Gentlemen — Klas Ostergren

One of the most important literary works to emerge from Sweden in the last thirty years, Gentlemen takes the reader into the post-WWII era of boxing, jazz, poetry, and espionage.

In Gentlemen, a young, scared writer introduces the reader to the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers. There's Henry, a boxer with a Gatsby-like capacity for turning life into a celebration, and Leo, a poet and a drunk with a troubled past. They lead the high life in Stockholm until the day that Leo drags Henry into a plot involving illegal weapons and gangsters. Soon, the men find themselves unwittingly and irreversibly caught in a dangerous fate they cannot escape.