Three Seconds

Piet Hoffman Is The Best Undercover Operative In The Swedish Police Force, But Only One Other Man Is Even Aware Of His Existence. When An Amphetamine Deal He Is Involved In Goes Badly Wrong, He Is Faced With The Hardest Mission Of His Life: To Infiltrate Sweden's Most Infamous Maximum Security Prison. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens Is Charged With Investigating The Drug-related Killing. Unaware Of Hoffman's Real Identity, He Believes Himself To Be On The Trail Of A Dangerous Psychopath. But He Cannot Escape The Feeling That Vital Information Pertaining To The Case Has Been Withheld Or Manipulated. Hoffman Has His Insurance: Wiretap Recordings That Implicate Some Of Sweden's Most Prominent Politicians In A Corrupt Conspiracy. But In Ewert Grens The Powers That Be Might Just Have Found The Perfect Weapon To Eliminate Him...intelligent, Gripping, Brutal, Three Seconds Is The Latest Thriller From Roslund And Hellstrom, The Heirs Apparent To Stieg Larsson And Henning Mankell As Masters Of Scandinavian Crime. Roslund And Hellström ; Translated From The Swedish By Kari Dickson. Translated From The Swedish. Piet Hoffman is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even aware of his existence. When an amphetamine deal he is involved in goes badly wrong, he is faced with the hardest mission of his life: to infiltrate Sweden's most infamous maximum security prison. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffman's real identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath. But he cannot escape the feeling that vital information pertaining to the case has been withheld or manipulated. Hoffman has his insurance: wiretap recordings that implicate some of Sweden's most prominent politicians in a corrupt conspiracy. But in Ewert Grens the powers that be might just have found the perfect weapon to eliminate him ... Intelligent, gripping, brutal, Three Seconds is the latest thriller from Roslund and Hellstrom, the heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as masters of Scandinavian crime Ex-convict Piet Hoffman--a family man, a rising member of Stockholm's Polish mafia, and an undercover police informant--is sent to a maximum security prison to make himself the boss of the amphetamine trade so the police can shut it down He leads a double life - one with a beloved wife and two small boys he will protect no matter what the cost - and the other, a secret life in which every single day he risks losing everything The powerful story of one man's fight against the system he spent his life protecting which now seeks to destroy him.