Nybrua

Nybrua is identified as the place where dealers sell Superboy, a drug linked to several deaths, and where the street-level trade operates according to a regular schedule. In the novel’s wider account of criminal activity in Oslo, this specific outlet sits alongside a concealed network of police informants, trafficking, and financial cooperation.

The Superboy outlet

Lars Gilberg tells Sonny Lofthus that he knows only one outlet in town selling Superboy, and that its dealers gather under Nybrua. He warns that three people have died from the drug that summer. The warning does not stop Sonny from asking who sells it, but Gilberg distinguishes the dealers’ roles: they work in pairs, with one holding the drugs and the other collecting money.

Gilberg describes the money handler as usually stocky, acne-scarred, and short-haired. Though he is the boss, he prefers to stay on the street and take the money himself, and he distrusts the dealers who work for him. The arrangement makes the outlet legible to an investigator through its routines and division of labour, even as its personnel may vary.

A fixed evening rhythm

The dealers are present from four until nine in the evening. Gilberg knows the hours from the customers’ behaviour: the first begin queuing half an hour early, while the last arrive shortly before closing. Nybrua’s trade is therefore not presented as an occasional exchange but as a predictable daily operation, with buyers organizing themselves around the outlet’s narrow window.

A street market within a larger network

Nybrua’s visible drug sales belong to a broader criminal structure. Simon Kefas recalls long-standing rumours that a police mole leaked information to the person running much of Oslo’s drug and sex trafficking. At the time, those rumours were never substantiated, and Simon explains that the supposed trafficker was known to the police as the Twin.

The account later exposes the institutional and commercial connections behind that network. Simon accuses Iver Iversen of using Iversen Property to help the Twin launder proceeds from drugs and trafficking, in exchange for fictitious losses worth hundreds of millions of kroner. Separately, a diary entry describes two corrupt officers working as a pair: their dual arrangement gives each an alibi when the other is active, while they conceal their betrayal of the police. The same entry records the Twin’s effort to cultivate one officer’s career and gain access to sensitive information. Together, these revelations place the street-level outlet at Nybrua within a system whose reach extends from dealers and customers to police intelligence and business finance.