Three Seconds

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.

Winner of CWA International Dagger 2011
Winner of Stora Lasarpriset Arets Spanning (Great Reader Prize for Thriller of the Year) 2009
Winner of Basta Svenska Kriminalroman (Best Swedish Crime Novel) 2009

“Extraordinarily compelling - Daily MailGripping and intelligent ... Destined for the big screen - Daily MirrorThree seconds is just about how long it feels it takes to read Three Seconds - Terrific' Time OutThe action is non-stop and the tension unlimited - The TimesA nail-biter of a book. - New York Times”

Extraordinarily compelling - Daily Mail

Gripping and intelligent ... Destined for the big screen - Daily Mirror

Three seconds is just about how long it feels it takes to read Three Seconds - Terrific' Time Out

The action is non-stop and the tension unlimited - The Times

A nail-biter of a book. - New York Times

Roslund and Hellstrom are Sweden's most acclaimed fiction duo.

Award-winning journalist Anders Roslund is the founder and former head of Kulturnyheterna (Culture News) on Swedish television, and for many years worked as a news reporter - specializing in criminal and social issues - and as an Editor-in-chief at Rapport and Aktuellt, Sweden's two foremost news programmes.

Borge Hellstrom is an ex-convict who brings a unique insight into the brutal reality of criminal life. He now works with the rehabilitation of young offenders and drug addicts, and is one of the founders of the crime prevention organization KRIS (Criminals Return Into Society).

Their DCI Ewert Grens novels have won the Glass Key Award, the Best Swedish Crime Novel award, the CWA International Dagger, appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, been translated into 31 different languages, and sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Visit them at www.roslund-hellstrom.com.

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 horribly 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 maintain his cover, or else he is a dead man walking. But, in Ewert Grens, he has just made the most relentless of enemies.

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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