Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However one winters day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reasons for his interest in the case as Hakans son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier at Hakans 75th birthday party Kurt noticed that the old man appeared uneasy & seemed eager to talk about a controversial incident from his past career that remained shrouded in mystery. Could this be connected to his disappearance? When Hakans wife Louise also goes missing Wallander is determined to uncover the truth. His search leads him down dark & unexpected avenues involving espionage betrayal & new information about events during the Cold War that threatens to cause a political scandal on a scale unprecedented in Swedish history. The investigation also forces Kurt to look back over his own past & consider his hopes & regrets as he comes to the unsettling realisation that even those we love the most can remain strangers to us. & then an even darker cloud appears on the horizon... The return of Kurt Wallander for his final case has already caused a sensation around the globe. The Troubled Man" confirms Henning Mankells position as the king of crime writing."