sanctuary in the Nordic north. But alas, the Swedish situation is far from sweet, as twisted twins named Holger 1 and Holger 2 plot to kidnap the king." - New York Post