Top Dog
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Publisher Description
A number one bestseller in Sweden, Jens Lapidus's Top Dog is a thrilling, character-driven look at Stockholm's drug-and-sex-fueled underworld. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original.
Emelie is a young lawyer who's just started her own firm. Teddy is a reformed criminal looking for a fresh start. The first time they teamed up, in Stockholm Delete, they uncovered the secrets of a Swedish sex ring. Though their partnership proved rewarding--both professionally and personally--they haven't seen each other since. But when a vulnerable young client of Emelie's is murdered before she can testify against her abusers, Emelie turns to her ex-partner/lover for help.
Meanwhile, Teddy's nephew Nikolas has resolved not to repeat his uncle's felonious mistakes. But the gang-related murder of his best friend sets him back on a trail of violent vengeance--and into the path of Roksana, a naïve hipster whose discovery of a drug cache is giving her a dangerous crash course in Stockholm's dark side. And as Teddy and Emelie's investigation heats up, police corruption threatens to land him back in prison--or both of them in body bags.
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Lapidus's hard-hitting sequel to 2017's Stockholm Delete updates the careers of diverse characters caught up in Stockholm's criminal underworld. Teddy, a Serbian immigrant, can't get a regular job after spending eight years in prison for kidnapping a money launderer, so he falls back in with his former lover, Emelie. Now a defense lawyer, Emelie needs Teddy's help after a client is murdered. Nikola, the nephew Teddy adores, abandons a good future as an electrician to seek revenge for the fatal gang shooting of a boyhood friend. After Roksana, a crafty young Iranian, finds someone's drug stash and parties it away, she ends up enlisting Nikola's help in dealing with the drug lord to whom she owes thousands of kronor. Meanwhile, police transcripts of tapped phone conversations cast a revealing light on big business corruption. Lapidus overdoes the melodrama at times as the various stories converge on the somewhat contrived ending, but his picture of Swedish social debilitation is powerful stuff.
