The Susan Effect

«All charges against you and your family members will be dropped. In exchange, we want you to interrogate one person…»

Susan's unique talent, a physicist and the mother of an exemplary Danish family, is the ability to inspire trust in people.... Finding herself a hostage of an obscure organization preparing to evacuate the elite in the face of an impending socio-economic catastrophe, she is forced to search for the remaining members of the secret analytical center from the 1970s — the «Commission of the Future». However, the investigation assigned to her gradually turns into her own…
Many readers of Høeg will undoubtedly be reminded of the heroine of this book, Smilla: in her character, outlook on life, and habit of carrying a small crowbar with her — just in case.