Meet Harry Hole
| Born: | 1963 |
| Home: | Oslo, Norway |
| Height: | 6' 2" (192cm) |
| Weight: | 15 stone (95 kilos) |
| Description: | Close-shaven blond hair, blue eyes, pale complexion |
| Build: | Athletic |
| Education: | Law degree followed by training at Oslo Police College |
| Rank: | Inspector in Crime Squad, Oslo Police Force |
| Career: | Good but troubled cop who operates on his own personal code and often goes again superiors' instructions. He's faced the chop many times, but he gets results - and the truth is he's the best on the squad. Something of a celebrity after a career case that saw him track down a serial killer in Australia, he's often invited on TV shows to talk about his high-profile police work. He usually declines. In 1999 he was promoted to Inspector and seconded to the Norwegian security service for a major case. |
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Foiled a former World War II soldier bent on destruction, caught a deadly bank robber, busted a gun-smuggling ring that reached right up to Oslo's most powerful circles, tracked a desperate hit man at large in Oslo. |
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| Marital status: | Single, but his heart belongs to Rakel Faulke, with whom he has a very complex relationship. He's a strong, if flawed, father figure to Rakel's son Oleg. |
| Family: | Father, Olav, still lives in their childhood home just outside Oslo Mother, died when Harry and Sis were young Sister, Sis, four years Harry's junior, has Down's Syndrome. |
| Friends: | Harry trusts few people but among them are Rakel and Oleg, Beate Lonn (head of Forensics), Stale Aune (the police psychologist), Ali (who runs his local corner shop) and a handful of his colleagues. Tragedy has taken some of his best friends from him. He keeps neither his friends nor his enemies particularly close. |
| Foes: | Crooked policemen and others abusing their power |
| Likes: | Music |
| Dislikes: | Most authority figures |
| Virtues: | Compassion and a sense of fair play |
| Vice: | Alcohol |
