The Girl in the Spider's Web
A Dragon Tattoo story
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4.2 • 542 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Meet Lisbeth Salander, the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide
"Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans - our punk hacker heroine is in good hands" USA Today
LISBETH SALANDER AND MIKAEL BLOMKVIST HAVE FALLEN OUT OF TOUCH
Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son's well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story - and it is a terrifying one.
More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder's world-leading advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker.
It seems that Salander, like Balder, is a target of ruthless cyber gangsters - and a violent criminal conspiracy that will very soon bring terror to the snowbound streets of Stockholm, to the Millennium team, and to Blomkvist and Salander themselves.
"The most enigmatic and fascinating anti-heroine in fiction" Financial Times
"Salander and Blomkvist have survived the authorship transition intact and are just as compelling as ever" New York Times
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It feels right to read about feminist antihero Lisbeth Salander during such a tumultuous time: Chaos is catnip to the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Here, the world-class hacker tackles some extremely dangerous family secrets while also investigating a case involving Russian organized crime and government cyberspying alongside her accomplice, journalist Mikael Blomkvist. New series author David Lagercrantz makes his protagonists feel a bit more relatable without losing the pointed, aggressive tone of the late Stieg Larsson’s novels. Salander—played in this book’s film adaptation by The Crown’s Claire Foy—weathers the change with her fierceness intact.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lagercrantz's worthy, crowd-pleasing fourth installment in the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium saga opens in Sweden, where some intellectual property developed by artificial intelligence genius Frans Balder has been stolen by a video game company with ties to Russian mobsters. Crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who's casting about for a new investigative project, is about to meet with Balder when an intruder kills the scientist and puts Balder's autistic eight-year-old son in danger. Meanwhile in the U.S., the National Security Agency is hacked, and its chief of security, Edwin Needham, vows revenge. Lisbeth Salander plays a central role in both plot lines, and the pleasure resides in watching Lagercrantz (Fall of Man in Wilmslow) corral an enormous cast of characters into an intricate story revolving around the larger-than-life hacker and her desire to right wrongs, including corporate espionage, a government spying on its own citizens, and violence against the defenseless. Two new characters make strong impressions: Jan Bublanski, a Stockholm detective with a humanistic bent, and Camilla Salander, Lisbeth's twin, who sets the stage for further Millennium novels. Lagercrantz, his prose more assured than Larsson's, keeps Salander's fiery rage at the white-hot level her fans will want.
Customer Reviews
Continues the drama
This book continues with the original trilogy and brings new life and twists and turns. A great read.
Not Steig but not bad.
As a massive fan of the millennium trilogy, it was a pleasant surprise to see the series continued. I went into this with reserved optimism. For the most part it’s an enjoyable read. There are clear distinctions in the authors style to telling the story but a feeling that he wanted to do his best to honour a great series. I appreciate this book for trying to recreate that.
The most glaring cracks that are appearing here however are is unfortunately with Lisbeth herself. While she was capable and skilled in the original trilogy, there were flaws that kept her grounded and vulnerable. Now she seems to be able to do everything and never feels like there are any stakes here. I hope this is ironed out going forward as there is potential here.
Boring
Got to page 102 , no action, just repetitive waffle about the finances of the magazine Millennium.