*I should read some of these, even it they seem to be mostly crime thrillers.
Via Politico.
Life in the bubble really is a thrill (and murder) a minute: You wait forever for a thriller about life in the EU bubble, and then you find out there’s a whole library of them. Last week we pointed you toward “Les Compromis,” a crime novel about the Dieselgate-linked murder of a Green MEP, written by Maxime Calligaro and Eric Cardère. That prompted Francesca Rio to remind us of “Sammanflöden,” a 2009 novel by Jonas Sjöstedt about a left-wing Swedish MEP and his assistant who get caught up in political intrigue and murder via Somalia and New York. Of course there’s the book billed as the first great EU novel — Robert Menasse’s “The Capital” — and don’t forget that Scandinavian Eurocrats have a habit of starting second careers as political crime writers: most recently Ulf Bergström with 2018’s “Hatarna,” as well as Malin Persson Giolito and Joakim Zander.
