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Chapter 3

Gustav Kräsen's true identity

Friday 23 February 2018.

The road he is driving on is gradually changing in colour; from dark-greyish hew
to completely white due to the continuing heavy snowfall. There are no people

and the cars he passes by could be counted on one hand. A few months earlier,
this stretch of road had been filled to the brim with eager Christmas shoppers.

Now it is as quiet as it possibly could be. Only a few shops are partly lit by light-

ing but most of them are entirely seeped in darkness. The high electricity prices
mean that even on the country's most exclusive shops are in full lightning al-

ways.

With the attack on Kronborg, one of the most known national treasures in Den-
mark, where the story of Hamlet took place, the country has been hit in the heart.

So far, everything is in a “state of emergency" as the Prime Minister put it late
last night in a press conference.

"We are under attack and the entire state force is deployed to defend the country

and protect our citizens"
The violent scenario last night, which Tom himself only barely survived, has left

the streets desolate. Even the regulars at the low-cost pubs, who are usually will-

ing to go through fire and water to fight their inner loneliness and maintain their
daily alcohol level, are staying indoors. The only signs of life in Copenhagen is a

handful of homeless people and gypsies going from trash to trash, while rum-

maging through empty bottles and cans, looking for gold.
It's a gloomy Sunday night, and he's thinking with great horror about how eve-

rything is going to unfold tomorrow when the whole country is reopened and the

state of emergency is being lifted. Train operations have been halted for fear of
bombings, as well as planes, buses and ferry operations, not to mention the pres-

sure at the border crossings, which obviously also have been closed.