Terrific news, T, but worrying. How can you say 
you don't have groupies when all of us here love 
you with a deep and abiding emotion?

Okay, we're maybe a scabby old bunch and not the 
kind of groupies you had in mind, you rock star 
wannabe, but on the other side of the coin, at 
least you're not as desperate as your old school 
contemporary, Tony Robinson, who has done 
dreadful things with turnips, not taken off his 
underpants for 5 years, and collected dog poo for 
a dye works in his pursuit of fame and fortune! I 
mean, there are limits and he is so far over the 
line he wouldn't be able to see it with a 
telescope and a searchlight!

Erik -- no knocking Stig Larsson. I think it is 
important that his books aren't straight 
thrillers or crime fiction, but rather they are 
that form used to campaign for causes close to 
his heart. As a vehicle in support of democracy, 
media/speech freedom, women's rights and human 
rights in general, and the control of rampant 
capitalism (while supporting capitalism in 
general) they are quite remarkable -- putting all 
this heavy stuff into a darned good read.

For anyone who doubts what I'm saying about the 
underlying stuff, take a look in particular at 
the third in the trilogy, "The Girl Who Kicked 
The Hornet's Nest". It provides you with all the 
background you need, both explicitly and 
implicitly, to understand the Julian Assange and 
WikiLeaks case, even to the to-ing and fro-ing of 
the prosecutor. Check pages 232-234 for a clear 
statement on freedom of speech and media freedom 
in Sweden (the best in the world? Certainly 
better than Australia; we have no freedom of 
speech or freedom of media guarantees); read the 
whole book for the sensitivity of Sweden to 
matters impacting on women's and particularly 
girls' human rights.

The freedom of speech and media laws tell you why 
WikiLeaks went to Sweden; the human rights themes 
that run right through the book tell you how to 
attack Wikileaks in Sweden. Not that any secret 
organization hasn't known about and used the 
honey trap since the beginning of time, but it 
just so happens that the law in Sweden is 
particularly strong in relation to such matters.

Cheers, geoff

>Hei Tim
>
>You should have used your own commisario to 
>search, but anyway - here it is.:-)
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2011/mar/13/crime-henning-mankell
>
>Hm 'famous'? - well, as a real 'criminal' I 
>think you've been famous the last decades. In my 
>opinion you count even higher than those 
>'pop-smart authors' like Stig Larsson and most 
>of his kind!
>
>Avanti, Commisario!
>
>Cheers, Erik Richard
>
>THDW wrote:
>>Listers
>>
>>A friend has just skyped me to tell me I am in 
>>today's Observer (UK). I am considered one of 
>>the ten best European crime writers and there 
>>is even a photo of me.  I can't find the 
>>article on the site and would appreciate any 
>>help in locating the link.
>>
>>Fame at last. But where are the groupies, for heaven's sake?
>
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