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The Girl Who Played with Fire |
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Stieg Larsson |
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| In 2004, Stieg Larsson, the editor-in-chief of the liberal investigative journal Expo delivered three finished manuscripts to his publisher, but suffered a fatal heart attack shortly after. The first novel in the series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was published posthumously and was a literary sensation in Sweden and the rest of Europe and the US. The second novel in Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Played with Fire, is even more intense and thrilling than the previous one. It features once again Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist in a progressive investigative magazine Millennium, and Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but socially inept computer hacker and math whiz. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the two have worked together on a murder case, and had a brief affair, despite Libeth’s solitary nature and general distrust of men. She has since been ignoring Blomkvist’s attempts to contact her, and travelling the world. Meanwhile, Blomkvist has plunged himself in the investigation into sex-trafficking and drug trade between Russia, Eastern Europe and Sweden. When the journalist who has provided Mikael the information regarding the sex-trade is found dead with his girlfriend in their apartment, Mikael is devastated, and then shocked when the police tell him that Lisbeth’s prints are on the murder weapon. Upon learning that she is a suspect, Lisbeth decides to evade the authorities and discover who has framed her, relying on her exceptional hacking skills. As Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth each try to discover the truth, the history of Lisbeth’s abusive childhood and cruel adolescence is revealed, a series of maltreatments and betrayals by her teachers, doctors, guardians and the police. Packed with colourful characters, including wicked child psychiatrists, malevolent bikers and a mad former Russian KGB agent turned drug and sex trafficker, not to mention the complicated, rebellious, socially misfit yet brilliant Lisbeth, the novel is intensely emotional and thrilling. Larsson also develops several important and gripping subplots, including Millennium, the international sex-trade and the failure of authorities to detect child abuse. The Girl Who Played with Fire is intense and fantastically told, the sequel surpassing the wildly successful first book in the series. |
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| Stieg Larsson, a Swedish journalist was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on anti-democratic, 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. |
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