
By Eirik Husby Sæther
THE JUDAS KISS is dark, naturalistic crime fiction, which brings the reader painfully close to the precarious existence on the back streets of Oslo. Mikael Wulf is a policeman in…
THE JUDAS KISS is dark, naturalistic crime fiction, which brings the reader painfully close to the precarious existence on the back streets of Oslo.
Mikael Wulf is a policeman in the criminal investigation service, Oslo police’s front line in the fight against violent crime. He is called out in the event of sudden deaths, discovered bodies and rapes.
One day he turns out on a case of drugs overdose in Oslo S, a death that could possibly prove to be a murder. The dead person has shared a flat with Mikael Wulf’s drug-addict foster brother William, who has disappeared. As has the third member of their gang. And a stolen consignment of heroin. Which someone wants to get back at any price.
Mikael is afraid that his foster brother is in serious danger and starts single-handed to investigate the drugs environment around Oslo S. Clues take him off on a black odyssey, in the catacombs under the Central Station, in old, abandoned customs cells, and into the dark regions of his own mind.
Reading material: Norwegian pdf, English sample translation
"A realistic and brutal portrait of drug addicts"****** (5/6 stars) Fædrelandsvennen