- Published: 10 April 2014
- ISBN: 9781448190935
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 14 hr 37 min
- Narrator: Sean Barrett
- RRP: $24.99
The Son
- Published: 10 April 2014
- ISBN: 9781448190935
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 14 hr 37 min
- Narrator: Sean Barrett
- RRP: $24.99
Gripping from start to finish
John Williams, Mail on Sunday
[Nesbo's] trademark twists and turns
Joan Smith, Sunday Times
Fast-paced and imaginatively violent, this latest example of Nesbo's Nordic noir hurtles like an express train towards a last act of almost operatic extravagance that leaves dead bodies and carefully nurtured reputations littering the stage. Great stuff altogether
Myles McWeeney, Belfast Telegraph
An expertly plotted, compelling and gripping white-knuckle ride… Nesbo deserves to be crowned the king of all crime thriller writers
Sunday Express
A cat-and-mouse chase between a young prisoner and a troubled detective, this is a tense, violent and hugely absorbing walk on the murky side of Oslo
Sunday Mirror
An excellent novelist... Nesbo paints an intricate, disturbing picture of rampant corruption within prison and the police service... The strong action is tempered by tenderness
Marcel Berlins, The Times
Whereas Headhunters, the first of Nesbø's novels not to feature Harry Hole, was a ruthlessly linear chase story, The Son is far more complex and sophisticated. The characterisation is deeper and more detailed... which only adds to the sense of life-and-death drama.
Evening Standard
Nesbo has crafted a book that's engaging, entertaining and surprising, with the kind of plot twists any crime writer would be proud of... It's an excellent whodunnit, with enough twists and turns to keep even the most experienced of crime fans guessing right up to the end
Sunday Business Post
The Son creates a brand new anti-hero, an avenging angel of sorts whose destiny is driven by righting perceived wrongs with a bloody and bullet-riddled path through the criminal underworld
Birmingham Mail
Jo Nesbo is an excellent novelist even if he's not writing about Harry Hole
Marcel Berlins, The Times
Another of Nesbo’s gripping tales
Sun
Complex and sophisticated... The world [Nesbo’s] creations inhabit is infinitely cruel, brutal yet beautiful
Mark Sanderson, Evening Standard
Watch it fly off the shelves and pack the audiences in the cinemas in equal measure
Roddy Brooks, UK Press Syndication
This story stays with you long after you’ve finished it
Joanna Czechowska, Woman
Nesbo is on top form with this crime novel, a book that you quite rightfully can't put down
Bristol Magazine
This is a novel of total authority, with a highly original concept
Good Book Guide
Nesbo never fails to deliver a cracking narrative – and this is one of his best
Mail on Sunday