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"Explosive... Three Seconds does Stieg Larsson one better."--Carol Memmott, USA Today

"Twisty plot makes for propulsive reading."--Entertainment Weekly

"A nail biter of a book."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"[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 in Three Seconds."--Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

"Thrill-a-minute cat and mouse game... a grimly amoral tale."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

"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."--Summer Moore, AP

"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 PROPULSIVE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JOEL KINNAMAN, ROSAMUND PIKE, AND COMMON

ONE MURDER.

Piet Hoffmann is the Swedish police force's best undercover operative. Not even his family know of his double identity. But 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 assigned to investigate 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, or else he is a dead man walking. But in the doggedly perceptive Ewert Grens, he has just made the most relentless of enemies.