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The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (Martin Beck, Bk 2)
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke - Martin Beck, Bk 2 Author:Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall, Joan Tate (Translator) The Man Who Went Up in Smoke starts as Martin Beck has just begun his holiday: an August spent with his family on a small island off the coast of Sweden. But when a neighbour gets a phone call, Beck finds himself packed off to Budapest, where a boorish journalist has vanished without a trace. Instead of passing leisurely sun-filled... more » days with his children, Beck must troll about in the Eastern Europe underworld for a man nobody knows, with the aid of the coolly efficient local police, who do business while soaking at the public baths -- and at the risk of vanishing along with his quarry.