{"product_id":"the-girl-in-the-spiders-web-isbn-9781101872000","title":"The Girl in the Spider's Web","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER •\u003c\/b\u003e Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return to the Girl in the Dragon Tattoo series in this ripped-from-the-headlines, high-octane follow-up to Stieg Larsson's \u003ci\u003eThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e. • Also known as the Millennium series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans—our punk hacker heroine is in good hands.… A twisty, bloody thrill ride.… An instant page-turner.” —\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe next installment in the Millennium series: a genius hacker who has always been an outsider; a journalist with a penchant for danger. She is Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo. He is Mikael Blomkvist, crusading editor of Millennium. One night, Blomkvist receives a call from a source who claims to have been given information vital to the United States by a young female hacker. Blomkvist, always on the lookout for a story, reaches out to Salander for help. She, as usual, has plans of her own. Together they are drawn into a ruthless underworld of spies, cybercriminals, and government operatives—some willing to kill to protect their secrets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLook for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, \u003ci\u003eThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons\u003c\/i\u003e, coming soon!\u003c\/b\u003e“Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans—our punk hacker heroine is in good hands.... A twisty, bloody thrill ride.... An instant page-turner.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e (4 out of 4 stars)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Excellent.... Anyone craving more Salander bad-assery should get their hands on a copy of \u003ci\u003eSpider’s Web\u003c\/i\u003e faster than Lisbeth can hack into the NSA.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Salander and Blomkvist are just as compelling as ever.... Fans of Stieg Larsson’s captivating odd couple of modern detective fiction will not be disappointed.” \u003cb\u003e—Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Riveting.... Pyrotechnic.... An intelligent novel that has Salander entangled in one of the most contentious issues of our times.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Girl in the Spider’s Web\u003c\/i\u003e is masterful.... Intricate and ambitious.... Salander is an extraordinary heroine whose hacker skills are more relevant than ever in an increasingly high-tech surveillance society.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lagercrantz has more than met the challenge. Larsson’s brainchildren are in good hands and may have even come up a bit in the world.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Lagercrantz’s real achievement here is the subtle development of Lisbeth’s character; he allows us access to her complex, alienated world but is careful not to remove her mystery and unknowability. Lisbeth Salander remains, in Lagercrantz’s hands, the most enigmatic and fascinating anti-heroine in fiction.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A thrillingly layered book every bit as addictive as the originals.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“[A] worthy, crowd-pleasing fourth installment.... Lagercrantz, his prose more assured than Larsson’s, keeps Salander’s fiery rage at the white-hot level her fans will want.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“[A] smart, action-packed thriller that is true to the spirit of the characters Larsson created while adding interesting new ones and updating the political backdrop that made the Millennium series so compelling.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Buffalo News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This whirlwind of nonstop action and intrigue is compulsively readable to the electrifying end.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Fans of the original trilogy will be pleased with [Lagercrantz’s] new installment. The novel is a smart, propulsive thriller and espionage tale with a timely digital age plot (think Snowden and Wikileaks).”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe Hollywood Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Engrossing.... In spinning a complex and intriguing new chapter in the adventures of Blomkvist and Salander, Lagercrantz has written a worthy successor to one of the more uniquely compelling thriller sagas of his generation.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Lagercrantz pulls it off, and with a great deal of style.... Elegantly paced, slickly executed, and properly thrilling.... A welcome treat.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Passion and fire, check: there are plenty of both here.... Fast-moving, credible, and intelligently told. Larsson fans won’t be disappointed.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Action-packed and thoroughly enjoyable.... [A] finely-wrought thriller.... I will eagerly devour the next adventure for Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, especially now that we know their fate lies in the hands of a writer worthy of their story.” \u003cb\u003e—William O’Connor, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID LAGERCRANTZ \u003c\/b\u003eis an acclaimed Swedish journalist and author. He has worked as a crime reporter for \u003ci\u003eExpressen, \u003c\/i\u003eand has written several novels, including \u003ci\u003eFall of Man in Wilmslow\u003c\/i\u003e. He worked with international soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimović on his memoir, \u003ci\u003eI Am Zlatan Ibrahimović, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and was nominated for the August Prize in Sweden.Wrange tried to concentrate on the game, but he was not managing too well. Fortunately this punk girl was going to be easy pickings. She wasn’t bad, as it turned out—she probably spent a lot of time playing—but what good was that? He toyed with her a little, and she was bound to be impressed. Who knows, maybe he could even get her to come home with him after- wards. True, she looked stroppy, and Wrange did not go in for stroppy girls, but she had nice tits and he might be able to take out his frustrations on her. It had been a disaster of a morning. