Line #44 Literature/HarryHole


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5	Harry Hole[[note]]pronounced HOO-leh[[/note]] is the protagonist in a series of crime thrillers by the Norwegian author Jo Nesbø. A detective in the Oslo Police Department, Harry is usually tolerated by his superiors and colleagues despite his [[TheAlcoholic habitual alcoholism]] and [[CowboyCop unorthodox methods]] because he is a brilliant detective. The first two novels in the series are set in respectively Australia and Thailand, while all the subsequent ones largely take place in and around Oslo. The series has been translated into several languages, reaching bestseller status in Britain and Germany, and contains ten novels so far:
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7	* 1997 – ''Flaggermusmannen''; English translation: ''The Bat'' (2012)
8	* 1998 – ''Kakerlakkene''; English translation: ''Cockroaches'' (2013)
9	* 2000 – ''Rødstrupe''; English translation: ''The Redbreast'' (2006)
10	* 2002 – ''Sorgenfri''; English translation: ''Nemesis'' (2008)
11	* 2003 – ''Marekors''; English translation: ''The Devil's Star'' (2005)
12	* 2005 – ''Frelseren''; English translation: ''The Redeemer'' (2009)
13	* 2007 – ''Snømannen''; English translation: ''The Snowman'' (2010)
14	* 2009 – ''Panserhjerte''; English translation: ''The Leopard'' (2011)
15	* 2011 – ''Gjenferd''; English translation: ''Phantom'' (2012)
16	* 2013 - ''Politi''; English translation: ''Police'' (2013)
17	* 2017 - ''Tørst''; English translation: ''The Thirst'' (2017)
18	* 2019 - ''Kniv''; English translation: ''Knife'' (2019)
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20	Don Bartlett did the translations, which did not appear in chronological order. The first novel in the series, ''The Bat'', finally appeared in English in late 2012, while ''Cockroaches'' showed up in late 2013 (making it the last of the first ten novels to be published in English). Additionally, for some reason, ''The Redeemer'' was not released in the United States until long after ''The Snowman'' and ''The Leopard'' were available.
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22	Nesbø's strong anti-authoritarian streak and concern for [[DamselInDistress women in peril]] have earned him comparisons to the [[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy Millenium Trilogy]] by the late Stieg Larsson, although Nesbø's work tends to be less overtly {{Anvilicious}} than Larsson's, though more [[CynicismTropes depressing]]. His plotting has also been highly praised. ''The Redbreast'' was voted the best Norwegian crime novel of all time by a poll of Norwegian readers, and ''The Bat'' won the Glass Key award for Best Nordic Crime Novel.
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24	A [[Film/TheSnowman2017 film adaptation]] of ''The Snowman'' was released on October 13, 2017 in the UK and October 20 in the US.
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27	!!Provides Examples Of:
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29	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Truls Berntsen, to Bellmann's wife Ulla. Although she starts considering him less abhorrent when he risks his life to rescue her from being a hostage, while Mikael sits there and does nothing.
30	* AbusiveParents: Near the end of ''The Devil's Star'', it's revealed that Tom Waaler's father was abusive and regularly beat him at home. It's heavily implied that he had something to do with an accident that led to his father's death.
31	* AffablyEvil: Dubai from ''Phantom'' is quite polite and well-mannered. He's also a ruthless drug lord who has no qualms with murder, rape, and extortion if you get in the way of his business.
32	* TheAlcoholic: Harry has a very severe problem with it. He manages to get it under control multiple times throughout the series, but something traumatic or devastating always happens that often drives him to drink again.
33	* AmicableExes: When Harry and Martine (his one-time love interest from ''Redeemer'') reunite in ''Phantom'', they are on good terms.
34	* AnimalMetaphor: In ''The Redbreast'', Brockhard senior talks to Helena about how his horses don't resent him at all in their captivity and are in fact quite glad to be in it, as part of his belief that "an inferior creature is never happier than when serving and obeying a superior creature", which in the context of the larger conversation about her marrying his son is very suggestive. When he gets into some trouble with the horse, Helena uses it as an example to refute the metaphor, saying that creatures which are not given the proper respect will not do as you say regardless of your "superiority".
