2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1

Copyright © Jo Nesbø 2007

Jo Nesbø has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser

First published with the title Snømannen in 2007

First published in Great Britain in 2010 by

Addresses for companies within The Random House Group Limited can be found at: www.randomhouse.co.uk/offices.htm

The Random House Group Limited Reg. No. 954009

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 9781846553486 (hardback)

This translation has been published with the financial support of NORLA

The Random House Group Limited supports The Forest Stewardship

Typeset in Minion by Palimpsest Book Production Limited,

Printed and bound in Great Britain by