About the book: 2012 / On a winter day, during a daily walk in the forest, a pensioner, a former high-ranking naval officer, Hokan von Encke, disappears without a trace, followed by his wife. For sixty-year-old Police Commissioner Kurt Wallander, this case also turns out to be personal: the missing are the father-in-law and mother-in-law of his daughter Linda, and the grandfather and grandmother of her little daughter. The tangled threads seem to lead back to the past, to the Cold War era. It seems that the restless commissioner has come close to a spy secret. Meanwhile, an unforeseen danger is approaching him..