The Silenced

The Silenced
Литагент HarperCollins

WINNER SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR.The adrenaline-charged and suspenseful thriller set in a ruthless world where all means are permitted in the fight for power.When a savaged body is found in the waters outside the governing party’s conference centre, the case lands on detective Julia Gabrielsson’s desk. Who is the deceased and why has somebody gone to such trouble to make sure the body is unidentifiable?Officer David Sarac is a man haunted by demons. After a violent showdown that almost cost him his life, the policeman is being treated at a closed ward far from the capital. Soon he will permanently silence the accusing voices in his head. But a mysterious offer has David changing his mind.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

Copyright © 2015 Anders de la Motte

Translation copyright © Neil Smith 2017

Published by agreement with Solomonsson Agency

Cover design by Richard Augustus © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2017

Cover photographs © Robert Jones / Arcangel Images (http://www.arcangel.com)

Anders de la Motte asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

Originally published as UltiMatum in 2015 in Sweden

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780008101138

Ebook Edition © June 2017 ISBN: 9780008101145

Version: 2017-04-25

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Contents

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Title Page (#u3de62ae7-6c67-58d5-8ef0-63d4bbbeef08)

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Dedication (#u386a39a0-ce8d-599a-8fa6-a773f7c3abb2)

Prologue (#u126ccfe4-3f13-570c-846f-851ede1f43d2)

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Chapter Three (#u503c0467-3315-51db-bbf4-231bc22c3a15)

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