Jo Nesbo The Bat Man
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Jo Nesbo is a Norwegian police and at the same time a crime writer who was born is Oslo, Norway in the year 1960. He is also an accomplished musician as the primary singer and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre.
Author: Jo Nesbo. Published Year: 1997 Mystery & Detective Thrillers & Crime. Police: A Harry Hole thriller (Oslo Sequence 8). Author: Jo Nesbo.

The Bat
Author	Jo Nesbø
Original title	Flaggermusmannen
Country	Australia
Language	Norwegian, English
Series	Harry Hole (#1)
Genre	Crime fiction
Publisher	Harvill Secker
Publication date	1997
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages	432 pp.
ISBN	978-0099520320
Followed by	Cockroaches

The Bat (Norwegian: Flaggermusmannen, 'Bat Man') is a 1997 crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the first in the Harry Hole series.^[1] Age of empires 2 definitive edition photon man.

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Plot[edit]

Norwegian police officer Harry Hole is sent to Sydney, Australia to serve as an attaché for the Australian police's investigation into the murder of a young female Norwegian girl residing in Australia, Inger Holter. Her boyfriend, Evans White, is initially approached as a suspect. Hole is assisted by Aboriginal colleague Andrew Kensington; together they find out that they are dealing with a serial killer who strangles blonde women. Hole befriends a red haired Swede named Birgitta. As the story becomes more complex, Hole struggles to find the killer and falls deeper into alcoholism. There are more back stories about Harry's past and culture in Australia.

Translation status[edit]

This is the first of the Harry Hole novels, introducing the character, but it was very late in being translated to English. The British and American publishers chose to start by translating the later books, set in Oslo, and only after these became very popular came around to publishing the first book, set in Australia.

This order of publication caused an unintended spoiler, as Harry's reminiscences in a later book—published earlier in English—included the name and specific characteristics of the murderer in The Bat. Dmg vs pkg.

The second book, The Cockroaches, set in Thailand, has been translated to English, fifteen years after being originally published in Norwegian, and was published in the UK in November 2013.^[2]

Critical notes[edit]

Kirkus Reviews states that 'It’s an unusual debut since the very first page finds Harry clearing passport control in Sydney, half a world away from his native Oslo.. Harry is already every bit as volcanic as in his later cases. 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.'^[3]

Andy Hoban of Sunday Express noted 'Nesbo’s principal characters are both credible and well-drawn and it is fantastic to see a younger Harry, a more loquacious Harry. The Bat explains some of what burdens and drives him in the later books. So for anyone new to Nesbo, you are in for a treat if you follow Harry’s career beginning with this book. For me, the biggest insult to Nesbo was to see him advertised as “the next Stieg Larsson” when in fact The Bat was written eight years before The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Still, now I can dig out the rest of the series and read them again, in order. Verdict: 5/5'^[4]

References[edit]

^'The Bat: The First Inspector Harry Hole Novel by Jo Nesbo l Summary & Study Guide'. Goodreads. goodreads.com. Retrieved 15 June 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^'Jo Nesbø at Salomonsson'. Salomonsson Agency. Archived from the original on September 19, 2007. Retrieved March 21, 2007.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^'THE BAT by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett'. Kirkus Reviews. kirkusreviews.com. July 1, 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^Hoban, Andy (October 21, 2012). 'Book review: The Bat by Jo Nesbo'. Express.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

External links[edit]

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A Scandinavian crime thriller with a difference, this one is set far from the fjords in the “Lucky Country” of Australia. The Lucky Country didn’t prove too lucky for Inger Holter, a Norwegian girl on a gap year in Sydney, whose body is found on the Pacific coast. Harry Hole (pronounced “Holy” by the Aussies) is sent by the Norwegians to assist the New South Wales Police. This is the first of the Harry Hole series (there have been 11 to date). In Australia, Harry is a bit like a fish out of water, a maverick cop and recovering alcoholic, things start off quite well for Harry, he meets a lovely Swedish girl named Birgitta. But then Harry falls off the wagon. Andrew Kensington, his new aboriginal buddy ends up dead and then things start spiralling out of control as Harry turns to his old pal Jim Beam for succour. The plot has several twists, as it turns out their murderer is a serial killer, but the pace is patchy, a lot of Dreamtime stories add to the local colour but don’t add much to the plot. The Bat of the title is a Dreamtime omen of death, a bat of the willow variety comes to play in a bar room brawl, giving one of the characters serious concussion. This is well written and well researched, the Australian backdrop has an authentic feel, but I prefer the more mature work later in the series like “The Leopard” .

Jo Nesbo The Bat Toowoomba

My rating : 4 out of 5