<p><b><font>THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR<br>27 MILLION BOOKS SOLD<br>WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD</font></b><br><br><b>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.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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 M¿rck, 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.<br><br>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 mu