From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels—a fast,
tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly
sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected
meditation on death and love.
This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" for one of Oslo's most
powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also an unusually complicated fixer. He has a
capacity for love that is as far-reaching as is his gift for murder. He is our
straightforward, calm-in-the-face-of-crisis narrator with a storyteller's
hypnotic knack for fantasy. He has an "innate talent for subordination" but
running through his veins