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日零点刚过，一架飞机在英属北罗得西亚的恩多拉市（Ndola，今属赞比亚——译者注）附近坠毁。飞机上有一位帅气的瑞典男士，他就是联合国(UN)秘书长达格•哈马舍尔德(Dag Hammarskjold)。当天下午，人们在飞机残骸旁发现了哈马舍尔德的尸体。飞机已烧成焦炭，但哈马舍尔德的尸体并未烧焦。罗得西亚的调查小组称，飞机失事的原因是飞行员误操作。但几乎可以肯定，事实并非如此。哈马舍尔德很可能是被人谋杀的。这一次，阴谋论说对了。这是伦敦英联邦研究学院(Institute of Commonwealth Studies)高级研究员苏珊•威廉斯(Susan Williams)得出的结论。她的书用斯堪的纳维亚犯罪惊悚小说的那种平实语言撰写，惊心动魄、细节丰富、令人信服。