Spice Trade

When a terrified woman falls from a rooftop across the street, Swe den’s Chief Superintendent Walther Ekman is unexpectedly thrust into an international investigation that threatens to end with his death. As the search deepens, Ekman and his team gradually uncover a multinational drug and human traf ficking ring with an influential clien tele. After an unexpected Moroccan connection is made, Ekman is led to a remote farmhouse prison out side Stockholm that held kidnapped women, where he discovers that a Moroccan confederate has exacted a terrible revenge. With his friends from the Crimi nal Investigations Department, Garth Rystrom and Valdis Granholm, Ekman travels to Morocco to rescue five trafficked witnesses and uncover the foreign assassin. They find them selves in the middle of a politically sensitive operation to close down the ring, becoming targets for the vindic tive head of the Moroccan network. Although his investigation of the traffickers has ended successfully, Ekman is still hunting for the hidden murderer he knows must be some where out there