The Ironing Man

Firstly, when i saw the title, it struck two meanings into me, one is a kind of a hero, who is “Iron Man.” And the another is Irony Man. The latter is not a special like the Iron Man.

Actually, This book’s genre is the love, I think. Marina, she is the main character in this story, felt bored in her life, because she had only one work. It was house hold. The house hold imposed ‘top five’ working on her. Washing up after a meal, vacum(actually “vacuum” is correct in spite of my dictionary spelling, but in this book, written “vacum” ) (it is Marina’s mistake), ironing cleaning, shopping. Marina disliked these working. But she like her husband Tom.

She encountered a man named “Ironing man.” He said that he do Iron for Marina. I do not why he said such a thing, but she became happy because he do iron. She told these thing to Tom. Of course, he thought that she became mad or crazy(like a cheating.) He asked a detective to follow her life, but the detective had a mistake. He followed similar women to Marina. After all, Tom understood that Marina is clear, and don’t have a cheating. They, both of Marina and Tom, loved each other again. Ironing Man gave a mind to love each other. That was fun for me.

Double Cross

Monika Lundgren is the main character in this story, and she is a member of a spy institution called Swedish Military Intelligence. First of all, what I have to say is that I have not read it all because this book has 15000 words. So I can introduce until I have already read.

Monika was standing on the wing of a plane in order to protect one person called Kurt Carlsson. Whether She was watching, he got a shot without gun sounds. When he fell into his knee, she looked around, and found a boat considered as the shooting point. And she saw a man wearing red T-shirt said Mad About Football!

A man offered her and her boss to help with searching the criminal person. I regarded him as strange because he has always mislead Monika. Monika got the evidence of the weapon used in an assault. It was crossbow. It was not gun. The fact betrayed my expectation. In my opinion, the weapon should be gun as I said before. I could not realize it.

She followed an soccer team and that fans. When she did it, she encountered a man regarded as the leader of the assassination. His name is Adolf Vitjord, who is a right-wing party in South Africa. I think that he regarded Carlsson as an obstacle to believe him and his belief. I don’t know why he try to kill Carlsson, but he must have his justified opinion.

I cannot wait for reading rest of the story.

Philip Prowse, (1991), Double Cross, Cambridge University Press