So
far, with a global embargo in place, very few details of the much-anticipated
return of Lisbeth
Salander have been revealed.
Now
MacLehose
Press is releasing key details of the plot to whet the appetite of the 15
million readers in the U.K. who bought the trilogy.
She is the girl with
the dragon tattoo: Lisbeth Salander,
uncompromising
misfit, genius hacker.
He
is the crusading journalist: Mikael Blomkvist,
dedicated
to exposing corruption and abuse.
They have not been in touch for some time.
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. Säpo, Sweden’s security police,
have offered him protection, but what Balder hopes for is to preserve his life’s work ‒ by going public.
More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder’s world-leading
advances in Artificial Intelligence, is news that the professor had been
working with a superhacker, a girl with a dragon tattoo.
Salander is busy with an agenda of her own. Using her old
codename Wasp, she has been trying to hack into the American National Security
Agency - a lunacy driven by vengeance, and fraught with every possible consequence.
Like Balder, she is a target of ruthless cyber gangsters
who call themselves the Spiders. The violent unscrupulousness of this criminal
conspiracy will very soon bring terror to the snowbound streets of Stockholm,
to the Millennium team ‒ and to Blomkvist
and Salander themselves.
The adrenaline-charged, brilliantly intricate and utterly
absorbing narrative of The Girl in the
Spider’s Web is inspired by Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. The duo who thrilled millions of readers across
the world are back.
About
the author:
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
Ibrahimović, for which he was the ghostwriter) he has written four novels,
including Fall of
Man in Wilmslow (published by MacLehose Press in May 2015). The Girl in the Spider’s Web is the
continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium
series.
A continuation of the
series by Stieg Larsson
Translated from the
Swedish by George Goulding
Published by
MacLehose Press in hardback on 27 August 2015 at £19.99
Also available as an
e-book and can be purchased from the Shots Bookstore here
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