Börge Hellström fue la mitad de la aclamada dupla de escritores de novela negra Roslund & Hellström. Su obra literaria se nutrió profundamente de su experiencia directa y de las perspectivas adquiridas al fundar y trabajar con KRIS (Criminales Regresan a la Sociedad), una organización de rehabilitación para jóvenes delincuentes y adictos. Las narrativas de Hellström exploraron a menudo complejos problemas sociales y los dilemas morales que enfrentan los individuos en circunstancias difíciles. Su perspectiva única dotó a sus historias de un profundo sentido de realismo y peso emocional.
Il mène une double vie. Celle avec sa femme et leurs deux garçons. Et celle d’agent infiltré dans la mafia polonaise. Il risque sa vie chaque jour, mais sa nouvelle mission est la plus dangereuse de toutes : enfermé dans une prison de haute sécurité, il doit faire face aux pires criminels et s’imposer comme nouveau dealer. Lorsque l’unique policier à savoir qui il est disparaît et que les gangsters ne croient plus à sa couverture, l’homme aux deux noms sait qu’il est maintenant seul contre tous, que dans trois secondes il peut être mort - et que la vie de ceux qu’il aime est en danger, si l’on découvre sa vraie identité...
"The Swedes have a lock on hard-hitting crime novels... the latest in a string of superb procedurals written by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times The explosive third novel in the Ewert Grens-Piet Hoffmann trilogy, which began with The New York Times bestseller Three Seconds. Stockholm, Sweden: Seventy-three refugees have been found dead, suffocated in a container at Varta harbor. Niamey, Niger: Ewert Grens arrives in a city he's never heard of, in search of a man he never thought he would see again. Piet Hoffmann has again got himself in too deep, infiltrating a West African trafficking ring. He thinks he has two weeks to extricate himself, but will learn that his life, and that of countless defenseless people, now hangs on his actions during three desperate hours.
Il mène une double vie. Celle avec sa femme et leurs deux petits garçons, pour qui il ferait tout. Et celle d'agent secret ayant infiltré la mafia polonaise. Il risque sa vie chaque jour, mais sa nouvelle mission est de toutes la plus dangereuse : enfermé dans une prison de haute sécurité, il doit faire face aux pires criminels et s'imposer comme nouveau dealer. Lorsque l'unique policier à savoir qui il est disparaît et que les gangsters ne croient plus à sa couverture, l'homme aux deux noms sait qu'il est maintenant seul contre tous, que dans trois secondes il peut être mort - et que la vie de ceux qu'il aime est en danger, si l'on découvre sa vraie identité...
One-time Swedish 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 Cali, 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 chooses to say yes to both. Hoffmann has a new, lucrative double life
Un tempo era un uomo qualunque, con una famiglia. Ma da infiltrato della polizia adesso si è trasformato in sicario, e dei più spietati. Torna Piet Hoffmann, lo straordinario antieroe protagonista del romanzo culto Tre secondi . Medellín è una città condannata a cambiare volto nel giro di pochi isolati: fatiscente, lurida, lussuosa e sfacciata. Lì dentro, anche Piet Hoffmann è costretto all'ennesima metamorfosi. Da tre anni è un infiltrato pagato dal governo statunitense per combattere il traffico di droga e lavorare all'interno di una spietata banda di narcos. Quelli del cartello lo conoscono come El Sueco, il sicario infallibile con una lucertola tatuata sul cranio rasato. Non sanno, però, che ogni notte El Sueco prega di poter tornare a una vita normale insieme alla propria famiglia. E quando la sua banda resta coinvolta in una violenta rappresaglia e perfino il governo degli Stati Uniti lo abbandona, Hoffmann capisce che è arrivato il momento di progettare la fuga, anche se stavolta il prezzo da pagare potrebbe essere molto alto. Tra ragazzini disposti a uccidere per riscattarsi dalla miseria, prostitute guerrigliere e politici corrotti, i due maestri del crime scandinavo firmano il loro capolavoro assoluto, uscito in contemporanea in oltre venti Paesi.
A cheap crooner by the name of John Schwarz earns his keep on a ferry between Sweden and Finland, singing evergreens for drunken passengers. One night, he loses his temper with a man harassing women in the crowd, beating him unconscious. As drunken brawls are commonplace on the Baltic cruising ferries, no one raises an eyebrow. No one, that is, but Detective Ewert Grens. Concerned by the details of the case report, Grens can’t help but think someone capable of such violence must have a history of it. As a precaution, he orders Schwarz arrested: one that is seemingly justified when Schwarz provides such resistance that he has to be sedated. Suspicion turns to shock when Grens discovers that John Schwarz does not exist. When he learns that the man in his custody is in fact John Meyer Frey—an American citizen from Marcusville, Ohio—he is even more astonished. John Meyer Frey cannot be sitting in front of him: John Meyer Frey died on Death Row the previous year. This mystery will initiate the most remarkable criminal investigation of Ewert Grens’ career, the reverberations of which will reach the highest tier of international politics, and blow the worldwide debate on the death penalty wide open. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ex-convict Piet Hoffman--a family man, a rising member of Stockholm's Polish mafia, and an undercover police informant--is sent to a maximum security prison to make himself the boss of the amphetamine trade so the police can shut it down.
