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Already, a nimbus of legend surrounds the story: In late 2004, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson delivered to his publisher three finished manuscripts -- the opening salvos in a rumored 10-part suspense narrative. Like a latter-day Sjöwall-Wahlöö, the husband-and-wife detective novelists whose... read more
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Summary
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, 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... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Cast of Characters
- Mikael Blomkvist: Journalist and publisher for Millennium magazine, also a minor celebrity after his role in exposing corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerstrom
- Dag Svensson: Young journalist who approached Millennium about their research into sex trafficking
- Mia Johansson: Dag’s girlfriend, writing a thesis on sex trafficking for her doctorate
- Lisbeth Salander: Tattooed, bisexual computer-hacker with violent tendencies and a hatred of men who exploit women
- Miriam Wu (aka Mimmi): Fetish-fancying performance artist and Lisbeth’s sometime-girlfriend
- Nils Bjurman: Lawyer and Lisbeth’s abusive guardian
- Alexander Zalachenko (aka Zala): An elusive figure in the sex trafficking industry whose name alone strikes fear in people’s hearts
- Inspector Bublanski: Part of the Stockholm Police force, is leading the hunt for ‘triple murderer’ Lisbeth Salander
Memorable Quotes
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“She was not afraid. But she did feel a great pent-up rage...He was sitting in a car with the window rolled down. She ran to the car, poured the gasoline through the window, and lit a match. It took only a moment. The flames blazed up. He writhed in agony and she heard his screams of terror and pain. She could smell burned flesh and a more acrid stench of plastic and upholstery turning to carbon in the seats.”
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“She could not tell the difference between Sven-Ingvars and Nick Cave, but steel drums fascinated her. It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world. She thought those sounds were like magic.”
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“Salander felt like a bag of bananas that had been left too long in the sun.”
First Sentence
She lay on her back fastened by leather straps to a narrow bed with a steel frame.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Part 1 - Irregular Equations
Chapter 1 - Thursday, December 16-Friday, December 17
Chapter 2 - Friday, December 17
Chapter 3 - Friday, December 17-Saturday, December 18
Part 2 - From Russia with Love
Chapter 4 - Monday, January 10-Tuesday, January 11
Chapter 5 - Wednesday, January 12-Friday, January 14
Chapter 6 - Sunday, January 23-Saturday, January 29
Chapter 7 - Saturday, January 29-Sunday, February 13
Chapter 8 - Monday, February 14-Saturday, February 19
Chapter 9 - Sunday, March 6-Friday, March 11
Chapter 10 - Monday, March 14-Sunday, March 20
Part 3 - Absurd Equations
Chapter 11 - Wednesday, March 23-Maundy Thursday, March 24
Chapter 12 - Maundy Thursday, March 24
Chapter 13 - Maundy Thursday, March 24
Chapter 14 - Maundy Thursday, March 24
Chapter 15 - Maundy Thursday, March 24
Chapter 16 - Good Friday, March 25-Easter Saturday, March 26
Chapter 17 - Easter Sunday, March 27-Tuesday, March 29
Chapter 18 - Tuesday, March 29-Wednesday, March 30
Chapter 19 - Wednesday, March 30-Friday, April 1
Chapter 20 - Friday, April 1-Sunday, April 3
Part 4 - Terminator Mode
Chapter 21 - Maundy Thursday, March 24-Monday, April 4
Chapter 22 - Tuesday, March 29-Sunday, April 3
Chapter 23 - Sunday, April 3-Monday, April 4
Chapter 24 - Monday, April 4-Tuesday, April 5
Chapter 25 - Tuesday, April 5-Wednesday, April 6
Chapter 26 - Wednesday, April 6
Chapter 27 - Wednesday, April 6
Chapter 28 - Wednesday, April 6
Chapter 29 - Wednesday, April 6-Thursday, April 7
Series
This is book 2 in the The Millennium Trilogy series.
Authors & Contributors
- Stieg Larsson (Author)
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