The Man Who Smiled

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Staying alive becomes a precarious task for Inspector Kurt Wallander as he plays both hunter and hunted in a terrifying game of money and power.
Crestfallen, dejected and spiralling into an alcohol fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Wallander has made up his mind to quit the force for good.
When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks his help to investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding his father's death, Wallander doesn't want to know. But whetil the solicitor also turns up dead, shot three time^ Wallander realises that he was wrong not to lister^ Against his better judgment, he returns to work to head^ what may now have become a double murder cas^ A rookie female detective has joined the force in hiH absence and he adopts the role of her mentor as they fighn to unravel the mystery.
¦ HENNING MANKELL has received international acclaim for his Inspector
¦ WaJlander series, dominating bestseller lists throughout Europe. He devotes much of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Staying alive becomes a precarious task for Inspector Kurt Wallander as he plays both hunter and hunted in a terrifying game of money and power.
Crestfallen, dejected and spiralling into an alcohol fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Wallander has made up his mind to quit the force for good.
When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks his help to investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding his father's death, Wallander doesn't want to know. But whetil the solicitor also turns up dead, shot three time^ Wallander realises that he was wrong not to lister^ Against his better judgment, he returns to work to head^ what may now have become a double murder cas^ A rookie female detective has joined the force in hiH absence and he adopts the role of her mentor as they fighn to unravel the mystery.
¦ HENNING MANKELL has received international acclaim for his Inspector
¦ WaJlander series, dominating bestseller lists throughout Europe. He devotes much of his time to working-wiih charities to help victims of HIV/Aids in Africa, where he is also the head of the
¦ J'eatro Avenida in Maputo.
Praise for the novels of Henning Mankell
"Sweden's lord of criminal misrule" BOYD TONKIN, Independent
"Meticulous police procédurals" . MARILYN STASio, New York Times
"The master of the long dark night" MICHAEL CARLSON, Crime Time

Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thomp Vissza