Name: Firewall

Author: Henning Mankell
Year: 1997
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Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Detective
Culture: Sweden

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ISBNs:
9780099459057
9781400031535
0099459051
1400031532
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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"One Step Behind"
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"The Fifth Woman"
First published in 1996
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"Sidetracked"
First published in 1995
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"The Man Who Smiled"
First published in 1994
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"The White Lioness"
First published in 1993
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"The Dogs of Riga"
First published in 1992
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"Faceless Killers"
First published in 1991
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