Boxer and pianist Henry Morgan lives in an unusual apartment on Hornsgatan Street in Stockholm. With him lives his brother Leo—once a child prodigy, a philosopher, and a sixty-something poet—but now a fallen, down-on-his-luck type. Strange things happen all over the house. The Morgan brothers are truly mysterious. At least, that’s what the writer “Klas Östergren” thinks—he appears in that astonishing apartment in the summer of 1978, after someone stole everything from him except two typewriters. Moving into one of the rooms in the Morgan brothers’ apartment, he becomes drawn into a heartbreaking drama.
The reader witnesses a variety of adventures involving the Morgan brothers in Stockholm and other European capitals—until the hour of a decisive trial arrives in the gloomy Swedish winter of 1979.
The storyteller’s talent and the intricate web of intrigues lead to an ending in which the narrator himself tries to understand what really happened to the heroes. But the ending isn’t an ending either: the plot of the novel “Gangsters,” written twenty-five years later, begins where the story of “The Gentlemen” leaves off.