The Girl in the Spider's Web
A Lisbeth Salander Novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series
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4.2 • 478 Ratings
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- $13.99
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Publisher Description
Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return
She is the girl with the dragon tattoo—a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution.
Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop forMillennium, turns to Salander for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals, and governments around the world, and someone is prepared to kill to protect it . . .
The duo who captivated millions of readers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest join forces again in this adrenaline-charged, uniquely of-the-moment thriller.
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
The Girl in the Spiders Web
David Lagercrantz did justice to the original first three books...I hope upon hope there's more! Hope the next one has a little more edge...Lisbeth is a lot tougher I think.
Sad lack of sophistication
The characters have become caricatures. The rich detail is now a thing of the past. The black character was a thug, the female characters are either sexy, lesbians, or both, the Jewish character thinks about G-d and talks about his Rabbi constantly....it’s a grossly inelegant continuation of an excellent series.
Spiders Web
Good reading. Intense. Sometimes it overwhelms the reader with tech talk. The author was changed and it shows in the writing. The characters behave differently. You get introduced to many new characters and the book sets up for sequel and I would read the sequel.