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About the Book

The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries now gives us an electrifying stand-alone thriller that takes off into a sweeping international drama. January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: her grandparents, the Andrens, are among the victims. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the murders. But when Birgitta discovers the diary of another Andren--a gang master on the American transcontinental railway in the nineteenth century--that describes the cruel treatment of Chinese slave-workers, she is determined to uncover what she suspects is a more complicated truth. The investigation leads to modern-day Beijing and its highest echelons of power, to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years, into a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjovallen murders. This is Henning Mankell at the height of his powers.

About the Author :
Henning Mankellis the prizewinning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, which were adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. His novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold thirty million copies worldwide. He is the first winner of the Ripper Award (the new European Crime Fiction Star Award) and has also received the Glass Key and Golden Dagger awards. He divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.

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"This is hands down the best thriller I've read in five years. Grade: A . . . Complex and enormously satisfying." --"Entertainment Weekly " "The book cements Mankell's reputation as Sweden's greatest living mystery writer . . . Roslin is a sort of Nordic Miss Marple." --"Los Angeles Times " "Mankell succeeds in transfixing the reader with a masterly balance of character sketches and pell-mell storytelling. He is entirely convincing in his depiction of ordinary people becoming enmeshed in geopolitical intrigue." --"Wall Street Journal " "Mankell's new book is an original but still chock-a-block with gory crime combined with hints of the late Stieg Larsson's social concern and John le Carre's international intrigue." --"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" "A must-read for anyone interested in the international crime novel." --"Booklist " "Over the past decade or so, Henning Mankell has built a large audience that, even now, in the (mostly) snowless U.S., can't wait to find copies of his new snowbound work of mystery. "The Man from Beijing "more than repays such patience. It's a terrific police procedural . . . Despite the broad reach of the plot, the book never puts the reader in danger of losing interest." --Alan Cheuse, "Dallas Morning News" " " ""The Man from Beijing, "though not a Wallander novel, is the equal to any in that series. It's the work of a writer with the imagination, brains, resources, and joinerly craft needed to make thoughtful, challenging, exciting, artistic novels . . . Remarkable." --"Philadelphia Inquirer" "Scandinavian crime writing has seldom shouldered the burdens of world history with such upfront ambition." --"Independent "(UK) "Breathtakingly bold in its scope." --"Kirkus Reviews" "Gripping . . . It is the disruption, the threat and the delicious chill of fear, all safely contained, that is the pleasure of this book." --"Observer "(UK) "With this ov


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780307271860
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Random House Inc
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 365
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 167 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0307271862
  • Publisher Date: 16 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 744 gr


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