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Zusatztext Praise for Jo Nesbø and Blood on Snow “[A] tangled tale with a fateful twist.” — The Boston Globe “Nesbø’s much-heralded gifts are on display—using his talent for conjuring the chilly Munch-like atmospherics of Oslo in the winter and his eye for grisly! alarming details that slam home the horror of the evil that men do.” — The New York Times Book Review “[An] incendiary cocktail of murder! revenge and a hitman with . . . problems.” — The Independent (London) “Dark! intense! and bone chilling.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Quick! entertaining. . . . [An] excursion to a slightly different corner of the criminal underworld! where death and love become tangled together in the cold! dark streets.” — Paste Magazine “In the crowded field of Scandinavian crime fiction! Nesbø’s books stand out. . . . [He] likes to rip plots up . . . to play with the conventions of his genre.” — The New Yorker “Noiry and pulpy: Nesbø’s gorgeously rendered images of snow! and of the titular blood on snow . . . are crying out to be filmed.” — The Guardian (London) “[ Blood on Snow ] moves along swiftly in the carefully controlled voice of the killer. And before you know it! you’re in the middle of one of the wildest scenes in recent crime fiction . . . where there’s hardly any place to duck! just as in this entertaining novel! when the bullets fly.” — All Things Considered /NPR “Nesbø is a master storyteller! gripping the reader from the first page.” — Daily Express (London) “I am the world’s greatest living crime writer. [Jo Nesbø] is a man who is snapping at my heels like a rabid pit bull poised to take over my mantle when I dramatically pre-decease him.” —James Ellroy “Nesbø explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killers where you least expect to find them. . . . His novels are maddeningly addictive.” — Vanity Fair Zusammenfassung From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels—a fast! tight! darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented “fixer” for one of Oslo’s most powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also an unusually complicated fixer. He has a capacity for love that is as far-reaching as is his gift for murder. He is our straightforward! calm-in-the-face-of-crisis narrator with a storyteller’s hypnotic knack for fantasy. He has an “innate talent for subordination” but running through his veins is a “virus” born of the power over life and death. And while his latest job puts him at the pinnacle of his trade! it may be mutating into his greatest mistake. . . . From the Hardcover edition. Informationen zum Autor JO NESBO is a musician! songwriter! economist! as well as a writer. His Harry Hole novels include The Redeemer ! The Snowman ! The Leopard ! and Phantom ! and he is also the author of several stand-alone novels and the Doctor Proctor series of children's books. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel. ...
