Those Who Ran
ORIGINAL TITLE: Flickorna som sprang
AUTHOR: Simon Häggström
ORIGINAL PUBLISHER: Harper Collins Nordic
GENRE: Fiction
Detective Simon Häggström is part of the Swedish national police’s human trafficking unit. In May 2019 his first novel, Those Who Ran, based on real events, is published by Harper Collins Nordic.
Simon Häggström has been a detective for 10 years, specializing on prostitution and human trafficking.
In Those Who Ran, Häggström invites the reader into a world of shadows, inhabited by cops, pimps and johns – and by those struggling to survive in these environments. In addition to a truthful depiction of the often willfully ignored dark sides of society, the novel also explores the incredible human ability to survive under the most extreme circumstances.
Simon Häggström has previously published the nonfiction books Shadow Law (2016) and Night City (2017).
Reviews
Endorsements
"Simon Häggström’s nonfiction accounts are among the most thrilling I have read. Now, we have the opportunity to immerse ourselves in this clandestine world that is still unexplored in the crime novel context.".
Céline Hamilton, publisher HarperCollins Nordic
Rights sold
Japanese rights sold to Hayakawa Publishing Corporation
