The Falcks are one of the most powerful families in Norway. And where there is power, there is envy and greed.
December 2015. Six months after the revelations in a long-lost testament testament shook the Falck family to its core.
Hans Falck, who had most to gain from the contentious will, 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.
The stakes are further raised when reports reach Sasha’s 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 Falck Saga, traces a tale of illicit love, 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 Séan Kinsella
December 2015. Six months after the revelations in a long-lost testament testament shook the Falck family to its core.
Hans Falck, who had most to gain from the contentious will, 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.
The stakes are further raised when reports reach Sasha’s 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 Falck Saga, traces a tale of illicit love, 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 Séan Kinsella
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Reviews
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 Carré.
Nordic suspense takes on other colours and renews the genre thanks to an author who came from the cold
This saga will delight fans of 'Succession'
