This is the first novel by Mankell who have ever read. I took great pleasure to follow the inner turmoil of his recurring hero Kurt Walender struggling with collateral events of a plot that threatens the fate of an entire people to thousands of kilometers of Sweden, and to which our hero remain forever ignorant. I liked the police frame of this novel. The Swedish part is similar to a traditional police investigation, made of deductions and a very deep psychological analysis of the characters that made me think of novels Indridasson. It opposes a convincing description of the chaos caused by apartheid, this negation of all black people up as a model organized and structured beyond the same consciousness, like a huge powder magazine built on lies and some of fanaticism few. Paradoxically, it is the connection of these two worlds that weakens the balance of this novel. The plot, designed by South African fanatics, fishing find credibility in its Swedish consequences and all stands in the price of some improbabilities that made me smile, but never deprive me of the pleasure of discovering an author of a high quality of writing that gives an important part in the psychology of the characters he sustains his pen.