Paperback: The girl with the dragon tattoo lives on. The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye (2017) is the fifth in the Millennium series that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The latest book is inspired by Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, as Salander and Blomkvist continue the fight for justice that has thrilled millions of readers across the world.
Lisbeth does not forgive.
Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for saving a young boy's life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind. Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week - and receives a lead to follow for his pains.
For him, it looks to be an important exposé for Millennium magazine.
For her, it could unlock the facts of her childhood.
Even from a corrupt prison system run largely by the inmates, Salander will stand up for what she believes in, whatever the cost.
And she will seek the truth that is somehow connected with her childhood memory, of a woman with a blazing birthmark on her neck - that looked as if it had been burned by a dragon's fire.
The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye is translated from the Swedish by George Goulding.
About the author: David Lagercrantz, born in 1962, is a journalist and author, living in Stockholm. His first book was published in 1997, a biography of the Swedish adventurer and mountaineer Göran Kropp. In 2000, his biography on the inventor Håkan Lans, A Swedish genius, was published. His breakthrough as a novelist was of the Fall in Wilmslow (Fall of Man in Wilmslow), a fictionalized novel about the British mathematician Alan Turing.
In 2011, his best-selling sports biography I am Zlatan (I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic) was published, one of the most successful books in Sweden in modern times. The biography was nominated for the prestigious August Prize in 2012, as well as shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. To date, I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been published in over 30 languages around the world and been sold in millions of copies.
In the summer of 2013, Lagercrantz was asked by Moggliden (the Larsson Estate) and Collins to write the fourth, free-standing sequel to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. That Which Does Not Kill Us (The Girl in the Spider's Web) was published in 2015 and The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye in 2017, the latter two being the fourth and fifth instalments respectively in the Millennium series originated by Stieg Larsson. The Girl in the Spider’s Web was designated as one of the year’s best thrillers in 2015 by the magazine Esquire and short-listed to the 2016 Petrona Award in the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year category.
He is a board member of Swedish PEN, which fights for persecuted authors over the entire world. Lagercrantz is also actively involved in children’s and youth’s readership through Läsrörelsen.
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