A disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is pulled out of a period of isolation when an old acquaintance, a solicitor, asks for help investigating his father’s suspicious death. After the solicitor also turns up dead, Wallander returns to work to lead a double murder investigation involving a powerful business tycoon.
Set in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the story follows Innis Corbett, a young man who has been deported from the United States back to his birthplace. He is forced to live with his bachelor uncle in a remote area, where he struggles with isolation, family secrets, and his own restless nature.
Lieutenant Colonel Peter Newman is forced to choose between rescuing his kidnapped wife or continuing with his mission to find Iraqi nuclear weapons, as tensions between Israel and Iraq escalate.
MacDonald is the author of more than sixty books, including the bestselling Condominium and eighteen other novels in the Travis McGee series. His eighteenth, The Green Ripper, won the American Book Award for Best Mystery of 1979.
The story focuses on Bosun Archie McKinnon, who must take charge after the captain is incapacitated, trying to navigate to safety while a traitor acts against the vessel.
The story is a reimagining of classic 1950s monster movies. It follows the U.S. government's testing of high-level radiation on remote South Pacific islands. These tests result in various mutations, most notably a forty-foot creature named K. The novel is described as an extraordinary tale of a flawed and conflicted mid-century America as it stands on the edge of the culturally transformative 1960s.Â
