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Guardians of the covenant
(Paktens Voktere)
First Published: Autumn 2007
In the year 1013, Viking warriors raided an
Egyptian tomb and unknowingly stole the
greatest secret of the Old Testament …
The neurotic and quirky archaeologist Bjørn Beltø
leads an average life, until the day he finds ancient
Viking parchments containing rune chiffers and
code riddles, which lead him on a quest from the
wild Icelandic landscape and Norwegian stave
churches to Egyptian tombs, antiquarian book
stores in Rome, and even across the Atlantic to
America and a mysterious palace in the Caribbean.
Powerful forces are against him, but the relentless
archaeologist manages to unveil a historicalreligious cover-up with potentially fatal
consequences.
Part thriller, part intellectual quest, Guardians of
the covenant explores Biblical and historical myths.
“
Guardians of the Covenant is a
novel about issues that fascinate
and intrigue me to no end. The
Viking Age. Ancient Egypt. Stave
churches. Codes and ciphers.
Theology and mythology. The
origin of the Bible.
”
Tom Egeland, See page 14-15
Tom Egeland
Tom Egeland has written six
critically acclaimed thrillers. His
books have been printed in
several editions, and have been
translated into 17 languages so
far. The author has worked as a
professional journalist for
Norwegian press and broadcasting. Since 1992, he has been
the news director at TV2, in the
Oslo editorial office. In 2006,
Egeland resigned his position with
TV 2 to pursue a full-time writing
career. Tom Egeland is also a script
writer for movies and TV series. He
has written the movie script based
on his own novel “Night of the
Wolves”, which is in production,
and has also been commissioned
to write future movie scripts.
Prior to publication, Guardians of the
Covenant has been sold to: John Murray
(Great Britain), City Editiones (France),
Ediciones B (Spain) and Livanis (Greece). Guardians of
the Covenant
Snorri Sturluson
vikings
Vikings – famed for the fast longships – were
feared all over the western world. The term “viking”
refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring
traders, warriors and pirates who raided and
colonized wide areas of Europe from the 9th to
the 11th century and reached west to Vinland
(America) and east to Russia and Constantinople.
Leif Eriksson, known from Icelandic sagas as a
descendant from a line of Viking chieftains who
had established the first European settlement in
Greenland in about 985, was most likely the
European discoverer of America in about 1000.
In England the Viking Age began dramatically
on June 8, 793 when heathen Norsemen de-
stroyed the Abbey church on Lindisfarne, a centre
of learning famous across the continent. Monks
were killed in the abbey itself, thrown into the
sea to drown or carried away as slaves along
with the church treasures.
The term Viking first meant a man from the
Vik, the bay that lies between Cape Lindesnes
in Norway and the mouth of the Göta River in
Sweden. The term has also denoted entire
populations of Viking Age Scandinavia and
their settlements, as an expanded meaning.
Viking voyages decreased and ended with the
introduction of Christianity to Scandinavia in the
late 10th and 11th century.
Renowned historian, poet and politician
Snorri Sturluson was born in 1179 and was
assasinated in 1241. This Icelandic giant was
the author of several of the Norse sagas.
He was the author of the Heimskringla, a
history of the Norwegian kings that begins
with legendary material in Ynglinga saga
and moves through to early medieval
Scandinavian history (one of Tolkien’s
inspirations when he wrote The Lord of the
Rings). He wrote The Prose Edda, a narrative
of Norse mythology, the Skáldskaparmál,
a book of poetic language, and the Háttatal,
a list of verse forms.
As a historian and mythographer,
Snorri is remarkable for proposing the
theory that mythological gods begin as
human war leaders and kings whose funeral
sites develop cults. Eventually, the king or
warrior is remembered only as a god.
He was twice lawspeaker at the
Icelandic parliament, the Althing. Snorri
was murdered by his ex-son-in-law, acting
on orders from the Norwegian king.
In Tom Egeland’s novel, Snorri is one of
the Norse “Guardians of the Covenant”.
The author Tom
Egeland researching
at Snorre’s outdoor
bath, where the first
killing in the novel takes
place. Assisting Tom is
the current vicar at
Reykholt, Geir Waage.
