Macbeth

By Jo Nesbø

Subjects: Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Scotland, fiction, FICTION / Literary, New York Times bestseller, FICTION / Psychological, Drug abuse and crime, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Crime, fiction, Ex-drug addicts, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Nineteen seventies, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Narcotics, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2018-04-29, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Adaptations, Drug traffic

Description: Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, the chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople, but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom, a master of manipulation named Hecate, has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.