35	* AnimalMotifs: The title of ''The Redbreast'' comes from a nickname the killer was given by his fellow soldiers during World War 2. Ivarsson, an unpleasant, racist policeman with an overly high opinion of himself from ''Nemesis'', is compared multiple times by the narration and Harry himself to a crocodile.
36	* AnyoneCanDie: Present throughout the whole series, but espically in ''Knife'', [[spoiler:where the focal plot point is the murder of Rakel Fauke, the love of Harry's life.]]
37	* ArtisticLicenseLaw: A plot point in ''The Redbreast'' involves a character on trial in South Africa and threatened with execution, and at the end [[spoiler:he is sentenced to death]]. The problem is that South Africa had abolished the death penalty well before 2000, when the novel takes place.
38	* AssholeVictim: Bernt Brandhaug from ''The Redbreast'' is an entitled bureaucrat who abuses his position and influence to cheat on his wife and sleep with younger women, and when he takes an interest in Rakel, Harry's love interest, he moves to get him sent to Sweden and blackmails Rakel into sleeping with him by threatening her with the custody case of her son Oleg. [[spoiler: When her father, the killer, discovers this, he murders Brandhaug, in no small part because he reminds him of Brockhard, the doctor who tried to keep him and Helena apart.]]
39	* TheAtoner: Red-herring suspects often turn out to be this. In particular, ''Knife'' has multiple examples. [[spoiler: There's Roar Bohr, whose suspicious activities are all ultimately a result of the fact that he's still avenging his sister's rape and subsequent suicide, which he blames himself for not preventing, and there's Peter Ringdal, whose suspicious activities are all ultimately a result of the fact that he's dedicated his career to making up for the hit-and-run he was involved in many years ago.]]
40	* {{Bathos}}: Despite the books being seemingly straight-laced thrillers, Nesbø frequently writes in subtle nodes of BlackComedy, most notably by having the crimes Harry investigates have silly or even outright absurd elements to them.
41	* BeneathSuspicion: A staple of the books is that the killer is someone you would never expect.
42	** It's especially notable in ''The Snowman'', where [[spoiler: the killer, Matthias, is hiding in plain sight from the very beginning.]]
43	** Even more so in [[spoiler:''The Knife'', when the killer -- Rakel's killer, to boot -- turns out to be good, old, well-liked Bjorn Holm]].
44	* BenevolentBoss: Bjarne Møller and Gunnar Hagen are both fairly tolerant and supportive towards Harry, with Gunnar even volunteering to be TheScapegoat in Harry's place on one occasion (in his first book no less, when they'd only known each other for a short time), before the conclusion of the case eliminates the need for a scapegoat.
45	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Common in most of the books, but one of the bigger examples is [[spoiler: Trond Grette]] from ''Nemesis''. [[spoiler: Initially he is portrayed as a sensitive, loving husband and brother who is completely devastated by the loss of his wife Stine in a bank robbery, and doesn't want to give up the location of his brother Lev to the police, only relenting when he's informed that his brother might have killed her. As it turns out, he killed his own wife and hired a hitman to kill his brother as revenge for the two eloping.]]
46	%% * BlackComedy: Many of the novels contain elements of black comedy.
47	* BrokenAce: Gusto from ''Phantom''. He's handsome, charismatic, and street-smart, but is filled with self-loathing and tries to fill the void in his heart with money, drugs, and extravagance, without success.
48	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Harry is an on-and-off alcoholic who's hard to get along with at the best of times. He also happens to be a brilliant detective.
49	* CartwrightCurse: Being Harry's LoveInterest is risky. Appearing on his - very short - phone contact list also statistically isn't good for your health.
50	* ChekhovsGun: In ''The Redbreast'', Sindre Fauke, a soldier who deserted the Norwegian forces who fought for the Nazis in UsefulNotes/WorldWar2, mentions to Harry multiple times that he's writing a book about the truth of Norway's involvement in the war compared to the whitewashed version that people are told about. [[spoiler: Upon reading the book, it confirms Harry's suspicion that "Sindre Fauke" is in fact Gudbrand Johansen, who killed the real Sindre Fauke to punish him for desertion, and developed a split personality based on his friend Daniel Gudeson due to the trauma of the war and a grenade explosion that sent shrapnel into his forehead.]]
51	** In the beginning of ''The Redeemer'', Bjarne Møller, who's retiring from his position as head of Oslo police and getting transferred to another precinct, gives Harry a watch as a going-away present, and attention is drawn to it multiple times. [[spoiler: It turns out that the watch was the same kind Tom Waaler had, and that it signaled membership in a corrupt government conspiracy which both he and Waaler were unknowingly a part of.]]
52	* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Katrine]] manipulating the police to ensure the case would be investigated in "The Snowman" through methods such as seining a letter supposedly from the killer.
53	* ChickMagnet:
54	** Gusto from ''Phantom'' is described as absurdly handsome, and has women eating out of the palm of his hand wherever he goes.
55	** Harry himself leaves a rather absurdly long string of women infatuated with him thorough the series.
56	* ChildByRape:
57	** One of [[spoiler: The Snowman's]] victims had gotten raped in the past and the paternity test proved that the child was biologically the rapist's, not her husband. [[FromBadToWorse This puts her on the killer's target list, as he assumes that she's an adulteress.]]
58	** All of Sven Finne's children, including [[spoiler:Valentin]].
59	* ChildSoldier: Part of the Redeemer's backstory; he fought the serbs in the Croatian War of Independence.
60	* CorruptCop: There are quite a few. Harry is an aversion, however.
61	* CowboyCop: Harry himself. He frequently finds himself taking extreme measures and disregarding police protocol to solve cases, including requesting illicit surveillance by blackmailing one of its workers.
62	* CrapsackWorld: Very much so, particularly when it comes to Harry's private life, and [[FromBadToWorse it gets worse]] as the series goes on.
63	* DaChief: Bjarne Møller and Gunnar Hagen both have aspects of the more sympathetic side of this trope.
64	* DealWithTheDevil: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. The narration explicitly states that Harry considers Waaler's offer to him in ''The Devil's Star'' as the equivalent of selling his soul.
65	* DefectiveDetective: Harry, of course.
66	* {{Determinator}}: Aside from the obvious example of Harry himself, there's his archenemy [[spoiler: Tom Waaler]]. In ''The Devil's Star'', [[spoiler: Harry escapes from him in an elevator, tearing his arm off with it in the process. Fifteen minutes later, Harry emerges from the basement of the building to find Waaler dead, leaning towards the window of the locked basement door. He descended four floors while bleeding horribly, expiring only when the locked door prevented him from reaching Harry.]]
67	** The eponymous [[ProfessionalKiller Redeemer]] isn't going to let [[spoiler:attack dogs]] or [[spoiler:being drugged and handcuffed]] stop him.
68	* DownerEnding: ''Phantom'' ends with [[spoiler: the reveal that Harry's faith in Oleg was completely misplaced, because he really ''did'' kill Gusto, over both drugs and selling Irene as a sex slave for violin. Harry is then shot by Oleg, with his fate being left ambiguous. He does survive though, as revealed in the following book]].
69	* DrugsAreBad: One of the central themes of ''Phantom'' is how truly devastating and all-consuming drug addiction is, and how it destroys the lives of not only the addicts themselves, but their loved ones as well.
70	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first two books take place in Australia and Thailand respectively, as opposed to Norway where most of the series takes place. It's likely because of this that ''The Snowman'' was the first of the franchise to be adapted to film instead of starting with ''The Bat''.
71	* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Gusto Hanssen and Mikael Bellman are both [[PrettyBoy so good-looking]] that they tend to invoke it. Funnily enough, they have this effect ''on each other''.
72	* FauxAffablyEvil: Tom Waaler. He is normally quite polite to most people, but it's made very clear that it isn't genuine, and only serves to make him creepier because of it.
73	* FriendInThePress: Presented in a darker light, where despite being utterly corrupt [[DirtyCop Mikael Bellmann]] keeps his crimes unknown to the public, [[KarmaHoudini escape punishment]] and steadily rises through the ranks, thanks in a large part due to him having several close contacts in the press (and knowing how to charm journalists in general) ensuring they will always present him [[VillainWithGoodPublicity favourably to the public]].
74	* {{Foreshadowing}}: In ''The Redbreast'', it's mentioned a few times that Waaler, a racist policeman that both Harry and Ellen dislike, is a fan of {{Music/Prince}} and loudly blasts his music in the police car. [[spoiler: This is the hint that signals to the audience that "the Prince", a clandestine arms dealer for the neo-nazis in Norway, is none other than Waaler himself.]]
