num_pages: 352
description: A Swedish security agent is summoned to interrogate a terror suspect held by the FBI but the prisoner isn't the only one with something to hide.At a remote military base in the Indian Ocean the FBI is trying to get a prisoner to confess. But the detainee a suspect in an Islamist-inspired terror attack in the United States refuses to talk.Ernst Grip a Swedish security officer has no idea why he's been dispatched to New York City. The FBI agent he meets on arrival Shauna Friedman seems to know a little too much about him. And when he arrives at his real destination the American authorities have just one question: Is their terror suspect a Swedish citizen?In the process of uncovering the prisoner's true identity Grip discovers the man's ties to a group of other suspectsa ruthless American arms dealer a Czech hit man a mysterious nurse from Kansas and a heartbreakingly naive Pakistani. The closer Grip gets to the truth the more complicated the deception becomes. Who is real and who is leading a double life?
language: English
title: The Swede
publisher: HarperCollins