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Staff Pick
The much-awaited fifth installment in the Millennium series (begun by Stieg Larsson, carried on deftly by David Lagercrantz) proves once again that nothing will get in Lisbeth Salander’s way as she pieces together the puzzle of her past. It’s a fast-paced read full of twists, turns, and revelations that will keep you turning the page. Recommended By Moses M., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider’s Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker, the obstinate outsider, the volatile seeker of justice for herself and others — even she has never been able to uncover the most telling facts of her traumatic childhood, the secrets that might finally, fully explain her to herself. Now, when she sees a chance to uncover them once and for all, she enlists the help of Mikael Blomkvist, the editor of the muckraking, investigative journal Millennium. And she will let nothing stop her — not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who passes a death sentence on her; not the deadly reach of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment known only as The Registry. Once again, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, together, are the fierce heart of a thrilling full-tilt novel that takes on some of the most insidious problems facing the world at this very moment.
Review
"The legacy of Lisbeth Salander lives on.... Lagercrantz succeeds in carefully staying true to the framework created by the late Stieg Larsson.... In this new world where everything is suspect, including proclaimed facts, it is the dragons that protect and avenge the downtrodden." Michael Ruzicka, Booklist (Starred Review)
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"Always satisfying... Lisbeth, as always, serves as an avenging angel who herself isn’t the nicest of people." Kirkus Reviews
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"Engrossing... arresting... imbued with a grit and gumption that would make Larsson proud." Patrick Ryan, USA Today
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"Lagercrantz’s excellent second contribution to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series [is a] complicated, fascinating mystery." Publisher’s Weekly (Starred Review)
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"Wonderful... It would be hard to imagine a sequel more faithful to its work of origin than this one.... Salander, though, emerges as the most dramatic, charismatic and effective investigator of them all: weak in social skills but unmatched in speaking blunt truth to corrupt power." Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
Synopsis
From the author of the mega best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
About the Author
David Lagercrantz was born in 1962 and is an acclaimed author and journalist. He has written numerous biographies (including the internationally best-selling I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović, for which he was the ghostwriter) and four novels, including Fall of Man in Wilmslow, and the #1 best-selling The Girl in the Spider’s Web.