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The Redeemer: A Harry Hole Novel (6) Audiobook
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Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. An explosion cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole—the Oslo Police Department's best investigator and worst civil servant—has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry's troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate, and Harry's chase takes him to the most forbidden corners of the former Yugoslavia.
With its shrewdly vertiginous narrative, acid-etched characters, and white-hot pace, The Redeemer is resounding proof of Jo Nesb├©'s standing as one of the best crime writers of our time.
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"Rarely does a mystery novel succeed on so many levels, as the intricate plotting explores psychological and theological dimensions that go deeper than standard notions of good and evil. . . . Those with an affinity for the darkest and most literary crime fiction will want to get here as soon as they can."
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“A tour de force. Nesbø has a plot here that is so tightly constructed and compelling that it’s impossible to put the book down. This is a serial killer story, and one with a punch.”
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Fast-and-furious.
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The pace is relentless. . . . The plot . . . [is] complex without becoming overheated.
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Though there’s plenty of twisty plot, it’s Nesbø’s writing—textured, humane, evocative, moody, cinematic—that keeps this thing rolling forward like a toboggan on a steep slope.
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The Redeemer rocks! Jo Nesbø is my new favorite thriller writer and Harry Hole my new hero. This book had my pulse in the red zone from start to finish.
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Full of shocking chance and nuance, unforeseen twists and ice-crystal clear views of Oslo in winter.
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A tour de force. . . . So tightly constructed and compelling that it’s impossible to put the book down.
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A treat. . . . Even when you’re positive that the mystery is entirely done and dusted, it invariably turns out that the pragmatic Detective Harry Hole has managed to stay three steps ahead, and there’s more to uncover.
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Nesbø is no ordinary writer. . . . A complex story, impossible to second-guess, which proves that greed, lust and a desire for revenge lurk within the saintliest of folk.
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The search for redemption is on—redemption through violence. The deeply flawed Hole is his familiar self: difficult and disrespectful, brilliant and intuitive. . . . Told in powerful prose, [The Redeemer] never fails to grip.
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No doubt about it: Nesbø belongs on every crime-fiction fan’s A-list.
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“The killer’s boyhood in the war-torn Balkans gives added depth to a complex story, impossible to second-guess, which proves that greed, lust, and a desire for revenge lurk within the saintliest of folk.”
— Daily Telegraph (London)
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award, July 2013
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A New York Times 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.