PRESSURE POINT is republished in April 2024 as a paperback and as an audiobook. Elisabeth Åsbrink's revealing investigation of the course of events - the controversial play with Nazis in some of the roles as well as the murders of two policemen in Malexander by one of these Nazis - has become a modern classic.
Pressure point was nominated for the August prize in 2009 and has now become a talked about TV-series on SVT, with David Dencik in the role of the worldknown playwright Lars Norén.
PRESSURE POINT by Elisabeth Åsbrink
On May 28, 1999, two policemen were murdered in Malexander by three Nazis - Tony Olsson, Jackie Arklöv and Andreas Axelsson. The night before the murders, Tony Olsson had acted on stage, in a roll as himself in the last performance of Lars Norén's play Sju tre at Riksteatern in Stockholm.
Lars Norén wrote the controversial play in close cooperation with Olsson and two other men who also were long-term prisoners. Two of them were Nazis, and expressed their views in the play. Alongside with the rehearsals, one of them secretly committed a series of violent robberies and finally robbed a bank, wich was followed by the attempt to murder one policemen and then the execution style murder of two policemen in the small village of Malexander. The murders of Robert Karlström and Olof Borén were a deeply traumatic event, not only for the affected families but also for the Swedish public, and cast a long shadow over Lars Norén's work as a playwright.
Elisabeth Åsbrink's revealing investigation into the course of events has become a modern classic. PRESSURE POINT was nominated for the August prize in 2009 and has now become a talked about TV-series on SVT, with David Dencik in the role of Lars Norén.
»I like this book very much. It is well documented, well written, unusually nuanced and convincing.« Åsa Linderborg, Kulturnyheterna, SVT
»Pressure Point is the best Swedish book about a high-profile true crime since Lasermannen.« Fredrik Quist, Östgöta Correspondent