Three Seconds
The gripping, award-winning thriller that inspired the film 'The Informer'
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Publisher Description
** THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER, 'THE INFORMER' **
** WINNER OF THE 2011 CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER **
** NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER **
'Extraordinarily compelling' Daily Mail
'The action is non-stop' The Times
'Three Seconds is just about how long it feels it takes to read Three Seconds . . . Terrific' Time Out
SCANDINAVIAN CRIME DOES NOT GET MORE EXPLOSIVE.
ONE MURDER.
Piet Hoffmann is the Swedish police force's best undercover operative. Not even his family know of his double identity. Yet when a drug deal with the Polish mafia goes fatally wrong, his secret life begins to crumble around him.
TWO MEN.
Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffmann's true identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath.
THREE SECONDS.
Hoffmann must desperately maintain his cover; else he is a dead man walking. But, in the doggedly-perceptive Ewert Grens, he has just made the most relentless of enemies.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ex-con Piet Hoffmann, who for the past nine years has led a double life as a family man and a police snitch infiltrating the Stockholm drug world, takes on his most dangerous assignment yet in Roslund and Hellstr m's thrilling follow-up to Box 21. Hoffmann must go undercover at Asps s, a maximum security prison, and take control of the methamphetamine sales so the police can dismantle the spread of drugs from the inside out. The murder of a man during one of Hoffmann's preliminary meetings with the members of Wojtek, the local Polish mafia, threatens the entire plan and puts Det. Supt. Ewert Grens, the returning hero from Box, on the case. Once Hoffmann steps inside the prison walls all hell breaks loose, and he's forced to fend for himself when it appears that everyone on either side of the law wants him dead. The authors ratchet the suspense beautifully right up to the final, inevitable confrontation.
