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Cage

3.75 (638 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Lilja Sigurdardottir

Translated by: Quentin Bates

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavík Noir trilogy

***Guardian Book of the Year***

***WINNER of the Best Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year***

Tough, uncompromising and unsettling Val McDermid

One of the darkest and most compelling series in modern crime fiction Tackling topical issues, the book will tell you a great deal about why the worlds in the state it is, while never neglecting its duty to entertain Sunday Express 

A tense thriller with a highly unusual plot and interesting characters The Times



The prison doors slam shut behind Agla, when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her.

As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis, María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.
Ruthless drug baron Ingimar will stop at nothing to protect his empire, but he has no idea about the powder keg he is sitting on in his own home.

At the same time, a deadly threat to Sonya and her family brings her from London back to Iceland, where she needs to settle scores with longstanding adversaries if she wants to stay alive


 
Praise for the Reykjavik Noir Trilogy:

Cage is the muted and more credible conclusion to a wayward, but diverting trilogy that began with Snare (2017) and continued with Trap (2018) ironic titles for essentially escapist fiction Compassion beats complexity every time The Times

In keeping with a lot of Icelandic fiction, Cage is written in a clean, understated style, the author letting the reader put together the emotional beats and plot developments. Smart writing with a strongly beating heart Big Issue

Deftly plotted though and with a forensic attention to the technicalities of stock exchange manipulations and drug running techniques Crime Time

With shocks and surprises in store, and that oh so satisfying end, Cage provoked, chilled, and thrilled me LoveReading

A novel about survival, about scheming, its about self-preservation and about clinging to a vestige of decency in a screwed up world. Superbly translated by Quentin Bates, who knows the language, the country, the people and crime writing intimately. Cage is a pacy thriller; you will find yourself invested in the story New Books Magazine

An emotional suspense rollercoaster on a par with The Firm, as desperate, resourceful, profoundly lovable characters scheme against impossible odds Alexandra Sokoloff

Clear your diary. As soon as you begin reading you wont be able to stop until the final page Michael Wood

Zips along, with tension building and building  thoroughly recommend James Oswald

The intricate plot is breathtakingly original, with many twists and turns you never see coming. Thriller of the year New York Journal of Books
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Oct 2019
  • Publisher: Orenda Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781912374496

About Lilja Sigurdardottir

Icelandic crime-writer Lilja Sigurdardóttir was born in the town of Akranesin 1972 and raised in Mexico Sweden Spain and Iceland. An award-winning playwright Lilja has written four crime novels with Snare the first in a new series and Lilja's English debut shortlisting for the CWA International Dagger and hitting bestseller lists worldwide. Trap soon followed suit with the third in the trilogy Cage winning the Best Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year and was a Guardian Book of the Year. Lilja's standalone Betrayal was shortlisted for the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel. In 2021 Cold as Hell the first in the An Áróra Investigation series was published with Red as Blood to follow in 2022. The film rights have been bought by Palomar Pictures in California. Lilja is also an award-winning screenwriter in her native Iceland. She lives in Reykjavík with her partner. Quentin Bates escaped English suburbia as a teenager jumping at the chance of a gap year working in Iceland. For a variety of reasons the gap year stretched to become a gap decade during which time he went native in the north of Iceland acquiring a new language a new profession as a seaman and a family before decamping en masse for England. He worked as a truck driver teacher netmaker and trawlerman at various times before falling into journalism largely by accident. He is the author of a series of crime novels set in present-day Iceland (Frozen Out Cold Steal Chilled to the Bone Winterlude Cold Comfort and Thin Ice which have been published worldwide. He has translated all of Ragnar Jónassons Dark Iceland series.

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