Pierced

Zusatztext "Slick! compelling and taut! Thomas Enger’s Pierced combines a sophisticated layering of mysteries with an intensely scarred hero embarked on a tragic quest. A dark and suspenseful blast of Nordic exposure." —Christopher Ewan! author of Safe House Informationen zum Autor Thomas Enger is a former journalist. He made his debut with the crime novel Burned (Skinndød) in 2010, which became an international sensation before publication. Burned is the first in a series of five books about the journalist Henning Juul, which delves into the depths of Oslo's underbelly, skewering the corridors of dirty politics and nailing the fast-moving world of 24-hour news. Rights to the series have been sold to 28 countries to date. In 2013 Enger published his first book for young adults, a dark fantasy thriller called The Evil Legacy, for which he won the U-prize (best book Young Adult). Killer Instinct, another Young Adult suspense novel, was published in Norway in 2017. Rights have been sold to Germany and Iceland. Enger also composes music, and he lives in Oslo. Follow him on Twitter @EngerThomas, on Facebook www.facebook.com/thomas.enger.77 or visit his website thomasenger.net Klappentext "Originally published in Norwegian as Fantomsmerte... "--T.p. verso. 1 twenty-two months later It’s always the same scream. Henning Juul blinks and fumbles for the light switch. The sheet under him is wet and the air quivers with heat. He runs clammy fingers over the scars on his neck and face. His head is pounding with a bass rhythm that is pouring out from an open window in Steenstrupsgate. In the distance a motorbike roars as it sets off, then there is silence. Like the drumroll before an execution. Henning takes a deep breath and tries to strangle the dream that still feels all too real, but it refuses to go away. It had started off as a good dream. They had gone outside to play, Jonas and him. A thick layer of snow had covered the ground overnight. At the junction by Birkelunden Park the tramlines were reduced to just ruler-straight silver lines, and they could barely make them out. The dense snowflakes were still dancing in the air, but they melted the moment they landed on Henning’s cheek. He was pulling Jonas on the sled down Toftesgate and into Sofienberg Park, where the children looked like ants on the small hill sloping down from the church. Jonas threw himself energetically from side to side. Henning was exhausted when they finally reached the top of the hill. He was about to sit down at the rear of the sled when Jonas stopped him. “Not you, Daddy! Only me!” “Okay. But you know that means you’ll have to pull the sled back up the hill all on your own.” “Yeah, yeah.” “Do you promise?” “Yeeees!” Henning knew that the wet snowflakes had a longer life span than the promise Jonas had just made, but he didn’t mind. “Give me a push, I want to go reeeeally fast!” “Okay. Hold on tight. Let’s count to three.” They counted in unison: “ONE! TWO! Aaaand THREEEE!!!” And Henning gave Jonas a big push. He heard the boy squeal with delight as he got under way and noticed that the other children were watching him, too, enjoying the sight of the little boy with the pale blue woolly hat hurtling toward a jump that someone had built halfway down the hill. And Jonas reached it, gained some height, but landed quickly and whooped as he turned the steering wheel to avoid colliding with a girl coming from the side. She turned around and followed Jonas with her eyes as he veered further and further to the left. Toward the tree. Henning saw it, too, saw where Jonas was heading, his small fists gripping the steering wheel. Henning started running down the hill, but he lost his footing. He stumbled and rolled over a couple of times before he managed to get ...

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Enger
• Publisher: Pocket Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 02.10.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9781451616484
• ISBN: 978-1-4516-1648-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: The Henning Juul Series; Henning Juul; The Henning Juul Series
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense