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Under afsløringen af et hold korrupte betjente i Boston kommer den islandskfødte kriminalbetjent Magnus Ragnarsson i skudlinjen, og derfor vælger hans overordnede at sende ham i sikkerhed hos islandsk politi, indtil sagen kommer for retten. Selvom Magnus voksede op på Island, var hans afsked med landet ikke smertefrit, og det er derfor med blandede følelser, at han vender tilbage. Men han får hurtigt andet at tænke på, da han bliver kastet direkte ud i efterforskningen af et mord.

It is deep midwinter. Six ambitious vice presidents of Labouchere Associates are gathered together at an isolated mountain lodge in New Hampshire’s White Mountains for a weekend of corporate mind games. By Monday, one of them will become a partner and earn at least a million a year. And one of them will be dead.

A cure for Alzheimer’s would be worth billions. And well worth killing for. Simon Ayot is an Englishman working for Revere Partners, one of Boston’s top venture-capital firms. The firm’s star investment, worth millions of dollars for each of its partners, is BioOne, which is working on a cure for the disease. Frank, one of Simon’s bosses and his father-in-law, is found murdered at his summer house in the marshes, and Simon is in the frame. To stay alive, and to save his marriage, Simon must figure out who killed Frank. And who will be the next to die.

It was a deal to die for. And somebody will. Paul Murray is an ex-Olympic runner, so his training is perfect for the rigours of multimillion-dollar bond trading in the City of London. The pace is breakneck, the smell of success intoxicating. Then the body of his colleague Debbie is fished out of the Thames, and Paul’s world is turned upside down. He begins a dangerous, chaotic tumble into the darker side of trading.