Firewall
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 1
- ISBN-13
- 9781433225857
- Type
- novel
About this book
Firewall, published in 1998, is the eighth Kurt Wallander novel by Henning Mankell. It continues the series' focus on organised crime and technology-driven threats as a lens on late-20th-century Swedish anxiety.
Key facts about Firewall
Firewall is a novel by Henning Mankell. Readers have had it since 1998. It runs to 1 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Firewall. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781433225857 to find the main one.
Firewall is book 8 of 11 in the Kurt Wallander series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with Faceless Killers (1991).
Additionally, Henning Mankell writes Joel Gustafson and Sofia as separate series. Those series sit on our young adult and nordic noir shelves. Meanwhile, After the Fire is the latest published Henning Mankell book on file, from 2015.
About Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was a Swedish author widely credited as one of the founding figures of the Scandinavian noir crime wave that reshaped international crime fiction from the 1990s onward. See every Henning Mankell book in order.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
Firewall is book 8 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows One Step Behind. It is followed by The Pyramid. See the full Kurt Wallander reading order.
Kurt Wallander is a middle-aged detective in the small Swedish town of Ystad, and Henning Mankell built him, deliberately, as the anti-hero of the genre he helped invent: overweight, diabetic, divorced, depressive, and quietly appalled by the racism and social fracture he sees creeping into a Sweden he no longer fully recognises. Mankell used each investigation -- into organised crime, far-right violence, trafficking, political conspiracy -- as a lens on late-20th-century Swedish anxiety about immigration, the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781433225857