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Phantom
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A Harry Hole Thriller (Oslo Sequence 7)
By
Jo Nesbo, Don Bartlett (Translated by)
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Free shipping Australia wide Ships from local supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 464 pages | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 03 February 2012 |
A boy is lying on the floor of an Oslo apartment. He is bleeding and will soon die. In order to place his life and death in some kind of context he begins to tell his story. Outside, the church bells toll. Autumn. Former police inspector Harry Hole returns to Oslo after three years abroad. He seeks out his old boss at Police Headquarters to request permission to investigate a homicide. But the case is already closed: the young junkie was in all likelihood shot dead by a fellow addict. Yet, Harry is granted permission to visit the boy's alleged killer in jail. There, he meets himself and his own history. What follows is the solitary investigation of what appears to be the first impossible case in Harry Hole's career. And while Harry is searching, the murdered boy continues his story. A man walks the dark streets of Oslo. The streets are his and he has always been there. He is a phantom. |
About the AuthorJo Nesbo is a musician, songwriter, economist and author. His first crime novel featuring Harry Hole was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Peter Hoeg, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson). Phantom is the seventh of Nesbo's Harry Hole novels to be translated into English. Check out www.jonesbo.co.uk. Reviews"Like a Scandinavian police version of the Jason Bourne series... a compulsive page turner... Nesbo leads us into the murky back-streets of Oslo and a world of drug addiction and smuggling, gang warfare and corrupt officialdom - all of which social context is handled with real skill by the author." Independent on Sunday "Jo Nesbo writes tightly plotted, claustrophobic thrillers with plenty of snow and a brutal yet hopelessly romantic policeman hero with the wonderful name of Harry Hole... they're also exuberantly, ingeniously gruesome." -- John Preston Sunday Telegraph "Phantom is arguably a much better book than any previous instalments. Nesbo wrings out the tension, by turns painful and delicious, with consummate skill." -- Davd Connett Sunday Express "Nesbo's extraordinary writing power still mesmerises" The Times "Phantom will maintain Jo Nesbo's unstoppable momentum" The Independent
| Publisher: | Harvill Secker | | ISBN: | 1846555221 |
| EAN: | 9781846555220 | | Dimensions: | 23.0 x 15.0 x 3.0 centimeters (0.61 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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