75	** Early on in ''Nemesis'', Trond Grette talks about how he loved his brother Lev despite his hooligan and criminal behavior, and specifically mentions how he used to write his brother's essays for him. [[spoiler: This means he grew very skilled at imitating his brother's handwriting, and meant he was able to fake a convincing suicide note so that the police would not realize that he was in fact murdered by a hitman.]]
76	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: In ''The Redeemer'', Salvation Army officers Jon and Robert Karlsen have this dynamic, with Jon being the responsible, sensible and principled brother who is set up for promotion at the novel's beginning, and Robert the impulsive, dangerous sibling who is said to have raped teenage girls. [[spoiler: It's subverted when it turns out it's the opposite: Jon Karlsen is a serial rapist, embezzler and murderer, who lied about his brother in order to throw off suspicion. Robert was the principled one trying to put an end to his brother's crimes. Jon's plot to hire the Redeemer and have his brother murdered in order to prevent him from divulging his crimes forms the backbone of the plot.]]
77	* FreudianExcuse: Multiple killers in the novels, such as in ''The Snowman'' and ''The Leopard'', have them, but Nesbø makes it plain that this does not in any way absolve them of responsibility for their actions.
78	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In ''The Redeemer'', it's revealed that [[spoiler: Harry's boss Bjarne Møller]] joined a conspiracy involving various police officers and government officials, which participated in various illegal activities like weapon smuggling. He did this under the belief that it was necessary to take extreme measures to fight organized crime in Oslo. Eventually he realizes that he became an accessory to the self-serving corruption of the group when Waaler is exposed, but it's too late, both in the sense that the damage has already been done in the form of the good men and women he's lost and that he can't back out of it easily without endangering his loved ones. He ends up divorcing his wife over it and gets transferred to another city as punishment. Harry eventually figures this all out and speaks to him, but declines to arrest him because he feels they aren't so different. He disappears and it's revealed in ''The Snowman'' that he committed suicide because he couldn't live with the guilt.
79	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In ''The Redbreast'', Bjarne Møller, Harry's boss, chides him for suspecting his colleague Waaler, despite the fact that Waaler is described as a horrible person with crypto-fascist views and [[spoiler: it's revealed that he's a neo-nazi sympathizer who helps them by using his police connections to smuggle weapons]]. In ''Nemesis'', Harry's newer colleague Beate starts seeing Waaler and initially ignores Harry's warnings not to get involved with him. [[spoiler: She ends up paying the price.]]
80	* ItsAllAboutMe: By his own admission, Gusto never loved anyone and everything that he does is purely for his own self-interest. [[spoiler: His narration hints that deep down he does hold some fondness for Irene but it wasn't enough to beat his craving for violin, which caused him to sell her to Ibsen as a sex slave.]]
81	* KavorkaMan: Harry. He's described as not conventionally handsome, and is pretty difficult to deal with both personally and professionally, but he has numerous love interests and flings throughout the series.
82	* KickedUpstairs: What kicks off the plot in ''The Redbreast.'' Harry commits a mistake during a critical state visit by the US President when he shot a Secret Agent; however the higher-ups do acknowledge that there was a problem with communications between the parties involved so they couldn't just kick him out.
83	* MadeOfIron: Every book has [[OncePerEpisode at least one scene]] where Harry -- usually through a combination of luck, guile, and [[{{Determinator}} sheer bloody-mindedness]] -- survives something that would kill any normal person. Highlights include losing a finger, several attempted shootings, and several attempted drownings.
84	* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Provides the motives for the murders in [[spoiler: The Snowman]] and [[spoiler: Knife]], with, in the later novel [[spoiler: Harry himself being the father of the child of a friends wife due to a drunken one night stand]].
85	* MeaningfulName: Waaler (whose name is derived from "wall") explains that his family were builders who worked on the construction of houses in Norway. He states that he's always enjoyed building things himself, and compares his activities such as weapon smuggling, aiding neo-nazis, dealing with corrupt politicians, killing people to protect these activities to building cathedrals, saying that "no cathedral has ever been built without human bones and blood".
