The Girl in the Spider's Web Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series Synopsis
She is the girl with the dragon tattoo. Lisbeth Salander. An uncompromising misfit whose burning sense of injustice and talent for investigation will never respect boundaries of state or status. He is a campaigning journalist. Mikael Blomkvist. A lone wolf whose integrity and championing of the truth bring him time and again to the brink of unemployment - and prosecution. The call comes in late at night: a superhacker has gained access to critical, top secret U.S. intelligence. Blomkvist knows only one person who could crack the best security systems in the world. This case has all the hallmarks of Salander. She is accused of acting without reason, taking risks just because she can, but though they have lost touch, Blomkvist knows Lisbeth better than that. There must be something deeper at the heart of this - maybe even the scoop that Millennium magazine so desperately needs for its survival. A tangled web of truth that someone is prepared to kill to protect ...
'Suddenly the male preserve of Swedish crime fiction seems strangely quaint and middle aged. It has been infiltrated by an exotic new Heroine, part Lara Croft superhero, part disdainful twentysomething Louise France, Observer
'How many missed Tube stops, how many red-eyed mornings from not being able to put these books down?' Janet Suzman, My Six Best Books, Daily Express
'The most original heroine to emerge in crime fiction for many years' Boyd Tonkin, Independent
'A magnificent creation: a feminist avenging angel' Nick Cohen, Observer
'An iconic literary heroine' Carla Mackay, Daily Mail
'A Lara Croft for grown-ups - a female terminator' Mark Lawson, Guardian
Author
About David Lagercrantz
David Lagercrantz was born in 1962, and is an acclaimed author and journalist. As well as numerous biographies (including the internationally bestselling I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, for which he was the ghostwriter) he has written four novels, of which The Fall of Man in Wilmslow was the first to be translated into English. In December 2013 it was announced that he would write a continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. The fourth Millennium title, The Girl in the Spider's Web, will be published in August 27, 2015.
