The Redeemer (Harry Hole) - Hardcover

"The Redeemer""rocks! Jo Nesbo 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
"The Redeemer is Nesbo's fourth novel and it proves to be as brilliant as his other three. It provides a grimly realistic portrait of the Norwegian capital -- druggies shooting up in public; refugees being exploited in private -- as well as an engrossing mystery, full of twists. . . . The Croatian assassin is a fascinating character -- a former war hero with a truly fatal gay charm -- who has the advantage of 'hyperelasticity, ' a face so mobile no one can remember it. Nesbo's work is full of such idiosyncratic detail and it is to be hoped that he won't let the world-weary Hole retire or get fired any time soon."
--"Evening Standard" (UK)"
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"The killer's boyhood in the war-torn Balkans gives added depth to a complex story, impossible to second-guess, which proves that greed, lust and a desire for revenge lurk within the saintliest of folk."
--"Daily Telegraph"
"Hole in one. . . . Jo Nesbo has done it again. This autumn's Harry Hole crime novel is conceived on a large scale and masterfully carried out. . . . One of Norwegian literature's most outstanding storytellers just happens to be named Jo Nesbo."
--"Verdens Gang" (Norway)
"Right on the mark. . . .Jo Nesbo draws his bow, takes aim and hits a bull's eye. He has the language, he has the suspense -- and he has Harry Hole. . . . a storyteller who doesn't give the reader a moment' s breathing room, it's full-bore 464 pages to the end. . . . In case you haven't already been saved by Jo Nesbo, it's high time you were."
-- "Bergensavisen" (Norway)
"A tour de force. Nesbo has a plot here that is so tightly constructed and compelling that it's impossible to put the book down. This is a serial-killer story, and one with a punch."
-- Margaret Cannon, "The Globe and Mail
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"Nesbo has been gra