# Victim 2117 by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Paperback)

**THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR  
27 MILLION BOOKS SOLD  
WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD**  
  
_**In the heart-pounding eighth instalment 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.  
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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.  
  
**Praise for Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q series:  
  
'Everything you could possibly want from a thriller and much, much more' _Kirkus_  
  
'So engrossing' 5\* reader review  
  
'Adler-Olsen is the new "it" boy of Nordic Noir' _The Times_  
  
'The best author around' 5\* reader review  
  
'Engrossing' _Sunday Express_  
  
'Left me wanting more' 5\* reader review  
  
'Gripping storytelling' _Guardian_  
  
'Another gripping read from Jussi Adler-Olsen!' 5\* reader review  
  
'As impressive as it is unnerving' _Independent_**

## Details

- **Price:** 11.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Quercus
- **Tags:** All, thrillers

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