The Redbreast
By: Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett
Contributors: Bartlett, Don, translator; Nesbø, Jo, 1960-
Series: Harry Hole series -- 3
Publisher: Vintage Books; Harper
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Translated from: nob
Translation of: Rødstrupe
Number of pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9780099546771; 9780099587088
Subjects: Harry Hole (Fictitious character); Heroes; Police; Murderers; Fiction
Work titles: Rødstrupe
Description: "The Redbreast is a fabulous introduction to Nesbø&#x2019;s tough-as-nails series protagonist, Oslo police detective Harry Hole. A brilliant and epic novel, breathtaking in its scope and design&#x2014;winner of The Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel and selected as the best Norwegian crime novel ever written by members of Norway&#x2019;s book clubs&#x2014;The Redbreast is a chilling tale of murder and betrayal that ranges from the battlefields of World War Two to the streets of modern-day Oslo. Follow Hole as he races to stop a killer and disarm a ticking time-bomb from his nation&#x2019;s shadowy past."--Goodreads.com.
Notes: First published in Great Britain in 2006 by Harvell Secker, London.

First published with the title "Rødstrupe" by H. Aschehoug & Co., Oslo.

Includes excerpt from "Nemesis."

Translated from the Norwegian.