He walked over the corpses to get to the very top. He blackmailed and framed people, not afraid to get dirty. His name is Kim Sleisner, and he is the chief of police in Copenhagen. Commissioner Fabian Risk is ready to do anything to ensure that his sworn enemy is finally behind bars. His former colleague Dunya Hugor has gone underground and her former boss Sleizner is under investigation, but she hopes to get to him first. Fabian Risk supports her in her search for clues. But when a high-ranking Danish intelligence officer and an unidentified woman are found dead at the bottom of a lake near Copenhagen, it seems that the trap has been sprung and the end is in sight. Surely Sleizner is behind this. But everything is not so simple, and perhaps the person who was caught in the snare was not the one they wanted to catch.