Victim 2117 Victim 2117

Publisher Description

In the heart-pounding next installment of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department's own—the enigmatic Assad.

The newspaper refers to the body only as Victim 2117—the two thousand one hundred and seventeenth refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the unnamed victim is so much more, and the death sets off a chain of events that throws Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division led by Detective Carl Mørck, into a deeply dangerous—and deeply personal—case. A case that not only reveals dark secrets about the past, but has deadly implications for the future.

For troubled Danish teen Alexander, whose identity is hidden behind his computer screen, the death of Victim 2117 becomes a symbol of everything he resents and the perfect excuse to unleash his murderous impulses in real life. For Ghaalib, one of the most brutal tormentors from Abu Ghraib—Saddam Hussein’s infamous prison—the death of Victim 2117 is the first step in a terrorist plot years in the making. And for Department Q’s Assad, Victim 2117 is a link to his buried past—and the family he assumed was long dead.

With the help of the Department Q squad—Carl, Rose, and Gordon—Assad must finally confront painful memories from his years in the Middle East in order to find and capture Ghaalib. But with the clock ticking down to Alexander’s first kill and Ghaalib’s devastating attack, the thinly spread Department Q will need to stay one step ahead of their most lethal adversary yet if they are to prevent the loss of thousands of innocent lives.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2020
March 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
480
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
2.6
MB

Customer Reviews

VTNH ,

Best book in the series.

Revisit the characters you’ve grown to love. Rose rises from the ashes. Gordon matures. Carl and Assad deal with their most challenging adversary and we finally learn Assad’s backstory.

LangtryChicago ,

Assad’s Story

Assad’s story is finally told! You won’t be able to put this story down.

Mack ee ,

Not his best

I’m a big fan of this author and have read all of the Dept Q novels but this one fell quite far below the usual standard for this series. The writing and storyline both seemed forced and choppy, as if the author just wasn’t really into writing this book. If you’re a fan of the series you’ll have to read it to learn Assad’s long awaited backstory, but if the next in the series reads like this one did that would likely be the last I’d read. All of the other books leading up to this one were excellent and are highly recommend. Hope to see better things from this author in the future.

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