{"product_id":"yours-until-death-9781906413705","title":"Yours Until Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The Norwegian Chandler' Jo Nesb \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors' Ian Rankin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMORE THAN FIVE MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unbearably tense thriller of revenge, murder, bereavement and the destructive force of passion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is at their 'torture chamber', a hut in the pinewoods nearby, that Varg Veum, Private Investigator, first encounters 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut that preliminary brush with youthful violence is 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVeum's attempts to break up Joker and his pack of young thugs by enlisting the help of the local youth club leader proves a dead end. But not so dead as the man who found lying prone with a knife in his back on the floor of Andresen's flat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYours Until Death\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is an unbearably tense novel of revenge and murder about marriage, childhood, bereavement and the destructive force of passion. First published in Norwegian in 1979, it was described by the critic Nils Nordberg as \u003cb\u003e'one of the finest, most serious, most ambitious books in post-war Norwegian crime writing'.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Norwegian by Margaret Amassian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcadia Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781906413705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/30\/2011\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gunnar Staalesen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44493208748213,"sku":"9781906413705","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_30713932-900e-455b-88bb-6df44af9b9ac.jpg?v=1721747512","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/yours-until-death-9781906413705","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}