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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: A Lisbeth Salander Novel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series) Hardcover – Deckle Edge, September 12, 2017
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Lisbeth Salander—obstinate outsider, volatile seeker of justice for herself and others—seizes on a chance to unearth her mysterious past once and for all. 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 are the fierce heart of a thrilling full-tilt novel that takes on some of the world's most insidious problems.
Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons, coming soon!
- Print length368 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherKnopf
- Publication dateSeptember 12, 2017
- Dimensions6.53 x 1.3 x 9.56 inches
- ISBN-100451494326
- ISBN-13978-0451494320
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—Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
“Engrossing . . . arresting . . . imbued with a grit and gumption that would make Larsson proud.”
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today
“The enduring draw at the center of the Millennium series is that image of a strange and solitary young woman trying to even the score with all manner of bullies by dint of her brains and, when called for, some martial arts moves.”
—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
“Like The Girl in the Spider’s Web, this book is a worthy successor to Larsson’s trilogy. But, The Girl Who Takes an Eye also feels like a tipping point, in which Lagercrantz begins to march the saga in a direction all his own.”
—Ed Swedlund, Paste magazine
“Somewhere, beyond the grave in the Great Hereafter, Stieg Larsson must be smiling. . . . Swedish journalist and author David Lagercrantz has produced a multilayered and even better thriller this time around in his second outing continuing Larsson’s Millennium series, crafting an intricate web of intrigue. . . . Lagercrantz is a master.”
—Jean Westmoore, The Buffalo News
“Hacker extraordinaire Lisbeth Salander and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist do social good as the thrills accelerate in The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye. They’re a winning couple.”
—Carlo Wolff, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Lagercrantz’s excellent second contribution to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series [is a] complicated, fascinating mystery.”
—Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
“Always satisfying . . . Lisbeth, as always, serves as an avenging angel who herself isn’t the nicest of people.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“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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June 12
Lisbeth Salander was on her way back to her cell from the gym and the showers when she was stopped in the corridor by the warden. Alvar Olsen was blathering on about something, gesticulating wildly and waving a set of papers. But Salander could not hear a word he said. It was 7:30 p.m.
That was the most dangerous time at Flodberga Prison. Seven-thirty p.m. was when the daily freight train thundered past; the walls shook and keys rattled and the place smelled of sweat and perfume. All the worst abuses took place then, masked by the racket from the railway and in the general confusion just before the cell doors were shut. Salander always let her gaze wander back and forth over the unit at this time of day and it was probably no coincidence that she caught sight of Faria Kazi.
Faria was young and beautiful, from Bangladesh, and she was sitting in her cell. From where Salander and Olsen stood, all Salander could see was her face. Someone was slapping Faria. Her head kept jerking from side to side, though the blows were not that hard—there was something almost routine about them. It was clear from Faria’s humiliated expression that the abuse had been going on for a long time and had broken her will to resist.
No hands were raised to try to stop the slapping, and in Faria’s eyes there was no indication of surprise, only a mute, dull fear. This terror was part of her life. Salander could see that just by studying her face, and it matched what she had observed during her weeks at the prison.
“Will you look at that,” she said, pointing into Faria’s cell.
But by the time Olsen had turned to look, it was over. Salander disappeared into her own cell and closed the door. She could hear voices and muffled laughter in the corridor and outside the freight train clanging by, shaking the walls. She stood in front of the shiny washbasin and narrow bed, the bookshelf and desk strewn with pages of her quantum mechanical calculations. Did she feel like doing more work on loop quantum gravity theory? She realized she was holding something and looked down at her hand.
It was the same sheaf of papers that Olsen had been waving around, and that did, after all, make her a little curious. But it was some sort of rubbish with coffee cup rings all over the cover page: an intelligence test. Ridiculous. She hated to be prodded and measured.
She dropped the papers which spread like a fan on the concrete floor. For a brief moment they vanished from her mind as her thoughts went back to Faria Kazi. Salander had not seen who was hitting her. But she knew perfectly well who it was. Although at first prison life had not interested Salander, reluctantly she had been drawn in, decoding the visible and invisible signals one by one. By now she understood who called the shots.
This was called the B Unit, the secure section. It was considered the safest place in the institution, and to a visitor that might have been how it seemed. There were more guards, more controls and more rehabilitation programmes here than anywhere else in the prison. But anyone who took a closer look would realize there was something rotten about the place. The guards put on an act, exuding authority, and they even pretended to care. But in fact they were cowards who had lost control, and they had ceded power to their chief antagonists, gang leader Benito Andersson and her mob.
