Director Ragnar Fyr is facing a disaster. His dream project has collapsed after an infidelity scandal, and now the financiers are forcing him to make a new film, Centurion: a clichéd detective story set on an island in the archipelago. He despises absolutely everything about the script but has no choice.
At the same time, his relationship with his wife Stella – who is also stuck on the film project – is at a breaking point. Their rivalry culminates in an unplanned murder, and soon they realise that they are frighteningly good at eliminating their enemies. Perhaps both their marriage and their careers can be saved – even if the path there is lined with corpses.
With razor-sharp dialogue, amusing twists, and a dose of pitch-black humour, Alexander Karim's new novel is a modern interpretation of the film War of the Roses, but in the world of the film industry. A biting satire about power, ambition, and how far we are willing to go for art – and for ourselves. What does it really cost to become immortal?
