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In Arne Dahls riveting follow-up to Misterioso, the Intercrime team is assigned the task of tracking down an American serial killer on the loose in Swedenquietly, and as quickly as possible.When a Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a janitors closet at Newark International Airport, the police realize that the murderer made off with the victims ticket and boarded a flight to Stockholm. Swedish authorities are placed on high alert, but the killer manages to slip through the customs dragnet and vanishes into the night. With no clear motive in sight, Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of Intercrimes A-Unit take over the investigation. They learn that the method of torture used was not only a highly specialized means of extracting information secretly developed during the Vietnam Warallowing the victim to whisper, but not to screambut also that it was the modus operandi of an allegedly deceased homicidal maniac known only as the Kentucky Killer.