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- PRAISE FOR THOMAS ENGER
- Inborn
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‘Amazing. Gripping. Thrilling. Cleverly written. Blew me away. That prologue will have you hooked. The whole story had me hooked. Fast-paced, easy to read. You literally won’t want to put this book down’ Gemma’s Book Reviews
‘In Enger’s searing fifth and final novel featuring Oslo investigative reporter Henning Juul, Henning … obsessively pursues the criminals responsible for his son’s death. Meanwhile, malignant figures relentlessly stalk him … Enger seamlessly integrates … individual stories into a larger tale of dirty business and politics. As Henning approaches the end of his painful journey, he longs for the certainty that he has touched someone’s life. His excruciating ordeal will touch the heart of every reader’ Publishers Weekly
Inborn
Thomas Enger
Contents
- TITLE PAGE
- PUBLISHER’S NOTE:
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
- COPYRIGHT
Publisher’s note:
Inborn is based on Thomas Enger’s YA thriller, Killerinstinkt, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson. The new book contains a complete update and rewrite by the author in English.
PROLOGUE
THE NIGHT OF
Before he made the mistake of opening the door, Johannes Eklund was thinking about the show. He thought about the cheers and the admiring looks the girls had given him, the beers he was going to drink once he caught up with everyone at the opening-night party. The sex, God willing, he was going to get.
In those minutes that passed before he stepped through the doorway and stared in disbelief at what he saw in front of him, Johannes’ mind had been filled with dreams. High on the praise that the night’s performance had received, his eyes had been firmly fixed on the future, on private jets and sold-out concerts, on a way of life he had yearned for every single day since his father introduced him to Stone Temple Pilots and the glamour of rock ‘n’ roll some four years ago.
Right before his throat made that anxious little noise, Johannes wasn’t giving the slightest thought to the fact that he had school tomorrow, nor that he was due to hand in an essay on social economics later this week. School was no longer going to be important to him. Tonight’s show had only made that even more evident.
But then his presence was noticed, and he stood there watching for a few seconds, trying to comprehend what was going on in front of him. Then the stench of urine, sweat and metal rose to his nostrils and made him forget all about the distant future and the very recent past. He couldn’t even process what he was seeing. All he could think was that he wasn’t supposed to be there. That he had to get out.