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  • Published: 5 October 2022
  • ISBN: 9781784705091
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $22.99

The Thirst

The compulsive eleventh Harry Hole novel from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller




Harry Hole is back! The blistering Sunday Times number one bestseller

Harry Hole is back in the gripping Sunday Times number one bestseller!

'The king of all crime writers' Sunday Express

There's a new killer on the streets

A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer.

And he's out for blood

Under pressure from the media to solve the crime, the force know there's only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing and his one failed case...

*JO NESBO HAS SOLD 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE*

*Watch out for The Kingdom, the new Jo Nesbo thriller, out now*

  • Published: 5 October 2022
  • ISBN: 9781784705091
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $22.99

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About the author

Jo Nesbo

Jo Nesbo is one of the world’s bestselling crime writers, with The Leopard, Phantom, Police, The Son, The Thirst and Knife all topping the Sunday Times bestseller charts. He’s an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 50 languages, selling over 45 million copies around the world.

Before becoming a crime writer, Nesbo played football for Norway’s premier league team Molde, but his dream of playing professionally for Spurs was dashed when he tore ligaments in his knee at the age of eighteen. After three years military service he attended business school and formed the band Di Derre (‘Them There’). They topped the charts in Norway, but Nesbo continued working as a financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at night. When commissioned by a publisher to write a memoir about life on the road with his band, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole crime novel, The Bat.

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