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There is great expectation around the world the fourth installment of the Millennium trilogy, Swedish Stieg Larsson. Although the author did more novels finished his death. Other authors have “resurrected” in this way.
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Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, returned Thursday to bookstores in upcoming sequel The Millennium Trilogy by Swedish Stieg Larsson.
There are great expectations among readers worldwide what introverted but extremely intelligent Salander in hand with cyber skills and photographic memory.
It is a dimension, however, its creator, Swedish writer Stieg Larsson died more than a decade and only he left written three books that were already published, but looked like ten novels in the series.
However, the disappearance of Larsson was not a problem for the publisher in charge, who gave the task to Also Swedish David Lagercrantz.
And that practice to continue publishing aftermath of a character or popular title with the pen of another author is most common belief, especially in the genre of detective intrigue and espionage.
The fourth installment of the series Millennium, called for the English market “The Girl in the web” (“What does not kill us” in Sweden), was written by Lagercrantz with 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
However, there is huge interest in the fourth installment of the series, which hits the market in the tenth anniversary of the first novel “Men Who Hate Women” and sold over 75 million copies worldwide.
Despite the secrecy surrounding the content of the novel, it is expected than plot Lisbeth Salander will be trying to penetrate the National Security Agency US and will come into contact again with journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who held relations in the previous books.
According to the 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 Millenium saga was supposed to would 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.
It is not the first time that the titles and franchises deceased authors continue in letter and other fist.
The phenomenon responds to the popularity of the protagonists in the series they created and, of course, they can generate sales.
This is the case of secret agent James Bond, created by Ian Fleming and immortalized on the big screen 25 times (2 is not officially) 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, entitled “Solo” and authored by William Boyd, British author born in Ghana.
But the British also Arthur Horowitz is about to publish another novel Bond approved in September 2015, incorporating new material to Fleming.
The new book will certainly ensure more film versions of the popular spy.
Horowitz is known 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 presented to Holmes for the first time to the public in 1887.
A 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, writer of detective novels and thrillers 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 tries to recover the memory.
The three films of those books, Starring Matt Damon, was a resounding commercial success.
Eric van Lustbader, American writer, has continued giving life to Bourne 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.
In the same vein 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 military and counterintelligence issues.
Grant Blackwood is the latest author to officially resurrect Jack Ryan in the novel “Tom Clancy, Under Fire.”
As with Robert Ludlum, which 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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