Series: Book 10 in the Kurt Wallander series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Henning Mankell, Lang:en
Summary
Every morning H kan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near
his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails
to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has
vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not
officially involved in the investigation but he has personal
reasons for his interest in the case as H kan's son is engaged
to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier, at H kan's 75th
birthday party, Kurt noticed that the old man appeared uneasy
and seemed eager to talk about a controversial incident from
his past career that remained shrouded in mystery. Could this
be connected to his disappearance? When H kan's wife Louise
also goes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the
truth. His search leads him down dark and unexpected avenues
involving espionage, betrayal and new information about events
during the Cold War that threatens to cause a political scandal
on a scale unprecedented in Swedish history. The investigation
also forces Kurt to look back over his own past and consider
his hopes and regrets, as he comes to the unsettling
realisation that even those we love the most can remain
strangers to us. And then an even darker cloud appears on the
horizon...The return of Kurt Wallander, for his final case, has
already caused a sensation around the globe. The Troubled Man
confirms Henning Mankell's position as the king of crime
writing.