During the day Benito kept a low profile and behaved like a model prisoner, but after the evening meal, when the inmates could exercise or receive visits, she took over. At this time of day her reign of terror was uncontested, just before the doors were locked for the night. As the prisoners roamed between cells, making threats and promises in whispered tones, Benito’s gang kept to one side, their victims to the other.
…
The fact that Salander was in prison at all was a major scandal. But circumstances had hardly been on her side, nor had she put up a very convincing fight. The interlude seemed absurd to her, but she also thought she might just as well be in jail as anywhere else.
She had been sentenced to two months for unlawful use of property and reckless endangerment in the dramatic events following the murder of Professor Frans Balder. Salander had taken it upon herself to hide his eight-year-old autistic son and refused to cooperate with the police because she believed—quite rightly—that the police investigation had been betrayed. No-one disputed that she went to heroic lengths to save the child’s life. Even so, Chief Prosecutor Richard Ekström led the case with great conviction, and the court ultimately found against her, although one of the lay judges dissented. Salander’s lawyer, Annika Giannini, had done an outstanding job. But she got virtually no help from her client, so that in the end Salander did not stand a chance. She maintained a sullen silence throughout the trial and refused to appeal the verdict. She simply wanted to get the business over with.
At first she was sent to Björngärda Gård open prison, where she had a lot of freedom. Then new information surfaced, suggesting there were people who wanted to harm her. This was not entirely unexpected, given the enemies she had made, so she was transferred to the secure wing at Flodberga.
Salander had no problem sharing space with Sweden’s most notorious female criminals. She was constantly surrounded by guards, and no assaults or violence had been reported in the unit for many years. Records also showed that an impressive number of inmates had been rehabilitated. But those statistics all came from the time before the arrival of Benito Andersson.
…
From the day Salander arrived at the prison, she faced a variety of provocations. She was a high-profile prisoner known from media coverage, not to mention the rumours that spread through the underworld. Only a few days earlier, Benito had put a note in her hand which read: friend or enemy? Salander had thrown it away after a minute—it took about fifty-eight seconds before she could be bothered to read it.
She had no interest in power struggles or alliances. She concentrated on observing and learning, and by now she felt she had learned more than enough. She stared blankly at her bookshelf, stocked with the essays on quantum field theory she had ordered before she landed inside. In the cupboard on the left were two changes of prison clothes, all stamped with the initials of the prison service, plus some underwear and two pairs of sneakers. There was nothing on the walls, not a single reminder of life on the outside. She cared no more for the surroundings in her cell than those in her home on Fiskargatan.
Cell doors were being shut along the corridor and normally that meant some freedom for Salander. When the noise died down, she could lose herself in mathematics—in attempts to combine quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity—and forget the world around her. But tonight was different. She was irritated, and not just because of the abuse of Faria Kazi or the rampant corruption in the unit.
She could not stop thinking about the visit six days earlier from Holger Palmgren, her old guardian from the time when the authorities had decided she was incapable of taking care of herself. The visit had been a major production. Palmgren was entirely dependent on home aides and assistants and hardly ever left his apartment in Liljeholmen. But he had been adamant. The social service’s subsidized transport service brought him in his wheelchair, as he wheezed into an oxygen mask. Salander was glad to see him.
She and Palmgren had spoken of old times and he had become sentimental and emotional. There was just one thing that troubled Salander. Palmgren told her that a woman by the name of Maj-Britt Torell had been to see him. She used to be a secretary at St. Stefan’s psychiatric clinic for children, where Salander had been a patient. The woman had read about Salander in the newspapers and brought Palmgren some documents which she believed he might find interesting. According to Palmgren it was more of the same old horror stories about how Salander had been strapped to her bed in the clinic and subjected to the worst kind of psychological abuse. “Nothing you need to see,” he said. Still, something must have stood out, because when Palmgren asked about her dragon tattoo and the woman with the birthmark, he said:
“Wasn’t she from the Registry?”
“What’s that?”
“The Registry for the Study of Genetics and Social Environment in Uppsala? I thought I read that somewhere.”
“The name must have been in those new documents,” she said.
“You think so? Perhaps I’m just muddling it all up.”
Perhaps he was. Palmgren had grown old. Yet the information stuck in Salander’s mind. It had gnawed at her while she trained on the speedball in the gym in the afternoons and worked in the ceramics workshop in the mornings. It gnawed away at her now as she stood in her cell looking down at the floor.
