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Nemesis

(Harry Hole #4)

Jo Nesbø (Goodreads Author),

Don Bartlett (Translator)

3.98 · Rating details · 52,405 ratings · 2,466 reviews

“Nesbø’s storytelling abilities are incomparable. Nemesis is crime novel as art form and great entertainment.”
—USA Today

The #1 international bestseller from one of the most celebrated crime writers in Europe--the New York Times bestselling author of The Snowman--Jo Nesbø’s extraordinary thriller Nemesis features Norwegian homicide detective Harry Hole, “the next in the lon

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Published January 9th 2009 by HarperCollins e-books (first published 2002)

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Jun 10, 2016 Lyn rated it liked it · review of another edition

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

The Good.

Jo Nesbo’s surly and reclusive Norwegian detective Harry Hole (pronounced Hooleh) is back in 2002’s Nemesis. Nesbo established Hole in The Bat and Cockroaches and then produced a phenomenal novel with his 2000 novel The Redbreast – one the genre’s best, akin to Stieg Larsson in narrative quality. Hole is engaged to investigate a bank robbery that went wrong, resulting in the death of a bank teller. A wider network of evil is uncovered and Hole is heavily ...more

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Dec 09, 2012 Robert rated it it was ok

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Sometimes I feel as though I’m genetically hardwired to be a contrarian. Not because I actually like being different than everyone else or going against popular opinion, nor do I actually want to stand on the mountaintop and scream “All you fuckers are wrong.” Because let’s face it, it’s easy to follow everyone else, to march in line and in step, even if it sometimes means you’re headed for a cliff or the occasional mountain lion. Nor do I get some sort of sick, demented pleasure from bashing ot Sometimes I feel as though I’m genetically hardwired to be a contrarian. Not because I actually like being different than everyone else or going against popular opinion, nor do I actually want to stand on the mountaintop and scream “All you fuckers are wrong.” Because let’s face it, it’s easy to follow everyone else, to march in line and in step, even if it sometimes means you’re headed for a cliff or the occasional mountain lion. Nor do I get some sort of sick, demented pleasure from bashing other authors and other people’s books, because I’m right there in the trenches with you, buddy. Not necessarily holding your hand, but we’re in the same foxhole, staring out at the same battlefield, and trying to make heads or tails of the opposition. Not that writing is a war, but it sometimes feels that way, to get those pesky words down on paper, and then actually have others get behind the words that you have written, until they make them their own.

So what does all of this mean for NEMESIS? Well, if you’re looking at the date I started this novel (by the way, that is not a misprint), and the day I finished it (that’s not a misprint either), there’s a massive gap between the two. Where I know I had plenty of fun, and most of this fun was had while not reading said novel. Does that mean it’s badly written? No, absolutely not. But it felt repetitive and redundant, and I was never fully engaged in the story. To be honest, it wasn’t even really all that close of a call. But I wanted to be engaged, I wanted to be fully invested, and I wanted to like this story, because so many others have called it a great and wondrous read with high ratings and glowing reviews. But I just can’t consider myself one of them. Maybe I was built with a different set of Legos.

You see, the characters resembled emotionless pits; the dialogue felt trite and pedestrian; the plot plunked along like a Corvette ambling down the train tracks on a Sunday afternoon, to the point that I had to reread the back cover copy to figure out what it was I had just finished; and I ended up so lost within the twists and turns of the story that I forgot where the heck I even was.

If I were to sum up this novel, I’d say it made me want to kick Justin Bieber. Which isn’t that much different from how I normally feel. What I really want to find is the novel that makes me want to hug the Biebs. I’m thinking it’s not possible, but I’m going to continue to hold out hope that it’s out there somewhere, and I will continue to expend energy looking for it.

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Aug 04, 2015 Edward Lorn rated it it was ok

Upon completing this book, I rated it three stars. After a month's time and much thought, I cannot say that I really liked it all that much. I've decided to drop my rating to two stars, and here's why:

I was nowhere near as impressed with Nemesis as I was Harry Hole's previous outing, The Redbreast. This one was nothing more than your average detective/bank heist story. The emotional impact of the tale did not match the previous installment either. But I think I mostly didn't care for this story ...more

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Sep 27, 2016 Matthew rated it it was ok

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Yet another series I keep pushing through, hoping it will get better because I have heard so many good things. This one fell completely flat. The story was disjointed. I didn't understand the relationships between the characters. Most of the time I had no idea what was going on or why. I understood the resolution, but I don't think I cared anymore. I spent the last 200 pages or so on autopilot feeling like it ended about 20 times but at the same time feeling like it was never going to end.

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Jul 14, 2015 Phrynne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is a big, thick chunky book but I raced through it. On the cover Jo Nesbø is likened to Stieg Larsson but he is nothing like. Nesbø wastes not a single word in description or lengthy explanation. He just tells a great story with plenty of action and lots of great police work. I really enjoy Harry Hole as a character. He may be flawed but he must be nice because all the best people like him and the bad ones do not. And although he makes plenty of mistakes - he has to otherwise there would no ...more

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Jan 22, 2017 Barbara rated it liked it · review of another edition

Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo police is an alcoholic who's trying to stay on the wagon. That's hard for the detective, who tends to follow his own rules and infuriate his bosses. In this book Harry gets involved with two investigations: a bank heist that left a woman employee dead; and the alleged suicide of a young woman.

To investigate the bank robbery Harry and his partner Beate Lønn - who can remember every face she's ever seen - study CCTV tapes of the holdup. These provide clues that le
Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo police is an alcoholic who's trying to stay on the wagon. That's hard for the detective, who tends to follow his own rules and infuriate his bosses. In this book Harry gets involved with two investigations: a bank heist that left a woman employee dead; and the alleged suicide of a young woman.

To investigate the bank robbery Harry and his partner Beate Lønn - who can remember every face she's ever seen - study CCTV tapes of the holdup. These provide clues that lead to a convoluted probe of various suspects. Things become even more confused when the bank robberies continue after the ring leader is identified. Are copy cats at work?

Meanwhile, Harry's girlfriend, Rakel, is in Russia for a custody battle.....so the detective accepts a dinner invitation from an old flame named Anna. Against his better judgement Harry succumbs to various kinds temptation - and wakes up in his bed the next day with no memory of the night before. Worse yet, Anna is found dead in her apartment.

Harry is assigned to Anna's case and - though it's being called a suicide - the detective is sure she was murdered. Harry's in a tricky position though: he has to investigate the killing without admitting he knew Anna....or he risks becoming a suspect himself. Things get even harder when Harry starts to get threatening emails from the real killer.

The book has a complex plot involving foreign travel, bank robbers, gypsies, unfaithful spouses, drug addicts, prison inmates, a rich executive, corrupt cops, and more. The underlying theme of the book is nemesis - getting revenge for perceived wrongs. And some of the characters have long discussions about the military strategies of Sun Tsu, author of the 'The Art of War.' There's a bit too much of this for my taste, and the story slows down in places.

By the time I finished the book my head was spinning with the twists and turns. Good story, recommended to mystery readers - especially fans of Scandinavian suspense novels.

FYI: I listened to the audio version of this book, narrated by Norwegian Thor Knai. To me it sounds like the author's name is pronounced 'Joe Nesba' and the main character's moniker is 'Harry Hula.'

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Nov 28, 2014 Anna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: scandinavian-crime

Ο Χάρι Χόλε βρίσκεται μπλεγμένος από εκεί που δεν θα το περίμενε ποτέ, όταν μια πρώην (αλλά πολύ παλιά πρώην) αγαπημένη του βρίσκεται νεκρή και αυτός είναι ανάμεσα στους βασικούς υπόπτους, καθώς ήταν μαζί της το βράδυ πριν πεθάνει. Ο ίδιος, τύφλα στο ποτό που δεν θυμάται πότε ήπιε, δεν θυμάται επίσης τίποτα από όσα έγιναν εκείνο το βράδυ. Προσπαθώντας, λοιπόν, να ξεδιαλύνει το θολό μυστήριο γύρω από τις δικές του κινήσεις και τις συνθήκες θανάτου της νεαρής κοπέλας, εισάγεται στην κουλτούρα των Ο Χάρι Χόλε βρίσκεται μπλεγμένος από εκεί που δεν θα το περίμενε ποτέ, όταν μια πρώην (αλλά πολύ παλιά πρώην) αγαπημένη του βρίσκεται νεκρή και αυτός είναι ανάμεσα στους βασικούς υπόπτους, καθώς ήταν μαζί της το βράδυ πριν πεθάνει. Ο ίδιος, τύφλα στο ποτό που δεν θυμάται πότε ήπιε, δεν θυμάται επίσης τίποτα από όσα έγιναν εκείνο το βράδυ. Προσπαθώντας, λοιπόν, να ξεδιαλύνει το θολό μυστήριο γύρω από τις δικές του κινήσεις και τις συνθήκες θανάτου της νεαρής κοπέλας, εισάγεται στην κουλτούρα των αθίγγανων (ναι, είναι παντού και με χοντρές άκρες σε όλους και σε όλα!)

Επίσης, το εγκληματολογικό τμήμα απασχολεί μια σειρά ληστειών τραπεζών, σε μια από τις οποίες υπήρχε θύμα μια ταμίας. Η κάμερα δείχνει ότι ο ληστής – δολοφόνος κάτι της ψιθύρισε πριν την σκοτώσει, κάτι που ανάβει τα λαμπάκια του Χάρι Χόλε και τον οδηγεί μέχρι τη Λατινική Αμερική προκειμένου να συλλάβει το δράστη.

Παράλληλα, τρέχει η υπόθεση του θανάτου της Έλεν, που είχε ξεκινήσει στο προηγούμενο βιβλίο, όπου οι αναγνώστες ξέρουν περισσότερα από τον αγαπημένο μας επιθεωρητή και λαχταρούν για τη λύση της υπόθεσης.

Πάμε στα τετριμμένα λοιπόν: καταιγιστική δράση, κινηματογραφική πλοκή (παρεπιπτόντος ο Φασμπέντερ με το Χιονάνθρωπο έρχεται σε ένα χρόνο από τώρα!!!), αφήγηση που κόβει την ανάσα και διαβάζεται μονορούφι! Οι δράστες και στις δυο υποθέσεις δεν μπορούν να γίνουν αντιληπτοί παρά μόνο προς το τέλος του βιβλίου και οι λόγοι που οδήγησαν στα παραπάνω εγκλήματα επίσης δεν είναι οι προφανείς. Νέμεσις είναι η ελληνική θεότητα για την εκδίκηση. Η σύνδεση του τίτλου με την υπόθεση γίνεται, πάλι ως συνήθως, στο τέλος του βιβλίου.

Χθες έπεσε στο μάτι ένα άρθρο του VICE για τους 10 λόγους για να παντρευτείτε έναν αστυνομικό (http://www.vice.com/gr/read/10-logoi-..., το λες λίιιιιγο ειρωνικό, εγώ όμως θα σας πω έναν και μόνο: Χάρυ Χόλε!!! Και η Ράκελ συμφωνεί (σε αυτό το βιβλίο!)
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Dec 16, 2014 Matt rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Nesbø continues to dazzle with his wonderful Harry Hole series, in this fourth novel. When a single individual enters a bank and takes the female teller hostage, demands are made to empty an ATM full of money. Using the hostage to disguise their voice, the robber offer an ultimatum that cannot be completed in the specified time, and the teller is killed. With the Robbery Division unable to make any progress on the case, it is sent to Harry Hole and video evidence expert, Beate Lønn as a murder i Nesbø continues to dazzle with his wonderful Harry Hole series, in this fourth novel. When a single individual enters a bank and takes the female teller hostage, demands are made to empty an ATM full of money. Using the hostage to disguise their voice, the robber offer an ultimatum that cannot be completed in the specified time, and the teller is killed. With the Robbery Division unable to make any progress on the case, it is sent to Harry Hole and video evidence expert, Beate Lønn as a murder investigation. With Hole's girlfriend, Rakel, in Russia fighting for custody of her son, Harry agrees to have dinner with a former lover, Anna, who reappears out of the blue and wants a platonic chat. Waking up at home the next morning with all the signs of a massive hangover, Hole is shocked to learn that Anna apparently committed suicide the night before. However, some of the evidence points at a potential murder, covering up to confuse everyone. Keeping this under wraps, Harry engages in an off-the-books investigation and reaches out to a member of Anna's family, who is in prison for previous bank robberies, promising to solve her murder if insight on the bank robberies can be provided. As Lønn discovers the intimate closeness of the robber and teller through analysis of the video surveillance, she surmises that they must have known one another. When further heists are completed and no teller is harmed, Hole and Lønn agree that this first robbery held a special component; the teller. After heading around the world to follow a lead in South America, Hole and Lønn appear to close the case when they find a confession in a suicide note from the teller's brother-in-law. Returning to Norway, Hole is contacted through anonymous email servers by someone calling themselves S2MN. All traces point back to Hole, who cannot remember what happened with Anna, though he is fairly certain that he is innocent. However, fellow police officer Tom Waaler trips on some evidence that could implicate Hole and a warrant is issued for our protagonist's arrest. Hole dodges his colleagues to clear his name and trips on a key piece of evidence staring him in the face. All the while, someone by the name of the Prince has Hole in his crosshairs, killing those who might be able to uncover the truth behind Hole's former partner's murder. Nesbø offers the reader a wonderful omniscient view into this and all other storylines in this jam-packed novel with a final chapter that may bring Hole and the Prince into a massive stand-off. A sensation second book of an imbedded trilogy within the larger Harry Hole series.

There is no question that Nesbø is a sensational writer. That his books can be so addictive in a language other than the original adds to their greatness. The Harry Hole character is highly complex on many levels, from his alcoholism through to his past lovers and struggles with work. Nesbø offers ongoing insights into the dark world of Hole's life and his attention to detail to solve the most complicated of cases. Building on this and other periphery characters within Hole's sphere, Nesbø offers detailed character development that will only draw the reader closer to the protagonist. The reader finds themselves fully involved in the plot and the multiple storylines on offer. The reader must pay close attention in order to sift through the busy narrative and Hole's varied activities. I find myself wanting to reach for the next novel to discover how the Prince storyline ends, or if it will continue for the rest of the series.

Kudos Mr. Nesbø for another wonderful novel. You are a master, no matter what language in which you are read.

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Dec 30, 2018 Mark rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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This is indeed one of the more complex books Jo Nesbo has written about his anti-hero Harry Hole. But it is still a great read and for people that do like serious and original police-novels or thrillers this a must-read book.

Harry Hole is revisited by an old girlfriend from his more addictive years and somehow she ends up dead and Harry is the most obvious perpetrator.

A bank gets robbed and a women working in the bank gets killed in cold blood for no obvious reason but the manager was too slow i ...more

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Aug 01, 2017 Μιχάλης rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Διαβάστηκε μέσα σε 24 ώρες, αν αυτό σας λέει κάτι.
Pageturner αστυνομικό με τα όλα του. Γραφή που ρέει, πολύ δουλεμένη πλοκή και με έναν ρυθμό που σε κρατάει από το γιακά όσο σου πετάει μικρές πληροφορίες και ανατροπές και χαρακτήρες που, χωρίς να ξεχωρίζουν, σου μένουν και διακρίνονται ο ένας από τον άλλον. Μην περιμένετε γραφή που θα σας εκτοξεύσει (αν και το βιβλίο είναι μετάφραση από την αγγλική μετάφραση, δε θα μου έκανε εντύπωση αν ο Nesbo είναι κανένας βιτρουόζος της πένας και όλη του η ομ Διαβάστηκε μέσα σε 24 ώρες, αν αυτό σας λέει κάτι.
Pageturner αστυνομικό με τα όλα του. Γραφή που ρέει, πολύ δουλεμένη πλοκή και με έναν ρυθμό που σε κρατάει από το γιακά όσο σου πετάει μικρές πληροφορίες και ανατροπές και χαρακτήρες που, χωρίς να ξεχωρίζουν, σου μένουν και διακρίνονται ο ένας από τον άλλον. Μην περιμένετε γραφή που θα σας εκτοξεύσει (αν και το βιβλίο είναι μετάφραση από την αγγλική μετάφραση, δε θα μου έκανε εντύπωση αν ο Nesbo είναι κανένας βιτρουόζος της πένας και όλη του η ομορφιά χάνεται στη μετάφραση) ξέρει όμως όλα τα κόλπα για να τραβήξει το ενδιαφέρον του αναγνώστη.

Στο βιβλίο υπάρχουν τρεις βασικές υποθέσεις που συγκλίνουν και αποκλίνουν: η ληστεία της τράπεζας είναι μία καλοστημένη υπόθεση, τα στοιχεία είναι εκεί από την πρώτη σελίδα και αναπτύσσεται μέχρι τέλους επαρκώς. Η υπόθεση με την "αυτοκτονία" από την άλλη... δε με έπεισε η λύση της αλλά γενικά η ιδέα του mastermind που τα έχει όλα σκεφτεί εξαρχής με ενοχλεί. Όσο για την υπόθεση του Πρίγκιππα, που εκκρεμεί από το προηγούμενο βιβλίο, εδώ προχωράει πολύ καλά αλλά ήλπιζα ότι θα έκλεινε.
Σε κάθε περίπτωση, παρά τα όποια παράπονα οι υποθέσεις έχουν μεταξύ τους πολύ καλή συνέργεια και ταιριάζουν απόλυτα και στα character arcs.

Αναρρωτιέμαι σε πόσο χρόνο θα διαβάσω το επόμενο... ...more

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Jul 20, 2011 Melissa rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Jun 25, 2018 Metodi Markov rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: crimy, scandinavian

Нивото отново рязко се вдигна и започвам да разбирам, защо толкова хора харесват поредицата за Хари Хуле.

Заплетена история за любов, отхвърляне и отмъщение. Сюжетна линия и за циганите в скандинавските общества - не разбрах само, как Ана е наследила огромна къща в Осло от баба си (световно известна оперна певица), след като родителите и са били цигани-номади.

Беше ми интересно да прочета и за банковите обири и за това как полицията се бори с тях.

Над 500 страници е и не бе скучна дори за момент.

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Jul 09, 2018 Jeff Dickison rated it liked it · review of another edition

I just couldn't get into this one. I don't think blackout alcoholics could be very good detectives. They couldn't catch a cold, let alone a master criminal. The plot line in this story gets so complicated as to become downright silly. I think I'll lay off Nesbo for a while.

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Dec 28, 2011 Paul Curd rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: first-edition, crime-and-mystery, fiction

There really should be a health warning or spoiler alert printed on the cover of this book. It is the third of Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole series of detective novels to be translated into English. The first was The Devil's Star, but actually The Devil's Star turns out to be the third in the series and very much the sequel to Nemesis. For some reason, the novels have been translated and published in the UK out of sequence (I guess the reason is they published the best one first to test the water . . .) There really should be a health warning or spoiler alert printed on the cover of this book. It is the third of Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole series of detective novels to be translated into English. The first was The Devil's Star, but actually The Devil's Star turns out to be the third in the series and very much the sequel to Nemesis. For some reason, the novels have been translated and published in the UK out of sequence (I guess the reason is they published the best one first to test the water . . .). Unlike most detective series novels, you really do need to read Nesbø's Harry Hole books in the correct order to get the most from them. While each novel stands alone to a certain extent, there is a thread running through them that is best followed chronologically. So if you haven't read the first in the series, The Redbreast, maybe you should do so before you read this book!

Nemesis begins with grainy CCTV footage showing a masked man walking into a bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. No forensic evidence is recovered, but the Oslo police treat the incident simply as a bank robbery gone wrong and the investigation is assigned to Rune Ivarsson, the arrogant Head of the Robbery Unit. Maverick detective Harry Hole, however, has spent the whole weekend studying the CCTV videotape and believes the case should be treated as a murder, which means it should be investigated by the Crime Squad (of which he is a member). As a result, Harry is temporarily attached to the Robbery Unit in a semi-detached role with a brief to pursue the case in parallel to the main investigation.

Lurking somewhere at the back of all this is an event that took place in Nesbø's earlier novel, The Redbreast. In The Redbreast, Harry's partner and close friend, Ellen Gjelten, is beaten to death with a baseball bat. As a result, Harry had an alcoholic relapse, something he is still recovering from at the start of Nemesis. In Harry's opinion, the case of Ellen's murder had never been cleared up satisfactorily. Harry had found incriminating evidence against a suspect, but before justice could take its course Inspector Tom Waaler had shot the suspect dead in an alleged fire fight. Harry doubted Waaler's story, and felt the dead suspect's motive for killing Ellen was never satisfactorily explained.

But Ellen is dead, and Harry needs a new partner. He is assigned another female detective Beate Lønn, whose father had been an Oslo cop shot on duty during a bank raid a few years earlier. When Harry first meets Beate she reminds him of a corpse Ellen and he had once fished out of Bunnefjord. Is this a foreshadowing of events to come? Will history repeat itself?

Meanwhile, Harry's girlfriend is away in Russia, sorting out a messy divorce. While she is away, and the investigation into the bank robbery/murder is just beginning, Anna an old flame gets in touch with Harry. He meets her for a drink and goes for a coffee back to her house, where he admires a series of paintings Anna is working on. She has called the paintings Nemesis, after the goddess. A few days later, Harry goes back to Anna's for dinner, but the next morning he wakes up at home with a terrible hangover and no memory of the past twelve hours. The same morning Anna is found shot dead in her bed. Harry investigates the case without revealing his association with the dead girl, but then he begins to receive threatening e-mails by someone who seems to know there is more to Anna's death than the police suspect. Is someone trying to frame him for Anna's murder?

This is a very complex (or maybe that should be complicated) novel. There are several plots and sub-plots, clues and red herrings, and many a twist and turn. It is very well written (and the translator should get an honourable mention here) and on the whole an enjoyable read. But it is a very long book at nearly 500 pages. Around about page 300 I was beginning to wilt under the complexity of it all. But just as I was starting to run out of stamina, Nesbø introduced a shocking new element relating to Ellen Gjelten's murder and reinvigorated the story.

The ending is a puzzle, and I scratched my head over it for a while before discovering that all is revealed in the third book in the series, The Devil's Star.
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Jul 28, 2018 Saša rated it liked it · review of another edition

Prve dve trecine knjige su bile prilicno dobre, misteriozni pljackas banaka i u isto vreme ubica, Harijevu staru ljubav Anu pronalaze mrtvu u zaključanom stanu... sve je zvucalo vrlo zanimljivo i vuklo te napred.
A zatim, u poslednjoj trecini je Nesbø jednostavno poludeo (opet) ali s obzirom da ovog puta imamo dve paralelne price u realnom vremenu, isto tako imamo i krajnje zakukuljeno, zamumuljeno finale.

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Apr 29, 2018 Labijose rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Es la cuarta entrega, nada desdeñable, de Harry Hole. Nesbo no suele defraudar, y tiene una fama muy merecida en el panorama literario de los “nordic noir”. La trama es interesante, aunque algo compleja. Muy bien escrita, pero cuya resolución, al menos en mi opinión, no termina de estar al nivel del conjunto. Veo demasiadas casualidades en la misma, lo que le resta credibilidad. Además, enlaza con la novela anterior y con la posterior, de forma que el lector que no siga las novelas en orden cron ...more

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Jul 02, 2018 Paolo del ventoso Est rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Chi bazzica da un po' di tempo i social trae da essi gli spunti di lettura, relegando altre forme di ispirazione a retaggi del passato. Ad esempio, c'era una volta il libraio di fiducia che ti consigliava; ecco, il narcisismo social ha messo all'angolo questa categoria forse un po' novecentesca. Ma il bello della vita è proprio questo, che certe cose ritornano quando meno te l'aspetti: sono dunque fiero di dire che questo libro mi è stato consigliato dal mio "libraio di fiducia", ebbene sì, un t ...more

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Jul 07, 2010 James Thane rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Nemesis is a complex psychological thriller that weaves together the strands of two different investigations that prove to be interrelated.

When a teller is shot and killed in a dramatic bank robbery, Oslo homicide detective Harry Hole is assigned to the team investigating the crime. But Harry, a recovering alcoholic with a ton of other issues, does not work well with others and soon finds himself investigating apart from the larger team, assisted only by a young detective and video analyst, Bea ...more

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Dec 02, 2017 Sofia rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2017, 4-5-stars, crime-mystery-thriller, eagerly-read

Watching David Suchet's Hercule Poirot tv series is like comfort food for me. I've watched the lot of them repeatedly (my family would say ad nauseum). Poirot follows his tried and tested method in most of the series/books, he searches, he finds, he ponders and keeps his card close to his chest. In the meantime I enjoy myself feeling part of the story as I follow him from here to there and discover this and that. I get most of the thrill during this part of the story, not the part where he gathe ...more

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Nov 03, 2017 Kyriakos S Kyriakou rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Νομίζω ότι με αυτό το βιβλίο με κέρδισε ως φανατικό αναγνώστη του ο Νέσμπο! Από την μέση και μετά οι ανατροπές διακατέχουν η μια την άλλη! Πάντως προτείνω όσοι θα ξεκινήσετε από το μηδέν να διαβάζεται τον επιθεωρητή Χάρι Χόλε ακολουθήστε την σειρά που έχουν γραφτεί, και θα καταλάβετε το γιατί! Για να μάθετε την σειρά επισκεφτείτε το http:\\www.anotherlookforyou.blogspot.com

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Nov 26, 2017 Lena♥Ribka rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary, cultural, awards-nominee, mystery-crime-suspence, nordic-noir

I don’t know how how to describe what I feel at the end of the book!

I know exactly what I felt at the beginning of Nemesis (and through three quarters of the plot):

I thought, it was one of the best mystery books I ever read.

And then...the final spurt towards the finishing line...and...my initial sensations about my reading orgasm went rapidly downwards. And, believe or not, I finished it, if not confused, but more conflicted than I'd like to.

The Book#4 in the series is VERY VERY complex. Many ...more

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Feb 09, 2009 Tony rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Nesbo, Jo. NEMESIS. (2002; U.S. 2008). ****. Nesbo is an international best-selling author from Norway. His earlier book, “The Redbreast,” was his initial claim to fame. Although not well-known to American readers, he has picked up a solid cadre of fans who will swell his audience through word of mouth. This novel takes his detective hero, Hole, of the murder squad, into the world of the gypsies. It all starts out with a bank robbery, where the robber, later termed the Expediter, holds a gun to ...more

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Sep 27, 2016 Emily rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: personal-reading, 2016-books, nordic-noir

Συνεχίζεται ανοδικά η πορεία του συγγραφέα με κάθε βιβλίο του να είναι καλύτερο από τα προηγούμενα.
Ο ήρωας του είναι απόλυτα ανθρώπινος, με τα δικά του βάσανα και προβλήματα που τον κάνουν απολύτως συμπαθή.

Σε αυτήν την περιπέτεια, ο Χάρι Χόλε έχει βυθιστεί στην κατάθλιψη, απαρηγόρητος για το θάνατο της συνεργάτιδας του και κάνει ακόμα μια συνειδητή προσπάθεια να απέχει από το αλκοόλ. Συγκατοικεί στο γραφείο του με τον Χάλβορσεν, για τον οποίο αποτελεί ένα είδος μέντορα, έχοντας το ρίξει στους πο Συνεχίζεται ανοδικά η πορεία του συγγραφέα με κάθε βιβλίο του να είναι καλύτερο από τα προηγούμενα.
Ο ήρωας του είναι απόλυτα ανθρώπινος, με τα δικά του βάσανα και προβλήματα που τον κάνουν απολύτως συμπαθή.

Σε αυτήν την περιπέτεια, ο Χάρι Χόλε έχει βυθιστεί στην κατάθλιψη, απαρηγόρητος για το θάνατο της συνεργάτιδας του και κάνει ακόμα μια συνειδητή προσπάθεια να απέχει από το αλκοόλ. Συγκατοικεί στο γραφείο του με τον Χάλβορσεν, για τον οποίο αποτελεί ένα είδος μέντορα, έχοντας το ρίξει στους ποιοτικούς καφέδες με την καινούργια τους μηχανή espesso. Σύντομα, στο δίδυμο θα προστεθεί η νεοφερμένη στο τμήμα Μπέτε Λεν, που θα αποτελέσει με τη φωτογραφική της μνήμη μια πολύτιμη βοήθεια. Η τριάδα θα καταφέρει να λύσει πολλά διαπλεκόμενα μυστήρια που βασίζονται τα περισσότερα στην εκδίκηση και την αυτοδικία.

Έχοντας τρομάξει να αποκαταστήσουμε τον ήρωα μας με την Ράκελ και τον μικρό της γιο Όλεγκ, δεν προλαβαίνουμε να χαρούμε και πολύ μια και η παρ' ολίγον οικογένεια του αναγκάζεται να πάει στη Μόσχα για την υπόθεση της κηδεμονίας του Όλεγκ. Η ιστορία αυτή αποτελεί από μόνη της ένα ακόμα μέτωπο για τον Χάρι ο οποίος θα δεχτεί μια απρόσμενη βοήθεια από έναν τρόφιμο φυλακής.
Το πόσα πολλά μπορεί να κάνει ένας τρόφιμος φυλακής ήταν ίσως το μόνο αδύνατο σημείο της πλοκής, που εμένα δεν με έπεισε, αν και ίσως σε real life σενάριο να μην αποτελεί μεγάλη έκπληξη. Ο τρόφιμος μόνο κυβέρνηση δεν ανεβοκατέβασε! Λεπτομέρειες όμως, μπρος σε ένα ωραίο, χορταστικό και απολαυστικό ανάγνωσμα που έχει και συνέχειες! Τι παρηγοριά!

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Sep 22, 2017 Amanda NEVER MANDY rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017, harry-hole-and-friends

Harry makes a new friend and gets one step closer to solving the crime that matters most to him.

I really enjoyed the mystery on this one, how it split off into multiple different little mysteries and then how they all came back together in the end. I was actually quite clueless until the very last moment regarding the whodunit portion of the story. I thought I had it all sorted out but was pleasantly surprised when I realized I was wrong. *GASP* Yes, I totally did just admit to being wrong abo ...more

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Dec 18, 2013 Steven Godin rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: crime, scandinavia-nordic

My first foray into Scandinavia crime noir, which seems in the last 10 years to have come out of nowhere to take the world by storm, TV as well. Nemesis is a decent read, not as dark as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but not as good either. In Harry Hole there is a detective you believe in, he has flaws like everybody else, there are moments of tension, and a good developing plot/story, where footage of a bank robbery has been looked at hundreds of times and the police searched for finger prin ...more

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Jul 13, 2018 Ivi rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1002-before-i-die

Not so bad after all :)))

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Jan 21, 2012 James rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: crime, translated, harry-hole

Harry Hole returns in the fourth book in the series by Jo Nesbø (although only the second, translated ably, by Don Bartlett) and follows on from Redbreast . Some time has passed between the two novels, although it's not entirely clear how much - not enough to change the other people around him too much or for him to have ruined his relationship with Rakel (surely only a matter of time) or to have forgotten the murder of his partner, Ellen, but enough for there to be a new girl on the force - Be Harry Hole returns in the fourth book in the series by Jo Nesbø (although only the second, translated ably, by Don Bartlett) and follows on from Redbreast . Some time has passed between the two novels, although it's not entirely clear how much - not enough to change the other people around him too much or for him to have ruined his relationship with Rakel (surely only a matter of time) or to have forgotten the murder of his partner, Ellen, but enough for there to be a new girl on the force - Beate Lønn - an expert in video analysis.

Nemesis is two crimes in one; a bank robbery, where the robber executes one of the bank staff when his request to get the money within a certain amount of time isn't met. The other, an ex-girlfriend of Hole's, Anna, who he meets up with for drinks is found dead in her apartment - apparently suicide - however Hole's memory of the evening is a total blank. So while investigating the bank robbery with Lønn, he's also trying to continue the investigation into the death of Anna without implicating himself to his colleagues, and not forgetting the ongoing investigation into the death of Ellen that he's struggling to keep alive.

So far, so confusing. One cop, three cases, but, Nesbø didn't think that was confusing enough. The three cases are intertwined, common threads and characters appear and disappear from one case to another and so on. Hole's own blackouts further confuse the second case, and finally, every time Hole decides he's solved a case, you soon realise he hasn't. The two main cases both have twists, even their twists have further twists. Until you're thoroughly confused. The robbery is solved half-way through the book. I assumed this was to free up the rest of the book to concentrate on the Anna and Ellen cases, but nope, Hole's got the wrong man (and not for the last time). If you can keep up, both the main cases have very clever resolutions, although the Ellen case really never gets much further than in Redbreast - there are hints and clues provided to us the reader, but Harry never really gets anywhere. Fingers crossed that Waaler, the Prince, gets his comeuppance in the next book.

Gripping and well paced, even as confusing as it was. You're never quite sure how closely the cases are connected, or who is guilty, is getting framed, or is just lying to us, right until the end. (view spoiler) ...more

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Dec 29, 2012 Janice rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ylto-chunksters, z-read-in-2014, ebooks, mystery

Jo Nesbo keeps getting better and better!

This book is the fourth in the Harry Hole series and the second in what is called The Oslo Trilogy. The story is complex and multi-layered. It's almost breathtaking when all the pieces fall into place at the end.

It's hard to write too much without giving away spoilers. Let me just say that I think all hell is going to break loose in the next book in the series.

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Jul 08, 2011 Slávek Rydval rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: non-english-authors, read-2011

Světový zájem o severskou kriminálku zřejmě rozpoutal Stieg Larsson svým Miléniem. Bohužel to má i ten důsledek, že se k nám ze Skandinávie tahají romány, které lze bez okolků označit za silně podprůměrné čtivo pro masy (a tedy intelektuálně člověka sotva obohacující). Jedním takovým zastupitelem, který je (naprosto špatně) kriminálním románem označován, je Nemesis od Joa Nesboa.

Povězme si, co vlastně nutí vydavatele knihu zařadit do kategorie kriminální žánr:
1) Je z prostředí (kmininální) polic Světový zájem o severskou kriminálku zřejmě rozpoutal Stieg Larsson svým Miléniem. Bohužel to má i ten důsledek, že se k nám ze Skandinávie tahají romány, které lze bez okolků označit za silně podprůměrné čtivo pro masy (a tedy intelektuálně člověka sotva obohacující). Jedním takovým zastupitelem, který je (naprosto špatně) kriminálním románem označován, je Nemesis od Joa Nesboa.

Povězme si, co vlastně nutí vydavatele knihu zařadit do kategorie kriminální žánr:
1) Je z prostředí (kmininální) policie.
2) Vyšetřuje se tam zločin.
3) Obsahuje všechna možná klišé:
a. Hlavní vyšetřovatel je problémový (zde alkoholik).
b. Nevraživost na pracovišti mezi některými kriminalisty.
c. Hlavní postava s sebou vláčí svou nevyřešenou minulost.
d. Vyšetřování nakonec vedou dva týmy. Ba co víc, a to je jedno z nejtrapnějších klišé, spolupracovník hlavní postavy připraví na ni léčku.
e. Hlavní postava jde proti předpisům a nakonec uspěje.
f. Doplňte si další, kniha to splňovat vesměs bude.

Co však knize naopak markantně chybí, je bod, který dělá kriminálku kriminálkou a co určuje i to, zda jde o kvalitní knihu: čtenář má mít neustále možnost přemýšlet o tom, kdo zločin spáchal a neměl by se to pokud možno dozvědět dříve než na posledních pár stránkách. Na to je ale zřejmě Nesbo hodně špatným spisovatelem, neboť Nemesis je prachsprostý deníkový záznam jakéhosi loupežného přepadení. Pokud vypluje na povrch nějaká skutečnost, hned je rozebrána a čtenář je někam nasměrován, aniž by třeba chtěl, aniž by dostal možnost pochybovat, přemýšlet. Pro čtení na deku na pláž možná dobré, resp. lepší než bulvární deník, ale jinak?

Kniha má na 500 stran, a ačkoliv někteří o ní tvrdí, že ji nemohli odložit z ruky, mně to neudělalo problém nikdy. Ano, čtivá sice je, ale napínavá? Nikoliv. Dozví se člověk něco ze života ze severu? Nikoliv. Vadilo by, kdybych přestal v třetině, půlce, ke konci číst a pak už nedočetl? Ó nikoliv. Má cenu se těšit na další ze série úchvatného vyšetřovatele Harryho? Pche, na světě je tolik lepšího čtení… ...more

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Nov 18, 2012 Wordsmith rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Nordic Thriller Aficionados

Shelves: ranking-2012-reads-processing, part-of-series, police-procedural, thriller-intrigue, lit-scandinavian, ebooks-kindle, award-winning-book-or-author, star-four, death-violent, favorite

One of The Sites Harry Is Sure To Visit At Least Once Per Novel:

 Vigeland Park Oslo, Norway

This is actually the second in the series and I have to say I found it better overall than a couple of his later ones. It is interesting going backwards and read of the events alluded to in Harry's future. Witnessing the beginning of his relationship with Rakel, probing the roots of the animosity between him and certain co-workers, indeed, the department in general. Yes, Harry gets his man. But at what One of The Sites Harry Is Sure To Visit At Least Once Per Novel:

  Vigeland Park Oslo, Norway

This is actually the second in the series and I have to say I found it better overall than a couple of his later ones. It is interesting going backwards and read of the events alluded to in Harry's future. Witnessing the beginning of his relationship with Rakel, probing the roots of the animosity between him and certain co-workers, indeed, the department in general. Yes, Harry gets his man. But at what cost? Prices can be so high and let's not forget about inflation.

A decent series, actually better than most.

Another Oslo Site I Feel I've Come To Know Very Well:

  Frogner Park Oslo, Norway

Harry does get around....

  Oslo, In The Evening:

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Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Dokt ...more

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“With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can’t learn that...” — 44 likes

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