Character from Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
The king of the Barrel before Kaz — a brutal gang leader who swindled and killed Kaz's brother, creating the monster that would eventually destroy him.
Pekka Rollins leads the Dime Lions — the largest gang in Ketterdam before Kaz's rise. He is the person responsible for everything Kaz became: he ran a real-estate scam that swindled Kaz's brother Jordie out of everything, leading to Jordie's death from firepox in a body barge. Kaz crawled out of that barge and spent years building a criminal empire specifically to destroy Pekka Rollins. Pekka is not stupid — he's a successful crime boss who maintained power in the Barrel for decades. But he underestimated Kaz because he saw a child where there was already a weapon. By the end of Crooked Kingdom, Kaz has dismantled Pekka's empire and sent him to prison.
Big, red-faced, with the imposing physical presence of a man who built his empire through violence before graduating to business. Wears the gaudy 'flash' of a Barrel gang boss.
Also known as: Pekka Rollins, Rollins