Author: Henning Mankell Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Detective Culture: Sweden
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ISBNs: 9780099459057 9781400031535 0099459051 1400031532 |
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Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police's next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.
This book is part of the "Kurt Wallander" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Troubled Man" First published in 2009 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Pyramid" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "One Step Behind" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Fifth Woman" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Sidetracked" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Man Who Smiled" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The White Lioness" First published in 1993 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Dogs of Riga" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Faceless Killers" First published in 1991 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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