The Assistant

Oslo 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there’s a civil war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy. When a woman turns up at the office of police-turned-private investigator Ludvig Paaske he and his assistant - his one-time nemesis and former drug-smuggler Jack Rivers - begin a seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity. But all is not what it seems and when Jack is accused of murder the trail leads back to the 1920s to prohibition-era Norway to the smugglers sex workers and hoodlums of his criminal past and an extraordinary secret.