Editions

Macbeth

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099598060

  • Length: 624  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 426g

  • RRP: £8.99

Macbeth

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
40 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE

He’s the best cop they’ve got.

When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it’s up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess.

He’s also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past.

He’s rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They’re all within reach.

But a man like him won’t get to the top.

Plagued by hallucinations and paranoia, Macbeth starts to unravel. He’s convinced he won’t get what is rightfully his.

Unless he kills for it.

‘The king of all crime writers’
Sunday Express

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099598060

  • Length: 624  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 426g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Majestically satisfying...a deliciously oppressive page-turner

    Steven Poole, Guardian

  • Immensely enjoyable and gloriously dark... He has accomplished that toughest of literary feats: putting his own unmistakable mark on one of Shakespeare's most celebrated plays

    Matt Gibson, Daily Express

  • Inventive and deeply satisfying... a dark but ultimately hopeful Macbeth, one suited to our own troubled times

    James Shapiro, New York Times Book Review

  • Nesbo makes excellent use of all the atmosphere of his genre, and the stakes at play are every bit as convincing as those in the original... This is Nesbo doing what he's good at

    Lucy Scholes, Independent

  • Macbeth as a SWAT team leader. His wife as a former prostitute. The three witches as drug dealers. It's Shakespeare's darkest tale -- reimagined by the king of Nordic noir

    Graeme Thomson, Mail on Sunday

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About the Author

Jo Nesbo

Jo Nesbo is one of the world’s bestselling crime writers, with The Leopard, Phantom, Police, The Son, The Thirst and Knife all topping the Sunday Times bestseller charts. He’s an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 50 languages, selling over 45 million copies around the world. Before becoming a crime writer, Nesbo played football for Norway’s premier league team Molde, but his dream of playing professionally for Spurs was dashed when he tore ligaments in his knee at the age of eighteen. After three years military service he attended business school and formed the band Di Derre (‘Them There’). They topped the charts in Norway, but Nesbo continued working as a financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at night. When commissioned by a publisher to write a memoir about life on the road with his band, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole crime novel, The Bat. Sign up to the Jo Nesbo newsletter for all the latest news: jonesbo.com/newsletter

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