Firewall
Kurt Wallander
Henning Mankell author Ebba Segerberg translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:6th Dec '12
Should be back in stock very soon
In this tense and gripping installment in the Kurt Wallander series, the criminals always seem to know the police's next move
Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man falls to the ground: dead.
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.
Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls who demonstrate a complete 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.
And somehow these criminals seem always to know the police's next move.
Firewall is the eighth of his investigations, and the most enjoyable yet * Guardian *
Another gripping Inspector Wallander mystery by Sweden's master crime writer * The Times *
Enormously enjoyable -- Jessica Mann * Sunday Telegraph *
Firewall cracks along at a punishing pace... I am already hankering for a return to Ystad and a few more sleepless nights traipsing after Kurt * Observer *
Kurt Wallander is right up there with Ian Rankin's John Rebus * Waterstone's Books Quarterly *
ISBN: 9780099571766
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 33mm
Weight: 374g
544 pages