Three Seconds - Softcover

"Gritty and fast-paced." -- TODAY show "Americans are finally catching on to what thriller fans around the world already know -- that the Swedish team of Roslund & Hellstrom is writing explosive crime novels as good, if not better, than those of Stieg Larsson .... Gun play, explosions, betrayals and the ingenious ways drugs and weapons are smuggled into prisons give this novel, Roslund & Hellstrom's fifth, an eau de testosterone level that's through the roof." -"USA Today"" ""[A] sprawling and often gripping thriller.... The gritty details of drug dealing, of prison life and of the relations between cops and informants are all rendered with convincing authority."--"Wall Street Journal """"Thrill-a-minute cat and mouse game...a grimly amoral tale." --Marilyn Stasio, "New York Times Book Review " "Twisty plot makes for propulsive reading." --"Entertainment Weekly" "A complex and surprising novel... A riveting story that serious readers will find worthwhile and memorable. "Three Seconds" hits its target. It is a tour de force." --"New York Journal of Books" "It's like "Traffic" on the Swedish-Polish border, but everything from the weather to the criminals' hearts is a little colder." --"People" magazine "The action quickly draws you in and continues to grip you to the final chapters of the novel. The authors have something to say, and "Three Seconds" proves to be an excellent way of doing it." --"Associated Press""" "These guys are their own kind of writers and if you love crime fiction you owe it to yourself to check out this book. Mobsters, drug dealers, corruption and loads of action. This is pure straight up Crime Fiction, no chaser, no apologies." --"Crimespree""" "Piet Hoffman is a devoted husband and the father of two young sons. He's also an ex-con who has been working undercover for the Stockholm police for nine years. Code named "Paula," Piet has risen through the ranks of the Polish mafia and is chosen to lead the Poles' effort to control the supply of "Americans are finally catching on to what thriller fans around the world already know -- that the Swedish team of Roslund & Hellstrom is writing explosive crime novels as good, if not better, than those of Stieg Larsson .... Gun play, explosions, betrayals and the ingenious ways drugs and weapons are smuggled into prisons give this novel, Roslund & Hellstrom's fifth, an eau de testosterone level that's through the roof." -"USA Today"" ""[A] sprawling and often gripping thriller.... The gritty details of drug dealing, of prison life and of the relations between cops and informants are all rendered with convincing authority."--"Wall Street Journal ""Thrill-a-minute cat and mouse game...a grimly amoral tale." --Marilyn Stasio, "New York Times Book Review " "Twisty plot makes for propulsive reading." --"Entertainment Weekly" "A complex and surprising novel... A riveting story that serious readers will find worthwhile and memorable. "Three Seconds" hits its target. It is a tour de fo

The New York Times bestseller...now in paper! Dark, suspenseful, and more riveting than any thriller at the local cineplex, Three Seconds is the latest novel from bestselling Swedish duo Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom--the new masters of Scandinavian crime.Piet Hoffman, a top-secret operative for the Swedish police, faces his most dangerous assignment yet: after years spent infiltrating the Polish mafia, he's become a key player in their attempt to take over amphetamine distribution inside Sweden's prisons. To stop them from succeeding, he will have to go undercover, posing as a prisoner inside the country's most notorious jail.But when a botched drug deal involving Hoffman results in the death of another cop, the murder investigation is assigned to the brilliant but haunted Detective Inspector Ewert Grens--a man who never gives up until he's cracked the case. Grens's determination to find the killer not only threatens to expose Hoffman's true identity, it may reveal even bigger crimes at the heart of the Swedish justice system. And there are players who will do anything to stop Grens from discovering the truth.Winner of the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' 2009 award for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year and a New York Times bestseller in the United States, Three Seconds captures a nefarious world of betrayal and violence, where a wise man trusts no one and even the most valuable agent can be burned.