Unfortunately, one of the bombs follows her to Sweden, and there the adventure picks up. One twin yearns for a normal life, while the other seeks to depose the Swedish king. There she gets entangled with two Israeli Mossad agents and a low-level Chinese government official before fleeing to Sweden, where she immediately meets two twin brothers. Her journey takes her from the slums of Soweto to a top secret government facility, where she unintentionally helps build seven secret atomic bombs. However, she is gifted with a rare intelligence, a quick wit and an uncanny capacity to easily manage situations and charm those she meets. Born in the 1960s in South Africa, during apartheid, she is set up to fail. Nombeko is a poor young black girl from the slums of South Africa who ends up involved in a convoluted plot involving an atomic bomb and a plot to overthrow the Swedish monarchy. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden is a zany, caper-type of novel with some serious undertones and a very admirable heroine.
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