Three seconds
By: Roslund and Hellström ; translated from the Swedish by Kari Dickson
Contributors: Hellström, Börge, 1957-; Dickson, Kari
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9781849161503
Subjects: Drug traffic; Police; Prisons; Undercover operations; Corruption; Fiction
Work titles: Tre sekunder
Description: Piet Hoffman is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even aware of his existence. When an amphetamine deal he is involved in goes badly wrong, he is faced with the hardest mission of his life: to infiltrate Sweden's most infamous maximum security prison. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffman's real identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath. But he cannot escape the feeling that vital information pertaining to the case has been withheld or manipulated. Hoffman has his insurance: wiretap recordings that implicate some of Sweden's most prominent politicians in a corrupt conspiracy. But in Ewert Grens the powers that be might just have found the perfect weapon to eliminate him...Intelligent, gripping, brutal, Three Seconds is the latest thriller from Roslund and Hellstrom, the heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as masters of Scandinavian crime.
Notes: Translated from the Swedish.