Midnight Sun

Ulf made his living as a fixer for one of Oslo's most feared drug lords. Then he betrayed the man, and now the job is reversed: Ulf is the problem that needs to be solved, and his old employer wants him dead.

He runs as far north as he can go, to a remote town at the end of the line in northern Norway, and tries to disappear among the locals. It is not a place where a stranger stays unnoticed for long, but it is far enough from the city that he can almost believe he is safe.

There he is befriended by a mother and her young son. Their company awakens feelings in Ulf that he took for dead years ago, and the more he lets himself care, the more he has to lose. Meanwhile the killers sent after him are coming, and he knows it.

Waiting for them, Ulf has to face a question he has long answered with cynicism: whether a man like him can be redeemed at all, or whether hope really is, as he has always insisted, a real bastard. Jo Nesbo, author of Cockroaches, tells this short, fast-moving story of a hunted man and his last chance at something better.