_You can lose yourself in repetition-quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age. _ Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in gray, broken Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish Mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, he takes care
Box 21
✍ Scribed by Anders Roslund
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Sarah Crichton Books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0312655347
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The International Thriller that Stockholm City hailed as the Best Crime Novel of the Year has finally crossed the Atlantic!
Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel, forced to repay their "debt." Suddenly they are given an unexpected chance at freedom, and with it the opportunity to take revenge on their enslavers and reclaim the lives and dignity they once had. What will happen now that the tables are turned and the victims fight back?
In this masterful thriller, the celebrated team of Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström delve into the seedy underbelly of Stockholm. There we meet Lydia and Alena as they embark on a desperate plan to expose their captor and demand justice; police officers Sundkvist and Grens, on the trail of both Lydia's enslavers and Jochum Lang, a notorious mob...
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