Joakim Zander’s The Friend has just gotten a starred pre-publication review from Publishers Weekly:

“At the start of Zander’s thought-provoking standalone sequel to The Swimmer and The Believer, aspiring diplomat Jakob Seger, an intern assigned to the Swedish embassy in Beirut, arrives in Lebanon in August 2015, several months before the nightmarish ISIS attacks in France. […] Thriller fans who enjoy flawed, achingly human characters won’t be able to put this one down.”

HarperCollins is publishing The Friend on June 25th, 2019.