The sport and gaming industry is exploding, but beyond the online betting there is an underground market where the large transactions take place through match fixing, violence and corruption.

With massive amounts of research as his backdrop, Engman has created a fictional thriller about the merciless game behind the games. With its multifaceted characters, X is a profound suspense novel about a person’s strongest driving forces.

A violent shootout with a deadly outcome on a public street puts fear in the hearts of the inhabitants of Järva. What is the next move in the war between the Wolves and the YBT, two rival gangs in the suburbs? In the shadow of the violence and for fear of his life, store owner Fatou Diop is time and again forced to turn a blind eye to the atrocities. But the line for how much a person can be forced to endure without resisting must be drawn somewhere.

Two bodies are discovered in a Stockholm park, one is a policeman and the other is an unidentified young woman. With the police believing the woman to be nothing more than unfortunate collateral damage, they focus on the murder of the police officer. But Detective Vanessa Frank takes a different approach and her investigation turns out to be more personal than she could have imagined, leading her toward a real terror threat.