About "Delete" In
a warm, dusty cellar somewhere on the West Bank, a beautiful Israeli
woman is tortured to death. Almost at the same time a border patrol
in Tanadalen is dispatched to check on a possible shooting incident.
The soldiers find a man in the snow - shot. These two apparently
unrelated events set in motion a change reaction that could change
the entire political situation in the Middle East. Former intelligence
officer Tom Falck becomes involved in the case and travels to Israel
to try to find the connection between the torture and murder of
his former lover, Rachel, the attempted murder of an employee of
the Israeli embassy in Norway and a CD-ROM that has inexplicably
disappeared. And while peace negotiator Knut Lid anxiously awaits
the signing of a historic peace agreement between the parties in
the Middle East conflict, a terrible plan is about to be implemented
- a plan so gruesome and violent that it overshadows everything
the world has yet seen. For Tom Falck, his time spent as a UN soldier
has resulted in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and in Israel he
meets ghosts and traumas from his military past, as well as real
flesh-and-blood enemies - and the threat of an imminent global crisis.
The author explains:
”In
a country on the verge of war, in a region that awakens every day
to renewed terrorist attacks and retaliatory action, I have tried
to describe what could happen should fanaticism gain the upper hand,
a fanaticism that exists no matter what side of the political spectrum
one is on. It is found among Israelis, among Palestinians, in Iraq
and even in the USA. 'Delete' is fiction, but the events are so
true-to-life that I'm afraid we can wake up one day and find that
fiction has become reality. Just as Tom Clancy predicted the September
11 attacks in one of his books, I'm afraid that the events I describe
in 'Delete' already have been planned and could be implemented in
the not too distant future. It would be 'The Final Solution', or
as the Nazis called it, 'Die endliche lősung'…
Knut Arnljot Braa
Adresseavisen, Trondheim's major local newspaper, writes:
"The man from Trondheim has debuted with a riveting story about
a plot that could upset the entire political situation in the Middle
East!"
Moreover, the picture of fanatical Arabs with hateful looks
in their eyes and weapons raised high was deceiving. It was
an impression created by the media. What about the fanatics
who wore business suits, white shirts and ties at press conferences?
Fanatics who spoke English and smiled good-naturedly for the
camera while they shook the hands of small children and dined
at the White House? They were just as dangerous, maybe more
dangerous, than those who gathered in the streets and burned
American flags.
In
a warm, dusty cellar somewhere on the West Bank, a beautiful Israeli
woman is tortured to death. Almost at the same time a border patrol
in Tanadalen is dispatched to check on a possible shooting incident.
The soldiers find a man in the snow - shot. These two apparently
unrelated events set in motion a change reaction that could change
the entire political situation in the Middle East. Former intelligence
officer Tom Falck becomes involved in the case and travels to Israel
to try to find the connection between the torture and murder of
his former lover, Rachel, the attempted murder of an employee of
the Israeli embassy in Norway and a CD-ROM that has inexplicably
disappeared. And while peace negotiator Knut Lid anxiously awaits
the signing of a historic peace agreement between the parties in
the Middle East conflict, a terrible plan is about to be implemented
- a plan so gruesome and violent that it overshadows everything
the world has yet seen. For Tom Falck, his time spent as a UN soldier
has resulted in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and in Israel he
meets ghosts and traumas from his military past, as well as real
flesh-and-blood enemies - and the threat of an imminent global crisis.
”In
a country on the verge of war, in a region that awakens every day
to renewed terrorist attacks and retaliatory action, I have tried
to describe what could happen should fanaticism gain the upper hand,
a fanaticism that exists no matter what side of the political spectrum
one is on. It is found among Israelis, among Palestinians, in Iraq
and even in the USA. 'Delete' is fiction, but the events are so
true-to-life that I'm afraid we can wake up one day and find that
fiction has become reality. Just as Tom Clancy predicted the September
11 attacks in one of his books, I'm afraid that the events I describe
in 'Delete' already have been planned and could be implemented in
the not too distant future. It would be 'The Final Solution', or
as the Nazis called it, 'Die endliche lősung'… 
