The Girl in the Spiders web (Det som inte dödar oss in Swedish, or What Doesn’t Kill You), by David Lagercrantz is being released in paperback 7 April 2016. It is the follow up to The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson and continues the exploits of genius goth/punk Hacker Lisbeth Salander and Millennium Magazine’s Crusading Investigative Journalist Mikael Blomqvist who once again join forces to fight injustice.
This time a dangerous new threat is revealed, after Blomkvist receives a phone call from a trusted source claiming to have information vital to the United States. Mikael then meets this potential source in a bar to discuss the matter which concerns technology and corporate espionage, but his interest is suddenly piqued when the source mentions that he has been in contact with a young female super hacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well.
Blomkvist, is also battling against the money-driven evisceration of Millennium, the magazine he loves, and is in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, so he turns to Lisbeth for help. Then he learns that a world-renowned Swedish computer scientist, a verifiable genius, has seemingly abandoned his work and boarded himself up in his home wants to talk to Blomkvist. However he is attacked before they can meet. His work has disappeared, and the only witness is an autistic child, who now becomes the target of a shadowy criminal organisation. Blonqvist then faces a race against time, along the way He encounters many hazards including the NSA, who see spying on everyone as the way to protect their country’s interests, Eastern European gangsters, Swedish authorities, and dangerous figures from Salander’s own past.
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