firewall (First US Printing - Signed)

Mankell, Henning

ISBN 10: 1565847679 / ISBN 13: 9781565847675

Published by The New Press, New York, NY, 2002

About this Item

A fine U.S. first edition and first printing copy, signed by the author on the title page, In very collectible condition. Originally published in 1998 and translated from Swedish by Egga Segerberg in 2002. The sixth Kurt Wallander mystery novel. Signing event provenance laid in.

Seller Inventory # 002304

Bibliographic Details

• Title: firewall (First US Printing - Signed)
• Publisher: The New Press, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565847679
• ISBN 13: 9781565847675
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

An international bestseller: Murder becomes a high tech game of cat and mouse in this "thinking man's thriller" from the master of Nordic noir (The New York Times Book Review).

Ystad, Sweden. A man stops at an ATM during his evening walk and inexplicably falls to the ground dead. Two teenage girls brutally murder a taxi driver. They are quickly apprehended, shocking local policemen with their complete lack of remorse. A few days later a blackout cuts power to a large swath of the country. When a serviceman arrives at the malfunctioning power substation, he makes a grisly discovery.

Inspector Kurt Wallander senses these events must be linked, but he has to figure out how and why. The search for answers eventually leads him dangerously close to a group of anarchic terrorists who hide in the shadows of cyberspace. Somehow, these criminals always seem to know the police department's next move. How can a small group of detectives unravel a plot designed to wreak havoc on a worldwide scale? And will they solve the riddle before it's too late?

A riveting police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitized world, Firewall "proves once again that spending time with a glum police inspector in chilly Sweden can be quite thrilling . . . A notable success" (Publishers Weekly).

About the Author

Internationally acclaimed author Henning Mankell has written nine Kurt Wallander mysteries. The books have consistently topped the bestseller lists in Europe, receiving major literary prizes and generating numerous international film and television adaptations. Born in a village in northern Sweden in 1948, Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as a director at Teatro Avenida. Translator Ebba Segerberg teaches Swedish at Washington University in St. Louis.