About the Author

Jo Nesbo (Author)
Jo Nesbo is one of the world's bestselling crime writers. When commissioned to write a memoir about life on the road with his band, Di Derre, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole crime novel, The Bat. His books The Leopard, Phantom, Police, The Son, The Thirst, Macbeth and Knife have all since topped the Sunday Times charts. He's an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 51 languages, selling over 60 million copies around the world.

Neil Smith (Translator)
Neil Smith has translated many acclaimed Norwegian and Swedish novels, including books by Fredrik Backman and Leif G. W. Persson's The Dying Detective, winner of the CWA International Dagger 2017. He lives in Norfolk.

Reviews

Expertly plotted with vividly drawn characters, frenetic police chases and philosophising villains [...] Expect to be thoroughly entertained
*Crime Fiction Lover*

Fast-moving...stunning
*Sunday Times*

[The Thirst is] a breath-taking reading experience... Nesbo is the master when it comes to building a long and increasingly steep dramatic curve... The pace in The Thirst is somewhat calmer than in the previous Harry Hole books, more of a waltz than a rock and roll, until we're a bit more than halfway through. But from there on, it's full on action with blood gushing and splattering until the last page is turned
*Verdens Gang, Norway*

The Thirst like its stablemates is a bulky but zippy 500-pager which never loiters in one place for long. Nesbø keeps you guessing with his usual bag of tricks, making everyone seem a little suspect (or almost everyone). His cynicism about bent coppers and unscrupulous journalists is an inexhaustible and entertaining sideshow...if you liked the other ten, you'll greedily sink your teeth into this
*Arts Desk*

Jo Nesbo is on top form... [The Thirst is] a spell-binding story about brutal crimes and ambitions gone astray
*Dagbladet, Norway*

One cannot but rejoice at this reunion with Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole
*Krimifan.dk, Denmark*

Everything that others do, Jo Nesbo can do better... When it seems as though everything is about to be resolved in [The Thirst], most other writers would be satisfied with their work. With Jo Nesbo, the ride will still go on for 150 more pages
*Dagsavisen, Norway*

The Thirst combines the best of American and Nordic crime fiction... Harry Hole is a criminal investigator with a steady salary and civil servant status. But he's also made of mythological hero material
*Jyllands-Posten, Denmark*

Nesbo’s 11th Harry Hole novel is predictably excellent… It’s crime fiction as precision-tooled instrument of entertainment and on that level, it rocks
*Metro*

What distinguishes Jo Nesbo...is his wry sense of humour. He not only provides a super-complex plot with plenty of twists...but also skillfully continues the lives of the all-too-fallible characters we have grown to love and hate
*Evening Standard*