<p><b>** THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER, &apos;THE INFORMER&apos; **</b><br /><b>** WINNER OF THE 2011 CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER **</b><br /><b><i>** NEW YORK TIMES</i> TOP 5 BESTSELLER **</b><br /><br />&apos;Extraordinarily compelling&apos; <i>Daily Mail</i><br /><i>&apos;The action is non-stop&apos; The Times</i><br />&apos;Three Seconds is just about how long it feels it takes to read <i>Three Seconds</i> . . . Terrific&apos; <i>Time Out</i><br /><br /><b>SCANDINAVIAN CRIME DOES NOT GET MORE EXPLOSIVE.</b><br /><br /><b>ONE MURDER.</b><br /><br />Piet Hoffmann is the Swedish police force&apos;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. <br /><br /><b>TWO MEN. </b><br /><br />Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffmann&apos;s true identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath. <br /><br /><b>THREE SECONDS. </b><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br /><b><i>Can&apos;t get enough of DCI Ewert Grens? Then check out </i>Cell 8<i>, named by the </i>Sunday Times<i> as one of the 60 Best Thrillers and Crime Novels of the Past 6 Years.</i></b></p>