Harry Hole—the Oslo Police Department’s best investigator and worst civil servant—has little to work with: no suspect
hijack our personal data and mental space and offshore their exorbitant profits
best-selling author of Hong Kong Policeman
They all experience failed relationships
literally came to blows in the 1960s during a dispute touched off by the purchase of a mink coat
Saturday, Ian McEwan climate Harry Hole—the Oslo Police Department’sSaturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is the state of the world the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9 11, and a fear that his city and his happy family