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Jo Nesbø, author of Midnight Sun

He calls himself Ulf, and the only thing he’s looking for is a place where he won’t be found by Oslo’s most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman. He was once the Fisherman’s fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed --- which may not be a problem for a man whose criminal reach is boundless. The agonizing wait for the inevitable moment when the Fisherman’s henchmen will show forces him to question if redemption is at all possible or if, as he’s always believed, “hope is a real bastard.”

Week of January 23, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of January 23rd include EVERYBODY'S FOOL, which picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984 in Richard Russo's 1993 novel, NOBODY'S FOOL; MIDNIGHT SUN by Jo Nesbø, the tightly wound tale of a man running from retribution, a renegade hitman who goes to ground far above the Arctic circle, where the never-setting sun might slowly drive a man insane; and Patricia Bell-Scott's THE FIREBRAND AND THE FIRST LADY, the riveting history of how a brilliant writer-turned-activist and the first lady of the United States forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America.