Bøker av Joakim Zander

On a remote Swedish island, a little girl, Klara, grows up without a father. Now, thirty years later, she discovers a secret—one for which powerful men will kill to keep undisclosed.On the other side of the world, an old spy hides from his past. He used to be the best agent in the field. These days the only thing he lives for is swimming in the local pool.When Klara is thrown into a terrifying chase across Europe, only the Swimmer can save her. But time is running out. . . .Utterly mesmerizing and harrowing, The Swimmer is a riveting read right up to its stunning conclusion.A deep-cover CIA agent races across Europe to save the daughter he never knew in this electrifying, “hypnotic” debut thriller  (Entertainment Weekly).

November 2015. Jacob Seger arrives in Lebanon eager to make the most of his internship at the Swedish embassy in Beirut. But when he meets the handsome and mysterious Yassim at a glamorous party his first night in the city, he is swept up into a passionate, obsessive affair that renders everything else in his life insignificant. When terrorist claims against Yassim are brought to light, Jacob must confront his role in a complicated game he is wholly unprepared to play. Unsure whom to believe or trust, he knows only that he must flee Beirut?and fast.Meanwhile in Sweden Klara Walldéen returns to the Stockholm archipelago to bury her beloved grandfather, her best friend Gabriella by her side. What should be a trip of mourning and solitude quickly turns perilous, however, when Gabi is arrested under suspicion of terrorist activity. After finding notes in Gabi's purse about a clandestine meeting with a young Swedish diplomat, Klara springs into action, determined to clear her friend's name.Following Gabi's trail, Klara comes face-to-face with Jacob, as well as with George Lööw, a suave lobbyist from her past to whom she finds herself inexorably drawn. Now Klara, George, and Jacob set off on a race across Europe to stop a pending terrorist attack?and get to the bottom of Yassim's true identity.

Yasmine Ajam has fled her past in the rough Stockholm borough of Bergort, reinventing herself as a trendspotter in New York City. One day she receives a startling message: there are riots erupting on the streets of Stockholm, and they appear to be connected to the disappearance of her brother, Fadi. Following rumors that Fadi was radicalized and died fighting for ISIS in Syria, Yasmine returns to Stockholm to discover what really happened to her brother. There she becomes entangled in a dangerous web of allegiances and violence that stretches far beyond the gangs on her childhood streets.Meanwhile, in London, Klara Walldéen has landed a job at a human rights research institute working on a report to predict the effects of privatizing police forces. When Klara travels to Stockholm to present her findings to European Union policymakers, her laptop is stolen and one of her colleagues is pushed in front of an oncoming subway train. As her path collides with Yasmine's, Klara begins to realize that she may unwittingly be contributing to the sinister agendas of powerful interests who will stop at nothing to attain their goals.

Unge Jakob Seger har akkurat ankommet Beirut der han skal være aspirant ved den svenske ambassaden. På en fest blir han kjent med den mystiske Yassim, som forteller at han er krigsfotograf, og de blir raskt mer enn bare venner. En kveld får Jakob et overraskende besøk i leiligheten sin, av Myriam som arbeider for den svenske etterretningstjenesten. Hun hevder at Yassim er terrorist og hun gir Jakob et ultimatum. Verden hans snus på hodet. Kan han stole på Myriam? Skal han forråde sin nye kjærlighet? Samtidig er Klara Walldéen hjemme i den svenske skjærgården for å begrave sin morfar. Hun har med seg venninnen Gabriella som støtte. Men noe virker å tynge Gabriella. Puslebitene faller på plass når Gabriella arresteres i en dramatisk antiterroroperasjon på sitt advokatkontor i Stockholm. I jakten på en forklaring finner Klara notater om et hemmelig møte. Nå er det opp til henne å klare å løse gåten. Sporene leder henne til Brussel, og videre til Beirut. Hvem er venn og hvem er fiende?

At once a moving love story and a gripping adventure, The Friend is an intelligent and urgent thriller that untangles the complexities of international politics and casts light on the dark threats facing the world today.

Yasmine hasn't seen her brother in five years. Conflicting rumours suggest Fadi became a rebel fighter and died in Syria - or is alive somewhere in Stockholm. She must comb the streets to find her brother, and uncover the truth. What she doesn't know is that the truth could destroy them all.

This overview of the role played by the precautionary principle in international trade law, European law and national law compares how precautionary considerations have been applied in the fields of pesticide regulation and the regulation of base stations for mobile telephones in Sweden, the UK and the US. A number of problems in the current application of the precautionary principle are identified and discussed. For example, it is shown that a firm reliance on a wide and open-ended precautionary principle may lead to problems with the consistency, foreseeability, effectiveness and efficiency of measures intended to reduce environmental or health risks. It is suggested that the precautionary principle indeed may be an important tool, but that in order to be acceptable it must be coupled with strong requirements on the performance of risk assessments, cost/benefit analyses and risk trade-off analyses.