For eighty years, a fortune has remained hidden. Now it is being used to buy an entire country.

Björn Ohlson runs one of Scandinavia's most powerful energy companies — built on an inheritance his family understands perfectly. The rest of the world does not.

When hundreds of millions of dollars begin moving abroad, officially for green energy, nobody in Norway suspects where the money is really going.

Only one man does. Egil Olsen, director of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, doesn't like what the numbers tell him. He knows exactly one journalist who won't look away.

Erik Wiedner and his fiancée, biologist Amelia Thompson, follow the trail — from Norway's fjords deep into the Andes. What begins as an investigation becomes a flight through a country whose government is about to fall. A president is fighting for a nation that profits from its own resources, not just the companies that extract them. But the real threads converge deep in the mountains, where an eighty-year-old fortune meets a deal that has only just been struck.

The question is no longer who is funding the takeover. It's who will pay for it in the end — and who is willing to follow it:

To Patagonia.

Two Norwegians who will never meet. One sells a country. One tries to save it.

An international political thriller in the tradition of Robert Harris and Ken Follett, about old gold, new greed, and who really profits in the end. Book 2 of 4 in the Nordic Protocols series. To follow Erik and Amelia from the beginning, start with North Sea Target (Book 1).