The author of the bestselling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying tale of vengeance set amid Oslo’s brutal hierarchy of corruption.
Sonny Lofthus has been in prison for almost half his life: serving time for crimes he didn’t commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin—and a stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his Buddha-like absolution. Years earlier Sonny’s father, a corrupt cop, took his own life rather than face exposure. Now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police, lawyers, a desperate priest—all of them focused on keeping him stoned and jailed. When Sonny discovers a shocking truth about his father’s suicide, he makes a brilliant escape and begins hunting down the people responsible for his and his father’s demise. But he’s also being hunted, and by enemies too many to count. Two questions remain: who will get to him first, and what will he do when he’s cornered?
'Intricately disturbing . . . with its creepy, sinister, purgatorial cops and crooks… as you’d expect from the...crime author of the moment.'
...'An elegant stand-alone novel full of vengeance and redemption'
...'A campaign of bloody revenge, rival manhunts and heady explorations of our species’ loftiest aspiration... Nesbo is a Nordic noir king'
...'Fast . . . complex and well drawn'
...'A deftly plotted novel that probes the deepest mysteries: sin, redemption, love, evil, the human condition...One of Nesbø’s best, deepest and richest novel...
'Excellent . . . Nesbø takes the reader on a chilling ride with many unexpected twists'
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