Victim 2117

The intricate past of one of the department's own, the mysterious Assad, is revealed in the gripping new chapter of the #1 worldwide bestselling and New York Times Department Q series, which follows a terrifying international investigation.

She is simply identified in the press as Victim 2117, the 2,170th refugee to perish in the Mediterranean Sea. However, the unidentified victim is much more than that to three others, and her passing starts a series of events that draw Detective Carl Mÿrck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, into an extremely personal and dangerous case that not only reveals deadly secrets about the past but also has far-reaching implications for the present and future.

The killing of Victim 2117 becomes a symbol of everything that troubled Danish teen Alex, whose identity is concealed behind his computer screen, resents, and the ideal justification for letting his violent instincts run wild in real life. Ghallib, a notorious prisoner of Saddam Hussein who was one of the most vicious torturers from Abu Ghraib, saw the death of Victim 2117 as the beginning of a terrorist conspiracy that had been planned for years. Victim 2117 also provides Department Q's Assad with a hint that suggests the family he thought was long dead might still be alive, as well as a link to his forgotten history.

In order to find Ghallib, Assad will eventually have to face up to his unpleasant memories of his time spent in both Syria and Afghanistan with the aid of the Department Q squad, Carl, Rose, and Gordon. But if Department Q is to avoid thousands of innocent deaths, they must stay one step ahead of their deadliest opponent to date as the clock is ticking down to Alex's first kill and Ghallib's catastrophic onslaught.