The tattooed young hacker Lisbeth Salander is back in the sequel to Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy” but with a twist – a new author – and a contemporary backdrop that includes spies from the U.S. National Security Agency.
Swedish author David Lagercrantz has picked up the Larssen torch, whose “Girl in the Spider’s Web” takes Lisbeth into new perils, and has just gone on sale.
“I don’t see a problem with a new writer. I think it’s, I mean it’s the development of the story that interests me the most,” said one fan at the book launch.
“I want to buy it now during the night when it feels a bit mysterious and I think that if I’m in Stockholm and it happens in Stockholm I have to be here,” said another queuing for a first edition.
“(I hope) to recognise the characters, that I will still get a journey, that it will be just as exciting as the first time. I hope,” said another fan.
Larsson died from a heart attack in 2004, before the trilogy’s first volume made him a global hou
