From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels—a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love.
This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented “fixer” for one of Oslo’s most powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also an unusually complicated fixer. He has a capacity for love that is as far-reaching as is his gift for murder. He is our straightforward, calm-in-the-face-of-crisis narrator with a storyteller’s hypnotic knack for fantasy. He has an “innate talent for subordination” but running through his veins is a “virus” born of the power over life and death. And while his latest job puts him at the pinnacle of his trade, it may be mutating into his greatest mistake. . . .
From the Hardcover edition.
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“The undisputed king of Scandinavian crime fiction…I am so used to the energetic plot twists, fiendish violence, and addictive verbosity of Nesbø’s writing that Blood on Snow, with its simplicity, brevity, and unlikely poetry, comes as a welcome antidote. It is set in the 1970s, an era of increasing fascination to Nesbø, and has a first-person narrative that provides a window into its protagonist’s lonely, tortured soul.”
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Times (London)