![]() ![]() ![]() Placed telescope and a wealthy homemaker who likes her life just so. ![]() The supporting cast of “The Son” includes Arild Franck, a deeply unpleasant man and assistant prison governor who masterminded Staten’s blueprints - down to each and every fingerprint-operated lock - “with an emphasis on security and efficiency rather than comfort” Johannes Halden, an older prisoner who loves reading and rereading “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and who’d only ever wanted to be a sea captain but had, long ago, fallen afoul of a Thai smuggling ring Markus, a lonely, smart kid with bags of curiosity and a strategically Nesbo is great at rapidly sketching the kind of juicy characters, peripheral or not, that propel an already fast-moving story forward at a pleasing pace. Kefas is also nearing retirement and looking back with plenty of hindsight on a professional life that’s included a gambling addiction and several career shifts: He’s been a crime-scene technician - he’s a dab hand at assessing bullet trajectories - a tactical investigator (“I guess,” Kefas tells a colleague, “I became more interested in the why rather than the how.”), and endured a stint investigating fraud. ![]()
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