Blood on Snow (Blood on Snow, #1)

Posted on 15 August 2018 by Jo Nesbø

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 New Read Blood on Snow (Blood on Snow, #1) Author Jo Nesbø For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This was my first Nesb book, so I didn t know what to expect It s a fast read, but it felt like a first draft of a novella, rather than a completed work Blood on Snow is the story of a fixer named Olav, which means he s a contract killer Olav has a dry sense of humor and says killing is the only thing he s good at To sum up, let s put it like this I m no good at driving slowly, I m way too soft, I fall in love far too easily, I lose my head when I get angry, and I m bad at math I ve re This was my first Nesb book, so I didn t know what to expect It s a fast read, but it felt like a first draft of a novella, rather than a completed work Blood on Snow is the story of a fixer named Olav, which means he s a contract killer Olav has a dry sense of humor and says killing is the only thing he s good at To sum up, let s put it like this I m no good at driving slowly, I m way too soft, I fall in love far too easily, I lose my head when I get angry, and I m bad at math I ve read a bit, but I don t really know much, and certainly nothing anyone would find useful And s...A hit man with a heart.A Norwegian hit man to beexact From the best selling author of the fabulously well to do Harry Hole series, Jo I can write like Mickey Spillane when I want to Nesbo, his 2014 fast paced novella translated into Murican by Neil Smith is a fun departure from his Hole mystery writing.Not a Scandinavian murder mystery, but most definitely still Nordic Noir This is a dark and gritty journey into underworld Oslo Set in the late 70s, Nesbo leads us into the shadowy wo A hit man with a heart.A Norwegian hit man to beexact From the best selling author of the fabulously w...Blood on Snow is a novella by Norwegian crime author Jo Nesbo.Olav is a hitman, that s all he can be A life of crime and some pimping have left his options limited Why a hitman Well, he s no good at driving a getaway car, no good at maths, is dyslexic so reading and writing are major issues but he is a practical man, knows the game well and he s a survivor.His boss is the runner of half of the empire of heroin in Norway The other half is run by the fisherman , as with most crime parties, Blood on Snow is a novella by Norwegian crime author Jo Nesbo.Olav is a hitman, that s all he can be A life of crime and some pimping have left his options limited Why a hitman Well, he s no good at driving a getaway car, no good at maths, is dyslexic so reading and writing are major issues but he is a practical man, knows the game well and he s a survivor.His boss is the runner of half of the empire of heroin in Norway The other half is run by the fisherman , as with most crime parties, they don t see eye to eye A phone call and Olav has landed another hit job from his boss but this one is too close to home and has all the trademarks for a reprisal Faced with a lose lose situation Olav has to think quick and take matters into his own hands, even if that means betrayal.A hit is done, but n...This relatively slim novel is a stand alone from Jo Nesbo, the creator of the great series featuring Norwegian homicide detective Harry Hole The protagonist is a contract killer named Olav who works for a crime boss in Oslo Olav is one of the best fixers in the business and approaches his work with a cold blooded efficiency until he is given the job of killing a woman who has taken a lover, thus infuriating her husband.In preparation for the hit, Olav watches the woman for several days from This relatively slim novel is a stand alone from Jo Nesbo, the creator of the great series featuring Norwegian homicide detective Harry Hole The protagonist is a contract killer named Olav who works for...A surprisingly satisfying tale of a hitman with a human heart and the capacity to take risks out of love and an emerging sense of justice This stand alone novella from the author of the popular series about Norwegian detective Harry Hole gives you the interior view of the minimalist life of Olav, who has the job as fixer for a powerful gangster in Oslo He acquired the position by default after inadequacies in other positions such as pimp or getaway driver The few people he had to kill were A surprisingly satisfying tale of a hitman with a human heart and the capacity to take risks out of love and an emerging sense of justice This stand alone novella from the author of the popular series...My first experience with Jo Nesbo came about two years ago when I received his first Harry Hole novel, The Bat, as a gift Honestly, I didn t see what all the fuss was about I found that the story was all over the map like a dysfunctional GPS However, when I heard he had recently released a stand alone thriller , I thought I would give him another shot I m glad I did.Blood on Snow tells the story of Olav, a fixer for a heroin dealer in Olso When a job goes awry, Olav becomes his boss targ My first experience with Jo Nesbo came about two years ago when I received his first Harry Hole novel, The Bat, as a gift Honestly, I didn t see what all the fuss was about I found that the story was all over the map like a dysfunctional GPS However, when I heard he had recently released a stand alone thriller , I thought I would give him another shot I m glad I did.Blood on Snow tells the story of Olav, a fixer for a heroin dealer in Olso When a job goes awry, Olav becomes his boss target Reaching out to his boss competitor, Olav sets out to fix his former employer before fleeing Norway forever.While I usually love stories t...An enjoyable and very dark read with a sympathetic anti hero.This is the 1st book in the Blood on Snow series by Jo Nesbo.The lead character Olav Johansen is a seasoned criminal with a sordid past and whose one success in life is as a fixer He is employed by the drug baron Daniel Hoffmann to kill his wife Corina Hoffman who he suspects of adultery While casing the proposed crime Olav becomes infatuated by Corina and his plan changes when he witnesses the abusive lover and decides he is adeserving victim This decision has life threatening cons This is the 1st book in the Blood on Snow series by Jo Nesbo.The lead character Olav Johansen is a seasoned criminal with a sordid past and whose one success in life is as a fixer He is employed by the drug baron Daniel Hoffmann to kill his wife Corina Hoffman who he suspects of adultery While casing the proposed crime Olav becomes infatuated by Corina and his plan changes when he witnesses the abusive lover and...Bij de eerste zin dacht ikin wat voor kinderlijk verhaal ben ik nu weer belandt Toch echt een goede Nesbo Ik hou van zijn eenvoudige, ingenieuze en rauwe schrijfstijlnu lezend in het tweede deelwordt vervolgdI never went and looked through Jo Nesbo s page of books he had written on Goodreads, and I only know him because of his Harry Hole novels, but he writes other books, too.Some of those are a series of books for kids that revolve around farting And he also has this stand alone novel that was written under a pseudonym and is being released this spring I ve only read one of Nesbo s books before, so I m not all that familiar with how his novels go But the one that I read was a fairly dense and in I never went and looked through Jo Nesbo s page of books he had written on Goodreads, and I only know him because of his Harry Hole novels, but he writes other books, too.Some of those are a series of books for kids that revolve around farting And he also has this stand alone novel that was written under a pseudonym and is being released this spring I ve only read one of Nesbo s books before, so I m not all that familiar with how his novels go But the one that I read was a fairly dense and involved one, at least as far as the genre goes More in the vein of someone like Tana French instead of someone who has a whole shelf of mass markets in the bookstore that all have some pun or the same word used in every single title This is different though ...

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15 August 2018

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