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The Steel Spring by Per Wahlöö is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Steel Spring about?

Chief Inspector Jensen is a policeman in an unnamed European country where the government has criminalized being drunk, where newspapers are designed for reassurance, and where the city centers have been demolished to devote more space to gleaming new highways.   Recovering in a hospital room abroad after a liver transplant, Jensen receives a note instructing him to return home immediately, but when he reaches the airport he discovers that all flights home have been cancelled and all communication from within his homeland has ceased. One of the last messages sent requested urgent medical help from abroad. But what has happen? Has an epidemic taken hold? And why has the government fled the capital? To penetrate the silence and mystery that has fallen over the country and its people, Jensen returns only to discover the unthinkable.

Who reads The Steel Spring?

Author

Per Wahlöö

Publisher

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published

1968

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307744463

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.42 / 5 (101 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14