Jo Nesbo - Macbeth

Jo Nesbø's Macbeth is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy, reimagined as a gritty, 1970s-era thriller set in a corrupt, drug-infested industrial town, where a SWAT team leader named Macbeth is manipulated by a drug lord named Hecate and his own ambition to overthrow the idealistic police chief, Duncan, and seize power. Part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project, the novel translates the play's themes of power, guilt, and ambition into a dark, realistic crime story, following the original plot's arc of a hero's downfall through murder and paranoia.