The son
By: Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund
Contributors: Barslund, Charlotte, translator
Edition: First United States edition.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780385351379; 9780385351386
Subjects: Police corruption; Drug use; Prisoners; Revenge; False imprisonment; Fiction
Work titles: Sønnen
Description: This novel is 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. Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. 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. 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. 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 has paid for. But he is also being hunted, by the Twin, the cops, and the only person who knows the ultimate truth that Sonny is seeking. The question is, what will he do when they have cornered him?
Notes: "Originally published in Norway as Sønnen by H. Aschehough & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo, 2014"--title page verso.