Nemesis (Harry Hole) by Jo Nesbo

Author:Jo Nesbo [Nesbo, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

In the evening the clouds disappeared. Harry stopped at the top of Dovregata on his way home from Schrøder’s and stared upwards. The stars twinkled in the moonless sky. One of the lights was a plane flying north towards Gardemoen airport. Orion’s Horsehead Nebula. Horsehead Nebula. Orion. Who had told him about it? Had it been Anna, he wondered.

On returning to his flat, he switched on the TV to see the NRK news. Heroic tales about American firefighters. He switched it off. A man’s voice screamed a woman’s name down in the street; he sounded drunk. Harry rummaged around in his pockets to find the note he had made of Rakel’s new number and discovered he still had the key engraved with AA. He put the key at the back of the drawer in the telephone table before ringing the number. No answer. When the telephone rang, he wasn’t sure if it would be her; instead he had Øystein on a crackly line.

‘Shit, the way they drive here!’

‘You don’t need to shout, Øystein.’

‘They’re fucking trying to kill me on the roads here! I took a taxi from Sharm el-Sheikh. Great trip, I thought–right through the desert, not much traffic, straight road. Boy, was I wrong. It’s a miracle I’m alive, I can tell you. And so hot! And have you heard the grasshoppers here–the desert crickets? They make the world’s highest-pitched grasshopper noises. Goes right through the cerebral cortex, absolutely terrible. The water here is just amazing. Amazing! Completely clear with a dash of green. Body temperature, so you don’t even feel it. Yesterday I got out of the sea and wasn’t even sure if I’d been in…’

‘Forget the sea temperatures, Øystein. Have you found the server?’

‘Yes and no.’

‘What does that mean?’

Harry didn’t get an answer. They had clearly been interrupted by a discussion at the other end. Harry caught fragments, like ‘the boss’ and ‘the money’.

‘Harry? Sorry, the guy here got a bit paranoid. And I am too. Bloody hot, it is! But I think I’ve found the right server. There’s always a chance they’re trying to screw me, but tomorrow I’ll see the works and meet the boss in person. Three minutes on the keyboard and I’ll know if it’s the right one. And the rest is just a question of money. I hope. Ring you tomorrow. You should see the knives these Bedouins have here…’

Øystein’s laugh sounded hollow.

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