Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All
A Novel
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Publisher Description
A madcap new novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Hitman Anders, recently out of prison, is doing small jobs for the big gangsters. Then his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets a female Protestant vicar (who also happens to be an atheist), and a homeless receptionist at a former brothel which is now a one-star hotel. The three join forces and concoct an unusual business plan based on Hitman Anders’ skills and his fearsome reputation. The vicar and receptionist will organize jobs for a group of gangsters, and will attract customers using the tabloids’ love of lurid headlines.
The perfect plan—if it weren’t for Hitman Anders’ curiosity about the meaning of it all. In conversations with the vicar, he turns to Jesus and, against all odds, Jesus answers him! The vicar can’t believe what’s happening. When Hitman Anders turns to religion, the lucrative business is in danger, and the vicar and the receptionist have to find a new plan, quick.
Fast-paced and sparky, the novel follows these bizarre but loveable characters on their quest to create a New Church, with all of Sweden’s gangsters hunting them. Along the way, it explores the consequences of fanaticism, the sensationalist press, the entrepreneurial spirit and straightforward human stupidity—and underlying all of it, the tenuous hope that it’s never too late start again.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A novel that deals in manslaughter, homelessness, and spiritual and secular crises of faith doesn’t necessarily sound like a laugh riot. But readers familiar with Swedish novelist Jonas Jonasson’s artfully outlandish books—The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden—will be well prepared for the unexpected. Our hitman hero is on the run from the mob, accompanied by an atheist priest and a wayward receptionist. Jonasson paints a delicious picture of the trio’s anarchic, bumbling trail of destruction before setting us up for a rewarding payoff.
Customer Reviews
Good read
Absurdly funny!!!
Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All
Mr Jonasson’s characters are always so interesting and complex. He has a great imagination for background and plot, and always leaves you wishing the book were longer.
A solid sequel
But somehow not as laugh out loud funny as his first two books.