
By Knut Faldbakken
An elaborate power struggle for the control of something that promises to yield spectacular profits. Three persons are involved, and in this ruthless conflict no holds are barred – there’s violence, torture, erotic seduction, and a brutal murder. It is the murder that brings Hamar police superintendent Jonfinn Valmann onto the case, since the victim – an innocent young man – was a relative of his. Along with Anita Hegg, his partner not only on the job but at home, Valmann is drawn into a breakneck series of events in which the question is not only whether they can track down the guilty parties, but also – and equally important – whether they can track them down in time to keep them from killing one another...