Name: Kennedy's Brain
SKU: 1917721
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Author: Henning Mankell
ISBN: 9781595581846

Type

Physical Book

Author

Henning Mankell

Translated by

Laurie Thompson

Publisher

New Press

Language

English

Pages

328

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6x16.8x3 cm

Weight

0.66 kg.

ISBN

1595581847

ISBN13

9781595581846

Synopsis "Kennedy's Brain"

Internationally bestselling novelist Henning Mankell delivers a terrifying thriller inspired by the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Henning Mankell, the acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, has put his unmistakable stamp on this gripping new thriller. Archaeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden and makes a devastating discovery: her only child, twenty-eight-year-old Henrik, dead in his bed. The police rule his death a suicide but she knows he was murdered; her quest to find out what really happened to Henrik takes her across the globe to Barcelona, where her son kept a secret apartment; Sydney, Australia, to find Aron, her estranged ex-husband and Henrik's father; and to Maputo, Mozambique, where she learns the awful truth behind an AIDS hospice. Her investigation reveals how much her son concealed from her as she uncovers the links between his death, the African AIDS epidemic, and Western pharmaceutical interests, while those who dare help her are killed off. In the tradition of John le Carre's "The Constant Gardener, Kennedy's Brain" was inspired by Mankell's anger at ongoing inequities that permit a few people to have unprecedented power over the many poor Africans who have none. Already a bestseller in Europe, "Kennedy's Brain" is both a thrilling page-turner and a damning indictment of inhuman greed in the face of the African AIDS crisis.

Henning Mankell

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He is known worldwide for his series of detective novels featuring the famous inspector Kurt Wallander, translated into 42 languages, acclaimed by the public, awarded numerous prizes, and adapted into film and television

Tusquets Editores has published the complete series (comprising Faceless Killers, The Dogs of Riga, The White Lioness, The Man Who Smiled, Sidetracked, The Fifth Woman, One Step Behind, Firewall, Before the Frost -starring Linda Wallander-, The Troubled Man, and The Pyramid) along with 12 other works, including the thriller titled The Chinese

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