The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

Jo Nesbø
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Five stories set in the near future. Welcome to Rat Island and a post-pandemic America, where the upper-class elite is waiting atop a skyscraper to be evacuated while the masses fight for survival down in the streets. In Shredder, a scientist researching eternal life has finally found a memory shredder that will help him forget everything, before it’s too late. Cicadas tells the story of two best friends on their way to the bull races in Pamplona when they fall in love with the same girl. The Antidote follows an estranged son with an agenda as he goes to visit his father at a snake farm in Africa. Lastly, in the epic and vicious Black Knight, we meet a psychologist who also happens to be an assassin contracted by big business.
Genres: Short StoriesFictionThrillerCrimeMysteryAudiobookNordic NoirMystery ThrillerScandinavian LiteratureScience Fiction
528 Pages

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