The Evil Eye

Bjorn Larsson, born in Jonkoping, now living in Gilleleje in Denmark and working as professor in French at Lund University in Sweden. The author is famous in Germany, Italy and France. ”The Evil Eye” is a thriller about the construction of a new big subway station in Paris. A terrorist organistation is planning to flood the new subway station.

I find the book as we say in swedish — förutsägbar — easy to predict and not an exciting thriller worht several hours of turned off internet, in my opinion. One lead theme, the characerization of evil white studpid nationalists versus hard working, overeducated, missunderstood imigirant underdogs is also a bit to often used and not to say too political correct. The theme with a bored middle aged man with a middle class middle age crisis leaving his dull wife for a younger, effective, office working african-frensh girl gives also not a deeply engageing and interesting background in the storytelling. I give the book a 1,5 Gubbbsnusks (GS) out of 7. As a book aimed to be red when frequenting the WC it’s ok.