Down for the Count by Martin Holmén, Henning Koch (Translation) The bottom line is: the

The bottom line is: the brain always wins

that’s the plan until the trouble turns to real danger

But to describe the novel in its plot is to do its originality no justice

Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Lady with the Dog’ and ‘The Bet’

sharply observed

Down for the Count by Martin Holmén, Henning Koch (Translation) The bottom line is: theNovember, 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