Breaking her personal code to date a charming patient, Sophie Brinkmann discovers that he is the head of a powerful international crime organization warring against a ruthless German syndicate.
The Andalucian friend: a novel
β Scribed by Alexander Soderberg
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 248 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1448137497
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β¦ Synopsis
A Monumental Crime Thriller--The First of a Trilogy--That Will Set the World On Fire **
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When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, her life is perfectly uneventful. She's a nurse and a single mother, living with her son in a sleepy Stockholm suburb. She likes Guzman's quiet charm and easy smile; she likes the way he welcomes her into his family. She quickly learns, though, that his smooth fa Γ§ade masks something much more sinister--he's the head of an international crime ring that is at war with a rival organization. Before she can fully grasp the extent of his dangerous world, her life starts to come undone: her family is at risk, a long-lost friend mysteriously resurfaces, and she realizes that she can trust no one. Whether she likes it or not, she's now at the center of a global turf war between Spanish drug traffickers, German gangsters, Russian hit men, and Swedish cops. To get out alive, and with her integrity intact, she will have to summon...
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