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"The Swedes have a lock on hard-hitting crime novels... the latest in a string of superb procedurals written by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times The explosive third novel in the Ewert Grens-Piet Hoffmann trilogy, which began with The New York Times bestseller Three Seconds. Stockholm, Sweden: Seventy-three refugees have been found dead, suffocated in a container at Varta harbor. Niamey, Niger: Ewert Grens arrives in a city he's never heard of, in search of a man he never thought he would see again. Piet Hoffmann has again got himself in too deep, infiltrating a West African trafficking ring. He thinks he has two weeks to extricate himself, but will learn that his life, and that of countless defenseless people, now hangs on his actions during three desperate hours.

One-time Swedish government agent Piet Hoffmann is on the run: both from the life prison sentence he escaped, and from the Polish drug mafia he double-crossed. Only Hoffmann's handler, Erik Wilson, knows he now hides in Cali, Colombia, living under a false identity with his wife Zofia and sons Rasmus and Hugo. But life on the run is precarious. And so when Hoffmann, in order to survive, accepts employment as a bodyguard and hit man for the Colombian cocaine mafia, and is simultaneously approached by the US DEA to infiltrate the same cartel, he chooses to say yes to both. Hoffmann has a new, lucrative double life

A convicted murderer dies awaiting execution on Ohio's death row. Six years later, the same man walks into a Stockholm police station. He's defeated death. He's played the unplayable system. And now Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens must discover how.

Een rechercheur van de politie in Stockholm krijgt te maken met een Litouwse prostituee die in een ziekenhuis vijf mensen gijzelt.

Wanneer er plotseling drieënveertig Roemeense straatkinderen op het Zweedse politiebureau staan en er tegelijkertijd in de kelder van een ziekenhuis het verminkte lijk van een vrouw wordt gevonden, worden commissaris Ewert Grens en zijn collega’s in een razend tempo een nachtmerrie in gesleurd die hen naar de wereld onder het straatasfalt voert. Een wereld die je je nauwelijks kunt voorstellen, maar waar voormalig psychiatrische patiënten, verslaafden en zelfs kinderen huizen. Wanneer het putdeksel is gelicht, worden onze zogenaamde welvaartsstaat, verantwoordelijkheid en solidariteit dringend en razend spannend aan de kaak gesteld.

Die Leiche der Frau war schwer verstümmelt. Ihr Gesicht fast nicht mehr zu erkennen. Getötet wurde sie in einem Abwasserkanal unter der Stadt. Bei der Toten handelt es sich um Liz Pedersen, deren Tochter Jannicke vor zwei Jahren spurlos verschwand. Welche Spur verfolgte sie? Kommissar Ewert Grens sucht in den Katakomben von Stockholm den Mörder einer Frau und findet eine Parallelwelt unter der Stadt.

ONE MURDER. Piet Hoffmann is the Swedish police force's best undercover operative. Not even his family know of his double identity. Yet when a drug deal with the Polish mafia goes fatally wrong, his secret life begins to crumble around him. TWO MEN. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffmann's true identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath. THREE SECONDS. Hoffmann must desperately maintain his cover; else he is a dead man walking. But, in the doggedly-perceptive Ewert Grens, he has just made the most relentless of enemies.

Two little girls go missing on the same day in Stockholm. Their disappearances are never explained. In time, the investigations are abandoned. A chance discovery puts Detective Ewert Grens back on the trail five years later. His own personal trauma makes him determined to find out what happened to these children who were snatched from a supermarket and a car park and never seen again. His search leads him into the recesses of the dark web and the discovery of a paedophile ring that can only be cracked from the inside. Grens is forced to call upon his retired partner, Piet Hoffman, the best undercover operative he knows, to try to infiltrate the group. They will have only one chance - but are they up to the darkest challenge of their lives?[Bokinfo]