Lethal cargo

Bo Norgren, the thriller writer who has been called Sweden's Ed McBain... 'Lethal cargo' is Bo Norgren's first novel, first published in Swedish in 1991. The addict woke up with a start and stared without understanding at the gloved hand that was pulling a needle out of his forearm. He looked up at the man’s face and suddenly understood. His face filled with horror and contorted in agony. He had seen those eyes before, they looked like the eyes of a dead man. “You devil”, he hissed, but nobody heard him. His murderer had left him alone in the apartment. Detective Inspector Göran Ålund goes to Gran Canaria on a winter holiday. He ends up in a small apartment hotel in San Agustin. Late one night, he sits down on the balcony for a nightcap. He witnesses something very strange. A transfer of some kind, probably narcotics, is his theory. He contacts his colleagues in Stockholm and asks them to find more information for him to act upon. Pretty soon, it turns out that Ålund was right. A large consign- ment of cocaine is on its way to Sweden. The traces lead to the finer parlours, right into an exclusive apartment in Upper Östermalm. The man who lives there, is bringing on a lethal cargo.