Two years ago we learned that a new author would take over Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series after his untimely passing in 2004. Now, book 4 is arriving in less than two weeks.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web by author David Lagercrantz will be published August 27 worldwide, except for in the United States where it’ll hit store shelves September 1.
The cover and synopsis follow:
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 for Millennium, 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.
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The novel is the first in the series to not be penned by Stieg Larsson. The third book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, was written by Stieg but published posthumously in 2007 in Sweden and in 2009 elsewhere.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web has been met with controversy since it was announced in 2013. Not only has the idea of the series continuing disturbed readers, but Stieg Larsson’s former partner said in March that Stieg didn’t have a long-term plan for the series like the publisher has claimed. “Everyone thinks there was some grand scheme,” Eva Gabrielsson said earlier this year, “but no, he had no plan for the first three books and when he started writing the fourth one, it was spontaneous. He still didn’t have a plan.”
It’s the second time this year that a book will be published without the author’s own wishes in mind. Harper Collins controversially published a sequel of sorts to To Kill a Mockingbird in July despite author Harper Lee probably not wanting it to see the light of day.
Will you be reading ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’?
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It’ll be interesting to see if David Lagercrantz is tasked with penning more books in the Millennium series. That decision will probably depend on how successful Spider’s Web is.
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