On an icy cold day in January 1937, death came to Halden, literally, as a stowaway on board a ship from Rotterdam. Among the many whose lives were at stake, was the self-effacing and cowed Vinnie Dahlen. Rikard Brink of the Ice People, who was a policeman, was given the task of curbing the catastrophe. In order to do so, he first had to win the confidence of the timid Vinnie …
