Vintage Books USA, February 2011. Trade Paperback . Good. no. A good reading copy. Can show some wear, creases, or few if any markings consistent with a normal used book.

Synopsis

The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.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, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andren family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andren ancestor--a gang master on the American transcontinental railway--that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjovallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth.The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States--a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjovallen murders.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Copperfield's Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 99551
Title: The Man from Beijing
Author: Henning Mankell
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0099532042
ISBN 13: 9780099532040
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Place of Publication: London.
Date Published: February 2011
Pages: 560
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction -- Mystery / Crime / Legal;

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