โ Scribed by Cox, Simon
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'gripping and bitingly cold... full of fine detail and outrage' - Sunday Times
'Gripping' -Evening Standard
A true story of false memories.
'Over decades and decades in Iceland people have gone missing without anyone finding anything out. They just sort of disappear...'
In 1974, 18-year-old Gudmundur disappears after a boozy night in a fishing town near Reykjavik. Eleven months later Geirfinnur, a quiet family man, goes missing from Keflavik harbour in the southwest of Iceland after being summoned by a mysterious phone call from home. Both men are eventually presumed dead, but their bodies are never found.
This quiet island is in an uproar - two disappearances with no forensics, no leads, no clue what has happened. Soon, the vanishings set in motion an almost surreal series of events, a...
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