The troubled man

Harvill Secker, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his home in S tockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that th e retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallande r is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reaso ns for involving himself in the case as Hakan's son is engaged to his daugh ter Linda. A few months earlier, at Hakan's 75th birthday party, Kurt notic ed that the old man appeared uneasy and seemed eager to talk about a contro versial incident from his past career that remained shrouded in mystery. Co uld this be connected to his disappearance? When Hakan's wife Louise also g oes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the truth. His search leads him down dark and unexpected avenues involving espionage, betrayal and new information about events during the Cold War that threatens to cause a pol itical scandal on a scale unprecedented in Swedish history. The investigati on also forces Kurt to look back over his own past and consider his hopes a nd regrets, as he comes to the unsettling realisation that even those we lo ve the most can remain strangers to us. And then an even darker cloud appea rs on the horizon ..."--Publisher description.