86	* MoralityPet: His protege Ellen. So, [[spoiler: it comes as no surprise that Harry takes it hard after her death. Her murder drives the underlying conflict in the Oslo Sequence and ultimately comes to a head in ''The Devil's Star''.]]
87	** After Ellen's death, Beate Lønn [[ReplacementGoldfish takes on a very similar role]]. [[spoiler: That is, until she's murdered too.]]
88	* MrsRobinson: Isabelle Skoyen is described as a "proactive, risk-taking cougar", and is suggested to be quite promiscuous, canonically sleeping with both Gusto and [[spoiler: Bellman]].
89	* MyGreatestFailure: Harry crashed a police car on a chase while intoxicated and got his partner killed, while he himself survived.
90	* NeverSuicide: ''Nemesis'' [[spoiler: both subverts this and plays it straight: Anna Bethsen really did kill herself in a way she specifically designed to place as much suspicion on Harry and two of her other exes as possible. However, the murdered bank teller's brother-in-law, whom she was planning to run off with, was in fact murdered by a hit man hired by his brother. The inescapable conclusion is that all the crimes were committed as the result of love gone sour]].
91	* NeverTheObviousSuspect: ''Very'' common in the books, where the killer's identity is frequently an impactful twist. [[spoiler: It's subverted in ''Cockroaches'', where the initial obvious suspect, Jens Brekke, is revealed to be behind the murder. It's zig-zagged in ''The Leopard'', where Tony Leike, the initial and most obvious suspect, seems to be exonerated, but is revealed to be the killer after all. However, it's revealed that Sigmund Altman, who appeared to be a RedHerring, was TheManBehindTheMan who manipulated Tony into committing the murders for revenge.]]
92	* NorseByNorsewest: Averted in the novels that are set in Oslo, which is portrayed as full of druggies, neo-Nazis, prostitutes, corrupt policemen and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessmen]], and the occasional SerialKiller.
93	* OffTheWagon: Harry's a recovering alcoholic, but falls off frequently, especially whenever he goes through something traumatic.
94	* ParentalSubstitute: Harry is considered by Oleg to be the only real father figure he's ever had, and calls him "dad" multiple times in the books.
95	* PhotographicMemory: Beate has one for faces.
96	* PrettyBoy: Mikael Bellman and Gusto are described as attractive in an androgynous, model-like way.
97	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tom Waaler is described as having crypto-fascist views, including unflattering opinions of homosexuals, non-whites, and women. Also, the killer in ''The Snowman'' is revealed to be [[spoiler: intensely misogynistic. He regards any unfaithful women as "whores" and thinks they deserve to die, notably not sharing this ire towards the men they have affairs with.]]
98	* ThePornomancer: Arve Støp. He has very little trouble finding female companionship, [[spoiler: so much so that he's fathered several illegitimate children.]]
99	* RapeAndRevenge: Turns out to be a driving force of the plot of ''Phantom'', along with a liberal amount of DrugsAreBad. Results in a major DownerEnding. [[spoiler:Gusto sold his adoptive sister Irene as a SexSlave in exchange for drugs. When Oleg finds out about this, he kills him.]]
100	* RapeAsDrama: Happens multiple times, due in no small part to the CrapsackWorld setting.
101	* SadClown: Bjorn Holm is portrayed as a hipster and music lover who often brings levity to the series, but ''Knife'' reveals him to have some crippling insecurities and resentments, one of which is awareness that his quirks [[PassedOverPromotion have kept him from advancing in the department]].
102	* TheShrink: Stig Aune, who treats Harry.
103	* SplitPersonality: A plot point in ''The Redbreast''. [[spoiler: It turns out Sindre Fauke, who's actually Gudbrand, has a split personality based on his dead friend Daniel, who urges him to commit the murders in the novel.]]
104	* SilverFox: Arve Støp. He's a greying middle aged man but is quite suave and attractive.
105	* StarCrossedLovers: Uriah[[spoiler: aka Gudbrand]] and Helena from ''The Redbreast'' were in love but were kept apart due to the war and the involvement of Brockhard, a jealous doctor from an influential family. [[spoiler: This is subverted when it's revealed that Gudbrand and Helena were in fact able to be together in the end, and had a daughter, Rakel, Harry's LoveInterest]].
