Hallgrim's team is sidetracked in their search for a suspected suicide bomber who may be planning an attack at the wedding of an Iraqi professor's daughter, in Copenhagen.

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 police locate Kyle, the murderer of the little Danish girl, on his honeymoon in Oslo.

The murder and abuse of a little girl in Stockholm lead Hallgrim and his team to a world-wide paedophilia network and a mysterious man who calls himself "The Groom".

Hallgrim and his team try to stop a known terrorist called "The White Prince of Denmark" and Amina, a convicted criminal, from detonating a bomb on a school bus.

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.

Nazim is mortally wounded during an altercation between the former Serbian police chief Bosco, and Nino, who is the only person left who can testify against him at the war tribunal. German Intelligence finds out that Bosco is involved in international trade with some advanced electronics equipment, a so-called "jammer", which they think he will test when the Serbian Interior Minister, Milan, is visiting Denmark. In spite of death threats against her, Thea does not cancel the Serbian minister's visit. They are kidnapped. A video is sent to Hallgrim with a demand for a hostage exchange - Thea and Milan for Bosco.

Thea Nellemann's team is organising a surprise party for Hallgrim to celebrate his 40th. But he goes missing when he finds out that he has fathered a little girl. In Iceland he meets up with a journalist, Linda, who is writing a story about the company Gentech. She's also interested in the jamming device that the former Serbian police commissioner Bosco allegedly has.

Hallgrim and Marie attend a conference in Sweden where they locate the person behind the Lithuanian sex trade. A price is put on Hallgrim's head, and someone comes to collect.

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.

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.

When the police seize a consignment of enriched uranium, Hallgrim makes a deal with Sergei in order to discover its planned destination. Meanwhile, Frandsen's life hangs in the balance as he is checked for radiation sickness.

In trying to find the truth about a batch of uranium that was seized by the Danish police, Hallgrim befriends a Chechen scientist in Oslo who has a sinister mission in life. 

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.