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Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A girl held in police custody escapes and disappears without a trace. An unexpected blackout leaves half the country in darkness and 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. As he searches for answers he gets dangerously involved with a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. The terrorists, always seem to be one step ahead of the police's next move and only Wallander can be counted on to outsmart them.
Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. As he searches for answers he gets dangerously involved with a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. The terrorists, always seem to be one step ahead of the police's next move and only Wallander can be counted on to outsmart them.
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Not too long ago, Henning Mankell was a well-kept secret, but his latest book, Firewall, will be received by readers worldwide with much fanfare, which is as it should be; Mankell is something special. Some of the initial resistance to Mankell's work might be understandable; like one of the greatest of all filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman, Mankell is from a country noted for Nordic gloom and the lazy-minded are not always prepared to go beyond stereotypes. Their loss: like his cinematic compatriot (Mankell is in fact married to Bergman's daughter), this is an artist of rare achievement.
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Firewall continues Mankell's unvarnished portraits of modern life, in which society and all its institutions (not least the family) are on the edge. Here, his long-term protagonist, Inspector Kurt Wallander, moves into new area of crime: cyberspace. Various deaths have occurred: the user of a cash machine, a taxi driver killed by two young girls. The country is plunged into blackout by an electricity failure, and a grim find is made at a power station. What's the connection? Wallander finds himself on the trail of cyber terrorists with shady anarchic aims. But can his own malfunctioning team of coppers pull together to help catch them--or is there a fifth columnist in the police? Plotting here is impeccable, although Firewall may not be a prime entry point for those new to Mankell. But Wallander (here worried about his diabetes and failure to lose weight) is one of the great literary coppers: enthusiasts need not hesitate. --Barry Forshaw
"The most impressive new voice in the genre since Ian Rankin" (Mark Lawson Guardian)
"Mankell could turn you to crime" (Daily Telegraph)
"Creepy detail that one shudders to believe is accurate" (DONNA LEON Sunday Times)
"Wonderfully bleak thrillers...somehow unremitting and gripping at the same time" (Independent)
"First class police procedural, written with a firm hand" (Independent on Sunday)
"Mankell could turn you to crime" (Daily Telegraph)
"Creepy detail that one shudders to believe is accurate" (DONNA LEON Sunday Times)
"Wonderfully bleak thrillers...somehow unremitting and gripping at the same time" (Independent)
"First class police procedural, written with a firm hand" (Independent on Sunday)
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 009953505X
- ISBN 13 9780099535058
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- Number of pages544
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