ミレニアム5 復讐の炎を吐く女 上

Millennium Split-Volume Edition #5A

by David Lagercrantz, ダヴィド・ラーゲルクランツ, ヘレンハルメ 美穂 (翻訳)

リスベットは人工知能研究の世界的権威バルデルの息子の命を救った。だが、そのときに取った行動が違法行為にあたるとされ、2カ月の懲役刑を受けた。彼女は最高の警備を誇る女子刑務所に収容されるが、そこではギャングの一員である囚人ベニートが、美貌の女囚ファリアに暴行を加えていた。見過ごすことのできない彼女は、囚人はおろか看守までも支配するベニートとの対決を決意する。さらにリスベットは、元後見人のパルムグレンとの面会で、“レジストリー"なる機関の存在に気づき、自らの子供時代に大きな秘密が潜んでいることを知った。ミカエルはリスベットから突然、レオ・マンヘイメルという人物の調査を依頼される。この男は何者なのか? そして、刑務所の外では、思いもよらぬ痛ましい殺人事件が起きた!

299 pages, Paperback

Published December 19, 2017

About the author

David Lagercrantz, born in 1962, is a journalist and author, living in Stockholm. His first book was published in 1997, a biography of the Swedish adventurer and mountaineer Göran Kropp. In 2000 his biography on the inventor Håkan Lans, A Swedish Genious, was published. His breakthrough as a novelist was Fall of Man in Wilmslow, a fictionalised novel about the British mathematician Alan Turing. In David Lagercrantz' writing you can often see a pattern: major talents who refuse to follow convention. He has been interested not only in what it takes to stand out from the crowd, but also in the resistance that such creativity inevitably faces.

In 2011 his best-selling sports biography I am Zlatan Ibrahimović was published, one of the most successful books in Sweden in modern times. The biography was nominated for the prestigious August Prize in 2012, as well as shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. To date, the book has been published in over 30 languages around the world and been sold in millions of copies.

In the summer of 2013, Lagercrantz was asked by Moggliden (the Larsson Estate) and Norstedts to write the fourth, free-standing sequel to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. The Girl in the Spider's Web was published – in August 27, 2015 – simultaneously by 26 publishers (in 24 languages) worldwide, ten years after the Swedish publication of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Stieg Larsson's three Millennium novels have sold more than 82 Million copies to date, by 52 publishers worldwide. The Girl in the Spider's Web is sold to 47 publishers and more than 6 Million copies have been sold worldwide.

Reviews

[Hitomi · Rating 5 out of 5]

もちろん、前作は忘れておりますので、なぜに刑務所にいるのかわかりませんが、大丈夫。
ちゃんとあっという間に上巻読めました。
面白いです。
ひどい過去が明かになるんですかね？下巻で。