THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR27 MILLION BOOKS SOLDWINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARDIn
the heart-pounding eighth instalment of the No.1 bestselling Department Q series a terrifying
international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department's own - the
enigmatic Assad.The newspaper refers to the dead body only as Victim 2117 - the two thousand
one hundred and seventeenth refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea.But to three people the
victim is so much more and the death sets off a chain of events that throws Department Q
Copenhagen's cold cases division led by Detective Carl Mørck into a deeply dangerous - and
deeply personal - case: a case that not only reveals dark secrets about the past but has
deadly implications for the future.For a troubled Danish teen the death of Victim 2117 becomes
a symbol of everything he resents and is the perfect excuse to unleash his murderous impulses.
For Ghallib a brutal tormentor from the notorious prison Abu Ghraib the death of Victim 2117
was the first step in a terrorist plot years in the making. And for Department Q's Assad
Victim 2117 is a link to his buried past and to the family he assumed was long dead.
