He will not admit it to Rhea & Lars
- never of course not
- but Sheldon can't help but wonder what it is he's doing here... Eighty-two years old & recently widowed Sheldon Horowitz has grudgingly moved to Oslo with his gr&-daughter & her Norwegian husb&. An ex-Marine he talks often to the ghosts of his past
- the friends he lost in the Pacific & the son who followed him into the US Army & to his death in Vietnam. When Sheldon witnesses the murder of a woman in his apartment complex he rescues her six-year-old son & decides to run. Pursued by both the Balkan gang responsible for the murder & the Norwegian police he has to rely on training from over half a century before to try & keep the boy safe. Against a strange & foreign landscape this unlikely couple who can't speak the same language start to form a bond that may just save them both. An extraordinary debut featuring a memorable hero Norwegian by Night" is the last adventure of a man still trying to come to terms with the tragedies of his life. Compelling & sophisticated it is both a chase through the woods thriller & an emotionally haunting novel about ageing & regret."