The Man Who Went Up In Smoke

Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad has his summer vacation abruptly terminated when the top brass at the Foreign Office pack him off to Budapest to search for Alf Matsson, a well-known Swedish journalist who has vanished without a trace. Against a vivid international background, Beck investigates some curious East European underworld figures and – at the risk of his life – stumbles upon the international racket in which Matsson was involved.