Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage 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 loose 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 and Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them.

Kurt Wallander is right up there with Ian Rankin's John Rebus Waterstone's Books Quarterly Henning Mankell is in the first division of crime writing The Times Mankell could turn you to crime Daily Telegraph A master of atmosphere and suspense EUGENE WEBER, Los Angeles Times

Internationally acclaimed author HENNING MANKELL has written the eight novels in the Kurt Wallander Mystery series. The books have been published in 33 countries and consistently top the bestseller lists. Born in the Swedish village of Sveg in 1948 Mankell now divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he is director at Teatro Avenida.