Cops and Robbers
by Kjetil Stensvik Østli
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"This is a non-fiction crime book which focuses on one bank robber and one policeman. It’s the history of bank robbing in Norway which was very big, especially back in the 90s. There was one big famous robbery in Stavanger in 2004 when they robbed the Nokas teller central and made off with over $9 million. It was the largest robbery in Norwegian history. The robbery really felt like a scene from the film Heat , with a big shoot-out and the criminals using automatic weapons and one officer even being killed. After that the cops came down hard on the bank robbers and they more or less wiped out the two big gangs who were doing the robbing. What the book does is show us how the mentality of the robber is actually very similar to the mentality of the police. And that is true for the main character in my book, Harry Hole. He experiences the same. The people he feels he can most relate to are the criminals that he is hunting."
Norwegian Crime Writing · fivebooks.com