Somehow the I.Q. test which lay spread across the concrete no longer seemed irrelevant, but rather a continuation of her conversation with Palmgren. For a moment Salander could not grasp why. Then she remembered that the woman with the birthmark had given her all kinds of tests in those days. They always ended in arguments and eventually with Salander, at the age of just six, escaping into the night.
Yet what was most striking about these memories was not the tests or her running away, but the growing suspicion that there was something fundamental about her childhood she did not understand. She knew she had to find out more.
True, she would soon be outside again and free to do as she wanted. But she also knew she had leverage with Warden Olsen. This was not the first time he had chosen to turn a blind eye to abuses, and the unit he headed, still a source of pride in the prison service, was in a state of moral decay. Salander guessed she could get Olsen to give her access to something no-one else in the prison was allowed—an Internet connection.
She listened for sounds in the corridor. Muttered curses could be heard, along with doors being slammed, keys rattling and footsteps tapping off into the distance. Then silence fell. The only noise came from the ventilation system. It was broken—the air was stifling, unbearable—but still humming away. Salander looked at the papers on the floor and thought about Benito, Faria Kazi and Alvar Olsen—and the woman with the fiery birthmark on her throat.
She bent to pick up the test, sat down at the desk and scribbled out some answers. Then she pressed the intercom button by the steel door. Olsen picked up after a long interval, sounding nervous. She said she needed to talk to him right away.
“It’s important,” she said.
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- Publisher : Knopf; First Edition (September 12, 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0451494326
- ISBN-13 : 978-0451494320
- Item Weight : 1.46 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.53 x 1.3 x 9.56 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #132,941 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #923 in Science Fiction Crime & Mystery
- #931 in International Mystery & Crime (Books)
- #11,351 in Suspense Thrillers
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About the author
David Lagercrantz was born in 1962, and is an acclaimed Swedish author and journalist. In 2015 The Girl in the Spider's Web, his continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, became a worldwide bestseller, and it was announced that Lagercrantz would write two further novels in the series. Book 5 will be published in Autumn 2017. He is also the author of the acclaimed and bestselling I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and Fall of Man in Wilmslow, on the death and life of Alan Turing.
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"...I have only been to Stockholm once, but the city has a fascinating flavor and ethos which are not captured here...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2017This is the fifth volume in the Millennium series begun by Stieg Larsson (vols. 1-3), and continued after his death by David Lagercrantz. Of course, the central character is all these books is the effervescent and mysterious Lizbeth Salander, one of the most fascinating and powerful fictional characters that one will encounter. The creation of Lizbeth was one important measure of Larsson's genius. Since this is Scandinavian crime fiction at its best, the book is extremely well written, though a profusion of subplots and the introduction of many important new characters can make following the story complicated. This is definitely not a book to nod off with in bed--concentration is required to grasp all the many threads thrown out by the author. That said, the author has attained a major accomplishment--in both his books he has captured and expanded the essence of Salander as she continues to evolve. In that regard, the baton has been passed to the right person.
The usual elements of the series are here in evidence: Lizbeth spends time in a hostile prison environment; the second main character remains journalist Mikael Blomkvist; much of the plot relates back to the childhood of Salander when evil was afoot; her buddies in the Hacker Republic make a brief appearance, as does the criminal motorcycle club Lizabeth has tangled with previously; and Chief Inspector Bublanski is there to offer occasional police assistance. One of the major pluses of the series is that plots often involve educating the reader about some new technical or scientific area, such as advanced computer technology. That is true of this volume as well where we lean a bit about stock manipulation and a lot about the area of twin studies. The book runs 347 pages, but setting the plot takes many pages and I believe the story does not begin to move until Part II (at p. 177), and really takes off beginning in Part III (p. 235). While never the "page turner" of the Larsson volumes, the novel is quite engrossing. The miscreants who are the villains are as disgusting and formidable as in the previous volumes, in the process brutally murdering one of the continuing characters from the previous volumes.