106	* StalkerWithACrush: Harry sometimes comess off that way to Rakel, though usually he has the excuse of wanting to protect her. Also, Truls Bernsten to Ulla Bellman. And some of more mentally damaged rapists to their victims in the series, particularly Svein Finne.
107	* TheStoic: A rather large number of the sympathetic characters. Averted by [[TheAlcoholic Hole himself]], though, who is frequently driven to [[DrowningMySorrows drown his sorrows]].
108	* SerialKiller: A recurring trope, as Harry is one the very few people in Norway who has direct experience with serial killers. Played straight in ''The Bat'' and ''The Snowman'', but subverted in [[spoiler: ''The Devil's Star'']] (and, to a lesser extent, [[spoiler: ''The Leopard'']]), where the killer turns out to have a rational motive.
109	* [[spoiler: ThanatosGambit: Harry pulls one]] at the end of ''Gjenferd''. [[spoiler:Subverted, obviously, by there being another novel after it, [[SpoiledByTheFormat implying that he survives]]. Nesbø also revealed in interviews around this time that Harry was not dead, and a careful reading of the passage of the book from the mother rat's perspective reveals that Harry's heart is still beating]].
110	* ShoutOut: The literal translations of ''Flaggermusmannen'' and ''Rødstrupe'' are ''Bat Man'' and ''Robin''. ''Snømannen'' translates to ''Snow Man'' (Mr. Freeze?)
111	* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Beate and Jack's son]] in "The Redeemer".
112	* TalkShowAppearance: In ''The Snowman'', Harry goes on Norway's most popular talk show to try and reassure the public about the Snowman killer. [[spoiler:He finds out that the host had an affair with one of the victims and fathered a child with her, which causes him to be a suspect. It's eventually revealed that the affair was the motive for the murder, but he wasn't the killer.]]
113	* ThatOneCase: Several detectives with unsolved cases are killed in ''Police'', with Erland Vennesla, the first victim, being emphasized as the one most hurt and consumed by that failure.
114	* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: This is how [[spoiler:Waaler]] justifies their actions to Harry in ''The Devil's Star'', saying that Norway has long become far too soft on criminals and that traditional laws are not sufficient, meaning that extreme or illegal actions are necessary to better the country. However, given the way they act in many other situations and the insight the narration gives regarding their thought process, it's far more likely that they just do what they do because they're a sadistic bully who gets off on exerting power over people weaker than them, and all their visionary talk is just to fool Harry into thinking he will be doing some good if he decides to work under them.
115	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Mikael Bellmann. He's a thoroughly corrupt cop, but knows how to play the media and his superiors, and steadily rises through the ranks as the series goes on. [[spoiler:As of ''Knife'', he's managed to become Norway's justice minister.]]
116	** Tom Waaler, another corrupt cop who despite his awful personality manages to get a lot of good press and promotions thanks to his efficiency in police work, to the point he is being eyed for a promotion to chief by the time of ''Devil's Star''. [[spoiler: He is eventually killed during a confrontation with Harry and his crimes are exposed.]]
117	* WillTheyOrWontThey: Harry and Rakel have this dynamic. Rakel decides multiple times to try and distance herself and Oleg from Harry because he attracts danger to himself and others, but she can't seem to resist going back to him again.
118	* WhamEpisode: The status quo is challenged in every book, but so far ''The Knife'' takes the cake: [[spoiler:Rakel Fauke dies and her killer turns out to be one of the long-standing positive characters, Harry's friend and fellow policeman. Also Harry himself is revealed to have sired a biological son, with Katrine Bratt.]]
119	* WhiteMansBurden: Discussed. In ''The Leopard'', [[spoiler: Tony Leike]] genuinely believes in the concept, saying that the Africans were never better off than when being colonized and shown the ways of civilization, and that if left alone they would be left to their "barbaric ways". Either that, or he's using it as a self-serving excuse to profit off the country.
120	* WeCanRuleTogether: In ''The Devil's Star'', Tom Waaler, in an attempt to get Harry off his back, tries to get him to join his operations instead. He knows that Harry is going to be dismissed from the force and is having a bad patch with his love interest, so he flatters him and offers to have the dismissal withdrawn and a much larger salary if he is willing to work for him. [[spoiler: Harry seems to accept at first given the desperate situation he's in, but it turns out to be just a ploy so he can get evidence incriminating Waaler.]]

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