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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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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series continues with this “engrossing” novel (USA Today) as brilliant hacker Lisbeth Salander teams up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the secrets of her childhood and take revenge. • Also known as the Millennium series

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!
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“Wonderful . . . It would be hard to imagine a sequel more faithful to its work of origin than this one. . . . Salander, though, emerges as the most dramatic, charismatic and effective investigator of them all: weak in social skills but unmatched in speaking blunt truth to corrupt power.”
—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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DAVID LAGERCRANTZ is an acclaimed Swedish author and journalist. He is the author of three books in the Millennium series: The Girl who in the Spider’s Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, and The Girl Who Lived Twice. He is the coauthor of numerous biographies (including the internationally bestselling memoir I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic) and the acclaimed novel Fall of Man in Wilmslow, on the death and life of Alan Turing.

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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
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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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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2017
    This 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.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2017
    This 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.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2024
    The 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.

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  • Maria Clara de Mello Motta
    5.0 out of 5 stars Suspense.
    Reviewed in Brazil on October 10, 2024
    Muito bem elaborado.
  • SUBIR S.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
    Reviewed in India on July 19, 2023
    Non stop reading. Excellent 5th book of the Millennium series. David Lagercrantz has managed to capture the essence of Steig Larsson's style. Kudos
  • rodolfo figueroa
    5.0 out of 5 stars 2-3
    Reviewed in Mexico on September 9, 2019
    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 Janes
    5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing
    Reviewed in Canada on November 5, 2018
    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.
  • Amie Beau
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in France on December 17, 2017
    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.