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The Assistant

Written by: Kjell Ola Dahl
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there’s 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.
©2020 Kjell Ola Dahl; Translation © Don Bartlett, 2021 (P)2021 Isis Publishing Ltd
Police Procedurals Traditional Detectives Crime Thrillers
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Gripping story of murder and pre WW 11 espionage.

History and a real puzzle of murder in one thrilling story of personal evil, and p9litical espionage in Norway in 1938, and 1924. Hitler was just beginning to dig his power hungry claws into Northern Europe, and no one knows who is friend, who is enemy. The ending was superb, a cliff hanger! Bravo, r. Dahl!

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