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The troubled man

Author: Henning Mankell
Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st North American edView all editions and formats
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When Kurt Wallander is called into the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer, coincidentally his daughter's future father-in-law, he becomes embroiled in a story of Cold War espionage.
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Genre/Form: Suspense fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Henning Mankell
ISBN: 0307593495 9780307593498 0307398838 9780307398833
OCLC Number: 688559491
Notes: Originally published as: Den orolige mannen, by Leopard Förlag, Stockholm, 2009.
Description: 367 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Invasion of the swamps --
pt. 2. Incidents under the surface --
pt. 3. The sleeping beauty's slumber --
pt. 4. The phantom.
Other Titles: Orolige mannen.
Responsibility: Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.
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When Kurt Wallander is called into the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer, coincidentally his daughter's future father-in-law, he becomes embroiled in a story of Cold War espionage.

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Unnecessarily sad farewell to Wallander

by dbrookin (WorldCat user published 2012-01-13) Good Permalink
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I read the book a year or so ago in Swedish. It has a complex plot revolving around Cold War politics. Mankell is frustrated with what he sees as Sweden's "hypocritical" neutrality during the Cold War years. That...
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