Lethal cargo

Bo Norgren, the thriller writer who has been called Sweden's Ed McBain...

'Lethal cargo' is Bo Norgren's first novel, first published in Swedish in 1991.

The addict woke up with a start and stared without understanding
at the gloved hand that was pulling a needle out of his forearm. He
looked up at the man’s face and suddenly understood. His face
filled with horror and contorted in agony. He had seen those eyes
before, they looked like the eyes of a dead man.
“You devil”, he hissed, but nobody heard him. His murderer
had left him alone in the apartment.

Detective Inspector Göran Ålund goes to Gran Canaria on a winter
holiday. He ends up in a small apartment hotel in San Agustin.
Late one night, he sits down on the balcony for a nightcap. He
witnesses something very strange. A transfer of some kind,
probably narcotics, is his theory.
He contacts his colleagues in Stockholm and asks them to
find more information for him to act upon.
Pretty soon, it turns out that Ålund was right. A large consign-
ment of cocaine is on its way to Sweden. The traces lead to the finer
parlours, right into an exclusive apartment in Upper Östermalm.
The man who lives there, is bringing on a lethal cargo.