Never Fuck Up

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Translation copyright © 2013 by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Sweden as Aldrig Fucka Upp by Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm, in 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Jens Lapidus.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lapidus, Jens, [date]

[Aldrig fucka upp. English]

Never fuck up / Jens Lapidus ; translated from the Swedish by Astri von Arbin Ahlander.

p. cm.

eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-90850-6

Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-307-37749-4

1. Criminals—Sweden—Fiction. 2. Organized crime—Sweden—Fiction. 3. Stockholm (Sweden)—Fiction. 4. Mystery fiction. 5. Noir fiction. I. Arbin Ahlander, Astri von. II. Title.

PT9877.22.A65A7913 2013 839.73′8—dc23 2012040020

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