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NEMESIS
NEMESIS
Subtitle:
A Novel
Book Category:
Fiction > Mystery & Detective > General
Author:
Nesbo, Jo
Editor::
Wachtel (CAW)
Illustrator::
(None)
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 13:
9780061655517
Price:
USD 14.99
Publication Year:
2009

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HarperCollins Publishers USA.

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Grainy closed-circuit television footage shows a man walking into an Oslo bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells the young woman to count to twenty-five. When the robber doesn't get his money in time, the cashier is executed, and two million Norwegian crowns disappear without a trace. Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. While Hole's girlfriend is away in Russia, fighting for custody of her young son, an old flame decides to get in touch. Former girlfriend and struggling artist Anna Bethsen invites Hole to dinner and he can't resist a visit. Though Hole has managed to stay on the wagon for an unusually long period of time, the evening ends in an all too familiar way-total drunken oblivion, a thundering headache, a missing cell phone, and no memory of the past twelve hours. Later that same morning, Anna is found shot dead in her bed with a gun in her hand. Hole's colleague and longtime adversary Tom Waaler wants to call the case a suicide. But Hole suspects foul play and decides to open his own private investigation. A series of threatening e-mails lead him to believe that someone is trying to frame him for Anna's unexplained death. Meanwhile the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery. Hard investigation work in the videotape review room finally pays off, and a tip from Norway's most notorious bank robber, now behind bars, sends Hole to a secret hide-out in Brazil. But as the mysterious murder-suicide toll continues to mount, Tom Waaler and his vigilante police force turn their own energies against Hole, who has become a prime suspect in the investigation. A deadly manhunt sends Hole and Waaler racing through the cool autumnal streets of Oslo and the steaming villages of Brazil. Hole's intuitive, law-breaking methods eventually lead him to uncover the identity of the true bank robber and the reasons behind Anna's mysterious death. Cracking both cases absolves Hole of police suspicion, but Tom Waaler is not finished with his old archenemy quite yet . . . Gripping and surprising, NEMESIS is a nail-biting thriller from one of the biggest stars of crime fiction today. Nesbo's deft orchestration of parallel narratives knows no match in the genre, and his thematic reach exceeds even the most ambitious thrillers on the market. The Harry Hole novels are among the premiere works of contemporary European mystery literature and NEMESIS is no exception.

 
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