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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
I can't have him at my place, that would never work. We'd murder each other.
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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
The dread of something menacing that you felt when you were a child returns when you get old.
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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
Somewhere in the dark a vast meaninglessness was beckoning to him. A grinning face that laughed scornfully at all his vain attempts to manage his life.
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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
The wife of the dead man had thrown herself down in the mud, and her wails were so piercing that several of the policemen couldn't tolerate the sound and had moved away. To his surprise, Wallander saw that the only one who was able to handle the grieving woman and the anguished children was Martinsson. The youngest policeman on the force, who so far in his career had never even been forced to notify someone of a relative's death. He had held the woman, kneeling in the mud, and in some way the two were able to understand each other across the language barrier.
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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
Martinsson had sifted through the tip-offs. Everything that the police learnt was fed into a computer. Then he did a rough sort. The most ridiculous ones never got beyond the print-outs."Hulda Yngveson phoned from Vallby and said that is was the disapproving hand of God that dealt the blow," said Martinsson."She always calls," sighed Rydberg. "If a calf runs off, it's because God is displeased.""I put her on the C.F. list," said Martinsson.The sullen atmosphere was broken by a little amusement when Martinsson explained that C.F. stood for "crazy fools".
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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
Martinsson fired. Wallander watched Lucia fly back and put his hand up to his shoulder. The gun fell from his hand and landed outside the counter. With a bellow Martinsson yanked himself free of the guy ropes and launched himself at the counter, straight at the wounded man. The counter collapsed, and Martinsson landed in a jumble of leather jackets.Wallander lunged forwards and grabbed the gun from mud. He saw Skinhead dash past him into crowd. No-one seemed to have noticed the shots. The traders in the surrounding stalls had watched in amazement as Martinsson made his ferocious tiger pounce."Get after him," Martinsson shouted from the heap of leather jackets. "I'll take care of this bastard.
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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
He could feel his stomach churning. I'm repressing things, he thought. Along with everything else I don't have time for. I'm searching for the slayers of the dead and can't even manage to pay attention to the living. For a dizzying instant his entire consciousness was filled with only one urge. To take off. Flee. Disappear. Start a new life.
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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day's work had hardly involved more than collecting a large number of question marks.
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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
There's no such thing as a murderer's face," he said. "You imagine something: a profile, a hairline, a set of the jaw. But it never matches up.
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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
Where do our habits come from? he thought. What secret factory produces our habits, both good and bad? Ellen Magnusson
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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
Even so. The papers will be screaming about the fact that the murderer was a cop. There will be new persecution of the force.
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Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers
Era sfinito, eppure non sentiva alcun desiderio di andare a casa.Ogni sera era la stessa cosa. Tornare a casa significava affrontare un oceano di solitudine.
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