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IN THE NY TIMES-BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF THREE SECONDS,Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens of THREE SECONDS returns in a fascinating thriller that centers on probably the most controversial topic in the current criminal justice system: the death penalty.In Kansas, seventeen-year-old John Meyer Frey degrades on Death Row for the brutal killing of his partner. While a jail guard is split by empathy for the child, the victim's dad hungers for revenge. When Frey suddenly dies of cardiovascular disease before he both gets his only abuse or defines payoff, the wheels of justice grind to your halt. Six decades later, on the ferry between Finland and Sweden, a vocalist named John Schwarz viciously attacks a drunken lout bothering a lady, making the person in a coma. The Stockholm authorities charge Schwarz for aggravated assault, nevertheless when Grens discovers that the attacker hasbeen residing in Sweden under a fake identity, he starts to believe that something deeper and more complicated underlies the event.