Apr 08, 2014 | 512 Pages
Jun 18, 2013 | 1162 Minutes
“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
