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The spectacular new thriller from the author of bestselling Miss Smilla´s Feeling for Snow, featuring an unstoppable female scientist.

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´The Danish author is back on form in this literary thriller´
Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Mail on Sunday

SUSAN SVENDSEN HAS AN UNUSUAL TALENT. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel oddly compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this talent, but now her family is in jeopardy and there is a prison sentence hanging over her head.

Then Susan gets a timely offer from a former government official: use her power one more time and have all charges dropped. To get her life back in order, she must track down the last surviving members of a secret think tank, the Future Committee, and find out the details in this committee´s mysterious final report. But there are some powerful people determined that the report is never revealed.

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"An artfully written, exuberant thriller with a mercurial and interesting central character" Barry Forshaw Guardian

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Peter H›eg was born in 1957 and followed various callings - dancer, actor, fencer, sailor, mountaineer - before he turned seriously to writing. He published his first novel, The History of Danish Dreams, in 1988, and was called ´the foremost writer of his generation´ by Information magazine. His crime novel Miss Smilla´s Feeling for Snow received universal acclaim and was an international bestseller.

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