In 1962, an Icelandic man is found dead on a train bound for the English town of Cheltenham Spa; he was carrying a map on which a swastika has been drawn with a red pen. Who was he? Following up his grandiose CoDex 1962, Iceland's Sjón tells the story of Gunnar Kampen. Told in a series of scenes and letters spanning Kampen's lifetime—from his Reykjavík childhood during World War II to his final mission—this unconventional novel is a portrait of how ordinary people become extremists.