The Redbreast
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{{Infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name = The Redbreast
| title_orig = Rødstrupe
| translator = [[Don Bartlett]]
| image = [[Image:TheRedbreast.jpg|200px]]
| image_caption = British first edition cover
| author = [[Jo Nesbø]]
| cover_artist =
| country = [[Norway]]
| language = [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]
| series = [[Harry Hole]], #3
| genre = [[Crime novel]]
| publisher = [[Random House|Harvill Secker]]
| pub_date = 2000
| english_pub_date = September 2006
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]], [[Paperback]])
| pages = 450 pp (Eng. hardback trans.)
| isbn = ISBN 184343217X (Eng. trans.)
| preceded_by = [[The Cockroaches (novel)|The Cockroaches]]
| followed_by = [[Nemesis (Nesbo novel)|Nemesis]]
}}
'''''The Redbreast''''' ({{lang-no|Rødstrupe}}, [[2000 in literature|2000]]) is a [[crime novel]] by [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] writer [[Jo Nesbø]], the third in the [[Harry Hole]] series.
This one begins during former President [[Bill Clinton|Clinton's]] visit to [[Norway]], where Harry reluctantly ends up playing an important role. Ramifications of the mission Harry is tasked with lead to him investigating neo-Nazi activity in Norway, and delving into a crime that has its roots in the battlefields of Eatern Front WWII.
The novel was voted Best Norwegian Crime Novel ever. Upon translation into [[English language|English]], by Don Bartlett, the novel was shortlsited for the [[Crime Writers' Association]] [[Duncan Lawrie International Dagger]].
===External links===
*[http://www.norway.org.uk/culture/literature/redbreast.htm English review]
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[[Category:Crime novels]]
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