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With the bread crumbs you could pick up, instead of chunks of bread flying at you like in this book. Also, the characters are generally well-developed, and it’s nice to see a queer character or two that isn’t entirely stereotypical show up in a book that’s now some 25 years old. I seriously wonder if it had been the first book translated into English would the series be so popular. Not really wanted by the local police force in Sydney but one detective befriends him and sees him as the key to snapping open the case. For some reason his Australian colleague was wearing a tight suit today, and Harry thought the broad-shouldered black man looked a bit comical as he rolled and pitched up the path in front of him to the viewpoint.
Some of the flaws in the book could simply be a translation issue, but there are sections where the plotting is just poorly thought out, and dive deep in cliché when the story would have been served better by avoiding them. I enjoyed it in places but in others where the author rambles off into overlong stories concerning Aboriginal culture, it kind of lost me a bit. In the car park Kensington unlocked the boot of a small, well-used Toyota and shoved in the suitcase. Harry Hole is an extremely determined detective, and after the fashion of a dog with a bone, he won’t let go.Reminiscent of Michael Connelly’s iconic detective Harry Bosch character, if it means sacrificing his job or any hope of a stable personal life, so be it. It smacked of Nesbø having done some reading up on the subject and putting his non-Indigenous take on it into Kensington’s mouth. That’s all you need to know about a woman in Hole’s world – how supple and pliant her back is and whether there’s enough haunch to grab hold of. Behind him in the queue he heard the faint drone of a Walkman and realized it was his traveling companion from the plane. Theres usually something sickening about the fact that the publisher didn't have the guts to back the title originally but now wants top dollar for it because the author is well known.
The hope was to nail Evans on some drug charges, and to scalp information from him while he was detained. Now this was a good book until the last few chapters when he started going into his convoluted pros. The big difference is Australia, which Nesbø, seeing it through the eyes of both a tourist and a cultural pathologist, makes you wonder how much different it is from Norway after all.Again, the murder investigation to be had here is self-contained, but you can tell that the events of this novel may crop up again in Harry’s future. He wonders, is Otto toying with him, admitting to being the killer, or is Otto trying to tell Harry that he knows who the killer is? The bar introduces Harry more to Birgitta Enquist, whom he asks on a date, and whom he develops a very emotional relationship. I fell for blonde, Norwegian Harry, and found myself rooting for him and agonizing over his missteps.
Written in 1997 by Jo Nesbo, but translated in 2012 by Don Bartlett, "The Bat" is the first Inspector Harry Hole book, as mentioned on the cover. There is also a fair amount of padding in the middle of the book where I grew impatient with the author wandering off into rabbit trails instead of moving the story forward. He's an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 50 languages, selling over 33 million copies around the world. The Australian authorities had recovered her body from the sea after someone had beaten and raped her.Harry Hole had a suspicion that passport officials in most places in the world would have added a “sir,” but he had read that this type of formal pleasantry wasn’t especially widespread in Australia.
Here I am sitting in a bar, Harry thought, listening to a transvestite lecturing on Australian politics. Otto comes back on stage, the audience is assuaged, but Harry still has a pit in his stomach forming. Through Birgitta we get more of Harry's back story, which, having been following Harry, we learn he was an alcoholic.Thus, that’s what makes the latter half of The Bat so readable, even as it gets a little farfetched at times. For the first third of the book or so, I liked Harry, I felt the story was building andI was enjoying a bit of Australian lore and culture.
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