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RAID AND THE BLACKEST SHEEP
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CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR
242 Pages, paperback ISBN: 978-0-9824449-2-4
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242 Pages, paperback ISBN: 978-0-9824449-2-4
Price: $12.95
Shipping (in USA) is included!
Prefer an eBook? Available in Amazon.com!
Hard-nosed hit man Raid travels around Finland with Nygren, a career criminal in the twilight of his life,
wreaking vengeance on those who have wronged him and paying penance to those he has wronged. Soon, both cops and crooks are on the trail of the mysterious pair. In the end, the pilgrimage leaves a trail of wounded and dead in its wake.
Excerpt from the book:
The police were waiting for them about ten miles from the gas station. The cruiser was parked at a bus stop with its blue lights flashing. On both sides of the road were open fields of plowed clay-heavy soil. A tractor was turning over a fresh row with a flock of screaming gulls close behind. Two officers were standing in front of the squad car. One was holding a small stop-sign in his hand, which quickly rose when the Mercedes came into view.
Nygren's face darkened.
"I should have guessed. Where's the gun?"
"It'll turn up when we need it."
Raid snapped on his right blinker and stopped about fifteen feet from the cruiser. The cops stood at the ready, their right hands resting on the butts of their guns.
One of the officers was young, the other a seasoned cop about twenty years older.
The younger one approached the car while the other hung back. The lessons from the police academy had stuck. Raid pushed a button, and with a soft hum, the window slid down.
"Raid has a lot of the same quiet vengeance as the characters that Clint Eastwood creates on the silver screen; both have the ability to make even murder seem justified." - Länsi-Suomi
"Two honest criminals contemplate the meaning of life... Nykanen writes clever dialogue and his laconic humour is an enjoyment for every reader." - Aamulehti
wreaking vengeance on those who have wronged him and paying penance to those he has wronged. Soon, both cops and crooks are on the trail of the mysterious pair. In the end, the pilgrimage leaves a trail of wounded and dead in its wake.
Excerpt from the book:
The police were waiting for them about ten miles from the gas station. The cruiser was parked at a bus stop with its blue lights flashing. On both sides of the road were open fields of plowed clay-heavy soil. A tractor was turning over a fresh row with a flock of screaming gulls close behind. Two officers were standing in front of the squad car. One was holding a small stop-sign in his hand, which quickly rose when the Mercedes came into view.
Nygren's face darkened.
"I should have guessed. Where's the gun?"
"It'll turn up when we need it."
Raid snapped on his right blinker and stopped about fifteen feet from the cruiser. The cops stood at the ready, their right hands resting on the butts of their guns.
One of the officers was young, the other a seasoned cop about twenty years older.
The younger one approached the car while the other hung back. The lessons from the police academy had stuck. Raid pushed a button, and with a soft hum, the window slid down.
"Raid has a lot of the same quiet vengeance as the characters that Clint Eastwood creates on the silver screen; both have the ability to make even murder seem justified." - Länsi-Suomi
"Two honest criminals contemplate the meaning of life... Nykanen writes clever dialogue and his laconic humour is an enjoyment for every reader." - Aamulehti