The Son: A novel
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (706 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GVZV818 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 449 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Suncoast said A stunning new standalone thriller by Jo Nesbo. Most people will know Jo Nesbo's books through his very popular Harry Hole series. This time Nesbo has written a standalone thriller "The Son" (Sonnen in Norwegian) which IMHO equals if not surpasses his best Harry Hole thrillers. It is a pretty long and complex read and some of the violent parts may not be to everyone's taste.Sonny Lofthus idolised his father, Ab, who was a police officer. At an . "Jo Nesbo loves writing" according to Jan D.. Having read all of bis book, it is kind of amazing that Jo Nesbo must absolutely love writing, loves to create characters you get entangled in, understand them and even then it surprises you what all of them really are made off or not.Nesbo doesn't compare with American crime authors as he is just better and more authentic and 'plotting' a device that may authors embrace and see as the key issue i. "I really like the story line" according to John M.. I really like the story line. When I put the book down for the day, I was anxious to pick it up again and return to "The Son"! As usual, when I read a Jo Nebo book, I had trouble with the Scandinavian names and places, but I find that it makes it more interesting. I'll read more of his books after I finish the David Baldaci book I'm now reading.
As the novel begins, however, Sonny has new information about his father’s death and has engineered a daring escape from prison. His fame is sure to grow still more as Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are about to begin filming The Snowman. A terrific thriller but also a tragic, very moving story of intertwined characters swerving desperately to avoid the dead ends in their paths. Juggling point of view between Sonny, Simon Kefas (the cop chasing him), and the various corrupt officials who risk exposure the longer Sonny is free, Nesbø thwarts our every attempt to draw conclusions about both what happened in the past and who is the least guilty among the principals. There is an element of the classic film noir Breathless at work here but with more characters of varying shades of gray whose fates hinge on numerous moving parts. The drugs are Sonny’s way of dealing with the knowled
The author lives in Oslo, Norway. JO NESBO is a musician, songwriter, economist and author. . His first crime novel featuring Harry Hole was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Peter Høeg, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson)
Or that he’s serving time for other peoples’ crimes. The inmates who seek out his uncanny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved. Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. They don’t know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit—or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug. But when he learns a stunning, long-hidden secret concerning his father, he makes a brilliantly executed escape from prison—and from the person he’d let himself become—and begins hunting down those responsible for the crimes against him The darkly looming question is: Who will get to him first—the criminals or the cops?From the Hardcover edition.. As long as Sonny gets his dope, he’s happy to play the criminal and the prison’s in-house savior. The author of the best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set inside Oslo’s maze of especially venal, high-level corruption. And all of them un