Nordic Noir by Barry Forshaw

Author:Barry Forshaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781842439883
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Published: 2013-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

The Protean Mr Nesbo

The composer and lyricist Steven Sondheim has a line about ‘careering from career to career’, a notion that may well have been created for Jo Nesbo. As an athletic teenager, he made an auspicious debut in the Norwegian Premier League football team Molde, his mind full of dreams about playing for Tottenham Hotspur in England (the latter is still a team he follows). But catastrophe struck: he ripped the ligaments in both his knees, and was obliged to cast around for another way to earn his living. This second career was to provide his first taste of humongous success. As a musician, he was in a rock band, called ‘Di Derre’ (roughly: ‘Them There’), which enjoyed healthy stints at the top of the Norwegian charts. The band’s second album was a bestseller for several years. Nesbo’s skills also extended to the financial arena, but readers have cause to be grateful to a long-haul flight which had Nesbo struggling over a book he had been commissioned to write (and had little enthusiasm for) about life on the road for a rock musician. Instead of writing about drugs and sexually available young women, he decided to try his hand at fiction and wrote a detective novel, submitting it pseudonymously (fearing that it would be rejected as ‘another crap book by a rock star’). That novel was The Bat Man (1997), and had nothing to do with Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s vengeful Dark Knight – a fact emphasised in the 2012 British publication which dropped the word ‘Man’.

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