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NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2008
NORWEGIAN BOOK CLUB PRIZE
Despite being short in stature, Roger Brown seems to have it all: he is Norway's most successful headhunter, married to the beautiful owner of an art gallery, and lives luxuriously in a dream house. However, his reckless spending results in being up to his neck in debt, forcing him to pursue a parallel profession: stealing expensive works of art.
When he gets the chance to orchestrate one last big job that will free him from all his debts, an unforeseen twist of fate turns him from hunter to hunted, and his debts become his least pressing problem... An unending combination of action and suspense that takes your breath away.
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Nesbo has the unique talent of overturning all the assumptions the reader has, playing with their expectations and making only the absolutely necessary revelations.
Independent
Quentin Tarantino meets the Coen brothers in Jo Nesbo's delightful thriller.
Politiken
With Nabokov-like mastery, Nesbo skillfully guides the reader to empathize and identify with a minimally sympathetic hero. An inspired book that you must read.
Newsweek
The king of crime fiction authors.
Sunday Express
An unstoppable writing force.
The Times
Read an excerpt
"For God's sake, my man, you went and asked for the position! What you should have done was to put a scarecrow to pass us information, and when we approached you later, you would pretend you knew nothing. A top executive must be a difficult catch, not served to us on a plate freshly killed and dissected."
I saw that I had the desired result. He was shaken. It was not the usual interview model, it was neither Kioute, nor Disque, nor any of the other silly, useless questionnaires, set up by all kinds of irrelevant people, from psychologists completely deaf to subtle nuances to human resource evaluation experts who themselves are worth absolutely nothing.
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