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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. (1998) Harry Hole is sent to Thailand to investigate the murder of a Norwegian ambassador in a prostitutes bed. KIRKUS REVIEWFollowing the debut (The Bat, 2013) that took Harry Hole to Australia, this second case (originally published in 1998) takes Harry to Bangkok, filling the final gap in the Norwegian cop's 10 best-selling adventures to date (Police, 2013, etc.).Bjarne M¨ller, Harry's Crime Squad boss back in Oslo, insists that he's just the man to help U.S.-born Bangkok Homicide Inspector Liz Crumley investigate the stabbing of Atle Molnes, Norwegian ambassador to Thailand, while keeping a lid on the fact that his body was found in a well-known brothelĂ‚ÂĄand that he was murdered. At the same time, M¨ller and Secretary of State Bj¨rn Askildsen don't tell Harry any number of facts highly material to the investigation. So Harry and Liz have all the fun of following evidence that suggests Molnes was having an affair with a receptionist in his office, that he was interested in child pornography and that his fondness for backing the wrong horses had put him deeply in debt to loan sharks, who proceed to rebuff Harry's bullheaded approach to interrogation before throwing him out on his ear. The trail to the ambassador's killer winds past his sad-eyed widow, Hilde, and his daughter, Runa, currency dealer Jens Brekke and embassy dead-ender Ivar L¨ken, African-American parking attendant Jim Love, and Woo, a freelance goon. To keep up with this colorful crowd, Harry must strong-arm suspects, break into their premises to conduct illegal searches and fend off every prostitute in town.Perhaps the most original touch in this early, well-wrought adventure is the most depressing: Despite Bangkok's well-earned reputation for moral and official corruption, the most repulsive cockroaches Harry finds are consistently Norwegians.Pub Date: Feb. 4th, 2014ISBN: 978-0-345-80715-1Page count: 384ppPublisher: Vintage Crime/Black LizardReview Posted Online: June 24th, 2014Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1st, 2014 no reviews | add a review
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HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â?˘ In this installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Jo Nesbo sends Inspector Harry Hole to Thailand to investigate the murder of an ambassador. "Nesbø never lets a page go by without making characters and situations vivid."â??Houston Chronicle â??I canâ??t think of anyone who makes my skin crawl like Nesbo."â??The New York Times Book Review When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise, Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, trying to piece together the story of the ambassadorâ??s death even though no one asked him to, and no one wants him toâ?? No library descriptions found. |
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