Saint Olav
King Olav Haraldsson was the king who
became the patron saint of Norway.
He was born in 995 and died at the
battle of Stiklestad on July 29, 1030. He was
king from 1015 to 1028. After his canonization he was known as Saint Olav – Olav
den hellige (Olav the Holy). Olav is generally
held to be the driving force behind
Norway’s final conversion to Christianity.
He left Norway at the age of 12 as head of a
viking fleet and returned in 1015 to be king.
Olav is the king who leads the viking
army down the Nile in Tom Egeland’s novel.
Moses is known as an early Biblical Hebrew
religious leader, lawgiver, prophet, and military
leader, to whom the authorship of the Torah
(The Books of Moses) is traditionally attributed.
He is also an important prophet in Christianity
and Islam.
However, many theologists and historians
agree that Moses has never lived…
According to the book of Exodus, Moses
was born to a Hebrew mother who hid him
when a Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew
boys to be killed, and ended up being adopted
into the Egyptian royal family. After killing an
Egyptian slave master, he fled and became a
shepherd, and was later commanded by God
to deliver the Hebrews from slavery. After the
Ten Plagues were unleashed on Egypt, he led
the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt, through the
Red Sea, and into the desert, where they
stayed for 40 years.
This is the Bible’s version. Most archaeologists, historians and theologists believe
Moses was a fictional character. No
physical evidence have been found to
corroborate his existence.
Furthermore, no single author wrote
the Torah, the Books of Moses. Research
the past 400 years reveal that the Torah
was written during a 500 year period,
beginning around 900 BC, and edited into
“the five books” around 400 BC.
According to the JEDP-theory – also
known as the documentary hypothesis
– the first five books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy, known
collectively as the Torah or Pentateuch),
represent a combination of documents
from four originally independent
sources:
the J, or Jahwist, source
the E, or Elohist, source
the D, or Deuteronomist, source
the P, or Priestly, source
The editor who combined the sources
into the final Pentateuch is known as R,
for Redactor.
Moses
The author, Tom Egeland, visited Egypt to
research not only Egyptian history, but also
the origin of the Books of Moses.
Towering towards the sky in grandeur,
Norse wooden stave churches are a
majestic sight.
Stave churches were once common
in Northern Europe. In Norway alone, a
total of about 2000 churches are
believed to have been built.
In Norway, 29 historical stave
churches remain standing.
Archaeological excavations have
shown that stave churches, best
represented today by the Borgund
stave church, descend from palisade
constructions and later churches
with earth-bound posts.
Buildt in an era where runes were
still in use, you can still find legible rune
messages carved into the stave
churches’ walls, floors and ceilings.
A stave church is a medieval
wooden church with a post and
beam construction related to timber
framing. The wall frames are filled
with vertical planks. The loadbearing posts have lent their name
to the building technique. Logs
were split in two halves, rammed
into the ground and given a roof.
This was a simple construction
yet very strong. If set in gravel
the wall could last for decades,
even centuries.
stave
churches
The mysterious cross
As revealed in Tom Egeland’s novel, the position of four
Norwegian stave churches – all erected between 1130 and
1280 – form a perfect Christian cross. These stave churches
– still standing and visited yearly by tens of thousands of
tourists – are Urnes, Lom, Flesberg and Ringebu.
The world’s remaining
old stave churches:
The majority of existing stave churches are found in Norway, but related
church types were once common all over northwestern Europe.
