Just after midnight on September 18 1961, a plane carrying Dag Hammarskjold, the dapper secretary-general of the United Nations, crashed near Ndola in British-run Northern Rhodesia. The Swede was found the next afternoon, unburned but dead beside the charred aircraft. A Rhodesian inquiry blamed pilot error. But that was almost certainly wrong. Most likely, Hammarskjold was murdered. For once, the conspiracy theories are true. That's the conclusion of a startling, meticulous, convincing book, written in the understated prose of a Scandinavian crime thriller, by Susan Williams, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London.
1961年9月18日零點剛過，一架飛機在英屬北羅得西亞的恩多拉市（Ndola，今屬贊比亞——譯者注）附近墜毀。飛機上有一位帥氣的瑞典男士，他就是聯(lián)合國(UN)秘書長達格?哈馬舍爾德(Dag Hammarskjold)。當天下午，人們在飛機殘骸旁發(fā)現(xiàn)了哈馬舍爾德的尸體。飛機已燒成焦炭，但哈馬舍爾德的尸體并未燒焦。羅得西亞的調(diào)查小組稱，飛機失事的原因是飛行員誤操作。但幾乎可以肯定，事實并非如此。哈馬舍爾德很可能是被人謀殺的。這一次，陰謀論說對了。這是倫敦英聯(lián)邦研究學院(Institute of Commonwealth Studies)高級研究員蘇珊?威廉斯(Susan Williams)得出的結(jié)論。她的書用斯堪的納維亞犯罪驚悚小說的那種平實語言撰寫，驚心動魄、細節(jié)豐富、令人信服。