{"product_id":"2940169381665","title":"The Man from Beijing: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanuary 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor-a gang master on the American transcontinental railway-that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjövallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States-a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjövallen murders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101919396080,"sku":"2940169381665","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169381665_p0.jpg?v=1763781282","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169381665","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}