Three Seconds

Three Seconds won the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award 2009 for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year. Piet Hoffman is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even aware of his existence. When a drug deal he is involved in goes very wrong, he is faced with the hardest mission of his life: to infiltrate Sweden's most infamous maximum security prison. Intelligent, gripping, brutal, Three Seconds is the latest thriller from Roslund and Hellstr m, the heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as masters of Scandinavian crime.