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Introducing the breathtaking new Scandinavian bestseller
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EASY MONEY - the Swedish bestselling sensation, a dark and brutal account of the Stockholm underworld. Jorge knows one thing – he’s never going back inside. Mrado knows one thing – he’s not going to kill for cash anymore. JW knows nothing – and that’s why he’s in too deep. Their paths are about to cross, but are they on the same side? Whether they’re uneasy conspirators or deadly rivals, they’re all looking for the fastest way to get filthy rich. They’re about to learn the hard way that there’s no such thing as easy money . . . Jens Lapidus is a highly successful criminal defence lawyer. His experiences with some of the country’s most notorious criminals have made this debut novel the fastest-selling and most talked about thriller in Europe in a decade. ‘At last: an epic European thriller to rival the Steig Larsson books. It’s an entirely new criminal world, beautifully rendered – and a wildly thrilling novel’ James Ellroy
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Action-packed book, but don't expect to like anyone in it,
By Maxine Clarke "Maxine of Petrona" (Kingston upon Thames, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Easy Money (Paperback)
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No disrespect to the author, translator or publisher, but this just isn't my kind of book. I read as much translated crime fiction from Scandinavia as I can, but Easy Money is unlike any other book from the region I've read so far. It's a US-style gangster book, told from the point of view of various male criminals - in prison, drug-dealing, stupid, violent, desensitised, nightclubbing, double-crossing, brand-name consumer addicts, Neanderthally sexist, and so on. The plot is pretty standard, but because there is no sympathetic protagonist or police/law/non-criminal perspective, to like the book you have to be the type of reader who enjoys reading unadulterated nastiness. The novel is fast-paced but generic, a descendant of many films such as The Godfather and of many books by "hard-boiled" US authors. One could regard it as the flip side of the 360-degree dissection of the police and security forces depicted by Leif G W Persson in Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End (which, like Easy Money, is also first of a trilogy). If you like the evil side of slice-of-life stories, this might be one for you (but there are some really nasty scenes, eg the fate of the woman who features in the prologue). Me, I prefer current Swedish authors such as Liza Marklund, Helene Tursten and Johan Theorin.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Money For Nothing,
By Sam "samueltyler" (Reading, Berkshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Easy Money (Paperback)
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In a bid to trick readers it is likely that every book translated from a Scandinavian country will be released as the next `Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' in the coming months. The latest title to try and snatch Stieg Larsson's crown is `Easy Money' by Jans Lapidus. However, comparing `Easy' to `Girl' would be like comparing Shakespeare to Jeffry Archer; just because they come from the same country does not make them similar. `Girl' is a dark and intelligent crime fiction, `Easy' is more like `Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'.I found it very hard to engage with `Easy' on a few levels. Firstly, none of the characters are likable; you have the choice of a drug dealer, murdering thug or escaped prisoner. At no point does Lapidus introduce a character you actually want to care about. The second issue surrounds the translation or the original text; I am not 100% sure. All I know is that the book reads like any other American pulp novel and lacks the bleak spirit that so much of the best Scandinavian lit has. Finally, as part of a series `Easy' never actually goes anywhere. You get the distinct impression as the book plods along and goes nowhere, that there is a lot of filler being used to pad out the book. With Lapidus' background as a Criminal Defence Attorney he is able to create realistic feeling criminals. However, they are almost too grim; you soon grow to dislike everyone in the book. Lapidus would have been better taking a leaf out of John Grisham or Michael Connelly's books and made a sympathetic lawyer character that gets caught up in bad things. Towards the end I really began to dislike `Easy Money' as it revelled in nasty imagery and unpleasant characters. This is no `Girl with a Dragon Tattoo', it's more a `Revolver' or `Rock `n' Rolla'.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Testoserone-Soaked Variation on MEN WHO HATE WOMEN,
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This review is from: Easy Money (Paperback)
"Easy Money" is a debut crime novel from Jens Lapidus, billed as one of Sweden's most successful criminal defense lawyers, and, on the basis of this book, one of the best acquainted with Stockholm's underworld. It's a new entry in the sweepstakes to follow the phenomenal international success of Stieg Larsson, the superb Scandinavian thriller author, who gave us The Millennium Trilogy before his untimely death. EASY MONEY has received high praise from various Euro critics and high praise indeed from James Ellroy, one of the deans of hard-boiled American mysteries, who wrote, "At last, an epic European thriller to rival the Stieg Larsson books. It's an entirely new criminal world, beautifully rendered - and a wildly thrilling novel."Lapidus's novel is set in Stockholm's underworld, where cocaine rules, and is told from the perspective of its mob bosses, patsies and thugs. It centers on three men. JW is of humble rural stock, but has managed to crash a rich, chic party crowd: now, if only he had the money to run freely with them. When he's offered the chance to sell cocaine to this crowd, he grabs it. Jorge, a young drug dealer of Chilean origin, has just succeeded in a celebrated breakout from jail, and wants revenge against those who put him there. JW's boss is anxious to recruit Jorge to widen his territory, and sets JW on the Latino's trail. But so is Mrado, brutal muscle in the high on the food chain Yugoslav gang that put Jorge inside in the first place. These three anti-heroes combine and recombine, all seeking their places in the sun. The novel is written in a language slangy, fast-paced, and telegraphic enough to rival Ellroy's. But, whereas I, like many Americans, have some familiarity with Los Angeles, where Ellroy sets his work, I know very little about Sweden, Yugoslavia, or Chile, and I didn't always know what Lapidus was talking about. Lapidus's writing or perhaps his translator's also has an odd tic: over and over, often several times in a page, he uses a clumsy contraction that I'm not sure exists in English: "Jorge'd,"for, I gather, "Jorge had." This set me into mental gymnastics every time, as I was busy remembering the Latin pronunciation of "Jorge," and then I had to tag the "'d" on its end. A true mental tongue-twister. Furthermore, I found the book to be testosterone-soaked: in its pages, women exist solely for sex and the delivery of children. It often reminded me that the first, Swedish title of Larsson's first book, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO was MEN WHO HATE WOMEN. It sometimes seemed to me that I kept reading this long book only because it had opened on a woman's abuse, and I was anxious to find out what had become of her; information that wasn't shared until nearly the end of the book's more than 450 pages. However, the book does finally arrive at a fairly exciting, powerful conclusion. Come to Scandinavian mysteries, I go back beyond the Martin Beck Mystery Series by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Lapidus has got something here, but I'm not sure what. However, I would be willing to give him another try.
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