Box 21 (Ewert Grens #2 - Anders Roslund, Börge Hellström,

Written by Anders Roslund, Börge Hellström,
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In Stockholm, enslaved Lithuanian prostitute Lydia is broken free from her captors when one of them whips her nearly to death. The cops, led by Superintendent Ewert Brens, investigate the case, but before they’ve gotten very far Lydia, despite her injuries, manages to escape her hospital ward, take hostages, and demand that Brens send to her as negotiator his colleague and oldest friend Bengt Nordwall. Once Nordwall is in front of her, she murders him and kills herself.

Obviously Nordwall was part of the gang involved in bringing Lydia and countless others like her into slavery. At first Brens can’t believe it; then, when circumstances dictate that he has to believe it, he decides to submerge the evidence of Nordwall’s crime, telling himself that he’s doing so solely in order to protect the man’s widow and her children from the knowledge that her beloved husband and their beloved father was a monster.

Grens’s sidekick, Sven Sundkvist, eventually cottons on to what’s happening, but then he too must face a moral dilemma