Kennedys Brain, Henning Mankell
Kennedys Brain, Henning Mankell
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Kennedy's Brain
A Novel

Author: Henning Mankell

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Unabridged: 12 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/12/2022

Synopsis

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.

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. Kennedy's Brain is both a must-listen thriller and a damning indictment of inhuman greed in the face of the African AIDS crisis.

About Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell's novels have been translated into forty-five languages and have sold more than forty million copies worldwide. He was the first winner of the Ripper Award and also received the Glass Key and the Crime Writers' Association Golden Dagger, among other awards. His Kurt Wallander Mysteries have been adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. During his life, Mankell divided his time between Sweden and Mozambique, where he was artistic director of the Teatro Avenida in Maputo. He died in 2015.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lynda on October 15, 2014

I agree with many of the comments shared by other readers. This is a vehicle for Mankell' s issues about AIDS, Africa and the mighty pharmaceuticals rather than a believable novel. I like other readers am a fan of the Wallander novels which I believe to be well written and plotted with a convincing......more

Goodreads review by Pete on May 17, 2013

If this was the first novel by a new author I doubt if it would have even attracted a publisher. The general story isn't a bad one, but unfortunately I just could not manage to get past two very ridiculous elements that occurred very early on. The first was how Louise managed to (correctly as it tur......more

Goodreads review by Terri on February 13, 2010

Drats. I really thought I was going to like this book. It started off so well. Interesting plot, strong female character, Scandinavian setting...but alas it jumped all over the place. I was feeling jet lag from my reading chair. Let's see, Sweden, Greece, Portugal or was it Spain, Africa, back to Sw......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on September 08, 2009

Henning Mankell is perhaps best known for his detective stories set in the south of Sweden, featuring detective Karl Wallander. This is also a detective novel of sorts, but the protagonist is not a professional detective, but a middle-aged archaeologist, Louise Cantor, whose expertise has hitherto b......more

Goodreads review by Trish on September 21, 2009

Most of us know Henning Mankell from his spectacularly successful series of murder mysteries featuring a grumpy and aging, but respected Swedish police inspector, Kurt Wallander. When I learned Henning Mankell spent half his time in Africa, and half at home in Sweden, I didn't know what to expect of......more

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