Three Minutes
Ewert Grens 6
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4.5 • 19 Ratings
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
INFILTRATOR
One-time Swedish government agent Piet Hoffmann is on the run from the life prison sentence he escaped: living under a false identity with his family in Calí, Colombia.
INFORMANT
When Hoffmann is offered employment by a Colombian drug mafia, and is simultaneously approached by the US DEA to infiltrate the same cartel, he says yes to both.
IN TOO DEEP
However, when America settles on an enemy for their next War on Terror, Colombia, the US government and the cartel are faced with the same problem. Piet Hoffmann.
Hoffmann is marked. Yet help will come from unlikely quarters: DCI Ewert Grens - the enemy who Hoffmann once tricked - will now become the only ally he can trust.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The action takes a long time to get going in Roslund and Hellstr m's sluggish follow-up to the bestselling Three Seconds (2013), and even sniper shootings, kidnappings, and daring jungle rescues can't overcome the novel's strained prose or stock characters. Three years have passed since ex-con Piet Hoffmann, a Stockholm police informant, fled to Colombia with his wife and children. Now, on behalf of the DEA, he's infiltrated a drug cartel where he serves as the guardian to El Mestizo, the cartel's leader. When the cartel kidnaps the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in a daring raid, Hoffmann finds himself on the U.S. government's most wanted list. The story jumps from Colombia to Stockholm where Hoffmann's handler, Erik Wilson, and a gruff Stockholm detective, Ewert Grens, try to protect Hoffmann and his family but whatever drives Hoffmann, beyond a basic will to survive and protect his own, remains murky, and he makes enough horrible choices to leave readers wondering whether he's worth sticking with.
Customer Reviews
Disappointing
I enjoyed 3 Seconds. This book, not so much. The plot and decision-making are unrealistic, overly complicated, and just plain silly. The simplistic characters jump through convoluted hoops to accomplish simple tasks. “Let’s not trade the coordinates - let’s buy a satellite …” “give a wanted terrorist control of a delta team? Sure, why not” smh. I gave up about 3/4ths of the way through this book.