He envisaged something ground-breaking to take place, something with a full-scale refinery for carbon at our new Gaz facility. Norway would once again be a lead country. But the Russians did not believe that our landing on the moon merely was about CO2, and immediately, the prime minister's New Year's address to his people got another focus: Russians' fear of a rocket base at the very North Pole.

This book deals with life in the shade of the secret services in the seventies and the eighties and unfolds to a crime-espionage novel involving several superpowers well into the twentieth century. Part of the action refers to the author's own experiences, but quite a lot is mere fiction.

The reader is taken to Dracula land in exotic Transylvania. Bribing, attempt to recruit the author- yes, love, broken promises, suicides, and murders, some quite brutal. There is plenty of everything. Excitement tops with the closure in Moscow, in Bymarka-Trondheim, and the long crushed-down radar station, Gråkallen.