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Yours Until Death
Gunnar Staalesen
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Description for Yours Until Death
Paperback. The single-mother families of the isolated high-rise community under the shadow of the Lyderhorn, Bergen's great mountain - steep, dark and oppressive - were being robbed, terrorized and molested by a teenage gang led by the psychopath, Joker, who looked like a priest, but with the eyes of a tiger and the teeth of a decaying corpse. Translator(s): Amassian, Margaret. Num Pages: 331 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278.
It was at their 'torture chamber', a hut in the pinewoods nearby, that Varg Veum, Private Investigator, first encountered the gang's pathetic but deadly ferocity. Eight-year-old Roar's bicycle had been stolen and not an adult in sight dared retrieve it. But a preliminary brush with such youthful violence was as nothing compared to what awaited Veum when he got to know Roar's blue-eyed, shy yet sensuous mother, Wenche Andresen, and her estranged husband, Jonas. Veum's attempts to break up Joker and his pack of young thugs by enlisting the help of the local youth club leader proved a dead ... Read more
It was at their 'torture chamber', a hut in the pinewoods nearby, that Varg Veum, Private Investigator, first encountered the gang's pathetic but deadly ferocity. Eight-year-old Roar's bicycle had been stolen and not an adult in sight dared retrieve it. But a preliminary brush with such youthful violence was as nothing compared to what awaited Veum when he got to know Roar's blue-eyed, shy yet sensuous mother, Wenche Andresen, and her estranged husband, Jonas. Veum's attempts to break up Joker and his pack of young thugs by enlisting the help of the local youth club leader proved a dead ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Number of pages
331
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
331
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906413705
SKU
V9781906413705
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About Gunnar Staalesen
Gunnar Staalesen, born in 1947 in Bergen, Norway, is a leading author of crime stories, whose books have been translated into more than 12 languages and have twice won Norway's top crime prize, the Golden Pistol.
Reviews for Yours Until Death
'Staalesen is another fine representative of Scandinavian crime fiction' Independent 'I unreservedly recommend it' Joan Smith 'Varg Veum is in the best traditions of sleuthery' The Times