num_pages: 489
description: Dark suspenseful and more riveting than any thriller at the local cineplex Three Seconds is the latest novel from best-selling Swedish duo Anders Roslund and Brge Hellstrm-heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as the masters of Scandinavian crime. Piet Hoffman a top secret operative for the Swedish police is about to embark on his most dangerous assignment yet: after years spent infiltrating the Polish mafia he's become a key player in their attempt to take over amphetamine distribution inside Sweden's prisons. To stop them from succeeding he will have to go deep cover posing as a prisoner inside the country's most notorious jail.But when a botched drug deal involving Hoffman results in a murder the investigation is assigned to the brilliant but haunted Detective Inspector Ewert Grens--a man who never gives up until he's cracked the case. Grens's determination to find the killer not only threatens to expose Hoffman's true identity-it may reveal even bigger crimes involving the highest levels of power. And there are people who will do anything to stop him from discovering the truth.Winner of the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' 2009 award for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year and a #1 best-seller there Three Seconds captures a nefarious world of betrayal and violence where a wise man trusts no one and even the most valuable agent can be burned.
language: English
title: Three Seconds
publisher: SILVER OAK