The Son

Synopsis

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. Sonny Lofthus Has Been In Prison For A Dozen Years. The Inmates Who Seek Out His Uncanny Abilities To Soothe Leave His Cell Feeling Absolved. They Don't Know Or Care That Sonny Has A Serious Heroin Habit-- Or Where Or How He Gets His Uninterrupted Supply Of The Drug. Or That He's Serving Time For Other Peoples' Crimes. Sonny Is The Seemingly Malleable Center Of A Whole Infrastructure Of Corruption, All Focused On Keeping Him High And In Jail. But When He Learns A Stunning, Long-hidden Secret Concerning His Father, He Makes A Brilliantly Executed Escape From Prison And Begins Hunting Down Those Responsible For The Crimes Against Him. Jo Nesbø. Translated From The Norwegian By Charlotte Barslund. This Is A Borzoi Book.