His best-selling books are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written and
have sold millions of copies around the world, but Stieg Larsson was not
there to witness any of their international success. That his fame is
entirely posthumous demonstrates the dizzying speed with which his star
has risen. However, when one looks a little deeper at the man behind
these phenomenal novels, it becomes clear that Larsson's life would have
been remembered as extraordinary, even if his Millennium trilogy had
never been published. Larsson was a workaholic: a keen political
activist, photographer, graphic designer, a respected journalist and
editor of numerous science fiction magazines... and at night, to relax
after work, he wrote crime novels. As the world now knows, he had
completed his third book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by the
time of his death at just 50 years of age. In The Man Who Left Too Soon,
top crime fiction journalist Barry Forshaw gives us a fascinating
insight into the life and works of this difficult, brilliant and
multifaceted man.
