Blood on Snow (Blood on Snow, #1)

Blood on Snow (Blood on Snow, #1)

Jo Nesbø

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From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels—a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented “fixer” for one of Oslo’s most powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also an unusually complicated fixer. He has a capacity for love that is as far-reaching as is his gift for murder. He is our straightforward, calm-in-the-face-of-crisis narrator with a storyteller’s hypnotic knack for fantasy. He has an “innate talent for subordination” but running through his veins is a “virus” born of the power over life and death. And while his latest job puts him at the pinnacle of his trade, it may be mutating into his greatest mistake. . . .


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    у несбьо є талант писати зворушливих персонажів: зворушливого поліцейського-алкоголіка, зворушливого наркомана-месника, зворушливого продажного поліцейського чи, як у "крові на снігу", зворушливого найманого вбивцю. кілька маленьких штрихів, навіть не обов'язково робити героя об'ємним чи правдоподібним – і читацьке серце прикипає до цього персонажа, закинутого в холодний і похмурий скандинавський пейзаж. а якщо персонаж іще й уміє розповідати прекрасні історії...
    (але називати цю повістиночку романом – усе одно przesada).

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