Three Seconds

Anders Roslund, Börge Hellström

eBook - 2011

A gripping new mystery fromSWEDEN'S MOST ACCLAIMED CRIME FICTION DUODark, 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 Börge Hellström—heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as the masters of Scandinavian crime. It inaugurates Sterling's brand new Silver Oak imprint, a joint venture with Quercus Publishing dedicated to top-notch crime fiction.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�...39;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... more