Rabbit Factor

An insurance mathematician loses his job and inherits an adventure park with financial problems and quirky employees. He must navigate love and extreme situations while dealing with criminals who want their money back. The Rabbit Factor is a dark thriller that combines humor and suspense, featuring a giant plastic rabbit as a key weapon.

Format: Hardback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 28 October 2021
Publisher: Orenda Books

An insurance mathematician's carefully ordered life is turned upside down when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park… with a whole host of problems. A quirky, tense, and warmly funny thriller from award-winning Finnish author Antti Tuomainen.

**Soon to be a major motion picture starring Steve Carell for Amazon Studios**

Laconic, thrilling, and warmly human. In these uncertain times, what better hero than an actuary?

Chris Brookmyre

'The antic novels of Antti Tuomainen prove that comedy is not lost in translation… Tuomainen, like Carl Hiaasen before him, has the knack of combining slapstick with genuine emotion.'

The Times

'The funniest writer in Europe, and one of the very finest. There is a beautiful rhythm and poetry to the prose… original and brilliant story-telling.'

Helen FitzGerald

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Just one spreadsheet away from chaos…

What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal.

And then, for the first time, Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother – its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. The worst of the financial issues appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal quarters… and some dangerous men are very keen to get their money back.

But what Henri really can't compute is love. In the adventure park, Henri crosses paths with Laura, an artist with a chequered past, and a joie de vivre and erratic lifestyle that bewilders him. As the criminals go to extreme lengths to collect their debts and as Henri's relationship with Laura deepens, he finds himself faced with situations and emotions that simply cannot be calculated.

The adventure park is a place of surprises and unexpected turns, where Henri must navigate a complex web of relationships and secrets to save the park and himself. Along the way, he discovers that life is not just about numbers and equations, but about the unpredictable and uncontrollable forces of love, loyalty, and fate.

In the end, Henri emerges as a hero, not just for his mathematical prowess but for his ability to embrace the unexpected and find joy in the most unlikely places. The adventure park may have been a financial burden, but it also became a source of inspiration and renewal for Henri, teaching him that life is full of surprises and that it is up to us to embrace them and find meaning in every moment.

Weight: 378g
Dimension: 139 x 205 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913193874