num_pages: 370
description: Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens of THREE SECONDS returns in a riveting mystery that centers on perhaps the most controversial subject in the modern criminal justice system: the death penalty.In Ohio seventeen-year-old John Meyer Frey rots on Death Row for the brutal murder of his girlfriend. The victim's father hungers for revenge while a prison guard is torn by compassion for the young man. When Frey unexpectedly dies of heart disease before he either receives his just punishment or achieves redemption the wheels of justice grind to a halt. Six years later on a ferry between Finland and Sweden a singer named John Schwarz viciously attacks a drunken lout harassing a woman leaving the man in a coma. The Stockholm police arrest Schwarz for aggravated assault but when Grens learns that the assailant has been living in Sweden under a false identity he begins to suspect that something darker and more complex underlies the incident. Following his intuition Grens launches an investigation that spans from Sweden to the United States and reveals a startling connection between the Frey and Schwarz cases. Featuring a multilayered plot with a killer twist CELL 8 takes readers on a gripping page-turning journey that explores the devastating repercussions of the death penalty as well as the fallout from the conflicting desires for public justice and private retribution.
language: English
title: Cell 8
publisher: SilverOak