WINNER OF THE 2011 CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER. A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER. AND SOON TO BE A HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER - SCANDINAVIAN CRIME DOES NOT GET MORE EXPLOSIVE.

'Extraordinarily compelling' Daily Mail

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


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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About the Author

Roslund and Hellstroem 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.

Boerge Hellstroem (1957-2017) was an ex-convict who brought a unique insight into the brutal reality of criminal life. He worked with the rehabilitation of young offenders and drug addicts, and was 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 their worldwide sales are approaching 3 million copies. Visit their website at www.roslund-hellstrom.com.

Reviews
'Extraordinarily compelling' Daily Mail. * Daily Mail *
'Gripping and intelligent ... Destined for the big screen' Daily Mirror. * Daily Mirror *
'Three seconds is just about how long it feels it takes to read Three Seconds ... Terrific' Time Out. * Terrific' Time Out *
'The action is non-stop and the tension unlimited' The Times. * The Times *
A nail-biter of a book. * New York Times *


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



Book Information
ISBN 9781849161527
Author Anders Roslund
Format Paperback
Page Count 640
Imprint riverrun
Publisher Quercus Publishing
Weight(grams) 440g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 173mm * 41mm