Down For the Count
The Stockholm Trilogy: Volume Two
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Publisher Description
November, 1935. Harry Kvist walks out the gates of Langholmen jail into another biting Stockholm winter. He has nothing to his name but a fiercely burning hope: that he can begin a new life with the lover he met in his cell. That he can leave behind his old existence of gutter brawls, bruised fists and broken bones. That he can finally go straight.
But the city has other ideas. Nazis are spreading their poison on the freezing streets, and one of Kvist’s oldest friends has been murdered. Before he can leave Stockholm’s underworld for good, he must track down the killer. As Kvist uncovers a trail of blood leading to the highest echelons of Swedish society, the former boxer finds himself in a fight to the death with his most dangerous opponent yet.
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Set in Stockholm in the winter of 1935, Holm n's relentless second noir featuring boxer Harry Kvist (after Clinch) opens with Kvist's release from prison, where he has served six months for intimidation and a "serious assault involving an alcoholic-beverages delivery man and his son." Kvist's plans to make some money by getting back in the ring are sidetracked when he learns that kindly Beda Johansson, who used to do his laundry, was murdered during his prison stint. The authorities have confined Beda's adult son, Petrus, to a lunatic asylum after he allegedly beat his mother to death in her bed with a stone. Kvist later finds a letter from the dead woman in the pile of mail awaiting him; ironically, Beda asks Kvist to look after Petrus, who's disabled and might be taken advantage of. Angered by the lack of any genuine police investigation, Kvist sets out to prove his hunch that Petrus is innocent. Fans of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer will cheer Kvist along his bloody path to the truth, though the gruesome violence may be too much for some readers.
