The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: A Lisbeth Salander Novel

David Lagercrantz

Sep 2017 · Millennium Series Book 5 · Sold by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

About this ebook

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!

Ratings and reviews

Lagercrantz is doing well at a difficult job: picking up the characters and tone of the another author's work. His two sequels introduce some great new characters and conspiracies, but they feel rushed. Just as things start to get interesting, everything rushes to a climax, as if the author has anticipated the movie adaptation, and doesn't want to waste any time on subplots and complications that will just be cut out in the screenplay. It's also a little infuriating the way he doles out many parallel stories one bit at a time, as a substitute for having enough complexity to keep the momentum going with more linear narrative.

Not as good as the original 3 books. It felt choppy with the multiple timelines. It was fast paced and interesting although the ending felt a little rushed.

The flashbacks were needed for context and continuity...but the volume of that device gave me whiplash.

About the author

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.