The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden Jonas Jonasson Summary In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her possession. Then things take a turn for the worse ... Nombeko ends up the prisoner of an incompetent engineer in a research facility working on South Africa's secret nuclear arsenal. Yet the unstoppable Nombeko pulls off a daring escape to Sweden, where she meets twins named Holger One and Holger Two, who are carrying out a mission to bring down the Swedish monarchy ... by any means necessary. Nombeko's life ends up hopelessly intertwined with the lives of the twins, and when the twins arrange to kidnap the Swedish king and prime minister, it is up to our unlikely heroine to save the day -- and possibly the world. Highlights Easy to enjoy: 432 pages · Paperback By Jonas Jonasson Details ISBN: 9780007557905 Author: Jonas Jonasson Format: Paperback Pages: 432 Language: English Publication date: 24 April 2014 Condition: Used – Like New About the author Jonas Jonasson · Publisher: Ecco Press More about this book Reviews South Africa developed six nuclear missiles in the 1980s, then voluntarily dismantled them in 1994. This is a story about the seventh missile . . . the one that was never supposed to have existed.
