Kurt Wallander · Book 8
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.
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