TROUBLED MAN, THE by Henning Mankell - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
See all titles by Henning Mankell.The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell’s brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander.
On
a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval
officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The
investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the
Stockholm police. It has nothing to do with Wallander—officially. But
von Enke is his daughter’s future father-in-law. And so, with his
inimitable disregard for normal procedure, Wallander is soon interfering
in matters that are not his responsibility, making promises he won’t
keep, telling lies when it suits him—and getting results.
But the
results hint at elaborate Cold War espionage activities that seem
inextricably confounding, even to Wallander, who, in any case, is
troubled in more personal ways as well. Negligent of his health, he’s
become convinced that, having turned sixty, he is on the threshold of
senility. Desperate to live up to the hope that a new granddaughter
represents, he is continually haunted by his past. And looking toward
the future with profound uncertainty, he will have no choice but to come
face-to-face with his most intractable adversary: himself.