The author of the best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set inside Oslorsquos maze of especially venal high-level corruption Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man Sonnyrsquos 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 donrsquot know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habitmdashor where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug Or that hersquos serving time for other peoplesrsquo 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 infrastructure of corruption prison staff police lawyers a desperate priestmdashall of them focused on keeping him high and in jail And all of them under the thumb of the Twin Oslorsquos crime overlord As long as Sonny gets his dope hersquos happy to play the criminal and the prisonrsquos in-house savior But when he learns a stunning long-hidden secret concerning his father he makes a brilliantly executed escape from prisonmdashand from the person hersquod let himself becomemdashand begins hunting down those responsible for the crimes against him The darkly looming question is Who will get to him firstmdashthe criminals or the copsFrom the Hardcover edition.
