

5.050 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestSomeone is killing off Swedish military officers and making it look like the works of Soviet agents. Hamilton has to crack the case before all hell breaks loose and there is a full scale spy-war with the soviets.
Acting
Peter Haber's restrained desperation as Hamilton
Production
Gloomy 1990 Sweden captured in glorious beige
Writing
Jan Guillou adapting his own spy novels with bitter authenticity
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired months after the Berlin Wall fell, making its Cold War anxiety already nostalgic.
Jan Guillou based Hamilton partly on real Swedish intelligence failures he'd exposed as a journalist.