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policeman is injured. The story, and indeed the series, ends with the policemen being able to go home to spend
Christmas with their families, with the book ending with Beck, happily partnered with Rhea, his girlfriend, enjoying New Year festivities with Kollberg and Gun, Kollberg's wife. The concluding chapter ends with the foursome playing a word game. Kollberg draws an "x" and emphases "x as in ex-policeman." Starting a new game he again draws an "x" and says, ending the story, "x as in Marx".
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Beck is appointed head of the protection unit for the state visit and to plan the distance protection with four colleagues. They assume that the attack on a place will mean that the convoy must pass, perpetrated presumably in the same pattern as in a previous assassination by Ulag in a Latin
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The four terrorists in Ulag manage to place the bomb. However, they are deceived by a delayed television coverage when triggering the ignition and Einar Ronn, one of four commissioners to Beck manages to clear the square shortly before the explosion.
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she never intended to commit. Later, a pornographic film producer is found murdered at the home of his mistress. The main plot of the book involves Martin Beck leading a team of policemen to prevent a presumed
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343:Joan Tate
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185:terrorist
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