The Girl who Played with Fire

Stieg Larsson

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jul 28, 2009 - Fiction - 503 pages

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazineMillennium,has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.

But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander—the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid inThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart ofThe Girl Who Played with Fire.

As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.

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So much depends upon a little goth girl. In fact the whole novel depends on her. I'll go ahead and say it, if you can claim that Stieg Larsson had one stroke of genius, it was in creating Lisabeth ...

About the author

Stieg Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic, right-wing extremist and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Girl who Played with Fire; Volume 2 of Millennium, Stieg Larsson; Issue 2 of The Millennium Trilogy
• Author: Stieg Larsson
• Translated by: Reg Keeland
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009
• ISBN: 0307269981, 9780307269980
• Length: 503 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Crime; Fiction / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Thrillers / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense