Mr Nesbo was a footballer, stockbroker and rock musician before creating his hard-bitten detective, Harry Hole.
For five days, Barnes talked while Lee, older, hard-bitten, nodded and let the boy play out his theories.
Private companies, especially in hard-bitten states like Texas, care mostly about their shareholders and about the bottom line.
In real life, Apple is doing much the same thing, driving technology enthusiasts and hard-bitten reporters alike mad with anticipation.
But, above all, the town's laid-back style is less appealing to hard-bitten entrepreneurs than the relentless pace of northern California.
The reaction to Jocky Scott's appointment as Dundee manager has taken hard-bitten journalists, as well as the man himself, by surprise.
Don't be surprised to see hard-bitten corporate executives and military officers with tears in their eyes as they watch their children's presentations.
The card games, bingo and sports hosted safely outside America attract not just hard-bitten punters but also occasional gamblers out for some fun.
On the contrary, the line was that even the most hard-bitten militarist elements had accepted that republican credibility would not survive a second broken ceasefire.
And the skills of a good manager sound judgment and deft handling of his charges command little respect among hard-bitten traders who wield huge power in banks.
But the reaction of the usually hard-bitten motoring press suggests otherwise.
Its periodic sermonettes about addiction, the drug war, teen pregnancy and welfare dependency are crafted with such a hard-bitten, street-level sensibility and without any preconceptions or ideology that they exude immediate credibility.
Porco Rosso, a hard-bitten veteran, insists that all the good fliers died in the Great War and suspects that God transformed him into a pig-man to punish him for surviving it.
Fortunately, I have created a system that will allow these logical, rational, linear thinkers to turn any message point into a sound bite that is irresistible to even the most hard-bitten journalist.
When Mr Desmond became the owner of Express Newspapers, many hard-bitten journalists were sufficiently horrified to jump ship at the first opportunity, some even leaving before they had other jobs to go to.
On the first floor, Strand's uncompromisingly austere photography (from Spanish, North American and Mexican collections) offers a hard-bitten "collective portrait" of small-town Mexican life told through photos of individuals, landscapes, studies of architecture and religious iconology.
Back in the 16th Century, the point where the St Lawrence River tightens became a base for a rogue collection of hard-bitten survivalists, who spent months venturing deep into the heart of Innu territory to the trading posts at Lac St-Jean.
Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi), a hard-bitten and sardonic Mossad agent whose job normally entails such things as assassinating Palestinian terrorists, gets assigned to two young Germans visiting Israel Axel (Knut Berger) and Pia (Caroline Peters), a brother and sister whose flower-child tolerance infuriates Eyal.
But recession and deflation have bitten hard: private-sector wages have fallen some 20% in the past three years, and overt unemployment now stands at about 17%.
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