The thrilling first book in the bestselling Harry Hole series, never before published in English
Jo Nesbo is one of the world's bestselling crime writers, with The
Leopard, Phantom, Police, The Son, The Thirst, Macbeth and Knife
all topping the Sunday Times bestseller charts. He's an
international number one bestseller and his books are published in
50 languages, selling over 50 million copies around the world.
Before becoming a crime writer, Nesbo played football for Norway's
premier league team Molde, but his dream of playing professionally
for Spurs was dashed when he tore ligaments in his knee at the age
of eighteen. After three years military service he attended
business school and formed the band Di Derre ('Them There'). They
topped the charts in Norway, but Nesbo continued working as a
financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at
night. When commissioned by a publisher to write a memoir about
life on the road with his band, he instead came up with the plot
for his first Harry Hole crime novel, The Bat.
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Harry Hole is fully formed as the difficult, vulnerable personality
we have come to know. The evocation of Australia itself has the
customary Nesbo expertise...most satisfyingly - we can now see the
organic shape that Nesbo always intended his work to take
*Independent*
An ambitious, fun, exciting and original crime novel
*Smålandsposten (Sweden)*
The Bat is a truly captivating crime novel
*Berliner Morgenpost (Germany)*
The Bat is innovative and different, and the pace that Jo Nesbo
creates in his debut novel makes you long for more crime novels
featuring Harry Hole
*Kristeligt Dagblad (Denmark)*
Jo Nesbo has written the cleverest debut novel in the crime genre
that I've read in a long time
*Aftenposten (Norway)*
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