The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey

A Danish businessman who has been trading weapons for tantalum with Le Mabé, is blackmailed by him. Meanwhile Le Mabé is hiding in Denmark with his former child soldier from Congo.

Hallgrim continues his hunt for Benjamin Stern who is deeply involved in the blood diamond trade from Congo. Michael finds an e-mail on Benjamin's computer to Le Mabë who is wanted in connection to war crimes. The mail also refers to two Congolese women who have sought asylum in Denmark, both of whom have been subjected to cruel rapes. Meanwhile, Hallgrim starts up a romance with a Swedish Flight Attendant.

Through blackmail, Benjamin Stern secures a matrix of a Euro. All he needs now is the special banknote paper that is being transported through Berlin in a camouflaged garbage truck. Hallgrim learns of his plan. In an effort to sidetrack the police, Benjamin gets a drug addict to drive a van into a schoolyard in Berlin. There's a bomb in the back, which is set to go off at noon.

Hallgrim moves into the Opera Hotel to recuperate and, like the hero in the Hitchcock film Rear Window, becomes fascinated by a beautiful young woman in a flat opposite. When he sees a man enter and start beating her, he films the attack and he recognises the man as Benjamin Stern, an unscrupulous member of the Israeli mafia. He later discovers a disturbing connection with a child pornography ring.

The trail of murders, including the crown witness, shows Hallgrim that he is getting dangerously close to Sergei. Nervous, Hallgrim worries for Marie's safety and spends the night at her apartment. Searching for clues in Berit’s effects Ditte receives a tip to look for the one thing that doesn’t fit the normal pattern; a plastic card that contains a map leads the team to an industrial area in the harbour and some very dangerous goods.

A wealthy Norwegian businesswoman is found dead outside Hallgrim’s hotel and the team is led once more to Sergei Varsjinskij and an intricate money-laundering scheme.

Hallgrim is still in hot pursuit of ex-KGB man Sergei Varsjinskij and Luka Ivanovitsj Budanov; a new face joins the team while the relationship between Marie and Hallgrim heats up.

The enigmatic Hallgrim Hallgrimsson is on his way to Iceland to see his sick mother when he is called back because a policeman has been killed at Copenhagen airport. Four murders and a daring rescue later detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson, AKA The Eagle, accepts a position in the police commissioner's new team so he can work on solving the case.