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Grethe Bøe

Sensational Action Thriller Debut!

The Arctic is blowing up – and Ylva is the spark!

Caught behind enemy lines, NATO-pilots Ylva and John faces a seemingly impossible task: They have to cross the frozen Siberian tundra on foot - with the enemy at their heels – to get back to Norway and stop a catastrophe that might lead to World War III.

The relations between Russia and NATO are at a freezing point as NATO launches their greatest ever winter exercise in the far north of Norway. The Russians are provoked and mobilize their own “snap exercise” on the Russian side of the border.

A Russian fighter plane is provoking a Norwegian carrier helicopter in the border area between Norway and Russia, and F-16-pilots John Evans and Ylva Nordahl is sent to escort the helicopter safely to shore. The NATO-plane end up in a stress-flight with the Russian plane, and the F-16 is damaged in a near crash, it is then shot down after ending up on the Russian side of the border. The episode sparks political crisis where both Russia and NATO see the event as an attack.

The only thing that can stop an all-destructive conflict is the pilots Ylva Nordahl and John Evans making their way back across the border to Norway, to tell what really happened. It is a fight against time, as the Russian President, The General Secretary of NATO and private military industry are all sharpening their knives.Norwegian Reviews:

Norwegian Crime Sensation: Bravo!Grethe Bøe makes a great debut with achillinglyrealistic thriller where the north of Norway is in danger of becoming a new Crimea.***** - Five stars out of six.DAGBLADETRefreshing debutGrethe Bøe and her protagonist Ylva are fresh and welcome additions to the Norwegian Crime Book Universe. It feels refreshing to have the arrival of a female author writing in a genre otherwise dominated by men - already writing with authority and weight about anything from international politics and reindeer herding to how to fly a fighter jet. And not least in a language full of good and creative descriptions and sentences.VGA seriously fresh debutThe idea and potential is at top level, written with international approach, cockiness and thorough on all the detail; be it the technical parts of flying a fighter jet, military, political or geographical (...) with main characters that have extreme survival skills and technical knowledge.ADRESSEAVISA

Nightmare in the whiteIce-cold thriller with a unique female hero.***** - Five starts out of six.STAVANGER AFTENBLADFrightingly good from BøeGrethe Bøe has established herself in the top of Norwegian crime authors on her first try. … This is the best crime debut I have read – ever.***** - Five starts out of six.NETTAVISEN

Thriller from the ice-cold ArcticGrethe Bøe has created a story with great weight when it comes to the relevance of the topic.GJENGANGEREN

This is without a doubt one of the best debut of the year. I take my hat off for this thoroughly solid debut, and with [Grethe Bøe] welcome into the gang of thriller and crime writers. Because Bøe can write. I already look forward to her next book.RANDABERG 24

Grethe Bøe has written a smart and entertaining thrillerEntertaining and smart.AFTENPOSTEN

Salander on speedSay hello to the northern Lisbeth Salander.BOK365