A City Under Surveillance by Jon Ottar Olafsson

// novel // detective novel // published in 2014 // 384 pages // published by Presses de la Cité // translated by Jean-Christophe Salaün //

Like David Simon's well-researched book on Baltimore police eavesdropping, Jon Ottar Olafsson's tense novel casts David, a stubborn and depressed police officer, at the center of a game whose rules he doesn't understand.

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At the Ísland gallery, these books from my library are available for browsing, picking, and discussion... And if you're interested, they're on the shelves of the city's excellent bookstores.

But others are on sale, arriving directly from an Icelandic publisher and distributor, and you won't find them anywhere else: photography, history, tales, humor. Take the opportunity to discover Icelandic legends, landscapes, and little peculiarities.