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In Phantom, Harry Hole moves to Hong Kong to live out his voluntary exile, but he returns to Norway on hearing news of a dear one being arrested for murder. Oleg is charged with the murder of his flatmate, but Harry suspects that he is innocent and he steps forward to don his investigator cap one more time. The added fact that Oleg is his romantic interest’s son compounds his involvement in this case as he feels fatherly affection for the young man.
Gusto was a junkie and he is now dead, but Nesbo uses him as a narrative device throughout the novel to explore the background and the circumstances that led to his death. The case is closed with Oleg arrested as the culprit and when he tries to reopen the investigation, the police are clearly unhelpful and deny him any relief. Harry realizes that he must rely on his capabilities and clear the air and find the real killer. But what lies ahead is a shadowy path, which challenges the drug world of Oslo, and he doesn’t know who should he trust.
And this time around, Hole’s ghosts catch up with him when at every corner a chilly discovery only adds to the mystery behind the ties of smuggling and the very nature of the product being peddled. The stakes are high as Hole suspects Oleg’s incarceration as a step by the smuggling community to hide their own doing. This means that there is something valuable at stake and the more ground Hole covers in his investigation, the more danger he finds himself entrenched in. There is also the fact that he hasn’t found the real killer yet. Will Hole manage to find the killer and solve the case of the drug trade?
Phantom was written by Nesbo in Norwegian and as such the original title, Gjenferd actually translates to ghosts. The book was translated to English by Don Bartlett.ISBN - 9781846555220
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Pages : 452
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