Midnight Sun

Zusatztext "This forcefully written story of personal defeat! despair! and salvation sends a man off to lose himself in the wilderness--where he finds himself instead." -- The New York Times Book Review "Readers who like their crime fiction cut-to-the-bone lean will love the opening pages of Jo Nesbø's new! swift-moving existential thriller. . . . A compelling exploration of love! faith! the meaning of life and redemption." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch "A fun read! with a likable protagonist and a brisk! page-turning pace. Nesbø is a talented storyteller and his narrative intuition is on full display." -- Los Angeles Times Informationen zum Autor JO NESBØ  is a musician! songwriter! and 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.   www.jonesbo.com From the Hardcover edition. Excerpt CHAPTER 1 How are we to start this story? I wish I could say that we’ll start at the beginning. But I don’t know where it starts. Just like everyone else, I’m not truly aware of the real sequence of cause and effect in my life. Does the story start when I realised that I was only the fourth-best soccer player in the class? When Basse, my grandfather, showed me the drawings—his own drawings—of La Sagrada Família? When I took my first drag on a cigarette and heard my first track by the Grateful Dead? When I read Kant at university and thought I understood it? When I sold my first lump of hash? Or did it start when I kissed Bobby—who’s actually a girl—or the first time I saw the tiny, wrinkled creature who would end up being called Anna screaming up at me? Perhaps it was when I was sitting in the Fisherman’s stinking back room and he was telling me what he wanted me to do. I don’t know. We store up all sorts of stories with fabricated logic, so that life can look as though it has some meaning. So I may as well start here, in the midst of the confusion, at a time and a place where fate seemed to be taking a short break, holding its breath. When, just for a moment, I thought I was not only on my way, but had also already arrived. I got off the bus in the middle of the night. Screwed my eyes up against the sun. It was scouring across an island out to sea, off to the north. Red and dull. Like me. Beyond it lay yet more sea. And, beyond that, the North Pole. Perhaps this was somewhere they wouldn’t find me. I looked round. In the three other points of the compass low mountain ridges sloped down towards me. Red and green heather, rocks, a few clumps of stunted birch trees. To the east the land slid into the sea, stony and flat as a pancake, and to the southwest it was as if it had been cut with a knife at the point where the sea started. A hundred metres or so above the motionless sea a plateau of open landscape took over, stretching inland. The Finnmark plateau. The end of the line, as Grand­father used to say. The hard-packed gravel road I stood on led to a cluster of low buildings. The only thing that stuck out was the church tower. I’d woken up in my seat on the bus just as we were passing a sign with the name “Kåsund” on it, down by the shore, near a wooden jetty. And I thought, why not? and pulled the cord above the window to illuminate the stop sign above the bus driver. I put on the jacket of my suit, grabbed my leather case and started walking. The pistol in the jacket pocket bounced against my hip. Right on the bone—I’d always been too thin. I stopped and tugged my money belt down under my shirt so that the notes would cushion the knocks. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, and the air was so clear that I felt I co...

Product details

• Authors: Jo Nesb, Jo Nesbo
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 29.02.2016, delayed
• EAN: 9780399568114
• ISBN: 978-0-399-56811-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense