Victim 2117
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Spanish journalist Joan Aiguadar inadvertently sets off simultaneous mass-murder plots when he reports on the death of Victim 2117, an elderly woman whose body washed onto a Cyprian shore after her refugee raft capsized. In Copenhagen, Department Q's Hafez el-Assad's world tilts when he spots the article: Victim 2117 was a close family friend, Lely Kebabi. Even worse, the accompanying photo shows his long-lost wife and daughter alongside feared Iraqi interrogator Abdul Azim. Sixteen years ago, el-Assad reveals, he was a Danish intelligence officer dispatched to Iraq and was captured by the secret police. El-Assad managed to escape, but not before he made an enemy of his torturer, Azim, by scarring his face with Azim's own acid. Azim kidnapped el-Assad's wife and daughters, dragging them through battlefields in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria while he searched for el-Assad. Azim uses Aiguadar to draw el-Assad and Department Q chief Carl Morck to Germany, where he plans to force el-Assad to watch his family die in a terror attack. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, a disturbed young man warns police that he's planning a killing spree inspired by Victim 2117.,Provided by publisher.

Translated from the Danish.