Three Seconds - Softcover

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.

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

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

"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

"Explosive... Three Seconds does Stieg Larsson one better."--Carol Memmott, 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 in Three Seconds."--Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal