Bente Gundersen Libros

The author of the internationally best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge. Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin—and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His addiction started when his father committed suicide rather than be exposed as a corrupt cop, and now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police, lawyers, a desperate priest—all of them focused on keeping him stoned and jailed, and all of them under the thumb of Oslo's crime overlord, the Twin. When Sonny learns some long-hidden truths about his father he makes a brilliant escape, and begins hunting down the people responsible for the hideous crimes he's paid for. But he's also being hunted, by the Twin, the cops, and the only person who knows the ultimate truth that Sonny is seeking. The question is, what will he do when they've cornered him?

Román "El hijo único" de Bente Gundersen y Anne Holt presenta a la investigadora policial Hanne Wilhelmsen, quien, junto a su peculiar colega Billy T., intenta desentrañar el trasfondo de un brutal asesinato en un hogar infantil en Oslo. Mientras los policías buscan el motivo del crimen y enfrentan el enigma del "cuarto cerrado", emergen las oscuras facetas de las relaciones aparentemente sin problemas entre los empleados del hogar. Paralelamente, se desarrolla una segunda línea argumental centrada en Olav, un niño de doce años que ha sido colocado en el hogar en contra de su voluntad. Olav sufre de una forma de hiperactividad y alberga una profunda animosidad hacia su entorno, lo que complica aún más la situación. La novela explora temas de violencia, la complejidad de las relaciones humanas y la lucha interna de un niño atrapado en un sistema que no comprende.