Walking into the Night is a novel from Olaf Olafsson about a man's hidden past and the immutability of love and loss.

For twenty years Christian Benediktsson has led a quiet life as the butler to William Randolph Hearst, the greatest newspaper magnate in the world.

But in his most private thoughts and memories, he relives another life: once a husband and father in Iceland, he abandoned his family for an actress in New York, where his affair ended in death and financial ruin.

No one else knows the secret of the man he once was—husband, father, businessman, lover—and, ultimately, even he will choose to forget that this person ever existed.

His people are real, period atmosphere and detail unobtrusively perfect, his novel a gem and a small masterpiece."