Colt 45 Magnum Revolver- "The Girl Who Played With Fire"

[gvf]

That's the sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. In TGWTDT the heroine, late in the book during the showdown with the bad guy, picked up a Glock and flicked off the safety.

Stieg Larsson's research track record isn't very good, but he's making a buttload of money off his books and the movies so he likely doesn't care.

He doesn't care for another reason: he's dead. Died at 50, before his great success, writing had been a hobby based on his own career: a corruption exposing investigative journalist, "the male hero" of his novels. There are suspicions his death was not natural but a pay-back for some of his newspaper stories exposing corporate crime.

From Wikipedia:
Death and aftermath
Larsson died 9 November 2004 in Stockholm at the age of 50 of a heart attack after climbing seven flights of stairs to his office because the lift was not working.^[15] There were rumours that his death was in some way induced, because of death threats received as editor of Expo, but these have been denied by Eva Gedin, his Swedish publisher.^[16] Stieg Larsson is interred at the Högalid church cemetery in the district of Södermalm in Stockholm.

Stieg Larsson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Avanmeter]

I find this amusing because y wife is an aspiring author and in her book she tried very hard to keep certain facts like this straight. She did a lot of research to find out real names of swords and made sure to use proper calibers when writing about guns and whatnot. Personally, if im reading a book and i come across something like "picked up a glock and flicked the safety off" it kinda screws the book up for me.

[Tom_M]

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[mcgivern]

It doesn't say ".45 Colt magnum". It says "Colt .45 magnum". Maybe someone converted a Colt to the 45 Winchester magnum. Just wondering.

[StandingWolf]

You would have thought the author would have done his research a little bit better--

Speaking strictly as a novelist: I've never let mere ignorance slow me down, but when a fact takes almost no time to suss out on the internet, I give my mouse the extra exercise.