AUTHOR INTERVIEW: The Author Who ... expects flak
Author David Lagercrantz waits for the storm after brutalising Larsson’s tattooed hacker in The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
In the cult Millennium crime fiction series, Stieg Larsson created Lisbeth Salander as a tattooed hacker out to get revenge on her persecutors. But in the latest book, author David Lagercrantz appears to have put his own stamp on the invincible character, throwing her into jail. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, the fifth Millennium novel, is due to hit bookstores on September 7 in 26 countries including the US, France, Germany and Britain. "I’m waiting for the storm," Lagercrantz says with a nervous laugh during an interview at his fashionable Stockholm apartment. Swedish publishing house Norstedts has gone to great lengths to keep details of the latest instalment shrouded in secrecy, given what is at stake: the previous book, The Girl in the Spider’s Web from 2015, also written by Lagercrantz, sold 6-million copies in 47 countries. The first three books, penned by the late Larsson, sold 80-million copies in a full 50 countries. Emotional and high-strung, Lagercrantz, 54, is fu...
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