num_pages: 300
description: An insurance mathematicians carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park  with a whole host of problems. A quirky tense and warmly funny thriller from award-winning Finnish author Antti Tuomainen. What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal. And then for the first time Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother  its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. The worst of the financial issues appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal quarters  and some dangerous men are very keen to get their money back. But what Henri really cant compute is love. In the adventure park Henri crosses paths with Laura an artist with a chequered past and a joie de vivre and erratic lifestyle that bewilders him. As the criminals go to extreme lengths to collect their debts and as Henri's relationship with Laura deepens he finds himself faced with situations and emotions that simply cannot be pinned down on his spreadsheets Warmly funny rich with quirky characters and absurd situations The Rabbit Factor is a triumph of a dark thriller its tension matched only by its ability to make us rejoice in the beauty and random nature of life.
language: English
title: The Rabbit Factor
publisher: Orenda Books