Name: The Kingdom
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Author: Jo Nesbø
ISBN: 9780525564867

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jo Nesbo

Author

Jo Nesbø

Translated by

Robert Ferguson

Publisher

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

592

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.2 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9780525564867

Synopsis "The Kingdom"

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A tense and atmospheric thriller about two brothers, one small town, and a lifetime of dark secrets, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Cockroaches."I read The Kingdom and couldn't put it down.... Suspenseful ... original ... special in every way."--Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fairy Tale Roy and Carl, brothers from a small mountain town, have spent their whole lives hiding from the darkness in their pasts--Roy by staying put and staying quiet, and Carl by running far away. Roy believed his little brother was gone for good. But Carl has big plans for his hometown. And when he returns with a mysterious new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface and unexplained deaths in the town's past come under new scrutiny. Soon powerful players set their sights on taking the brothers down by exposing their role in the town's sordid history. But Roy and Carl are survivors, and no strangers to violence. As the town's long-buried past begins to surface, Roy will be forced to choose between his own flesh and blood and a future he had never dared to believe possible. Don't miss Jo Nesbo's new thriller, Killing Moon, coming soon!

Jo Nesbo

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Jo Nesbø was born in Oslo in 1960. Graduated in Economics, before jumping into literature he was a footballer, singer, songwriter, and stockbroker. Since he published The Bat in 1997, the first novel of the series starring detective Harry Hole, he has been acclaimed as the best Norwegian crime novelist and as a benchmark of the last great wave of noir genre authors worldwide. He currently has over sixty million copies sold internationally. His novels have been translated into fifty languages and their rights have been sold to top film and television producers.

In Red and Black, the complete Harry Hole series has been published, consisting of thirteen titles to date: The Bat, Cockroaches, The Redbreast, Nemesis, The Devil’s Star, The Redeemer, The Snowman, The Leopard, Phantom, Police, Thirst, Knife, and The Kingdom of Blindness. All his standalone novels have also been translated into Spanish: Headhunters, The Heir, Blood on Snow, Midnight Sun, Macbeth, The Kingdom, The Night House, and The King of Os, as well as the collection of stories The Jealousy Man.

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Jo Nesbø

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Jo Nesbø (Oslo, 1960) es un aclamado escritor y músico noruego, graduado en Economía, conocido mundialmente por sus thrillers policíacos protagonizados por el inspector Harry Hole, pero también fue periodista, agente de bolsa y cantante de rock con la banda Di Derre, además de autor de novelas infantiles y adaptaciones de Shakespeare. Su carrera literaria despegó en 1997 con El murciélago, consolidándose como figura clave del género negro escandinavo con más de 50 millones de libros vendidos y adaptaciones cinematográficas como El muñeco de nieve.

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