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It wasn’t grief that he felt: it was fear. Wrange really did try hard to convince himself that he had done the right thing. What did the goddamn professor expect when he treated him as if he didn’t exist? But of course it wouldn’t look good that Wrange had sold him down the river. He consoled himself with the thought that an idiot like Balder must have made thou- sands of enemies, but deep down he knew: the one event was linked to the other, and that scared him to death.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Ever since Balder had started working at Solifon, Wrange had been afraid that the drama would take a frightening new turn, and here he was now, wishing that it would all go away. That must have been why he went into town this morning on a compulsive spree to buy a load of designer clothes, and had ended up here at the chess club. Chess still managed to distract him, and the fact was that he was feeling better already. He felt like he was in control and smart enough to keep on fooling them all. Look at how he was playing.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This girl was not half bad. In fact there was something unorthodox and creative in her play, and she would probably be able to teach most people in here a thing or two. It was just that he, Arvid Wrange, was crushing her. His play was so brilliant and sophisticated that she had not even noticed he was on the brink of trapping her queen. Stealthily he moved his positions forward and  snapped it up  without sacrificing more than a knight. In a flirty, casual tone bound to impress her he said, “Sorry, baby. Your queen is down.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e But he got nothing in return, no smile, not a word, nothing. The girl upped the tempo, as if she wanted to put a quick end to her humiliation, and why not? He’d be happy to keep the process short and take her out for two or three drinks before he pulled her. Maybe he would not be very nice to her in bed. The chances were that she would still thank him afterwards. A miserable cunt like her would be unlikely to have had a fuck for a long time and would be totally unused to guys like him, cool guys who played at this level. He decided to show off a bit and explain some higher chess theory. But he never got the chance. Something on the board did not feel quite right. His game began to run into some sort of resistance he could not understand. For a while he persuaded himself that it was only his imagination, perhaps the result of a few careless moves. If only he concentrated he would be able to put things right, and so he mobilized his killer instinct.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e But the situation just got worse.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e He felt trapped—however hard he tried to regain the initiative she hit back—and in the end he had no choice but to acknowledge that the balance of power had shifted, and shifted irreversibly. How crazy was that? He had taken her queen, but instead of building on that advantage he had landed in a fatally weak position. Surely she had not deliberately sacrificed her queen so early in the game? That would be impossible—the sort of thing you read about in books, it doesn’t happen in your local chess club in Vasastan, and it’s definitely not something that pierced punk chicks with attitude problems do, especially not to great players like him. Yet there was no escape.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In four or five moves he would be beaten and so he saw no alternative but to knock over his king with his index finger and mumble congratulations. Even though he would have liked to serve up some excuses, some- thing told him that that would make matters worse. He had a sneaking feeling that his defeat was not just down to bad luck, and almost against his will he began to feel frightened again. Who the hell was she?\u003cbr\u003e Cautiously he looked her in the eye and now she no longer looked like a stroppy, insecure nobody. Now she seemed cold—like a predator eyeing its prey. He felt deeply ill at ease, as if the defeat on the chessboard were but a prelude to something much, much worse. He glanced towards the door.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “You’re not going anywhere,” she said. \u003cbr\u003e “Who are you?” he said.\u003cbr\u003e “Nobody special.”\u003cbr\u003e “So we haven’t met before?” \u003cbr\u003e “Not exactly.”\u003cbr\u003e “But nearly, is that it?”\u003cbr\u003e “We’ve met in your nightmares, Arvid.” \u003cbr\u003e “Is this some kind of joke?”\u003cbr\u003e “Not really.”\u003cbr\u003e “What do you mean?”\u003cbr\u003e “What do you think I mean?\u003cbr\u003e “How should I know?”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e He could not understand why he was so scared.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303092637925,"sku":"NP9781101872000","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781101872000.jpg?v=1767739534","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-girl-in-the-spiders-web-isbn-9781101872000","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}