Showing results by author "Borge Hellstrom"

In this dark and gripping novel from number-one best-selling Swedish writing duo Roslund and Hellström, Piet Hoffman is the Swedish police’s most valuable secret operative. His cover is that of a lieutenant inside the ruthless Polish mafia, trying to take over amphetamine distribution within Sweden’s prison system. With this, his most dangerous assignment, success will mean a new identity and the freedom to start a new life with his wife and young sons.

Bernt Lund harbors a sickness. He is a monster, an unrepentant child molester and serial killer. In the mind of society, in the minds of his nine-year-old victims' parents, and in the minds of his fellow inmates, he is a waking nightmare. And now he has escaped from custody - the worst scenario imaginable for Aspsås Prison's Department for Sexual Crimes. Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens is about to encounter the most profoundly appalling case in his career and perhaps in Stockholm's history.

Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. Suddenly they are given an unexpected chance at freedom and with it the opportunity to take revenge on their enslavers and reclaim the lives and dignity they once had. What will happen now that the tables are turned and the victims fight back? Box 21 is a mind-blowing psychological thriller of the highest order.

Er lebt ein Doppelleben. Das eine mit seiner Frau und den beiden kleinen Söhnen, für die er alles tun würde. Und das andere als Undercover-Agent, eingeschleust bei der polnischen Mafia. Jeden Tag riskiert er sein Leben. Doch der neue Auftrag ist sein bisher gefährlichster: Er soll die Geschäfte der Drogenmafia in einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis an sich reißen. Der Auftrag kommt von seinen polnischen Freunden, aber auch seine schwedischen Kollegen unterstützen dieses Vorhaben. Der Mann, der zwei Namen hat, weiß, dass er jetzt allein ist, dass er in nur drei Sekunden tot sein kann, wenn seine Deckung auffliegt.

In einem Stockholmer Krankenhaus wurde eine Leiche in die Obduktion eingeschleust - niemand weiß, wer der Tote ist. Als plötzlich weitere Leichen am selben Ort gefunden werden, ahnt Kommissar Ewert Grens: Jemand versucht elegant seine Spuren zu verwischen. Die Fährte führt zu einem Massengrab, wo außerdem ein Handy auftaucht, auf dem Fingerabdrücke gesichert werden: die des Doppelagenten Piet Hoffmann. Ewert Grens muss erneut gegen seinen Freund ermitteln - doch wo steckt dieser?

Piet Hoffmann ist der meistgesuchte Mann der Welt. Nachdem er und seine Familie Schweden hinter sich gelassen haben, arbeitet Piet nun im Auftrag der Amerikaner: In Kolumbien hat er sich mitten ins Herz der Kokainmafia eingeschleust. Dann steht sein Schicksal erneut auf Messers Schneide. Und der einzige Mensch, dem er sein Leben anvertrauen kann, ist niemand Geringerer als sein größter Feind: Kriminalinspektor Ewert Grens. Doch diesmal liegen zwischen Leben und Tod nicht drei Sekunden, sondern drei Minuten.

Onetime government agent Piet Hoffmann is on the run: both from the life prison sentence he escaped and from the Polish drug mafia he double-crossed. Only Hoffmann's handler, Erik Wilson, knows he now hides in Calí, Colombia, living under a false identity with his wife, Zofia, and sons Rasmus and Hugo. But life on the run is precarious. And so when Hoffmann, in order to survive, accepts employment as a bodyguard and hit man for the Colombian cocaine mafia and is simultaneously approached by the US DEA to infiltrate the same cartel, he says yes to both.

John Meyer Frey is sentenced to death by the state of Ohio. John Meyer Frey dies awaiting execution on death row. John Meyer Frey, six years later, is found alive in Sweden. Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens now has a dead man in his custody, an impossible mystery on his hands, and the most explosive case of his career in front of him.

Presumed dead by the Stockholm police, master criminal and undercover informant Piet Hoffmann is now on the run from the Swedish authorities, living with his wife and two young sons under an assumed name in Cali, Colombia. Only Hoffmann's former police handler, Erik Wilson, knows where he is - and that he has accepted two dangerous new jobs: one as a high-level enforcer for a Colombian cocaine cartel and one as an infiltrator for the DEA, working to bring the cartel down.

Bernt Lund harbours a sickness. He is a monster: in the mind of society, in the mind of his nine-year-old victims' parents, and in the mind of his fellow inmates. Lennart Oscarsson has a situation. The worst scenario imaginable for the head of Aspsås prison's department for sexual crimes. These two men's actions are about to hand DCI Ewert Grens the most profoundly sickening and impossibly sensitive case of his career, and in Stockholm's history.

Lydia Grajauskas will never forget the face. The face of the trafficker who brought her to Stockholm: the man responsible for three unrelenting years of forced prostitution and slavery. DCI Ewert Grens will never forget the name. The name of the prisoner the day his life was destroyed: the man responsible for 25 years of torturous heartache. Sweden will never forget their revenge....

Piet Hoffmann 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 badly wrong, he must face the hardest mission of his life – infiltrating Sweden’s most infamous maximum-security prison.Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffman’s real identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath.