The Redeemer
JO NESBØ
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett
VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD
Vintage Books A Division of Random House LLC New York
FIRST VINTAGE CRIME/ BLACK LIZARD EDITION, SEPTEMBER
2014
Translation copyright ©
2013
by Don Bartlett
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division o Random House, LLC, New York, a Penguin Random House Company. Originally published in Norway as
Frelseren
by H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo, in
2005
. Copyright ©
2005
by Jo Nesbø. This translation originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Harvill Secker, an imprint o the Random House Group Ltd., London, in
2009
and in the United States by Alred A. Knop, a division o Random House LLC, New York, in
2013
. Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage Crime/Black Lizard and colophon are trademarks o Random House LLC. This is a work o fction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product o the author’s imagination or are used fctitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.Grateul acknowledgment is made to Jalma Music or permission to reprint an excerpt rom “Alice” written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, copyright ©
2002
by Jalma Music (ASCAP). Reprinted by permission o Jalma Music. All rights reserved. The Library o Congress has cataloged the Knop edition as ollows:Nesbø, Jo, date-author.[Frelseren. English] The Redeemer / Jo Nesbø ; translated rom the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.—First American Edition.pages cm
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