- Paperback: 640 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books, London; later printing edition (4 Nov 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330304771
- ISBN-13: 978-0330304771
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.8 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 283,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind together three people in a web of treachery and passion: Halvard Starheim, veteran explorer, Ragna Johansenn, widow of one of the dead men and Rolf Berg, a Norwegian journalist.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am reviewing this book now (Feb 2000) although I read it over 5 years ago, because this book has stuck in my mind as one of the best books I ever read. This book gives an insight into Norway (that overlooked land on the top of the world) and its strategic involvement in the cold war. The story is fast paced, full of suspense and mystery and probably because it is written by a woman, it cleverly executes action with a passionate and subtle manner. The reader is left not wanting to put the book down due to its intensity and suspense which climaxes at the end on the hostile yet beautiful suomi plateau high up in the arctic circle. Norway here I come....
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A really excellent book well worth the read. You'll feel as if you are really there in all the action. The characters are so realistic you miss them when you put the book down.
Once I got half way through i could not stop reading.....
The whole scenery comes to life. Ive never been skiing in my life but i felt my pulse quicken as the plot unwound. Its well wrtittne these days which is great and as the first Clare Francis book ive read im now looking out for more!!.
You wont be disappointed....
Best thriller ive read in ages!!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A wonderful story - a spy thriller - set in post-war Norway, at the height of the cold war. It has everything from tender romance to cold conspiracy and a final lonely armed conflict in the bitter winter wastes of northern Norway.
I found myself amazed at the depth of the author's knowledge, about both the politics of the time and place and also strategies for survival in the bitter cold of a Norwegisn wolf winter.
For me, the only real weakness in the book was that I experienced difficulty in believing that human beings could really survive what Ms Francis subjected them to - at temperatures of minus fifty - in her narrative.
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Having read and thoroughly enjoyed 'A Dark Devotion', I turned to this novel for an easy read after 'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Glilla Bear
Her best work
A brilliant cold war spy thriller, it draws you in and holds you there, a genuine page turner. I have read 6 or 7 of her books, this is the best by far and I will doubtless read it... Read more
Published 18 months ago by C. Johnson
kept me guessing
A little bit involved as Francis describes the setting in geat detail in the first hundred pages or so, but an intriguing great story once it takes off.
Published 19 months ago by drums
Well worth reading
Clever, well put together thriller using a minimum of characters to keep the plot moving. Excellent musings of the sub-conscious decision-making of the main players, and skilfully... Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2007 by Somnambulist
Action packed! . Had me Looking for Tromso on an atlas!!
A really excellent book well worth the read. You'll feel as if you are really there in all the action. Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2002 by mark.fennelly@virgin.net
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