Easy Money
by Jens Lapidus
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55%
Critic Reviews: 9
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54%
Reader Ratings: 44
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Synopsis
From one of Sweden's most successful defense lawyers comes an unflinching look at Stockholm's underworld, told from the perspective of the mob bosses, the patsies, and the thugs who help operate its twisted justice system. JW is a student having trouble keeping up appearances in the rich party crowd he has involved himself with. He's desperate for money, and when he's offered a job dealing drugs to the very crowd he's vying for a place in, he accepts it.... more
About Jens Lapidus
Published: April 3, 2012 by Random House
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Education & Reference. Fiction. 480 pages
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- All Critics: 9
- Positive: 6
- Negative: 3
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Reviewing the Evidence
This is a remarkably accomplished debut and certainly can stand the comparison with more well-known authors.
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Kirkus Reviews | 1 Nov 2011
The rat-a-tat-tat rhythms of Lapidus’ prose, in Ahlander’s translation, aren’t for everyone.
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Publishers Weekly | 5 Sep 2011
In the searing debut of Swedish criminal defense attorney Lapidus, three lost souls converge along cocaine’s nightmare highway to hell.
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Euro Crime
. . .a gripping, hard boiled crime novel, which has a real ring of authenticity. . .
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Irish Times | 7 Jan 2012
The book is at least a third too long. . .The characters are almost uniformly unpleasant. . .Worst of all, it ain’t what he says, it’s the way that he says it.
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The Independent | 29 Feb 2012
He has another identity, that of a highly successful criminal lawyer. . .perhaps a reason why the books have such cutting-edge veracity.
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Reader Dad | 31 Jan 2012
It’s impressive to read, and respect to both author and translator for pulling it off.
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The Mystery Reader
The translator has done an excellent job of rendering the story into English, including slang and vocabulary native to drug trafficking and use.
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The Guardian | 10 Feb 2012
The discrepancy between the ordered, formal Swedish criminal justice system as Lapidus portrays it and criminals so Americanised they seem to inhabit, well, America, takes some adjusting to.
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