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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"'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