"A gripping thriller …" – Literary Titan

A JOURNALIST. A RADIATION EXPERT. A LIBRARIAN.

AND A COUNTDOWN THAT BEGAN 5,000 YEARS AGO.

A colleague mentions in passing a story from the tabloids that Kurt is apparently the only one not to have seen. Prince Henrik wanted to be king. Kurt's coffee goes down the wrong way.

Birgitte is indexing pictures from a plane spotter – and suddenly finds herself staring at the plane her father crashed in. But the time on the picture cannot be right. And the plane spotter stands firm. His clock is right.

"Conspiracies, terrorism, and a looming apocalypse unite in this breakneck thriller" – BookLife Reviews

"This Scandinavian caper offers plenty of hard-boiled tension" – Kirkus Reviews

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Denmark's Dan Brown" – Cats, Books & Coffee

"An action movie in book form" – Jyllands-Posten

New to Mirrin Bank? Start with episode 1 – the countdown has already begun. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and all 40 episodes will be out before Christmas 2026.

A high-octane Nordic conspiracy thriller. Mirrin Bank is a 40-episode audio series in three seasons, based on Johan Ottosen's Danish bestselling trilogy Countdown, Angels of the Apocalypse and Antichaos. Countdown has won five international awards, including an IPPY Silver Medal, Global Book Awards Silver and Bronze, and a Gold Medal from The International Review of Books. This is season one, Countdown, episode 9 of 13. Human-written by Johan Ottosen. Narrated by Liam Kessler. Free GPS locations for every scene at johanottosen.com.

This is a work of fiction. Although inspired by real events, all names, characters, businesses, places and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.