A Matter of Protection

One late summer evening someone shoots an imam in Tøyengata, Oslo. The gunman has left a few lines from an Arabic poem that foretells the coming of the Twelfth Imam and an era drenched in blood. The security police contact scholar of religion Davood Ariani believes that the gunman will commit more murders. A couple of days later another imam has his throat slashed. The victim is Milan, a close friend and mentor of Davood’s. Again they find a few lines from the same poem, written in blood. And the terrorist still hasn’t completed his mission.

Davood’s family were killed during the Lebanon conflict. Reluctantly he goes back on the request of the security police … and to confront his past.

”Although this is a first novel, Olav Rokseth has an experienced writer’s hand and he has delivered a first-class crime novel.”
VG