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Featuring Kurt Wallander of Ystad, Sweden,
A small town outside of Malmö in the southern province of Skåne.
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Firewall
Originally published in Swedish as Brandvägg
in 1998 and later translated into German as Die Brandmauer.
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Synopsis
In Firewall, Wallander is faced with the challenge of tracking criminals
whose crimes are committed in the digital world of computers and the Internet
- a world in which Wallander feels out of place.
From Random House:
A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open and shut cases. At first these two incidents seem to have nothing in common, but as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the girls murdered the cab driver he begins to unravel a plot much more involved complicated than he initially suspected. The two cases become one and lead to conspiracy that stretches to encompass a world larger than the borders of Sweden.From the New Press:
A man stops at an ATM & suddenly falls dead to the ground. A blackout cuts power to a large swath of southern Sweden. When a service man arrives at the malfunctioning power substation, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander begins to sense a connection between all of these events.
- Crime by Marilyn Stasio for The New York Times, 2002-Nov-17
- Intuition trumps cold logic: We'll take Mankell's dour Swede anytime by Jack Batten for the Toronto Star, 2003-Nov-30
- Best Crime Fiction of 2002 by Tom Nolan for January Magazine (scroll down a bit for the Firewall review)
- Swedish exercises in crime by Antonia Fraser for The Spectator, 2004-Apr-03
- Firewall Review by Ian Thomson for The Times, 2004-Apr-18
- Cyber-terrorism in small-town Sweden by James Urquhart for The Independent, 2004-Apr-29
- A spasm of violence by Stephen Robinson for The Telegraph, 2004-Apr-06
- Behind the Book: Give the Man a Break
- Random House page for Firewall
- The New Press page for Firewall
- IMDB page for "Brandvägg"
| Language | Title | Publication Date | Translator |
|---|---|---|---|
Swedish |
Brandvägg | 1998 | N/A |
English |
Firewall | 2002 | Ebba Segerberg |
German |
Die Brandmauer | 2001 | Wolfgang Butt |
Dutch |
De blinde muur | 2004 | Janny Middelbeek-Oortgiesen |
French |
La muraille invisible | 2002 | Anna Gibson |
Italian |
Muro di Fuoco | 2005 | Giorgio Puleo |
Spanish |
Cortafuegos | 2004 | Carmen Montes Cano |
|
Catalan |
El tallafoc | 2004 | Carolina Moreno |
|
Basque |
?? | ||
Norwegian |
Brannvegg | 2000 | Kari Bolstad |
Finnish |
Palomuuri | ||
Danish |
Brandvæg | ||
Icelandic |
?? | ||
Portuguese |
?? | ||
Greek |
?? | ||
Polish |
?? | ||
Slovenian |
Požarni zid | 2005 | Uroš Kalèiè |
Turkish |
?? | ||
Japanese |
?? | ||
Korean |
방화벽 | 권혁준 | |
Vietnamese |
Tường lửa | 2007 | Cao Việt Dũng |
Film Information
Filming started for "Brandvägg" in November 2005.
It debuted on Swedish television in 2006 and is now available on DVD.
| Product List | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Books | |||
| Image | Title | Notes | Vendor |
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Brandvägg
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Publisher: Ordfront Format: Paperback Pages: 455 ISBN: 9170371059 Released: 2005-Jan Status: In Print Markets: |
Ordfront.se |
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Firewall | Publisher: Harvill Press Format: Paperback Pages: 416 ISBN: 1843431734 Released: 2004-Apr-01 Status: Available Markets: |
Amazon.co.uk |
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Firewall | Publisher: The Harvill Press Format: Hardcover Pages: 436 ISBN: 1843431122 Released: 2004-Apr-01 Status: Available Markets: |
Amazon.co.uk |
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Firewall | Publisher: Vintage Format: Paperback Pages: 416 ISBN: 1400031532 Released: 2003-10-04 Status: Available Markets: 
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Amazon.com Amazon.ca |
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Firewall | Publisher: Harvill Press Format: Paperback Pages: 432 ISBN: 0099459051 Released: 2003-10-04 Status: Available Markets: 
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Amazon.co.uk |
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Firewall | Publisher: Vintage Format: Paperback Pages: 416 ISBN: 0099468573 Released: Status: Unknown Markets: |
Amazon.co.uk |
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Firewall: A Kurt Wallander Mystery | Publisher: New Press Format: Hardcover Pages: 416 ISBN: 1565847679 Released: 2002-11 Status: Out of Print Markets:
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Amazon.com |
) |
Die Brandmauer
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Publisher: Dtv Format: Pages: ISBN: 3423206616 Released: Status: Markets: |
Amazon.de |
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Die Brandmauer
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Publisher: Zsolnay Format: Pages: ISBN: 3552051686 Released: Status: Markets: |
Amazon.de |
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La muraille invisible
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Publisher: Seuil Format: Pages: ISBN: 2020381184 Released: Status: Markets:
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Amazon.fr Amazon.ca |
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La muraille invisible
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Publisher: Seuil Format: Pages: ISBN: 2020581167 Released: Status: Markets:
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Amazon.fr Amazon.ca |
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Cortafuegos
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Publisher: Tusquets Editores,
S.A. Format: Paperback Pages: 544 ISBN: 8483102862 Released: 2004-11 Status: In Print Markets:
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Tusquets-Editores.es |
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El tallafoc (Catalan) | Publisher: Tusquets Editores,
S.A. Format: Paperback Pages: 496 ISBN: 8483109832 Released: 2004-11 Status: In Print Markets: |
Tusquets-Editores.es |
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Muro di fuoco
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Publisher: Ed. Marsilio Format: Paperback Pages: 517 ISBN: 8831772139 Released: 2005-05 Status: In Print Markets: |
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| Audio Books | |||
| Image | Title | Notes | Vendor |
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Firewall | Publisher: ISIS Audio Books Format: CD Length: Unabridged, 15 CDs, 13 hrs 50 mins ISBN: 0753123444 Released: Status: In Print Narrator: Sean Barrett |
ISIS Publishing |
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Firewall | Publisher: ISIS Audio Books Format: Cassette Tapes Length: Unabridged, 14 tapes, 13 hrs 50 mins ISBN: 0753120356 Released: Status: In Print Narrator: Sean Barrett |
ISIS Publishing |
| DVD & Video | |||
| Image | Title | Notes | Vendor |
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Brandvägg
 |
Publisher: Buena Vista Format: DVD, Region 2, PAL, Color Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Language: Swedish with Swedish subtitles Rating: 15 Released: 2006-Oct-4 Status: In Print |
DVD.se DiscShop.se |
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Die Brandmauer
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Publisher: Touchstone Format: DVD, Region 2, PAL, Color Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Language: German and Swedish with Finnish, Danish and Norwegian subtitles Rating: 12 Released: 2007-Apr-5 Status: In Print |
Amazon.de |