Internationally bestselling novelist Henning Mankell delivers a
terrifying thriller inspired by the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic in
Africa.
Henning Mankell, the acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries,
has put his unmistakable stamp on this gripping new thriller.
Archaeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden and makes a
devastating discovery: her only child, twenty-eight-year-old Henrik,
dead in his bed. The police rule his death a suicide but she knows he
was murdered; her quest to find out what really happened to Henrik takes
her across the globe to Barcelona, where her son kept a secret
apartment; Sydney, Australia, to find Aron, her estranged ex-husband and
Henrik's father; and to Maputo, Mozambique, where she learns the awful
truth behind an AIDS hospice. Her investigation reveals how much her son
concealed from her as she uncovers the links between his death, the
African AIDS epidemic, and Western pharmaceutical interests, while those
who dare help her are killed off.
In the tradition of John le Carre's "The Constant Gardener, Kennedy's
Brain" was inspired by Mankell's anger at ongoing inequities that permit
a few people to have unprecedented power over the many poor Africans who
have none. Already a bestseller in Europe, "Kennedy's Brain" is both a
thrilling page-turner and a damning indictment of inhuman greed in the
face of the African AIDS crisis.
