Deschutes Public Library

Midnight sun, Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Neil Smith

eng

no index present

fiction

Midnight sun

912705525

Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Neil Smith

"He calls himself Ulf{u2014}as good a name as any, he thinks{u2014}and the only thing he{u2019}s looking for is a place where he won{u2019}t be found by Oslo{u2019}s most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman. He was once the Fisherman{u2019}s fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed{u2014}which may not be a problem for a man whose criminal reach is boundless. When Ulf gets off the bus in Kåsund, on Norway{u2019}s far northeastern border, he sees a flat, monotonous, bleak landscape . . . the perfect hiding place. The locals{u2014}native Sami and followers of a particularly harsh Swedish version of Christianity{u2014}seem to accept Ulf{u2019}s explanation that he{u2019}s come to hunt, even if he has no gun and the season has yet to start. And a bereaved, taciturn woman and her curious, talkative young son supply him with food, the use of a cabin deep in the woods, a weapon{u2014}and companionship that stirs something in him he thought was long dead. But the agonizing wait for the inevitable moment when the Fisherman{u2019}s henchmen will show{u2014}the midnight sun hanging in the sky like an unblinking, all-revealing eye{u2014}forces him to question if redemption is at all possible or if, as he{u2019}s always believed, hope is a real bastard--Amazon.com