Norway:
Borgund stave church, Sogn og Fjordane, — end of the 12th century
Eidsborg stave church, Telemark, — the middle of the 13th century
Flesberg stave church in Flesberg, Buskerud, built around 1200
Fåvang stave church in Ringebu, Oppland, rebuilt in 1630
(two old churches rebuilt as one)
Garmo stave church, Oppland, — around 1150
Gol stave church in Gol (now at Norsk Folkemuseum), Buskerud, built 1212
Grip stave church, Møre og Romsdal, second half of the 15th century
Haltdalen stave church, Sør-Trøndelag, — 1170–1179
Hedal stave church, Oppland, — the second half of the 12th century
Heddal stave church, Telemark, — the beginning of the 13th century
Hegge stave church, Oppland, — 1216
Hopperstad stave church, Sogn og Fjordane, — 1140
Høre stave church, Oppland, — 1180
Høyjord stave church, Vestfold, — second half of the 12th century
Kaupanger stave church, Sogn og Fjordane, — 1190
Kvernes stave church, Møre og Romsdal, — second half of the 14th century
Lomen stave church, Oppland, — 1179
Lom stave church, Oppland, — second half of the 12th century
Nore stave church in Nore og Uvdal, Buskerud, built 1167
Øye stave church, Oppland, — second half of the 12th century
Reinli stave church, Oppland, — 1190
Ringebu stave church, Oppland, — the first quarter of the 13th century
Rollag stave church in Rollag, Buskerud, built second half of the 12th century
Rødven stave church, Møre og Romsdal, — around 1200
Røldal stave church, Hordaland, — first half of the 13th century
(could be a post church)
Torpo stave church in Ål, Buskerud, built 1192
Undredal stave church, Sogn og Fjordane, — the middle of the 12th century
Urnes stave church, Sogn og Fjordane, — first half of the 12th century
(On UNESCO’s World Heritage List)
Uvdal stave church in Andebu, Buskerud, built 1168
Poland:
Vang stave church moved to Poland
(no longer on the official list due to the reconstruction)
Sweden:
Hedared stave church in Sweden,
— ca 1500 on the site of an earlier stave church (not on the official list)
England:
Greensted church, 845 or 1053 (a church of Saxon origin,
sharing a lot of construction details with stave churches)
runes &
Hieroglyphs
Runes
Runes seem – to us – magical and
mysterious. But to our forefathers,
they were simply letters.
The Runic alphabets are a set of
related alphabets using letters
(known as runes), formerly used to
write Germanic languages before
and shortly after the Christianization
of Scandinavia and the British Isles.
The Scandinavian variants are also
known as Futhark (derived from their
first six letters: F, U, Þ, A, R and K); the
Anglo-Saxon variant as Futhorc (due
to sound changes undergone in Old
English by the same six letters).
The earliest runic inscriptions
date from ca. 150, and the alphabet
was generally replaced by the Latin
alphabet with Christianization, by ca.
700 in central Europe and by ca. 1100
in Scandinavia. However, the use of
runes persisted for specialized
purposes in Scandinavia, longest in
rural Sweden until the early 20th
century (used mainly for decoration
as runes in Dalarna and on Runic
calendars). The three best known
runic alphabets are:
the Elder Futhark (ca. 150–800)
the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc (400–1100)
the Younger Futhark (800–1100)
Hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs was a writing
system used by the ancient Egyptians that
contained a combination of logographic
and alphabetic elements. Cartouches were
also used. The variety of brush-painted
hieroglyphs used on papyrus and sometimes on wood for religious literature
is known as cursive hieroglyphs.
Hieroglyphs emerged from the
preliterate artistic traditions of Egypt.
For example, symbols on Gerzean pottery
from circa 4000 BC resemble hieroglyphic
writing.
The first full sentence written in
hieroglyphs so far discovered was found
on a seal impression found in the tomb of
Seth-Peribsen at Umm el-Qa’ab, which
dates from the Second Dynasty. In the era
of the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom
and the New Kingdom, about 800 hieroglyphs existed. By the Greco-Roman
period, they numbered more than 5 000.
Hieroglyphs consist of three kinds
of glyphs: phonetic glyphs, including
single-consonant characters that
functioned like an alphabet; logographs,
representing morphemes; and
determinatives, which narrowed down
the meaning of a logographic or
phonetic words.
Tom Egeland
and vicar Geir
Waage at Reykholt
study an ancient
rune codex.
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five-pointed star drawn with five
straight strokes.
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was believed to protect against witches
and demons. The pentagram figured
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romances. Probably due to misinterpretation of symbols used by ceremoThe sign combination ankh, ty and
nial magicians, it later became associcross in this novel signifies the union
ated with Satanism and subsequently
of ancient Egyptian mythology with
rejected by most of Christianity
Norse and Christian mythology.
sometime in the twentieth century.
