Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, returns this Thursday at bookstores in early continuation of the saga Millennium, Stieg Larsson Swedish .
There are great expectations among readers around the world about what the introverted but extremely intelligent Salander may have in hand, with their cyber skills and photographic memory
With a dimension.: its creator, Swedish writer Stieg Larsson died more than a decade and left only written three books, which were already published, but included a series of ten novels
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The disappearance of Larsson, however, was not a problem for the publisher in charge, who gave the task to also Swedish David Lagercrantz.
One-the practice of continuing to publish aftermath of a popular character or title of another author pen is most common belief, especially in the genre of detective intrigue and espionage.
Controversial
The fourth installment of the Millennium Series for the English market entitled “The Girl in the web” (“What does not kill us” in Sweden), was written by Lagercrantz with the authorization of the father and brother Larsson
But not without controversy. Larsson’s former partner, Eva Gabrielsson, did not approve of this publication noting that the author’s style is not respected <. /> p>
Gabrielsson and Larsson, however, was never formalized their union and she was left without any rights to the literary heritage of his former partner.
And there are other controversial immense interest in the fourth installment of the series, which hits stores on the tenth anniversary of the first novel “Men Who Hate Women “which sold over 75 million copies worldwide.
Despite the secrecy surrounding the content of the novel, it is expected that the plot Salander attempt to penetrate the National Security Agency USA and will come into contact again with journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who held relations in the previous books
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According British publisher Quercus, the first printing of “The Girl in the web” is 2.7 million.
David Lagercrantz is a Swedish journalist and novelist best known for his biography of footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
When was commissioned with the fourth book in the series Millenium was supposed to be a single publication, but Lagercrantz subsequently referred to another possible novel based on the characters created by Stieg Larsson and the loose ends left in his three books.
Death is no obstacle
It is the first time that the titles and authors deceased franchises continue in letter and other fist.
The phenomenon responds to the popularity of the protagonists in the series they created and, of course, sales they can generate.
This is the case of secret agent James Bond, created by Ian Fleming and immortalized on the big screen 25 times (2 unofficially) with scripts based on the writings of Fleming.
Several authors have been commissioned by those who control the wealth of new novels Fleming 007.
The last official Bond novel was published in 2013, with the title of “Solo” and authored by William Boyd, British author born in Ghana.
But the British also Arthur Horowitz is authorized to publish another novel Bond in September 2015, incorporating Fleming unpublished material.
The new book will certainly ensure more film versions of the popular spy.
Horowitz also known by very well received English detective Sherlock Holmes two installments, titled “The House of Silk” and “Moriarty”, sanctioned by the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle, who introduced Holmes for the first time to the public in 1887.
The signing of the Author
Another franchise that took too much momentum, thanks to the cinema has been the novels that tell the story of Jason Bourne, a character created by Robert Ludlum, author of thriller and suspense whose sales amount to hundreds of millions.
Ludlum, who died in 2001, left published a trilogy about the mysterious Bourne, a secret agent suffering from amnesia and attempts to recover the memory.
The three films of those books, Starring Matt Damon, was a resounding commercial success .
And Eric van Lustbader, American writer, has continued giving life to Bourne in ten more novels, most recently about to be published this year.
Interestingly, all the titles of these ten novels include the name of Robert Ludlum.
And in the same vein of international intrigue is the character Jack Ryan, the American writer Tom Clancy, who died in 2013.
The CIA agent Ryan appears in more than a dozen Clancy novels, known for its detailed descriptions of military affairs and counterintelligence.
Grant Blackwood is the latest author officially resurrect Jack Ryan in the novel “Tom Clancy, Under Fire.”
As with Robert Ludlum, the author’s name is part of the title seems essential but it does not matter if it is still alive or not.
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