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The Man from Beijing [Signed by Mankell!]
by Mankell, Henning; Translated by Laurie Thompson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1846552575
- ISBN 13
- 9781846552571
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Harvill Secker, 2010. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed by Mankell! Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 361pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, hint of lean to spine, text clean and unmarked. DJ fine in protective mylar wrap.
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
- Common Crow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B47956
- Title
- The Man from Beijing [Signed by Mankell!]
- Author
- Mankell, Henning; Translated by Laurie Thompson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK edition
- ISBN 10
- 1846552575
- ISBN 13
- 9781846552571
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- Literature, Crime
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