3 best books by the dark Jens Lapidus

It is difficult to find thematic novelties in a literary quarry as prolific as the Nordic one in its aspect of the noir genre. Until you come across Jens lapidus.

This Swedish author tells his stories of the Stockholm Black Trilogy always from the other side, from the perspective of the antiheroes, taking advantage of the ambiguity that this narrative grants in which good and evil are blurred by means of characters who on many occasions combine codes from both sides, seeking that singular reading empathy even with the most naughty.

Of course, this difference from other Nordic writers is not an entirely new difference. Looking across the pond James Ellroy It has been practicing since its brilliant literary appearance decades ago, in those dangerous 80's of the suburban United States.

Jens Lapidus's dedication to criminal law will serve as inspiration for his novels which, although they do not yet make up a very extensive bibliography, do point to the continuity that many of his new admirers expect.

Top 3 best Jens Lapidus novels:

Easy money

His first novel in the trilogy condenses his knowledge of the world of crime from his perspective as a lawyer. His realistic rawness managed to captivate many readers of this genre. Cocaine, its market, its insertion into every social stratum through all kinds of subterfuges... And the characters who live directly around it, a kind of underworld that nourishes the reality of the precious drug.

Until both spaces meet. Characters like Jorge, a trafficker, Mrado, a hitman or JW, a lifer without awareness of the risk... All of them are interesting antiheroes with whom the author invites us to empathize. At the end of the day, they are contradictory types, capable of all the worst and yet humanized based on aspects in which we can all see ourselves reflected.

This kind of antiheroes seek their particular revenge between an anesthetized society, a justice that looks sideways and a street that establishes its own laws for all those who want to inhabit its domains.

Easy money

A life of luxury

Although the natural thing is to undertake the entire saga in chronological order, in this case the last installment seems much better than the second, so I have no choice but to give it the silver medal.

The characters of Jorge and JW appear here as castaways of their own lives, with the old yearning for a better life crushed by circumstances.

But it is only about a chicha calm. The goat always pulls into the mountains, and these two crime birds will soon find new paths in their criminal occurrences by which to reach that life of luxury freed from scruples and morals and surrounded by vices and hedonism.

The assault on the power of the underworld seems the best solution for not always being the ones who pay the price of dealing at street level. A fast-paced plot on the edge of success or failure, always considering that the interim is a process above all laws.

A life of luxury

Never fuck her

A title that sounds like the philosophy of all those characters from lower Stockholm, not a geographical base but a deep suburban space where all those who tried easy money without finding it and those who discovered life as a continuous defeat coexist in dramatic doom. And among all those zombies in the big city, a Yugoslav mafia ends up ruling their souls.

The language of the underworld, well known to the author, slides into the story with that total realism that only linguistic mimicry confers.

The problem is that these disowned characters, dominated by other unscrupulous types of organized mafias can end up being a problem, a real problem of incalculable magnitude. Looking away can never be the solution.

Never fuck her
5/5 - (8 votes)

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