Summer, 1943. 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 in this breath-taking WW2 thriller.
Daniel BerkÅk works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Stockholm. On his last cross-border mission to Norway, he carries a rucksack full of coded documents and newspapers, but before he has a chance to deliver anything he is shot and killed and the contents of his rucksack are missing. The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened, and the job goes to writer Jomar Kraby, whose first suspect is a Norwegian refugee living in Sweden, whose past that is as horrifying as the events still to come...
Daniel BerkÅk works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Stockholm. On his last cross-border mission to Norway, he carries a rucksack full of coded documents and newspapers, but before he has a chance to deliver anything he is shot and killed and the contents of his rucksack are missing. The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened, and the job goes to writer Jomar Kraby, whose first suspect is a Norwegian refugee living in Sweden, whose past that is as horrifying as the events still to come...
Kjell Ola Dahl has been called Royalty in the Nordic Noir circles and it's always clear why. The Lazarus Solution is a hard-hitting historical thriller that throws the reader right into the middle of fraught warzones, tense political climates and deep conflict in the most vividly engrossing ways.
Now this might be a weird thing to say about a story set during bloody war and surrounded by death and betrayal, but there is a strange kind of beauty in Dahls writing. The way he brings characters to life in front of us, the little strands of their personalities that weave together to make such an intensely intricate and fully realised character. The settings are masterfully created to be so vivid that we are transported to a not too distant past in painstaking detail.
As we jump between perspectives, we move quickly through the story that's part procedural, part thriller - it's clear it's been methodically researched and thought out throughout. There is a steady pace, moving scene to scene at speed but taking it's time revealing the many layers of deception and deceit that eventually come together to reveal an astounding snapshot of life in a warzone.
About the Author:
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Dahl was born in 1958 in Gjøvik. He made his debut in 1993, and has since published fourteen novels, the most prominent of which is a series of police procedurals cum psychological thrillers featuring investigators Gunnarstranda and Frølich. In 2000 he won the Riverton Prize for The Last Fix and he won both the prestigious Brage and Riverton Prizes for The Courier in 2015. His work has been published in 14 countries, and he lives in Oslo.
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