Victim 2117

In The Heart-pounding New Installment Of The No.1 Bestselling Department Q Series, A Terrifying International Investigation Reveals The Complex Backstory Of One Of The Department's Own - The Enigmatic Assad. The Newspaper Refers To The Dead Body Only As Victim 2117 - The Two Thousand, One Hundred And Seventeenth Refugee To Die In The Mediterranean Sea. But To Three People, The Victim Is So Much More, And The Death Sets Off A Chain Of Events That Throws Department Q, Copenhagen's Cold Cases Division Led By Detective Carl Mørck, Into A Deeply Dangerous - And Deeply Personal - Case: A Case That Not Only Reveals Dark Secrets About The Past, But Has Deadly Implications For The Future. For A Troubled Danish Teen, The Death Of Victim 2117 Becomes A Symbol Of Everything He Resents And Is The Perfect Excuse To Unleash His Murderous Impulses. For Ghallib, A Brutal Tormentor From The Notorious Prison Abu Ghraib, The Death Of Victim 2117 Was The First Step In A Terrorist Plot, Years In The Making. And For Department Q's Assad, Victim 2117 Is A Link To His Buried Past And To The Family He Assumed Was Long Dead.