Description

From internationally bestselling writer Henning Mankell comes a gripping thriller and a representation of each parent's worst nightmare.When Louise Cantor discovers her twenty eight year-old boy dead in his condo, everything suggests it had been a suicide. Louise, however, will not acknowledge this, and with only several accusations and a mom's instinct, she and her ex husband attempted to discover what occurred. What they uncover is just a dark underworld of individuals applying the victims of the AIDS crisis: damaged entrepreneurs working contaminated body, dubious scientists undertaking harmful assessments, and lecherous drug sellers offering black-market medication. Their investigation takes them across three locations, and brings them into some great banking institutions and highest corridors of power, where instantly their very own lives are in risk.