Eric Bear thinks he has escaped his violent past, but when crime boss Nicholas Dove threatens Eric's beloved wife Emma Rabbit, Eric has no choice but to do what he asks: find a way to remove Dove's name from the Death List.
Problem is, no one knows if the Death List really exists.
Nevertheless, Eric gathers his old team together - sadistic male prostitute Sam Gazelle, sweet but dangerous Tom-Tom Crow, and wily Snake Marek - and they set off to find the elusive list.
What Eric learns will forever change the way he thinks about his life, his family, and his town.

"Knausgaard joins the ranks of the greatest storytellers of our time." Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, loses his way in the woods in the mountains behind his home. Unseen, he stumbles upon two glowing beings, an event that leads him to devote the rest of his life to the study of angels. Bellori reinterprets moments throughout the Bible where men confront angels: the expulsion from the garden, Cain and Abel, Lot in Sodom, Noah's isolation before the flood, Ezekiel's visions. . . . Through his profound glimpses, Karl Knausgaard--an extraordinary storyteller and thinker--explores with spellbinding insight how the nature and roles of these intermediaries between man and the divine have shifted throughout history.