title: Frozen Assets: How I Lived Iceland's Boom and Bust
author:  Armann Thorvaldsson 
description: <b>This is the story of how one man, one bank and one countryexperienced world economic history.</b>
zlib_text: > > > Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in
  > Siglufjörður, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive
  > to visit the majestic ski slopes.
  
  > > Ari Thór Arason is now a police inspector, but he’s separated from his
  > girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family
  > reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening
  > and there is an unsettling chill in the air.
  
  > > Three days before Easter, a nineteen-year-old local girl falls to her
  > death from the balcony of a house on the main street. A perplexing entry in
  > her diary suggests that this may not be an accident, and when an old man in
  > a local nursing home writes ‘She was murdered’ again and again on the wall
  > of his room, there is every suggestion that something more sinister lies at
  > the heart of her death…
  
  > > As the extreme weather closes in, cutting the power and access to
  > Siglufjörður, Ari Thór must piece together the puzzle to rev