While I have visited Stockholm, a magnificent city, I am not sufficiently familiar with its layout to appreciate the various areas designated by their Swedish names where the action occurs, even with a superb translation, as this is. I wish there were some way to educate the reader (perhaps via a map) as to where these various locales are situated. My basic assessment of the novel is that it is on the cusp between 4 and 5, but definitely leaning toward 5, hence my evaluation. For fans of the series, simply a must read. For those who have not read the previous 4 volumes, a definite inducement to grab a copy of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and join the fun. The signs are present that the author intends at least one further volume where I am sure Lizbeth will evolve further. I for one am quite interested in how the series will continue to develop.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2017This new installment in the Salander/Blomkvist series takes us back into the horrors of Salander's childhood. In this case, her relationship with her evil twin sister is fleshed out in the context of an abusive government study of separated twins - a made-up history that puts actual, historical studies of twins in a gruesome fictional light. This history dovetails with the earlier history of Salander's abusive past established in the first three books, but adds a new twist. Two central characters - fellow victims who find freedom only when Salander takes out their common enemies - provide an interesting and emotionally driven sub-plot, and the book also touches on the issue of the abuse of women in religious reactionary groups. As usual, Salander is drawn into the fight to help others who are abused by powerful authorities, in part due to her loyalty to those few people who had tried to help her in the past. And as always, Salander's distrust of virtually everyone forces her to work alone against violent and authoritative enemies, putting her life at risk until her begrudging alliance with Blomkvist exposes a horrifying conspiracy and brings the guilty to justice.
David Lagercrantz captures the tone of Stieg Larsson's original series, and brings forward a convincing version of Salander and Blomkvist. The shadowy horror that hounds Salander, and the touching confidence in the power of a magazine article to restore justice (Larsson was a journalist), are familiar and confidently handled. Lagercrantz has a few quirks as a writer that weaken the books somewhat: he has a habit of getting distracted by the second-by-second details of relatively minor events, and then dashing over larger developments with unengaging tell-don't-show exposition. It's not bad writing, but in places it feels uneven. Salander's underground network already had the magical powers granted to computer hackers in bad science fiction, and in this novel that silliness seems to get worse. The same is true of the bewilderingly many evil characters, who all seem to be able to call on legions of minions to commit murders, kidnappings, and financial skullduggery at a moment's notice, and cover it all up with ease - in this case without even the benefit of government authority. But the book is fast-paced and entertaining, and grounds its conflicts on (somewhat inflated) issues from the real world.
The plot of this installment seems needlessly complex. There are several completely unrelated groups of abusers and evil-doers, who somehow all come together to murder or destroy the same small set of victims. There is extensive backstory on the life history of the victims of two of these different plots, plus, in the second half of the book, repeated back-and-forth time jumping to connect the past to the present in order to preserve the secret-identity twist which is part of one such sub-plot. All together the thing is simply hard to follow, and as the action heats up the book jumps from one sub-plot to another literally every page or two. And, with the new information about Salander's past and how she and her sister had been treated, it now turns out that Salander - whom we already knew had been abused by her secret-agent father, the national intelligence service, and their network of abusive mental health prisons, psychiatrists, and lawyers - was in fact the victim of *another*, completely separate, secret abusive government program with its own staff of criminal psychiatrists and murderous henchmen. This seems rather implausible, even for such an extreme hard-luck case as Lisbeth Salander. Lagercrantz seems to have gotten carried away with himself in this book, which is too bad, because it is the intriguing characters, especially Salander, that made the original stories compelling. Lagercrantz has crafted a bizarrely complicated and less-and-less believable plot which pushes the characters into the background; Salander herself is barely a supporting character in this story.
The book is a fun read, but misses some of the high points of Larsson's originals. That is probably inevitable, and Lagercrantz has taken up the burden of Larsson's legacy with verve and ability. This is a worthy addition to the series, though with some imperfections.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2024The girl with the dragon tattoo does it again. All the twists and turns made this a novel I could not put down. I was lost sometimes with all the Swedish turns and cities, but I let my imagination get me back on track. Very well written and just amazing.
Top reviews from other countries
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Maria Clara de Mello MottaReviewed in Brazil on October 10, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Suspense.
Muito bem elaborado.
- SUBIR S.Reviewed in India on July 19, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
Non stop reading. Excellent 5th book of the Millennium series. David Lagercrantz has managed to capture the essence of Steig Larsson's style. Kudos
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rodolfo figueroaReviewed in Mexico on September 9, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars 2-3
La historia tiene muchos huecos y es demasiado apresurada e inverosímil, lo lees esperando la misma sensación que las 3 originales, lo compre en ingles por $70 y es lo que vale, en español estaba muy caro no vale la pena
- Taylor JanesReviewed in Canada on November 5, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing
I enjoyed this book immensely. It was well written and the plot twists and turns kept me enraptured. I admire the heroine and her unfailing battle to help others more than herself. With each truth she uncovers there are more questions that require answers. Who? What? Why? Even in her despair she continues her journey. I look forward to the next installment of this series, if there is to be one. Thank you continuing with her story.
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Amie BeauReviewed in France on December 17, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
A very intriguing continuation of the millennium saga with Lisbeth Salander as a key figure. The reason for the dragon tattoo is revealed and weaved into this thriller.