tags: Jo Nesbø, short stories, mystery, The Jealousy Man
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From Amazon
A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin. [adapted into a movie, Killer Heat.] A bereaved father must decide whether vengeance has a place in the new world order after a pandemic brings about the collapse of society.
A garbage man fresh off a bender tries to piece together what happened the night before.
A hired assassin matches wits against his greatest adversary in a dangerous game for survival.
An instantly electric connection between passengers on a flight to London may spell romance, or something more sinister.
From Goodreads
Five stories set in the near future.
Welcome to Rat Island and a post-pandemic America, where the upper-class elite is waiting atop a skyscraper to be evacuated while the masses fight for survival down in the streets.
In Shredder, a scientist researching eternal life has finally found a memory shredder that will help him forget everything, before it’s too late.
Cicadas tells the story of two best friends on their way to the bull races in Pamplona when they fall in love with the same girl.
The Antidote follows an estranged son with an agenda as he goes to visit his father at a snake farm in Africa.
Lastly, in the epic and vicious Black Knight, we meet a psychologist who also happens to be an assassin contracted by big business.
All the stories have a common theme: jealousy. Some are very good but some are mediocre at best. The movie adaptation of The Jealousy Man has just 2 similarities to the story - the murder and the location. Everything else is skewed. The role played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a 60 years old Greek, still active police detective. He is not a lousy poser that the producer made him in the movie. Movie adaptations from books are always annoying.
