Easy Money

　　荷黑，遭誣陷入獄的古柯鹼之王，自詡為逃獄藝術家。正準備優雅跨出監獄大門，用子彈在叛徒雙眼之間開個洞，然後和家人退隱江湖。

　　JW，過著雙面生活的貧窮大學生，半夜和上流哥兒們跑趴，白天偷學校廁所衛生紙用。每天甘冒被拆穿的風險，在大城市尋找「錢好賺」的法門，並意圖解開姊姊離奇消失之謎。

　　恩拉多，黑幫老大麾下第一人，能徒手斷人骨的職業殺手；亦是週末帶女兒看迪士尼電影、讀童書的慈愛老爸。為了女兒，正考慮洗手不幹。

　　在斯德哥爾摩地下世界，本無交集的三人有著共同目標：快速致富，再立刻抽身。為了最終目的，得先闖進一個比一個瘋狂的險境。當三人的命運快速交錯，他們終將發現，這圈子自有一套黑色正義：要想脫身，得先進入下一個險關。而他們認為的唯一出路，是否真能通往夢想中的完美人生？

　　作者身為資深律師，多次為瑞典惡名昭彰的犯罪分子辯護，以生猛叛逆的筆觸結合親身見聞，將驚險萬狀的「黑吃黑」犯罪食物鏈寫得犀利透徹，更赤裸裸呈現人被逼到絕境時，能有多麼強悍、又多麼脆弱。

　　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.

　　★本書中譯版《錢途末路》由寂寞出版。

作者簡介

Jens Lapidus顏思．拉比杜斯

　　瑞典近十年來最受矚目的犯罪小說新銳，寫作風格極富原創性，被譽為新一代的丹尼斯．勒翰結合詹姆士．艾洛伊。拉比杜斯本身是犯罪辯護律師出身，曾多次為瑞典國內惡名昭彰的犯罪分子辯護，這些經驗讓他看到世界不為人知的另一面，日後也自然成為寫作素材。雖是瑞典文壇新秀，但精湛文采深受書評家一致好評，被譽為出色的說故事者。拉比杜斯以「黑色斯德哥爾摩」為主題撰寫的三部作品《錢途末路》《別搞砸（Aldrig Fucka Upp，暫譯）》《豪華人生（Livet Deluxe，暫譯》接連成為北歐四國的暢銷作品，前兩部皆已改編為電影，與原著同樣叫好叫座。

　　拉比杜斯目前仍為全職律師，但同時也持續經營寫作生涯，未來可能為瑞典當地類似《法網遊龍》的電視影集撰寫劇本，並創作有如約翰．葛里遜的法律驚悚小說。他唯一的疑慮，是怕同事看到劇情會對號入座。

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