by Anders Roslund (Author), KariDickson (Translator), Börge Hellström (Author)
Piet Hoffman is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even aware of his existence. When a drug deal he is involved in goes badly wrong, he is faced with the hardest mission of his life: to infiltrate Sweden's most infamous maximum security prison. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffman's real identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath. But he cannot escape the feeling that vital information pertaining to the case has been withheld or manipulated. Hoffman has his insurance: wiretap recordings that implicate some of Sweden's most prominent politicians in a corrupt conspiracy. But in Ewert Grens they might just have found the perfect weapon to eliminate him...Intelligent, gripping, brutal, Three Seconds is the latest thriller from Roslund and Hellstrom, the heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as masters of Scandinavian crime.
Format: Perfect Paperback
Pages: 638
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Published: Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 0857384066
ISBN 13: 9780857384065
Prizes: Winner of CWA International Dagger 2011 and Basta Svenska Kriminalroman (Best Swedish Crime Novel) 2009 and Stora Lasarpriset Arets Spanning (Great Reader Prize for Thriller of the Year) 2009.