The King's Council

1954, in a condemned building in Oslo: A Norwegian official suspected of being a Soviet spy is being tortured to death.

Present day: Three Norwegian ambassadors die in suspicious circumstances.

At the same time, a female Russian oligarch has managed to establish herself almost unnoticed in Oslo. How can this have taken place?

Kyrre Kaupang has now become a central figure in the intelligence group The Foundation – a spirited and half-democratic leftover of the days of the Cold War. They have only just started to investigate the death of the first ambassador when they are told from the highest authority to discontinue their investigations.