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Cockroaches: The Second Inspector Harry Hole Novel Audiobook
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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Inspector Harry Hole heads to Thailand to investigate the murder of an ambassador.
When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case.
But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise, Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, trying to piece together the story of the ambassador’s death even though no one asked him to, and no one wants him to—not even Harry himself.
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“The complex narrative and large dramatis personae are handled with steely authority…The picturesque seediness of Bangkok and Thailand turns out to be Harry Hole’s natural element, with Nesbo plumping his hero down in a very non-Norwegian setting.”
— Independent (London)
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“Excellent…The most popular among [Nesbø’s] earlier novels and one that casts a cold eye on the reality of expatriate life of some Europeans in Asia.”
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"Nesbø never lets a page go by without making characters and situations vivid.
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The world is dark and frozen, according to Nordic noir, and so is the human heart.But it's the magic Nesbø works with the genre's tropes that matters. . . . [He] might be my favorite of the lot.
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Satisfyingly twisty. . . . A compelling, hard-edged thriller.
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Excellent . . . the most popular among [Nesbø’s] earlier novels and one that casts a cold eye on the reality of expatriate life of some Europeans in Asia.
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The complex narrative and large dramatis personae are handled with steely authority . . . The picturesque seediness of Bangkok and Thailand turns out to be Harry Hole's natural element, with Nesbo plumping his hero down in a very non-Norwegian setting.
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Nesbø writes like an angel. As in Lucifer.
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Harry Hole is fast becoming one of the planet’s favorite detectives. And his demons are almost as legendary as his observational and analytical skills.
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Nesbø explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killer where you least expect to find them. . . . His novels are maddeningly addictive.
— Vanity Fair -
“Satisfyingly twisty…A compelling, hard-edged thriller.”
— Booklist
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A USA Today bestseller
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A Publishers Weekly bestseller
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An NPR bestseller
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A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
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About Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø is a musician, songwriter, screenwriter, and economist, as well as one of the leading crime writers in the world and a recipient of the Raymond Chandler Award for Lifetime Achievement. His books have garnered countless international awards, sold more than sixty million copies, and been translated into fifty-one languages. In addition to the Harry Hole series and The Kingdom diptych, Nesbø is the author of several stand-alone novels as well as the children’s books in the Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder series.
About John Lee
John Lee is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has twice won acclaim as AudioFile’s Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. He also narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is an accomplished stage actor and has written and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963–64 Doctor Who serial The Daleks.