- Published: 5 April 2018
- ISBN: 9781473511743
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 624
Macbeth
- Published: 5 April 2018
- ISBN: 9781473511743
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 624
Immensely enjoyable and gloriously dark... He has accomplished that toughest of literary feats: putting his own unmistakable mark on one of Shakespeare's most celebrated plays
Matt Gibson, Daily Express
Jo Nesbo + Shakespeare = pure dynamite...the plot is explosive from start to finish
Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway
World-class writing. Jo Nesbo at his best
Fædrelandsvennen, Norway
Masterful...apocalyptic... The result is magnificent... Readers who have never heard of Shakespeare will read this novel as a pure, suspenseful crime novel
Dagbladet, Norway
Jo Nesbo has turned Macbeth into a hard-boiled and suspenseful story about a highly corrupt town where blood flows freely... The characters, the cities, the struggle for power, and the madness are portrayed with an apparent love for the original work and by the skilled hand of a professional... Jo Nesbo’s Macbeth is certainly a Nesbo novel... Nesbo’s hardcore fans will love it
Bok 365, Norway
A gripping tale of vaulting ambition and proof that "blood will have blood"
Evening Standard
Nesbo makes excellent use of all the atmosphere of his genre, and the stakes at play are every bit as convincing as those in the original... This is Nesbo doing what he's good at
Lucy Scholes, Independent
Nesbo has let his noirish imagination run riot... more than matches Shakespeare for moment-to-moment thrills
Claire Allfree, Metro
The fun comes from watching a crack storyteller put his noir stamp on one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies... Nesbo manages the balancing act of being true to the original play without slighting his own interests as a writer: bleak settings, loyalty (or the lack thereof) among crooks, clever escapes from tight spots, the affinities between policemen and the criminals they chase
Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post
Macbeth as a SWAT team leader. His wife as a former prostitute. The three witches as drug dealers. It's Shakespeare's darkest tale -- reimagined by the king of Nordic noir
Graeme Thomson, Mail on Sunday
Majestically satisfying...a deliciously oppressive page-turner
Steven Poole, Guardian
Wonderfully atmospheric
Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express
Bursts with a rude imaginative vigour
Andrew Taylor, Spectator
Inventive and deeply satisfying... a dark but ultimately hopeful Macbeth, one suited to our own troubled times
James Shapiro, New York Times Book Review
Has the dark, DC Comics-style setting of the author's Harry Hole books... wonderfully atmospheric
Daily Express
One of the few crime writers today blessed with a bloodlust worthy of the Jacobeans...riveting
Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph
Expect blood-soaked action amid corruption, vendettas, addiction and turmoil in a dark, intricate, roller-coaster read
Choice Magazine
Murder, ambition, domestic tragedy… all three appear, grippingly rendered, in the works of Norwegian crime write Jo Nesbo
Hannah Shaddock, Radio Times
Nesbø follows Shakespeare’s storyline faithfully… it is striking how well suited the plot is to a gritty modern thriller.
Jake Kerridge, Telegraph
Deliciously wicked
Tatler
Nesbø clearly had fun…it feels as if Shakespeare has been bent to Nesbø’s will. Refeshing’
Ben East, Observer