SLUGGER

Martin Holmén/ Pushkin Vertigo

The final instalment in the brooding, visceral and electrifying 1930s Stockholm crime noir trilogy which began with Clinch. It is summer in Stockholm, and the city is sweltering in the grip of an intense heatwave while fascists and communists beat each other bloody in the streets. Before he gets out of the city for good, bisexual ex- boxer Harry Kvist sets out to investigate the murder of a former lover the only way he knows how: with his fists. Uncovering a Nazi terrorist plot, a cabal of corrupt cops and landing himself in the middle of a turf war between two of the city’s most brutal gangs, can he fight his way out of one last corner and find a way to freedom? Remastered pulp fiction that pulsates with action and atmosphere, Slugger is the sculpted and seductive crescendo to a knockout series.

Out now