Billy Karlsson simply has to make it. Absolutely. The hospital porter, who casually dabbles in assisted dying, is stuck as a character in an unfinished and unpublished novel. Trapped in this purgatory, mentally confused and on the brink of madness, he urgently needs to take action to finally be published. Because if it's no longer enough to just help old people pass away, he might only have one option left: to blow up the hospital. Only his creator, the author, can stop him. Absolute Zero Cool turns all the traditions of the crime genre on their head and entertains and disturbs in equal measure. The novel is a witty self-reflective attack on the genre itself, an imaginative story about the human spirit's ability to be not only creative but also destructive.