I finished this book in Mid March, 2021 and I got the book on Kindle for only $2.99.
Roslund is a professional journalist and Hellstrom is an ex-criminal who founded a criminal rehabilitation program in Sweden.
The book is set in Denmark.
The story is about a confidential informant who is sent into the prison system to take over the drug trade behind bars.
The book is a detailed account of the informant, Piet Hoffman, as he realizes that the police have cut him off and now he must arrange his escape or the gangs will kill him.
In the movie the best scene is where Piet is involved in a major drug deal. Since he is undercover he demands that the guy he is dealing with is not police. This man is actually another informant working for another branch of the police. This guy is killed and the police who are monitoring the situation believe that Piet did it.
He orchestrates a shooting from a location outside of the prison. Lots of details about long distance shooting.
***It's illegal for the army to be used in civil matters and the authorities make the shooter leave the army and be hired by the civilian police force.
From the book's page at Wikipedia:
"Piet Hoffman, a top secret operative for the Swedish police, is about to embark on 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 deep cover, posing as a prisoner inside the country's most notorious jail.
But when a botched drug deal involving Hoffman results in a murder, the investigation is assigned to the brilliant but haunted Detective Inspector Ewert Grens--a man who never gives up until he's cracked the case. Grens's determination to find the killer not only threatens to expose Hoffman's true identity-it may reveal even bigger crimes involving the highest levels of power. And there are people who will do anything to stop him from discovering the truth."
The film is called 'THE INFORMER'(2019) and stars Joel Kinnaman (this was probably his best role), Clive Owen, and Rosamund Pike
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