Three Seconds
Paperback Published on: 01/11/2011
Price: £8.97
Publisher information
- Publisher: Union Square & Co.
- ISBN: 9781402788789
- Number of pages: 489
- Dimensions: 220 x 156 x 27 mm
- Weight: 662g
- Languages: English
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Tense and gripping
Understandably, Quercus are promoting Three Seconds on the back of their big success with the Stieg Larrson trilogy. While both are Swedish and focused on ... READ MORE
A darkly scorching read - Well worth it
Communism’s fall created a vacuum spawning a new form of aggressive gangster Capitalism whose claws now reach to rip the breast of their ancestral homeland... READ MORE
Great Book
I really enjoyed this book although I was drawn to buy it by an advert which said 'The new Steig Larsson' and I don't think it is as good as the Millennium... READ MORE
Three Seconds - Very disappointing.
I wanted to read this as it has won Swedish Crime Thriller and I am a fan of Swedish and Nordic crime (Mankell, Nesbo, Larsson, Theorin, etc) as well as be... READ MORE
Three Seconds
This is my first dive into the Swedish Crime fiction, I did find it incredibly confusing for the first 100 pages, The pace of the writing is very fast and ... READ MORE
Three Seconds
I wanted to read this as I am a fan of Henning Mankell. I was a little disappointed with Three Seconds to be honest. Granted it was action packed and well ... READ MORE
Don't believe the hype
Like some of the other reviewers I received this book rather late and I really struggled to finish it. There are a lot of great Swedish authors, including ... READ MORE
Three seconds too long
Bearing in mind I received this book and was expected to write the review in 6 days I thought it would be difficult but not impossible but I was mistaken.
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Disapointing
I got this book quite late and have not been able to finish this book yet. I was really looking forward to reading this book but couldn't really get into t... READ MORE
A slow burner - gets warmer the longer its on!
Any fan of quick, seemingly unrelated sequences segueing into one another rapidly will immediately feel at home with the first half of this thriller. For m... READ MORE
Spellbinding Read
'Three Seconds' - Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom are the Winners of the Swedish Crime Novel of the Year with this offering from the publishers of Steig... READ MORE
Intelligent Thriller
This is a thriller for those who, like me, don't normally read thrillers. From the start it grips the reader by the neck and doesn't let go.
Piet Hoffman i... READ MORE
Deceit double dealing and danger
Deceit double dealing and danger sum up the ingredients of this book. The hero, if that's a reasonable term, is manoeuvred and manipulated by all sides whi... READ MORE
briiliant read
This book was very good the only thing i would say is if you find the first chapter hard going PLEASE perserve it is definetley worth continuing. i think y... READ MORE
Worth Sticking With
As with any book that has been translated, there are bound to be some areas that still cause problems for the language barrier. With "Three Seconds" I foun... READ MORE
Three Seconds
Great Swedish crime writers seem like buses you wait for ages for one and then a load come together and Roslund and Hellstrom are up theree make no mistake... READ MORE
Compelling and morbidly fascinating
I initially thought this book might be a bit grim and depressing, but found it a compelling and morbidly fascinating read.
It describes the underworld of ... READ MORE
A Good Read
For me this started out with everything against it. Due to a family wedding I was pushed for reading time, I'd found my previous journey into Swedish Crime... READ MORE
Overlong and episodic
This `International Bestseller` would be appropriate for fans of `The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo` and `Wallender` series. However, for someone who has not... READ MORE