The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium Series)
Stieg Larsson
Language: English
Pages: 752
ISBN: 0307949508
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the new book in the Millennium Series, is available now!
Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
profile we have of her is that she’s self-destructive. On the other hand, she’s a strategist who plans all her actions carefully. She does nothing without analysing the consequences. At least that’s what Dragan Armansky thinks.” “That was the assessment her one-time psychiatrist gave as well. But let’s hold off on the characterization for a while,” Bublanski said. “Sooner or later she’ll have to make a move. Jerker, what sort of resources does she have?” “Now here’s something you can sink your
for murder.” “There are other ways to interpret this, of course,” Faste said. “I can imagine a scenario where Salander and the Chinese girl are running some sort of escort service with S&M overtones. Bjurman could be one of those nuts who gets off on being whipped by small girls. He could have been in some sort of dependence relationship with Salander and things went wrong.” “But that doesn’t explain what she was doing in Enskede.” “If Svensson and Johansson were about to expose the sex trade,
man was in agony. He wanted information. But he was going to be forced to pay for it, and the price was his silence. Zala brought a whole new dimension to the murder investigation. Svensson had been hunting Zala. Bjurman had been hunting Zala. And Superintendent Björck was the only one who knew that there was a link between Zala and Bjurman, which meant that Zala was a clue to the murders at Enskede and Odenplan. This created another serious problem for Björck’s future well-being. He was the
unpleasant not to be able to explain exactly what conclusions Millennium had reached. Then she heard Berger’s voice behind her back. “Our theory is that the murders were committed to prevent some part of Dag’s exposé from reaching the light of day. But we don’t know who the killer was. Mikael is focusing on someone who goes by the name of Zala.” Modig turned to look at Millennium’s editor in chief. Berger held out two mugs of coffee. They were decorated with the logos of the civil service union
absorbed this thoughtfully. Vanger now turned to Malm. “The problems you face at Millennium are small and manageable. Naturally the company wants to operate at a profit—that’s a given. But all of you have another goal—you want to achieve something.” She took a sip from her glass of water and fixed her eyes on Berger. “Exactly what that something is remains a bit unclear to me. The objective is hazy. You aren’t a political party or a special-interest group. You have no loyalties to consider