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THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF THREE SECONDS AND CELL 8 INTRODUCE DCI EWERT GRENS TO THE CRUEL REALITY OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

'This is crime writing at its most ambitious and morally complex' Financial Times

Lydia Grajauskas will never forget the face.

The face of the trafficker who brought her to Stockholm: the man responsible for three unrelenting years of forced prostitution and slavery.

DCI Ewert Grens will never forget the name.

The name of the prisoner the day his life was destroyed: the man responsible for twenty-five years of torturous heartache.

Sweden will never forget their revenge . . .

Box 21 is a steely, airtight thriller containing both the harshest aspects of degradation and retaliation, and the toughest questions surrounding the morality of violent and obsessive reprisal.


Looking for a companion to Box 21? Look no further than Roslund & Hellstroem's Pen 33 . . .

  • ISBN10 0374282951
  • ISBN13 9780374282950
  • Publish Date 13 October 2009 (first published 1 February 2007)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 26 February 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 393
  • Language English