The Troubled Man Paperback by Henning Mankell

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2012-04-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 496 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780307398840
• Item Weight: 353.81 grams
• Dimensions: 20.29 x 13.23 x 2.57 cm

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The long-awaited return of Kurt Wallander, from the internationally renowned master crime fiction

On a winter's day in 2008, Hakån von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, disappears during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm Police, but for Detective Kurt Wallander, it’s personal: Enke is his beloved daughter Linda's father-in-law.

As Wallander pushes past jurisdictional lines, he uncovers a trail that stretches back decades, into the shadows of Cold War espionage—activities that confound even the master detective and grow more confounding the deeper he goes. The "troubled man" of the title is not just Enke, but also Wallander himself. The delighted grandfather of Linda's newborn daughter, he is nonetheless obsessed with his physical and mental deterioration, negligent of his health and certain that at age sixty, he's on the threshold of senility. Haunted by his past, desperate to live up to the hope that his granddaughter presents him with, facing the future with profound uncertainty, Wallander will be forced to come face to face with his most intractable adversary: himself.

Suspenseful, darkly atmospheric, psychologically gripping, The Troubled Man is Henning Mankell at his mesmerizing best.

About the Author

Internationally acclaimed author HENNING MANKELL has written nine Kurt Wallander mysteries, which have been published in thirty-three countries and consistently top the bestseller lists in Europe, receiving major literary prizes (including the UK's Golden Dagger for Sidetracked). He has also published many other novels for children, teens and adults. In addition, he is one of Sweden's most popular dramatists. Born in 1948, Mankell grew up in the Swedish village Sveg. He now divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as a director at Teatro Avenida. He has spent many years in Africa, where a number of his novels are set.