Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
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It’s a non-fiction book which focuses on one bank robber and one policeman. It’s the history of bank robbing in Norway which was very big especially back in the 90s. There was one big famous robbery in Stavanger in 2004 when they robbed the Nokas teller central and made off with over $9 million. It was the largest robbery in Norwegian history.
Your first book is Cops and Robbers by Kjetil Stensvik Østli.
I just read this book. It’s a non-fiction book which focuses on one bank robber and one policeman. It’s the history of bank robbing in Norway which was very big especially back in the 90s. There was one big famous robbery in Stavanger in 2004 when they robbed the Nokas teller central and made off with over $9 million. It was the largest robbery in Norwegian history.
The robbery really felt like a scene from the film Heat, with a big shoot-out and the criminals using automatic weapons and one officer even being killed. After that the cops came down hard on the bank robbers and they more or less wiped out the two big gangs who were doing the robbing.
The book is meant to provide a unique insight into the police and criminal mind set, do you agree?
What the book does is show us how the mentality of the robber is actually very similar to the mentality of the police. And that is true for the main character in my book, Harry Hole. He experiences the same. The people he feels he can most relate to are the criminals that he is hunting.
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The Snowman is Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø’s fifth internationally acclaimed novel featuring Inspector Harry Hole to be translated into English. Winner of the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson), Jo Nesbø’s books have been translated into 30 languages and he is regarded as one of Europe’s leading crime writers. Jo Nesbø played football for Norwegian team Molde and topped the charts in Norway with rock band Di Derre.
