To the top of the mountain
By: Arne Dahl ; translated by Alice Menzies
Series: Intercrime; Intercrime
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781846558085; 9781846558092; 9781448189694
Subjects: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General; Mystery fiction; Detective and mystery stories
Work titles: Upp till toppen av berget
Description: After the disastrous end to their last case, the Intercrime team - a specialist unit created to investigate violent, international crime - has been disbanded, their leader forced into early retirement. The six officers have been scattered throughout the country. Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm are investigating the senseless murder of a young football supporter in a pub in Stockholm, Arto Söderstedt and Viggo Norlander are working on mundane cases, Gunnar Nyberg is tackling child pornography while Jorge Chavez is immersed in research. But when a man is blown up in a high-security prison, a major drugs baron comes under attack and a massacre takes place in a dark suburb, the Intercrime team are urgently reconvened. There is something dangerous approaching Sweden, and they are the only people who can do anything to stop it.
Notes: Translated from the Swedish.
Table of contents: title: "If you like Henning Mankell, you'll love Arne Dahl"; title: cover.-"As seen on TV"; title: cover.-After the disastrous end to their last case, the Intercrime team; title: a specialist unit created to investigate violent, international crime; title: has been disbanded, their leader forced into early retirement. The six officers have been scattered throughout the country. Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm are investigating the senseless murder of a young football supporter in a pub in Stockholm, Arto Söderstedt and Viggo Norlander are working on mundane cases, Gunnar Nyberg is tackling child pornography while Jorge Chavez is immersed in research. But when a man is blown up in a high-security prison, a major drugs baron comes under attack and a massacre takes place in a dark suburb, the Intercrime team are urgently reconvened. There is something dangerous approaching Sweden, and they are the only people who can do anything to stop it.