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Egyptian
Dragehode from traditional
The symbols derived
hieroglyphic character that stood for the
morning star pentagrams are no
Egyptian word ”life”. Egyptian gods are
longer commonly used in mainstream
often portrayed carrying it by its loop, or
Christianity.
bearing one in each hand, arms crossed
over their chest. It is also known as the
Egyptian Cross, the key of life, or as crux
ansata, Latin for ”cross with a handle”. It
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Neopagans.
Ty is the Old Norwegian rune letter
connected to Tyr, the god of single
combat and heroic glory in Norse
mythology. Corresponding names in
Satanists use a pentagram with two
other Germanic languages include Tyz
points up, often inscribed in a double
(Gothic), Ti (Old Swedish), Tiw, Tiu, Tio,
circle, with the head of a goat inside
and Tig (Old English), Týr (Modern
the pentagram. This is referred to as
Icelandic and Faroese), Ziu and Zio (Old
the Sigil of Baphomet. They use it much
High German), and possibly, even Teiw
the same way as the Pythagoreans,
Ty –inlitt
fetere
Kors
fetere
Proto-Germanic.
as Tartaros means
Hell–inlitt
Christian
The cross is one of the most ancient
terminology. The Pythagorean Greek
human symbols, and is used by many
letters are most often replaced by the
religions, most notably Christianity. It is
Hebrew letters forming the name
frequently a representation of the
Leviathan. Less esoteric LaVeyan
division of the world into four elements,
Satanists use it as a sign of rebellion
or alternately as the union of the
or religious identification, the three
concepts of divinity, the vertical line,
downward points symbolising
and the world, the horizontal line.
rejection of the holy Trinity.
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Mumie
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Judaism
Pentagram
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Dragehode
Pentagram
Satanism
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Pentagram
The word pentagram comes from the Greek word
pentagrammon, meaning roughly “five-lined”.
Throughout the world, the pentagram is connected
to sacred geometry.
The term sacred geometry is used for geometry
which is employed in the design of sacred architecture
or art. The underlying belief is that geometry and
mathematical ratios discoverable from geometry
also underly music, cosmology,
and other observable
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features of the natural universe. This belief was held
from ancient times through the Renaissance and
influenced the construction of temples and churches
and the creation of religious art.
Pentagrams were used symbolically in ancient
Greece and Babylon. The Pentagram has magical
associations, and many people who
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faiths wear jewelry incorporating
the symbol. Jews
Mu the five books of
think the pentagram represents
Moses, Christians once more commonly used the
pentagram to represent the five wounds of Jesus,
and it also has associations within Freemasonry.
The pentagram has long been associated with the
planet Venus, and the worship
of the
Venus, økt kontrast i formene
Ankh
– littgoddess
fetere +svakt
or her equivalent. It is also associated with the Roman
Lucifer, who was Venus as the Morning Star, the bringer
of light and knowledge. It is most likely to have originated from the observations of prehistoric astronomers.
When viewed from Earth, successive inferior conjunctions of Venus plot a nearly perfect pentagram shape
around the zodiac every eight years.
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Tom Egeland
with Gisli
Sigurdsson who
holds a Ph.D. in
ancient Norse
and Iclandic
handwritten
documents
Dear reader,
I write the kind of books I love to read.
Tom Egeland at
Snorre’s Reykholt
What kind of books are they, you might wonder. Well, books that intrigue me, books that excite me, books
that challenge me, books that teach me new things, books that scare me, books I simply can’t put down.
Guardians of the Covenant is a novel about issues that fascinate and intrigue me to infinity. The Viking
Age. Ancient Egypt. Stave churches. Codes and ciphers. Theology and mythology. The origin of the Bible.
Tom Egeland
reading an ancient
Norse codex with
the vicar of Reykholt,
Geir Waage
My newest novel is about an archaeologist who uncovers an historical sensation: AD 1013 Norwegian
vikings – led by the patron saint of Norway, the later Saint Olav – robs a secret Egyptian tomb. The
mummy and the papyrus manuscripts they bring with them back to Norway, turn out to be the Old
Testament’s most revered prophet – Moses – and the papyrus manuscript originals reveal not only an
unknown Sixth Book of Moses, but also show how the Torah was manipulated into its current form.
