It was at their `torture chamber`, a hut in the pinewoods nearby, that Varg Veum, Private Investigator, first encountered the gang`s pathetic but deadly ferocity. Eight-year-old Roar`s bicycle had been stolen & not an adult in sight dared retrieve it. But a preliminary brush with such youthful violence was as nothing compared to what awaited Veum when he got to know Roar`s blue-eyed, shy yet sensuous mother, Wenche Andresen, & her estranged husb&, Jonas. Veum`s attempts to break up Joker & his pack of young thugs by enlisting the help of the local youth club leader proved a dead end. But not so dead as the man who lay prone with a knife in his back on the floor of Andresen`s flat. Yours Until Death is an unbearably tense novel of revenge & murder about marriage, childhood, bereavement & the destructive force of passion. First published in Norwegian in 1979, it was described by the critic Nils Nordberg as `one of the finest, most serious, most ambitious books in post-war Norwegian crime writing`.