Chapters (61)
- Cover
- Dedication
- Imagine a girl
- Prologue
- The Foreigner
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- The Skeptic
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- The Spectator
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- The Assassin
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Thirty-Four
- Thirty-Five
- Thirty-Six
- Thirty-Seven
- Thirty-Eight
- Thirty-Nine
- Forty
- Forty-One
- The Hunter
- Forty-Two
- Forty-Three
- Forty-Four
- Forty-Five
- Forty-Six
- Forty-Seven
- Imagine a girl
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Also by Ben McPherson
- About the Publisher
I reached to take the gun from my daughter’s hand, but she sidestepped me and raised it to Bror’s temple.
“No,” she said quietly.
Bror inclined his head as if he were asking a question.
On Garden Island in that instant nothing breathed.
Vee pulled the trigger, twice. And when Bror fell to the ground, my daughter stood over the dying man, and before she could be stopped she pulled the trigger twice more.
Acknowledgments
Cecilie Lilaas-Skari of the Oslo Police has advised me on Norwegian police practice and procedures; any exaggerations are mine alone. Peder Anker and Tor Øverbø helped form the idea of the novel. Stein and Signe Lundgren showed what it means to live by the Scandinavian ideals of fairness, openness, and freedom; so too did Line Michelsen and Pia Lundgren. Thorgeir Kolshus, Leslie Gray-O’Neil, and Eleanor Moran read and advised me on drafts. James Bradley and Tim Lott encouraged me when the writing got tough. And I couldn’t have written this book without Charlotte Lundgren, who has done so many of these things, and more. She can’t possibly know how grateful I am.
About the Author
BEN McPHERSON’s debut novel was the highly acclaimed A Line of Blood. He is a television producer and director, as well as a writer, and for more than ten years worked for the BBC, among other outlets. He is also an occasional columnist for Aftenposten, Norway’s leading quality daily, and lives in Oslo with his wife and two children.
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Also by Ben McPherson
- A Line of Blood
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