Hamilton

Summary

A modern espionage thriller, with an European perspective, about the complex plot behind an attack that takes place in Stockholm, with a special agent of confused loyalties in the framework of the rivalries between different secret services and the new scenarios and modes of action direct that they must decipher and face.

Review:

An attack is carried out in Stockholm on the occasion of a speech by the Swedish Interior Minister when Agent Hamilton, a member of the military intelligence, was circulating in the area. Who were the authors of the attack? With what objectives?

The question could be posed in other terms: who does Agent Hamilton work for (in charge of the handsome Jakob Oftebro), who came from doing special training with the CIA in the United States?

There are several actors at play in this modern espionage thriller, based on the novels by Jan Guillou: the Säpo (Swedish security police), with its counterintelligence and counter-terrorism functions, the MUST (Military Intelligence and Security Service) and others outside of Sweden that should not be disclosed.

It is a complex plot to unravel about the intellectual authors of the attack, in a very current scenario that shows rivalries and overlaps between the different security and intelligence services and a scenario with cyberattacks and fake news and that of course does not exclude intrigues and bullets. This game of transitory and suspicious alliances is manifested above all in the figure of Hamilton himself, a practically impenetrable character, and his relationship with his bosses and with the Säpo detective Kristin Ek (in a magnetic interpretation of Nina Zanjani), perhaps the character most interesting of the series.

In short, a modern espionage thriller from a European perspective.