The Kingdom
A novel
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Jo Nesbo, author of the bestselling Harry Hole crime series, is back with a vivid psychological thriller about the bond between orphaned brothers. How far would you go to be your brother's keeper?
Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike his little brother, Carl, who couldn't wait to get out and escape his troubled past. Everyone thought Carl was gone for good, but he has big plans for his hometown. And when he returns with a mysterious new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface and unexplained deaths in the town's past come under new scrutiny. Powerful players soon set their sights on taking the brothers down by exposing their role in the town's sordid history. But Roy and Carl are survivors and no strangers to violence. As the body count rises, though, Roy's loyalty to family is tested, as when he finds himself inextricably drawn to his brother's wife, Shannon, an attraction that will have devastating consequences. Roy's world is coming apart, and soon there will be no turning back. He'll be forced to choose between his own flesh and blood and a future he had never dared to believe possible.
As psychologically acute as it is disturbing, with plot twists you never see coming, The Kingdom is the work of a master of noir at the top of his game.
About this Author
JO NESBO is a musician, songwriter, economist, and #1 New York Times bestselling author. He has won the Raymond Chandler Award for Lifetime Achievement as well as many other awards. His books have sold 50 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 50 languages. His Harry Hole novels include The Redeemer, The Snowman, The Leopard, Phantom, and Knife, and he is also the author of The Son, The Kingdom, Headhunters, Macbeth, and several children's books. He lives in Oslo.
Reviews
"I read The Kingdom and couldn't put it down. . . . suspenseful . . . original . . . this one is special in every way." --Stephen King
"For mystery readers in search of heroes a shade darker than Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, enter . . . Jo Nesbo. . . . The Kingdom . . . sees [Nesbo] peeling back layers of unnerving secrets surrounding a pair of brothers in Oslo, from their parents' mysterious deaths to their family's disturbing history and the secrets of their hometown." --TIME, "The Most Anticipated Books of Fall"
"Nesbo is always a great storyteller. The world he depicts is bleak and potentially depressing, but he presents it with relentless power." --New York Journal of Books
"The Kingdom [is] in some ways more American in tone than Scandinavian . . . [it] picks up speed, until Roy is swept up in the momentum of his own story." --The New York Times Book Review
"It's gruesome without being gory, it's a plot so slow and insidious to develop that you wish Hitchcock was still around to film it. . . . There are chapters of unrelenting suspense as police question Roy about suspicious plot twists. . . . Nesbo shows that he doesn't need madmen with sick weapons to build a nifty thriller." -Winnipeg Free Press
"The Kingdom delivers shocks and surprises at every turn . . . Vivid characters speak dialogue that is always pungent and convincing . . . Mr. Nesbo explores the depths of the human psyche, along with more mundane foibles of a closed society. One of the more interesting questions, not resolved until the end, is just who will survive." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"[The Kingdom] slowly grips the reader in a mesmerising hold, revealing the betrayals and acts of violence in the brothers' past, building tension page after page, with unexpected twists and building to a gut-wrenching finale. The Kingdom is a stunning novel from a storyteller with few equals." --Daily Express (UK)
"As dark as a coal mine during a power cut. . . . The Kingdom has more twists and turns than that Cú Chulainn rollercoaster down in Tayto Park that my daughter forced me to ride. Just as one crisis seems resolved, another one rears up on the following page, resulting in lost hours of sleep as you hasten towards the end. . . . This is a masterfully crafted novel, which continually pulls the rug out from under you." --Hot Press (UK)
"This being Nesbo there is plenty of deception, death and partial decapitation to come. No Harry Hole this time, but still a sombre delight. There are shades of a Nordic Ripley, or maybe Virginia Andrews on aquavit. Choose your poison." --The Times (UK)
"The pace is uncharacteristically gentle, which is well-handled by Nesbo. But it all ends up as enjoyably over the top as ever." --Sunday Express (UK)
"Jo Nesbo remains the king of Scandicrime. . . . The Kingdom is the Norwegian writer on assured form." --Financial Times (UK)
"Echoes of such classic noir authors as Dorothy B. Hughes, James M. Cain, and Jim Thompson . . . Nesbo brilliantly uses the insularity of Roy's world, both internally and externally, to accentuate the Shakespearean inevitability of the impending tragedy." --Booklist (starred review)
"Captivating . . . Guaranteed to be in high demand . . . The complex characters and twisting plot will keep readers turning the pages." --Library Journal
"The illusions of a family and its close-knit town constructed and demolished on a truly epic scale." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Twisty . . . Unsettling . . . Fans of classic noir such as Double Indemnity will be hooked." --Publishers Weekly
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