The setting is well drawn, with nice details and a vivid portrayal of the Sámi population and the Laestadian church at the center of town life. It’s 1978, and the town is little and quaint, even for 40 years ago.
Most of the novel takes place in this small town, where Ulf gets to know the inhabitants while he waits for the Fisherman to find him. He makes an inevitable mistake and high-tails it to a tiny town in Finnmark in the extreme northeast of Norway, above the Arctic Circle, where the August sun blazes at midnight.
He is expected to commit the occasional murder, but Jon has no taste for violence. He goes from dealing hash just to finance his own habit to becoming the Fisherman’s fixer. “ Cowardly is probably the word I’m looking for.” That’s why I was always prepared to follow the advice given by random strangers, and leave important decisions to other people,” he narrates. His rise through the Oslo underworld is a series of accidents and poor decisions, propelled by a desperate desire to pay for his dying child’s medical treatment. Jon - or Ulf, as he calls himself for most of the book - is not the typical Nesbø hero.
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