Cockroaches / Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Norwegian Series: The Harry Hole series ; 2Nesbø, Jo, Harry Hole series: #2.Vintage crime/Black Lizard original: Publisher: New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2014Copyright date: ©2013Description: 367 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780345807151 (Vintage trade pbk.); 0345807154 (Vintage trade pbk.)Uniform titles: Kakerlakkene. English Subject(s): Hole, Harry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Diplomats -- Crimes against -- Norway -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Thailand -- Bangkok -- Fiction | Police -- Norway -- Oslo -- FictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. DDC classification: 839.82374 LOC classification: PT8951.24.E83 | K3513 2014bSummary: When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise, Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, trying to piece together the story of the ambassador's death even though no one asked him to, and no one wants him to, not even Harry himself.
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"Originally published in Norway as Kakerlakkene by H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo, in 1998"--Title page verso.
When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise, Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, trying to piece together the story of the ambassador's death even though no one asked him to, and no one wants him to, not even Harry himself.
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