But he's also being hunted, by the Twin, the cops, and the only person who knows the ultimate truth that Sonny is seeking. When Sonny learns some long-hidden truths about his father he makes a brilliant escape, and begins hunting down the people responsible for the hideous crimes he's paid for. His addiction started when his father committed suicide rather than be exposed as a corrupt cop, and now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police, lawyers, a desperate priest-all of them focused on keeping him stoned and jailed, and all of them under the thumb of Oslo's crime overlord, the Twin.

In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin-and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Gildart Jackson does a great job with the narration. It involves a great deal of great police work, with remarkable characters. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. The Son is a complex story of betrayal, shame, pennance, masterful revenge. Gwladys Fouche/Reuters Sonny Lofthus was a gifted 15-year-old pupil and star wrestler whose world was. Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. The story line then fast forwards to 2004 when Birte Becker disappeared from her home. When the woman returned her son told her that he had seen the snowman and that they were going to die.

Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. Oslo is the setting for The Son, the newest crime novel from Norwegian author Jo Nesbo. The novel begins with the story in 1980 of a woman who left her young son in the car while she went to visit her lover one last time before he moved away.

Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. The author of the internationally best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge. The author of the Harry Hole series now gives us a stand-alone novel set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge.

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