Agent Pete Hoffmann's mission is deadly. He infiltrated the top criminal structures to intercept drug trafficking in one of Sweden's most secure prisons. On instructions from the police. On instructions from the mafia. Success means freedom and a further quiet life with his beloved wife and sons. Failure means death. When police commissioner Evert Grens, investigating a strange murder at one of the mafia safe houses, gets on Hoffmann's trail, knowing nothing about his secret mission, the agent's fate hangs in the balance. Only three seconds separate him from death - the flight time of a sniper bullet.