Kurt Wallander · Book 8

Firewall

by Henning Mankell

Published
1 January 1998
Pages
1
ISBN-13
9781433225857
Type
novel

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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.

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…

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