When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong—fleeing the traumas of life as a cop—he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn’t help deserting when he fled. Harry has come back to prove that Oleg is not a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, he sets out on a solitary, increasingly dangerous investigation that takes him deep into the world of the most virulent drug to ever hit the streets of Oslo (and the careers of some of the city’s highest officials), and into the maze of his own past, where he will find the wrenching truth that finally matters to Oleg, and to himself.

This book is the 9th book of the “Harry Hole” series by Jo Nesbø. And I gotta say that this book isn’t the greatest in the series in fact it is very far from being it.

My main issue with this book is that this book pushes the boundaries way too far, and because of this this book makes Harry feel like a superhero rather than a police detective. 

This book is a wild ride because it has a tone of twists, unexpected turns in the plot, action and surely way too many characters than it needed to have. Which really made me in a way dislike this book. Because this book is very hard too follow because of all those things I mentioned.

The writing style in this book is meh, to be very honest I feel like the writing style has been worse since “The Snowman” which is the 7th book in this series. In my opinion Jo Nesbø has stopped trying to give us actually a good series and rather focus on the cash he will get after publishing the next book.

The plot is way too much for my liking. Because there is so much happening that you can process it before something new happens in the plot. I personally feel like there was just filed with action just to keep readers not DNF this series because after book 7 this series is going down hill or at least it is doing so for me. 

Characters in this book, there are just too many of them for me and because of this it is hard to keep track of the characters. And because of the quantity of the characters I feel like none of the characters were good it even involves harry which of course is the main character in this whole series.

At the same time in this book Harry starts to become the biggest asshole I have ever heard of which really made me pissed of becomes I love Harry Hole.

I Give This Book 2 / 5