Hot Weather in Oslo
A persistent part of the book's background - with some implications for its main plot line - is the hot weather from which Oslo suffers throughout the book. While Norway is well known as a cold country, and not without reason, the book makes clear that Oslo in July can be quite a hot place: anybody who can escapes to the seashore, women go around in bikinis also in the city itself, people sleep naked with little or no cover, groan at forecasts of "another tropical night" and pray for rain to break the heat wave. This is in marked contrast to the next book in the series, "The Redeemer" - a winter tale taking place in a snowbound Oslo, with subzero temperatures in the night streets, when for a hunted fugitive the obtaining of a coat is literally a matter of life and death.
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