The Heirs of the Arctic: The bestselling Norwegian family drama

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"A windswept, wave-tossed, altogether irresistible novel of literary suspense - I truly didn't want it to end" A. J. FINN on The Sea Cemetery

December 2015. Six months after the revelations in Vera Margrethe Lind's last will and testament shook the Falck family to its core.

But Hans Falck, who had most to gain from the matriarch's decrees, lingers in a hospital bed in northern Norway, gravely injured in an accident. Meanwhile, Sasha Falck, who succeeded her father as the head of the family's foundation, is pushing for a research expedition to the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Sea. Yet there are reasons to be cautious - relations with Russia are strained, with Norway's old Cold War adversary reborn under Putin's leadership.

The stakes are further raised when reports reach her ears of a foreign spy in the foundation, sparking a desperate hunt for the mole. And as the expedition nears the spectacular landscapes of the High Arctic, international tensions threaten to spill over into outright conflict - with fateful consequences for the Falck clan.

The Heirs of the Arctic, the second novel in Aslak Nore's bestselling trilogy, is an epic adventure novel taking in illicit love, dangerous political ideas, geopolitical cat-and-mouse games and bitter power struggles, as the fate of one powerful Norwegian family becomes emblematic of the challenges facing Europe in the new century.

Translated from the Norwegian by Sean Kinsella

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With The Heirs of the Arctic, Aslak Nore confirms himself as the great new voice of the Scandinavian thriller. No noir novelist has achieved such mastery since John le Carr. * Livres Hebdo *
Nordic suspense takes on other colours and renews the genre thanks to an author who came from the cold * Page Libraire *

Author Bio

Aslak Nore (born 1978) grew up in Oslo. Educated at the University of Oslo and the New School for Social Research in New York, he then served in Norway's elite Telemark Battalion in Bosnia. A modern-day adventurer, Nore has lived in Latin America and worked as a journalist in the Middle East and Afghanistan. He has published several non-fiction books and three novels, the last of which, Ulvefellen was a national bestseller and won the Riverton Prize for best crime novel in Norway in 2018. He lives in Provence, France.