FOREIGN POWER
Främmande makt

Sweden 2008: Ronny Ohlsson is 46 years old, divorced and dissatisfied with his job at the Swedish Defence Material Administration in Stockholm. His colleague Åke Ljungman tries to get Ronny interested in a new startling discovery about the submarine incursions during the 1980s but Ronny doesn’t listen. He only wants to escape from his depressing life.
On a vacation to Cyprus the unthinkable happens: Ronny meets the beautiful Dina Georgiou. One romantic dinner later and Ronny has been seduced. Early the next day Dina continues on her travels. Ronny discovers that the top secret document about the submarine incursions which Åke Ljungman had forced on him is missing. Why is it gone?

Sweden 1981: The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground in the Karlskrona archipelago. Anatolij Gusjtjin, the captain of U 137, is confused – how could the submarine run aground like this, what happened, why did he lose control?
When Gusjtijn is undergoing an interrogation on board a Swedish torpedo boat, he suddenly remembers images which startle him. Something isn’t as it should be. Has someone deliberately misled him? What is it about the political officers on board?

A year later in October 1982, the Hårsfjärden incident occurs. A foreign submarine is confined to a part of Stockholm’s archipelago and during a period of two weeks the Swedish military releases depth charges and detonates mines. The collective world press is on site and waits for the resolution of the drama. The trespasser will be forced up using any and all means necessary! For reasons no one can understand the submarine manages to make it out into open water. The military fiasco is a fact.

Ronny’s colleague Åke disappears and Ronny starts digging around in the events together with a former colleague, Sopfie Dahlborg at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. They quickly find themselves in deep water. Someone or several forces want to stop them. Why?
Ronny and Sophie gradually realize that the men of power aren’t just trying to conceal the truth about the submarine incursions – but something much worse which followed in their wake.

Will be published in September 2008 by Kabusa Böcker.