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Loading... Blood on Snow: A Novel (edition 2015)by Jo Nesbo (Author), Neil Smith (Translator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I highly enjoyed this standalone novella. The narrator is Olav, a fixer for a local crime boss but it is not that kind of novel. Olav has a complicated life that he lets you see in tiny little pieces, he is clear that he commits crimes and mostly kills for his boss but there are other hints to who is he is that appear slowly as the plot moves forward. The ending is somewhat complicated but thoughtful and I really enjoyed reading it and must read more of Nesbo that is sitting on my shelves. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: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 No library descriptions found. |
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Thrown into the criminal milieu by forces he cannot control Olav became a very renown contract killer employed by a local drug lord. So when turf wars start [competition is harsh in drug business] Olav is forced between continuing doing his job or doing something right. And he needs to be careful because wrong decision can be his last in this world.
Ending is emnotional, somebody would say tragic but I would not agree. It is as tragic as perhaps ending of that movie "City of Angels"/"Heaven over Berlin" - estranged people finally manage to find each other in a very unforgiving world. So it is not sad but more like bitter-sweet ending.
Not your usual Jo Nesbo but nevertheless very interesting and good crime novel.
Recommended to all fans of crime and thriller novels. ( )