The Bat: Read the first thrilling Harry Hole novel from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller (Harry Hole, 1)

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Ever since the end of the nineteenth century the politics surrounding Indigenous peoples has been governed by the authorities’ bad conscience about the terrible treatment we’ve received. In fairness I wasn't all that impressed with Nesbo's next thriller 'Redbreast' either but that's more personal taste than a continuing lack of writing skill. Harry goes to the circus again, this time not to see the show, but to arrest Otto, or to question him.

The book caught my eye because while I knew nothing about Harry Hole, I had heard a little about Jo Nesbø.Harry visits Ingers place of employment, a bar/restaurant, where he meets Birgitta Enquist , one of Ingers coworkers whom he gathers precious information from, especially concerning Evans White. January’s the tourist season in Australia,” Andrew explained as they lurched forward in the traffic around Circular Quay. After three years military service he attended business school and formed the band Di Derre ('Them There'). Within minutes of seeing her behind the bar, Hole can’t resist asking out a Swedish woman who worked with the dead Norwegian, having admired her long red hair, willowy back (? Kirkus Reviews states that "It’s an unusual debut since the very first page finds Harry clearing passport control in Sydney, half a world away from his native Oslo.

In a last ditch attempt to get more information from Evans, Harry gets the Sydney police to set Birgitta up as an operative to get more information from Evans, having her claim that she knows information Inger told her. It starts when the Indigenous police officer Andrew Kensington painstakingly explains Aboriginal culture to Hole. They know that he and his mother moved to Australia after her divorce, that she sells awful hippy knickknacks, and that Evans White has no alibi for the night of Ingers death. Next stop New Zealand, after about twelve hundred wet miles,” Andrew said, spitting a thick gobbet off the edge of the cliff. Every second scandal seemed to have a connection with some hotel or strip joint inside this square kilometer.Harry Hole is an extremely determined detective, and after the fashion of a dog with a bone, he won’t let go. Hope you enjoyed the flight,” the stranger said with evident sincerity, like an echo of the air hostess’s announcement twenty minutes earlier. Harry then begins to link the path of the circus with the murders, and sees that they are shockingly close, with a few minor discrepancies. Quick to read, as the pages want to fly through your fingertips to discover the next thing, the biggest limitation I saw was that Tawoomba being the killer came out of left field.

After three years military service he attended business school and formed the band Di derre ('Them There'). He and Kensington chase down some leads that take them into the Outback looking for a drug dealer, and we get a fascinating view of the Aboriginal experience from a most unexpected source. A fascinating book, filling in the gaps in Hole’s biography and telling the story of the murder case in Australia that cemented his reputation as a brilliant investigator. Also part of the plan was since Birgitta is a blonde Norwegian woman herself, if Evans was indeed an insatiable serial killer, he would go for her as well. However, I’ve also read that Nesbø was touring the country with his rock band when he wrote the book, so he may have also been just charmed by the locale.

Once something has been experienced, it’s too late, you can’t get back the feeling of experiencing the same thing for the first time. It was more than thirty hours since he had taken off from Oslo via London, and after the change of planes in Bahrain he had sat in the same bloody seat by the emergency exit. As the story becomes more complex, Hole struggles to find the killer and falls deeper into alcoholism. Nesbø’s writing and his character Harry Hole impressed me enough that I binge-read the next ten books in the series and waited impatiently to get my hands on the twelfth book when it came out in 2019.

Harry jumps on the case, seemingly none too excited to be there, bringing into questions why he was the one sent on this mission, but nonetheless being as good a detective as he can be.He's an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 50 languages, selling over 50 million copies around the world. Whether a hardened Hole addict or a first-time imbiber, The Bat is sure to snare your interest with its tale of this booze-fuelled policeman ― Sunday Sun --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.