num_pages: 334
description: A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail in a sophisticated riveting historical Nordic Noir thriller set in interwar and prohibition-era Norway.Oslo 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitlers Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; theres a civil war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy.When a woman turns up at the office of police-turned-private investigator Ludvig Paaske he and his assistant  his one-time nemesis and former drug-smuggler Jack Rivers  begin a seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity.But all is not what it seems and when Jack is accused of murder the trail leads back to the 1920s to prohibition-era Norway to the smugglers sex workers and hoodlums of his criminal past ... and an extraordinary secret.Both a fascinating portrait of Oslos interwar years with Nazis operating secretly on Norwegian soil and militant socialists readying workers for war The Assistant is also a stunningly sophisticated tension-packed thriller  the darkest of hard-boiled Nordic Noir  from one of Norways most acclaimed crime writers.
language: English
title: The Assistant
publisher: Orenda Books