num_pages: 376
description: In Iceland revenge is best served at arctic temperaturesIceland 1934: Two boys playing in the lava fields that surround their isolated farmsteads see something they shouldn't have. The consequences will haunt them and their families for generations.Iceland 2009: the credit crunch bites. The currency has been devalued banks nationalized savings annihilated lives ruined. Grassroots revolution is in the air as is the feeling that someone ought to pay...ought to pay the blood price. And in a country with a population of just 300000 souls in a country where everyone knows everybody it isn't hard to draw up a list of exactly who is responsible.And then one-by-one to cross them off.Iceland 2010: As bankers and politicians start to die at home and abroad it is up to Magnus Jonson to unravel the web of conspirators before they strike again. But while Magnus investigates the crimes of the present the crimes of the past are catching up with him in Far North the newest heart-stopping mystery from acclaimed author Michael Ridpath.
language: English
title: Far North
publisher: Minotaur Books