Resumo de The Laser Man - Tamas Gellert

Sweden in the beginning of the 90-ies. A country in change.

New winds are sweeping through the meeting chamber of the parliament.
The Swedish welfare society is threatened and the people is divided up
in immigrants and Swedes. Many remember it as yesterday, the random
execution among dark haired citizens done by the laser man. The year
was 1991 and horror crept through untight airways into the Swedish
cottages, into the souls of the Swedes. During the coming year John
Ausonius would try to kill ten people, succeeding on one occasion. "The
Laser Man - a story about Sweden" tells the true story of a little boy
and his upbringing, his road to becoming one of the most dangerous men
of Sweden. No questions are left unanswered. You can not stop being
shocked by how an ordinary boy shuts in his loneliness and pain and
turn them into hate and contempt. The book is not only a deeply
penetrating biography of John Ausonius, the man identified as the laser
man. Tamas Gellert also portraits a piece of society history. The
reader follows the largest police investigation of the country since
Olof Palme was murdered. Tamas Gellert has by extensive research tried
to reach the core of truth on how the picture of a secure Sweden
could be shattered into pieces. Lots of interviews and articles have
been searched in order to get an as correct picture of history as
possible. It is impossible not to be impressed. That the author
stresses the society climate in place in Sweden during the early 90-ies
results in a better understanding of the power position of politicians
and media. It is ten years later difficult to comprehend that Birgit
Friggebo really was standing in Rinkeby singing "We shall overcome" to
people that more than anything else and for once wanted to be taken
seriously, that a person undergoing psychiatric care was allowed to be
trained in the handling of weapons and that leading politicians used
fright tactics in order to grow a seed of alien hostility in their
voters. The book is very extensive.
But Tamas Gellert uses a straight language without any unnecessary
paraphrasing which means that the pages can be read at full speed. The
idea of mixing biography, crime story and social novel is a winning
concept and contributes to an easy reading.

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