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Late one night in Stockholm, a double-decker bus crashes hard against a fence. The engine stalls, its lights stay on. A man walking his dog looks inside and minutes later stops a police car. In the next 10+ minutes the patrol cops trample all over the evidence in their search for survivors.
The bus is a bloodbath with 8 deaths and one man badly wounded, hanging on to life. Martin Beck(MB)'s team identifies all victims but one, whose face is shot away and carries no papers. But one of the dead is a close colleague, young Ake Stenström (AS), trained by MB and often criticized by Kollberg. The massacre prompts the biggest manhunt in Swedish police history. With poor results.
The sole survivor uttered a few words before he died. They were recorded and tested in various ways to extract their meaning. But the main question for MB's team is: why was AS in that bus? And who is the faceless man? This is a great police procedural, where the tiniest of clues may be decisive. Personal ambition, reading books about psychology and the art/science of profiling are key inputs in solving this mysterious massacre.
Sjöwall & Wahlöö's 10 novels can be read as stand-alone books. Serious fans reread the series, which sold millions of books worldwide, from start to finish, chronologically to see how the series and its protagonists, and Sweden itself and its law enforcement agencies evolve. Great book.