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When a courier for Sweden’s Press and Military Office is killed on his final mission, the Norwegian government-in-exile appoints a writer to find the missing documents ? breathtaking WW2 thriller.
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**International NUMBER ONE bestseller**
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‘A stylish stand-alone thriller from the godfather of Scandi noir ? Ola Dahl ratchets up the tension from the first pages and never lets go’Â Sunday Times
‘Absorbing, heart-rending and perfectly plotted’Â Denzil Meyrick
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‘Expertly crafted’ John Harvey
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Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk, who works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Sweden, is killed on his last cross-border mission to Norway.
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Demobbed sailor Kai Fredly escapes from occupied Norway into Sweden, but finds that the murder of his Nazi-sympathiser brother is drawing the attention of the authorities on both sides of the border.
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The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened to their courier, and the job goes to writer Jomar Kraby, whose first suspect is a Norwegian refugee living in Sweden ? a refugee with a past as horrifying as the events still to come ? a refugee named Kai Fredly?
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Both classic crime and a stunning exposé of Norwegian agents in Stockholm during the Second World War, The Lazarus Solution is a compulsive, complex and dazzling historical thriller from one of the genre’s finest writers.
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For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Lars Mytting, Mick Herron and Robert Harris.
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‘The detail is impressive’Â Daily Mail
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‘Kjell Ola Dahl’s novels are superb. If you haven’t read one, you need to right now’Â William Ryan
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‘A dark but richly described backdrop and a relentless, underlying tension ? Fans of Nordic noir will be satisfied’Â Publishers Weekly
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