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    Easy Money: A Novel
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    Easy Money: A Novel
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    Easy Money: A Novel

    Written by Jens Lapidus

    Narrated by Bruce Turk

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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. Meanwhile, Jorge, a young Latino drug dealer, has just broken out of jail and is itching for revenge. When JW's supplier gets wind of Jorge's escape, he suggests JW track him down and attempt to win his trust in order to cover more area in the drug circuit. But JW's not the only one on Jorge's trail: Mrado, the brutal muscle behind the Yugoslavian mob boss whose goons were the ones who ratted Jorge out to the cops, is also on the hunt. But like everyone else, he's tired of being a mere pawn in an impossibly risky game, and he's seeking to carve out a niche of his own. As the paths of these antiheroes intertwine further, they find themselves mercilessly pitted against one another in a world where allegiances are hard-won, revenge is hard-fought, and a way out of it all is even harder to come by.
     
    Fast and intricately paced, and with pitch-perfect dialogue, Easy Money is a raw, dark, and intelligent crime novel that has catapulted Jens Lapidus into the company of Sweden's most acclaimed crime writers.




    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 3, 2012
    ISBN9780307966698
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    Easy Money: A Novel
    Author

    Jens Lapidus

    Jens Lapidus is the man behind the most talked about Swedish first novel in a decade: Easy Money – the first of the internationally bestselling Stockholm Trilogy - is a dark and brutal account of the Stockholm underworld. A young and highly successful criminal defense lawyer, Lapidus’ professional experience of representing some of the most notorious criminals in the country has given him unique insights into a world that most people would rather not acknowledge. Jens Lapidus lives in Stockholm with his wife.

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    • 3/5
      Ok, but the build up through the book was a bit to long and the ending a bit to short.
    • 3/5
      Well written but it took a while to get through because it wasn't really what I was in the mood for.
    • 2/5
      JW: 20-something young student desperate to fit in with the young Stockholm elite of rich hard-partying kids who dress to impress, date all the beautiful girls, and are treated like royalty at the hippest night-clubs, when not hosting their own parties featuring strippers and mounds of coke. In other words, a really good kid. Not. He secretly drives cab at night to pay for his designer duds and clubbing, and has an older sister who mysteriously disappeared 4 years before and was never heard from again.Jorge: known as Jorgelito and J-Boy, which are names he uses when talking to himself about himself and telling himself how clever he is. He's also a latino drug dealer who was caught and put in prison but has big escape plans. Has delusions of grandeur. Another adorable fellow. Mrado: A giant thug, Serbian mafia member and juiced up bodybuilder who is used by the big boss to generally hurt and kill people. He's a nasty piece of work, but thinks he's the world's greatest dad. Surely he must be, since he gets all broken up about having to stand up his little girl for their bi-montly visits when he has to do last-minute torture and maiming jobs when his boss commands him to. What do these three guys have in common? One word: Cocaine. Also, they have very few redeeming qualities and take turns occupying roughly one-third of the novel each. Of course, they all end up being inter-connected somehow, but it's going to take well over 500 pages of really badly translated Swedish to find out how that goes down. Why I wasted so many precious hours in hopes that I'd end up liking some part of this book is beyond me. I'm still trying to figure out what's supposed to makes this story Noir, but nope, I just don't see it. Some passages seemed to have been written by a guy who might have done too much coke himself and couldn't seem to get over how clever he was being. I was going to give this one two stars to be generous and because I figured I might as well since I did force myself to finish it, but that's just not fair to the books out there that deserve to be thought of as "just ok" when this one just deserves to be put out of it's misery. Nothing, and I mean nothing in this story seemed new or fresh in any way.
    • 4/5
      Wow! I had no idea a Swede could write like this. Way better than any American thriller - and there aren't even any cops in it. OK, so the writer is really an attorney and has therefore some special insight into the darker parts of the criminal world, but still. The jargon and the accents are spot on and the characters are absolutely captivating. The big key here is that none of them are Evil but rather human - they have kids and stomachaches and make falukorv och makaroner for lunch. And they're funny! Of course, as the plot unravels, we get to see the monster part of them and it's with a bit of reluctance that we have to admit that the characters we've come to kind of love are vicious torturers and murderers. Lapidus wins us over by not passing judgment on any of them, but calmly exposes the traumas that have made them the creeps that they are, without pity or excuses. Apparently it's getting translated into English, but I wonder if "juggemaffian" translates well... :)
    • 3/5
      meh.
    • 4/5
      In the dark of the Stockholm underworld three lives tied together. A greedy student (who looks like a minor character from American psycho), a south-american jailbird and a Serbian criminal. In their world everyone moved by power and money. And revenge.... Some of them, revenge.
    • 3/5
      The story is good, but the translation is horrendous.