265 pages
English language
Published Dec. 28, 2011 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.
Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife’s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that’s been lost since World War II-and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve’s apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to Roger Brown.
досить посереднє чтиво, як і все решта зі скандинавського детективного трилера, що довелося почитати. але в аудіоверсії подужав.
I was looking forward to read one of Nesbo's crime stories since Zizek listed him as one of his favorite contemporary writers. Well, the novel is mediocre at best, big disappointment. I guess Nesbo and Zizek are friends... Or I read the wrong book. This one would be much better as a comedy or a parody, maybe a crime comedy filmed by the Coen Brothers.
Not characteristic of Nesbo's Harry Hole series, this is a short, but far too long caper with a hapless unheroic protagonist. I couldn't finish it.
Chosen primarily because of the Harry Hole series of books, I found this book a bit of a let-down. A rather unbelievable plot, too much hidden from the reader until the end of the book, an unsatisfactory end in the rather clichéd "tv interview" format, and precious little Norway in the plot too.
Disappointing, since I rather like the Harry Hole books; this, though, has little to recommend it.
