The Man from Beijing
by Mankell, Henning
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0099532042
- ISBN 13
- 9780099532040
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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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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D97643
- Title
- The Man from Beijing
- Author
- Mankell, Henning
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0099532042
- ISBN 13
- 9780099532040
- Publisher
- Vintage Books USA
- Place of Publication
- London.
- This edition first published
- 2011
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