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Oblivion / Arnaldur Indridason ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Icelandic Series: Reykjavík murder mysteries. 11 | Arnaldur Indriðason, Reykjavík murder mystery ; Publication details: London : Harvill Secker, 2015.Description: 345 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1846559790 (hardback)
  • 9781846559792 (hardback)
  • 1846559804 (trade paperback)
  • 9781846559808 (trade paperback)
Uniform titles:
  • Kamp Knox. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 839.6935 23
LOC classification:
  • PT7511.A67
Summary: In Oblivion Erlendur is a recently promoted detective. His world is dominated by drug-dealers, a cold case involving a missing schoolgirl, a CIA operative and the murky history of America's presence in Iceland. In the windswept volcanic landscape of south-west Iceland, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US naval air base. It is night. Inside the hangar, colossal scaffolding reaches to the roof where contractors have been working. There is a clang and a length of piping falls to the ground from a high platform, followed almost immediately by a dull thud as a man's body falls after it. Several miles away, a woman is swimming in the milky-blue lagoon formed from waste water pumped out by a geothermal power station. It is an eerie, remote spot but the waters have healing properties. Steam rises from the blue-white lagoon and the moss-grown lava. In the background towers the floodlit bulk of the power station. The ghostly light reveals a shoe sticking out of the water, attached to a body.
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Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction - Crime IND Reykjavik Bk.11 Available 060349
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First published in Iceland by Vaka-Helgafell under the title Kamp Knox in 2014.

In Oblivion Erlendur is a recently promoted detective. His world is dominated by drug-dealers, a cold case involving a missing schoolgirl, a CIA operative and the murky history of America's presence in Iceland. In the windswept volcanic landscape of south-west Iceland, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US naval air base. It is night. Inside the hangar, colossal scaffolding reaches to the roof where contractors have been working. There is a clang and a length of piping falls to the ground from a high platform, followed almost immediately by a dull thud as a man's body falls after it. Several miles away, a woman is swimming in the milky-blue lagoon formed from waste water pumped out by a geothermal power station. It is an eerie, remote spot but the waters have healing properties. Steam rises from the blue-white lagoon and the moss-grown lava. In the background towers the floodlit bulk of the power station. The ghostly light reveals a shoe sticking out of the water, attached to a body.

Translated from the Icelandic.

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