12. The Troubled Man

The diagnosis is as clear as it is shocking: Alzheimer's disease. Kurt Wallander must now come to terms with the fact that his life will soon change radically. Although surprisingly calm, he doesn't find the opportunity to tell his daughter Linda. As he is still pondering the right words, she beats him to it with further worrying news: her father-in-law Hakan von Enke has disappeared without a trace. Instead of trying to come to terms with his own situation, the detective, who has been suspended from duty for a thoughtless act, takes up the search for the missing man and is soon in his element.

Wallander receives an unusual tip from Sten Norlander, an old friend of Hakan's, who reports a mysterious military incident in Swedish territorial waters in the 1980s in which von Enke was involved as a submarine commander. Because there is no other starting point for his disappearance, Wallander follows this trail that goes back a long way. The mysterious American Steven Wilson leads him to a long-kept family secret that even Linda's husband Hans knew nothing about.

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