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Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough.

Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded, but fatal flaw, in America’s collective identity. In 20 years at West Point, whistle-blower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the US armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military’s insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. The consequences are undeniably grim: failure in every war since World War II, millions of lives lost around the globe and trillions of dollars wasted.

During an arrest of two climbing thieves at the Hotel Continental on Nørrebrogade in Copenhagen, Nanna Christoffersen, police assistant in the burglary department at Bellahøj Police, steals a statue of the Hindu god Kali. But both criminal masterminds and the intelligence service will do everything to get hold of the statue, and soon Nanna is being hunted wildly.

When a bomb explodes and the body of left-wing journalist, and Winkler's old friend, Thorbjørn Lehbæk is found at the scene questions quickly arise; was the bomb related to the current EU summit in Copenhagen? Did Thorbjørn set off the bomb, or was he a victim of terrorism? Winkler's secret past, and his friendship with Thorbjørn, creeps uncomfortably close during the investigation… Did their friendship really end over a woman?

The ghetto settlement Oksevænget on Bellahøj in Copenhagen has long been in the media's focus with crime, ethnic tensions and social problems. But with a long, tough effort, the municipality and the residents' association have succeeded in reversing the downward spiral. The Danish People's Party's mayor in Copenhagen, Kristian Havholm, wants to enter national politics, and together with his special adviser, he plans to visit the area.