7/2/2023 0 Comments The leopard nesboThis lean, angular man in his 50s has the body of a rock climber (which he is) and the swagger of a rock star (he plays in a band that is big in Norway). The author’s name is pronounced You Nesbow but I’m told he doesn’t mind Joe. We are in a candlelit restaurant close to his home in a suburb of a rain-soaked Oslo. His eyes are hidden behind a pair of Bono-style wraparound sunglasses, despite the gloom. I can’t tell if he means what he’s saying, at first. The Leopard touched on torture porn, that’s what it did. I am rather nervous about putting this to him, but astonishingly, Nesbo agrees. They accuse him of writing torture porn – drawn-out descriptions of horrific acts that take a sick pleasure in the suffering of the victims. But his critics say that Nesbo goes way too far. The Leopard, The Snowman and others have sold 28 million books in 50 countries, and a new copy is purchased every 23 seconds, according to his publisher. ‘Violence is part of what I do, like the electric guitar in a rock band,’ says Nesbo, who commits his murders on the page as the writer of some of the best-selling – and most brutal – crime thrillers in the world. He drowned a man after superglueing him to the bath and gagged a woman with a steel ball that shot deadly spikes down her throat. I could have deleted, it was not necessary for the story,' said Jo Nesbo 'I don’t regret writing The Leopard but in hindsight I see that in some of my scenes I go too far.
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