The Swedish king visited the sultan of an oil-rich state. The Sultan has opposition members tortured and killed, but the king only raves about the Ferraris and the host’s harem. Politicians and citizens in Sweden are appalled. Nevertheless, the king now invites the sultan to return to Stockholm. There are prompt death threats against the dictator. The police chief calls on the suspended investigator Casper Munk for help; he should protect the sultan. But Munk is shot and has coma dreams in which he lives in the past – once he sees the assassination attempt on the Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, and once he meets Professor Griepenkerl at the art academy in Vienna, who talks about the admission of the aspirants Egon Schiele and Adolf Hitler should decide. Gerhard Fischer, former SZ correspondent in Stockholm, wrote his third Casper Munk crime thriller under the pseudonym Lasse Blom.
Lasse Blom: sacrifice without choice. Detective novel. Maximum Verlag, Langwedel 2021. 258 pages, 15 euros.