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Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse.Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total 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. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police's next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.
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Mystery, Fiction, Kurt Wallander (Fictitious character), Murder, Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, crime, Sweden, fiction, Wallander, kurt (fictitious character), fiction, New York Times reviewed, Mord, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Swedish Authors, Translations into EnglishPlaces
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Firewall (Kurt Wallender Mystery)
April 1, 2004, The Harvill Press
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Firewall (Kurt Wallender Mystery)
April 1, 2004, Harvill Press
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La Muraille invisible
March 19, 2003, Seuil
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Die Brandmauer. Der achte Fall von Kommissar Kurt Wallander.
October 1, 2001, ZSOLNAY-VERLAG
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Die Brandmauer
Publish date unknown, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
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