Just finished Henning Mankell's Firewall. The crime genre of fiction is an education in the experimental theology of sin. I heard Mankell interviewed on the radio, when he discussed his take on contemporary life, particularly the dissolution of moral disctinctions in key areas of human development and technological advance.
This novel is about murder, eco-terrorism, the power of the internet and the dependence of global financial and business institutions on computer security and integrity, the impact of global banking on the poorest nations - and at the centre is Chief Inspector Kurt Wallander, a flawed, fallible, likeable loner. That's as near to cliche as Mankell comes - he writes with psychological subtlety,convincing detail, narrative knowhow, and a refreshing lack of gratuitous expletives! This is narrative theology that IS readable!!
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