If it seemed sinister, or at least obscene or rude, the fact that Donald Trump tried to buy a territory like Greenland in the middle of the XNUMXst century, this novel located in that same inhospitable territory will really end up freezing your blood with a disturbing scenery and a plot maximum tension with an aftertaste of old Viking myths. Myths always submerged in the cold waters of the North, from where it is suspected that these peoples could have sailed and arrived to the most unsuspected places in the world, before the later famous navigators.
At the controls of the plot, two protagonists who are compatible with that magic of difference, with the edges and stridencies between them that make sparks fly. But it is the wonderful thing about synergies, when two people need each other, they will end up knowing how to integrate into their differences. Matthew Cave and Tupaarnaq live in the same Nuuk but in the antipodes in their vision of the world. He is a journalist from the capital and she is a girl with more than problems….
Two such different personalities can only be united by some kind of crisis, something anomalous such as the death of a policeman in charge of watching over a fascinating discovery from the Viking age. Even more so when death just took it started in its frenzied race over the police force. A serial killer in a place like Nuuk serves to finish turning the city into a ghost town for which Matthew, in the company of Tupaarnaq, will pull instinct, strings and clues to find the criminal.
Fear takes hold of everyone in Nuuk. The atavistic fear of the unknown, of beasts always seems more typical of other times. Until you think that the Viking mummy has disappeared and that the death of the watchman is associated with remote events of more than 40 years ago ... Matthew is surely not fully aware of the magnitude of the case in which he becomes more and more involved as a simple journalist.
Until fears, legends and death end up unraveling harshly but with new certainties about legends and present dark realities.
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