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Never Fuck Up

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By Jens Lapidus
Translated by Astri von Arbin Ahlander

By Jens Lapidus
Translated by Astri von Arbin Ahlander

By Jens Lapidus
Translated by Astri von Arbin Ahlander

By Jens Lapidus
Translated by Astri von Arbin Ahlander

By Jens Lapidus
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Translated by Astri von Arbin Ahlander

By Jens Lapidus
Read by David Ackroyd
Translated by Astri von Arbin Ahlander

Part of Stockholm Noir Trilogy

Part of Stockholm Noir Trilogy

Part of Stockholm Noir Trilogy

Paperback $16.95

Apr 08, 2014 | 512 Pages

Ebook $9.99

Jun 18, 2013 | 512 Pages

Audiobook Download $22.50

Jun 18, 2013 | 1162 Minutes

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    About Never Fuck Up

    With the same raw energy and verve he displayed in Easy Money, Jens Lapidus delivers an electrifying tale of Stockholm’s vicious underworld.
     
    Mahmud is fresh out of jail, but he’s forced to work for a brutal mob boss to pay off his debts to a drug lord. Niklas, a mercenary and weapons expert with an appetite for vigilante justice, is back in Sweden and plans to keep a low profile. But the discovery of a murdered man in his mother’s building severely threatens those plans. Thomas, the volatile detective on the case, finding his efforts suspiciously stymied and the evidence tampered with, goes off the grid in search of the truth. But as the paths of these three men intertwine and the identity of the murdered man is revealed, crimes and secrets bigger, deeper, and darker than a mere murder will come to light.

    About Never Fuck Up

    With the same raw energy and verve he displayed in Easy Money, Jens Lapidus delivers an electrifying tale of Stockholm’s vicious underworld.
     
    Mahmud is fresh out of jail, but he’s forced to work for a brutal mob boss to pay off his debts to a drug lord. Niklas, a mercenary and weapons expert with an appetite for vigilante justice, is back in Sweden and plans to keep a low profile. But the discovery of a murdered man in his mother’s building severely threatens those plans. Thomas, the volatile detective on the case, finding his efforts suspiciously stymied and the evidence tampered with, goes off the grid in search of the truth. But as the paths of these three men intertwine and the identity of the murdered man is revealed, crimes and secrets bigger, deeper, and darker than a mere murder will come to light.

    About Never Fuck Up

    From Sweden’s internationally best-selling crime novelist, the author of Easy Money, comes the riveting second installment of the Stockholm Noir Trilogy. With his trademark live-wire staccato prose and raw energy, Jens Lapidus returns to the streets of Stockholm with an electrifying tale of seedy police officers and vicious underworld criminals.
     
    Mahmud, an iron-pumping gym fiend raised among the city’s many concrete high-rises, is fresh out of jail and heavily indebted to a Turkish drug lord. To get free he accepts a job from the henchman of brutal mob boss Radovan—a job that quickly becomes something Mahmud wishes he’d never agreed to.
     
    Meanwhile, Niklas is living at home with his mother and keeping a low profile after working as a security contractor in Iraq. When a man is found murdered in the laundry room of their building—a startling event that coincides with Niklas’s discovery of a young Arab girl being beaten by her boyfriend—Niklas decides to put his weapons expertise and appetite for violence to use and begins to mete out his own particular brand of justice.
     
    Thomas is the volatile cop called to investigate the murder in Niklas’s building. When his efforts are suspiciously stymied and the evidence tampered with, he goes off the grid in search of answers. As the identity of the murdered man is discovered, the paths of these three men intertwine, and crimes and secrets far greater than a mere murder come to light—raising the stakes of Stockholm’s criminality to staggering new heights.

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    About Jens Lapidus

    Jens Lapidus is a criminal defense lawyer who represents some of Sweden’s most notorious underworld criminals. He lives in Stockholm with his wife.

    About Jens Lapidus

    Jens Lapidus is a criminal defense lawyer who represents some of Sweden’s most notorious underworld criminals. He lives in Stockholm with his wife.

    About Jens Lapidus

    Jens Lapidus is a criminal defense lawyer who represents some of Sweden’s most notorious underworld criminals. He lives in Stockholm with his wife.

    Product Details

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Apr 08, 2014 | 512 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307390240

    Category: Noir Mysteries | Crime Mysteries

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Jun 18, 2013 | 512 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780307908506

    Category: Noir Mysteries | Crime Mysteries | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jun 18, 2013 | 1162 Minutes | ISBN 9780307966711

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    Praise

    “A world whose vocabulary is shaped by American gangsta rap but whose greed and ambition is familiar to anybody who ever cracked open a Mario Puzo crime novel.”–The Wall Street Journal
      
    “An entirely new criminal world, beautifully rendered.” –James Ellroy
      
     ”[Lapidus] sheds light on a rarely seen Stockholm—a city that is a ‘Mecca of thieves, drug dealers, and gangs,’ buzzing with ethnic tensions and social unrest.”—The New Yorker
     
    “A grand-scale portrait of Stockholm’s criminal world that shares James Ellroy’s hyperrealism and Richard Price’s blend of atmosphere and sociology.”—Booklist 

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