Basing my research on real scholarly hypotheses about the origin of the Moses myth and the true nature
of The Books of Moses, I hope my readers gain new insight in the creation of the Old Testament.
Yet – Guardians of the Covenant is not a scholars’ book. It’s a thriller. A thriller where my protagonist
slowly uncover these ancient mysteries. His research brings him from Norway to Iceland, from London to
Rome, from Egypt’s Luxor to Washington, D.C. and finally to Santo Domingo in the Caribbean Sea. My
archaeologist albino anti-hero Bjørn Beltø is not the only one interested in finding answers. A mysterious
group of assasins – killing two of Bjørn’s clergyman friends and threatening Bjørn’s life over and over
again – are lurking in the shadows.
Tom Egeland at the Karnak
temple in Egypt
Tom Egeland with vicar Geir
Waage at Snorre’s outdoor bath
at Reykholt, Iceland
writing
the novel
Research has brought me from stave churches in Norway to the wildness of Thingvellir on Iceland, from
dusty book stores and archives in Rome to the blistering Valley of the Dead in Egypt. It’s been great fun, in
other words.
I hope my book conveys all the fun I had researching and writing it.
All the best,
Tom Egeland
A medieval Norwegian monastery conceals an archaeological
sensation – a gold reliquary containing a 2000-year-old
manuscript that might well change the course of world history.
Deeply sceptical, archaeologist Bjørn Beitø sets out to trace the
reliquary’s origins. His quest takes him from the monastery
via a scientific ‘intelligence organization’ in London and
an institute of research in the Middle East to a
Crusaders’ castle in a French village.
Coined by critics “the Norwegian Da Vinci Code”, Circle’s
End is a different kind of thriller, in which myth, mystery,
history and theology are inextricably intertwined.
(Søndag, Denmark)
(Adresseavisen, Norway)
“A cleverly constructed story
with a controversial subject”
(Corriere della Séra, Italia)
“An adventure story for adults,
Egeland’s work is much more
credible than Brown.”
“One becomes much more involved
with its characters; they are, as
(Kristina Carlson, Suomen Kuvalehti, Finland)
opposed to the people in The Da Vinci
Code, real people, to whom one can
“A good thriller!”
relate” (Nordjyske Stiftstidende, Denmark)
(El Periódico de Aragón, Spain)
“A fantastic historical thriller.
A breathtaking adventure.”
(To Paron, Greece)
(Aftenposten, Norway)
“a great crime-literary
experience”
“A groundbreaking intellectual
crime novel” (Hamar Arbeiderblad, Norway)
“Egeland deserves all the success
he has received. This is an exquisite
suspense novel, catchy until the last
page. And Egeland, too, has done his
research, and it is outstanding”
“Not a dull moment; a thriller
of the highest quality.”
“A much deeper book than
The Da Vinci Code”
(Frettabladid, Island)
During a live discussion programme on
Norwegian television where several
prominent politicians are present, a group
of Chechens take up arms. Shocked viewers
witness a dramatic hostage situation – and
the terrorrists demand that the TV-channel
broadcast every minute of the bloody drama.
Outside the studio the police are working
hard to resolve the situation, but it soon
becomes clear that not everyone involved is
showing their true colours, and that powerful
people in the East will go to drastic steps to
conceal the true story behind the tragedy.
Once again, TV star Kristin Bye and retired
journalist Gunnar Borg, the protagonists from
“Troll Mirror” and “The Ouija Board” find
themselves in the middle of the dramatic
events.
First published: 2005 by Aschehoug
“Excellent suspense novel
by Tom Egeland, who is now
one of our most reliable writers
of quality crime... ranks among
the absolute top novels both in
Norway and on an international level.” (Adresseavisen, Norway)
“ Tom Egeland has written a
thriller that approaches
world-class”
(Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad, Norway)
“Ingenious setting...
Tom Egeland – a fullblooded thriller writer.”
(Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
Translations: Bulgarian (Perseus), Czech (Euromedia, Prague), Danish (Bazar, Copenhagen), Dutch (De Geus), England
(John Murray publishing house), Estonian (Publishing house Ersen), Finnish (Bazar, Helsinki), French (City Éditions), German
(Random House, Munich), Greek (Livani, Athens), Icelandic (JPV, Reykjavik), Italian (Bompiani), Korean (Bookhouse Publishing
Corp., Seoul), Russia (Arabesque), Spanish (Ediciones B, Barcelona), Swedish (Bazar, Stockholm). Film option granted to Håkon
Gundersen.
night of the wolves
Circle`s end
“A first class thriller. Tom
Egeland’s Night of the Wolf is
extremely sophisticated in its
construction. The author
constantly has new surprises
up his sleeve and spellbinds
the reader from the first page
to the last. A bull’s-eye of a
novel!” (VG, Norway)
Translations: Danish (Bazar, Copenhagen), Dutch (De Geus), Finnish (Bazar, Helsinki), German (Random House, Munich),
Icelandic (JPV, Reykavik), Italian (Bompiani), Japanese ( Fusosha Publishing Inc., Tokyo), Swedish (Bazar, Stockholm).
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ragnarok
Shadowland
Original Norwegian title: Ragnarok
Nina and Erik, a young married couple,
get lost in Juvdal while driving through the
deep Telemark forests. In a howling gale they
drive off the road – and come to in a different
time; a thousand years before the present, in
a period of unrest between the Viking Age
and the Christianisation of Norway. They are
taken to the big farm Dalheim, and while Erik
manages to escape, Nina stays prisoner at
the farm.
A strong volve with magical powers wants
to sacrifice Nina in a dramatic and atmospheric ritual. Meanwhile, the Juvdal village,
where Erik is, is haunted by “glimpses from the
past” – what some people would call ghosts.
“a genuine suspense novel,
an unadulterated horror tale,
a wholly Norwegian thriller...
A modern horror story
completely in line with the
bestselling Anglo-American
genre led by Stephen King”
(Dagbladet)
First published: 1988, Cappelen Forlag
Original Norwegian title: Skyggelandet
First published: 1993 by Cappelen, republished by
Aschehoug in a new edition in 2006
Another para-psychological thriller from
Tom Egeland, Shadowland is a Rosemary’s
Baby-esque chamber theatre about fairytale researcher Helge and fashion
photographer Victoria. The couple finds
a young tenant for their bedsit, and his
arrival turns their safe existence upside
down. The tenant is “possessed” by
the “spirit” of his dead father, and has
continuous telepathic communication
with him even though he died many years
ago. The son becomes a tool for the dying
man’s ailing mind. After many frightening
and incomprehensible episodes in the
flat at Frogner in Oslo, the couple
accompanies their young tenant to a
deserted hotel in Juvdal in Telemark,
where the horrors catch up with them.
“a real page turner” (Dagbladet)
The Ouija
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troll
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Original Norwegian title: Åndebrettet
First published: 2004, Aschehoug
Original Norwegian title: Trollspeilet
First published: 1997, Aschehoug
Retired reporter Gunnar Borg, TV journalist
Kristin Bye, and the psychic Victoria
Underhaug have traveled to Juvdal in
Telemark to clear up a 25-year-old double
murder case before it gets closed permanently. A new murder contributes to the
discovery of the guilty party, and Borg and
Bye are driven into an action-packed hunt
for the killer. This is a classic murder
mystery, where the involved have many
motives, possibilities and dark secrets.
Similar to Egeland’s earlier crime novels,
this book also shows the author’s ability to
create settings and credible characters in
a trembling and exciting story that unites
psychology and realism.
A serial killer trawls the streets of Oslo
with a camcorder. He secretly captures his
victims on film before kidnapping them.
He then sends the appalling recordings to
TV journalist Kristin Bye, who becomes the
channel’s spearhead in the hunt for the
killer. Then one day she receives a tape
with images of herself...
“If you’re looking for a bulky,
entertaining thriller, you
can safely dig into this
one.” (Dagbladet)
Tom Egeland’s thriller is a tremendous and
unputdownable page turner. It is the first
book about heroine Kristin Bye and her
mentor, the soon-to-be retired journalist
Gunnar Borg.
“A thriller in a class of its own...
descriptions of characters and
setting, construction, style,
linguistic instinct – it is all
unequalled!” (VG)
Languages: Dutch (De Geus), Italian (Bompiani)
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