Damascus, early 1980s. An unnamed American spy leaves his newborn child helpless to an uncertain fate... Thirty years later, a young Swedish woman, Clara Walden, an employee of the European Union in Brussels, and her ex-boyfriend Mahmoud Sammos are confronted with sensitive information, for the concealment of which some are willing to kill. On the other side of the world, an old spy hiding from his past and now living only to swim in the local pool learns that his daughter has been caught up in a relentless chase in Europe. Only the "Swimmer" can save her. But time is running out... The many threads of a story that begins from afar will come together on Christmas Eve in a village in the wild Swedish archipelago. A novel that combines electrifying action with an atmosphere that transports the reader to unfamiliar places, a book about guilt and redemption, which has been translated with great success into more than 30 languages.