The Son: A novel

Pub Date: 2014-05-13 Pages: 416 Language: English Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing ... The author of the best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set inside Oslo & rsquo; s maze of especially venal . high-level corruption Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man Sonny & rsquo;.... s been in prison for a dozen years. nearly half his life The inmates who seek out his uncanny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved They don & rsquo; t know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit & mdash; or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug Or that he & rsquo;. s serving time for other peoples & rsquo;. crimes Sonny took the first steps toward addiction when his father took his own life rather than face exposure as a corrupt cop Now Sonny is the seemingly malleable center of a whole infr...