The Redeemer, Jo Nesbo
The Redeemer, Jo Nesbo
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The Redeemer
A Harry Hole Novel (6)

Author: Jo Nesbo, Don Bartlett

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 13 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/21/2013

Synopsis

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspector Harry Hole pursues an assassin bent on revenge in this “fast-and-furious” installment (The New York Times Book Review) of the bestselling series.

Shots ring out at a Salvation Army Christmas concert in Oslo, leaving one of the singers dead in the street. The trail will lead Harry Hole, Oslo’s best investigator and worst civil servant, deep into the darkest corners of the city and, eventually, to Croatia.

An assassin forged in the war-torn region has been brought to Oslo to settle an old debt. As the police circle in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate and the danger mounts for Harry and his colleagues.

About Jo Nesbo

Norwegian born Jo Nesbo is multi-talented. He was born in Oslo in 1960, growing up in Molde. He received his degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics. He played football and had aspirations of playing professionally, but a serious knee injury destroyed those dreams. He served in the military, then formed a band called Di derre (Them There), who topped the charts in Norway. He kept his number crunching job during the day and his band performed at night.

The band was popular enough for a publisher to ask Nesbo to write a memoir about his life on the road with a band. For some reason, he instead came up with his first plot for what became his signature series with Inspector Harry Hole. The Bat was his first novel in that series.

So, you have a writer, musician, and economic analyst selling more than 3 million copies of his novels by 2014. Then, an astounding 33 million copies worldwide by 2017....... that is some impressive number crunching.

Nesbo has had one children's book (English translation) Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder, and also had one of his novels (Hodejegerne) made into a film, Headhunters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on August 03, 2023

Detective Harry hole book No. 6 sees a once again single but also trying to stay off of the wagon Harry Hole get caught up in the hunt for The Redeemer a clinical and very professional hit-man targeting a prminennt member of the Salvation Army. Set in a snowy and cold Oslo in setting filled with jun......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on July 03, 2021

In this 6th book in the 'Harry Hole' series, the detective is on the trail of a wily hitman. The book can be read as a standalone. ***** As the story opens, it's 1991 and the 14-year-old daughter of a high official in the Norwegian Salvation Army is raped by someone she knows. This apparently goes unr......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on April 22, 2018

3.5 stars I know what to expect from Nesbø, but I keep going back for more hoping it gets at least slightly better. At times, I thought the book was great. At other times I could not wait for it to end. That is how every Nesbø book I read so far is, and I wish it wasn't! At the beginning of the book,......more

Quotes

“Fast-and-furious.” —The New York Times Book Review

“The pace is relentless.... The plot ... [is] complex without becoming overheated.” —San Antonio Express-News
 
“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.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
“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.” —Michael Connelly

“Full of shocking chance and nuance, unforeseen twists and ice-crystal clear views of Oslo in winter.” —The Wall Street Journal

“A tour de force.... So tightly constructed and compelling that it’s impossible to put the book down.” —The Globe and Mail (Canada)

 “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.” —Time Out

“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.” —The Sunday Telegraph

“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)

“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.” —Publishers Weekly

“No doubt about it: Nesbø belongs on every crime-fiction fan’s A-list.” —Booklist

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