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When FBI undercover agent John Adderley wakes up in a Baltimore hospital bed, the victim of multiple gunshot wounds, he knows he was lucky to survive. But then he spots, in a nearby bed, the man who just twenty-four hours earlier had held a gun to his head. Ten years earlier, in Karlstad, Sweden, Emelie Bjurwall, the young heiress to the multinational clothing company AckWe, disappeared, and her parents fear she was kidnapped. After traces of blood and semen are found on a rock by the water, the local police detain a nineteen-year-old boy from a poor family. He, however, denies the accusations, and since Emelie's body was never found, the case ultimately doesn't proceed. Back in the present, the file on Emelie's high-profile case lands on Agent Adderley's desk, and he finally decides to return to Sweden – which he left when he was very young – as soon as he testifies against the drug cartel he helped dismantle as an undercover agent. With a new identity and under witness protection, Adderley is integrated into the Karlstad police. He is determined to solve Emelie's case, but at the same time, he is aware that the cartel has put a bounty on his head and that the punishment for his betrayal is death... Lista de Desejos (Wish List) is the thrilling debut novel by the duo Peter Mohlin and Peter Nyström, which begins a remarkable Nordic series starring a Swedish-American FBI agent. Like the best writers in the genre, such as Henning Mankell or Jo Nesbø, Mohlin and Nyström combine a powerful detective story with a novel of great richness and psychological depth, thus creating a work that no reader can resist.