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 government. <br>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 in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of The Girl Who Played with Fire. <br>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. <p> From the Hardcover edition.

By:   Stieg Larsson
Imprint:   MacLehose Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   UK airports ed
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm
ISBN:  

9781847245571

ISBN 10:   1847245579
Series:   Millennium Trilogy (English)
Pages:   572
Publication Date:   January 2009
Audience:   General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In stock at Abbey's Bookshop
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<br> This book is good for all martial artists. It is more than just a good introduction to the physical art of jujitsu. It also conveys the breadth and depth of the art and the benefits to be gained by studying it. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting an initial or deeper understanding of jujitsu. <br>Lamar N. Fisher<br>10th Dan, Senior Professor, Danzan (Kodenkan) Jujitsu<br>President, American Judo and Jujitsu Federation <p> This book is excellent work and will be of great benefit to both beginning and advanced students. It is the first book to present the techniques, philosophy, and training methods of the art of jujitsu in a form that can be easily understood. The U.S. Jujitsu Federation recommends it without reservation to all martial artists. <br>George E. Anderson<br>9th Dan, Hanshi<br>President, U.S. Jujitsu Federation <br>

Tangled but worthy follow-up to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2008), also starring journo extraordinaire Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, the Lara Crofts of the land of the midnight sun. That's not quite right: Lisbeth is really a Baltic MacGyver with a highly developed sense of outrage, a sociopathic bent and brand-new breast implants, to say nothing of a well-stuffed bankbook. The late Larsson's sequel does not absolutely require knowledge of its predecessor, but it helps, given the convoluted back story and the allusive, sometimes loopy structure of the present book. In all events, Lisbeth bears her trademark dragon tattoo still, but her wasp is gone, for a curious reason: The wasp was too conspicuous and it made her too easy remember and identify. Salander did not want to be remembered or identified. She cuts a fine figure all the same on the beach at Grenada, where she falls into a sticky skein of intrigue involving the usual suspects: self-righteous crusaders, bored Club Med types and some very nasty characters on both sides of what used to be called the Iron Curtain. So sticky is the plot, in fact, that Lisbeth finds herself accused of committing murder. It's a predicament that the utterly self-reliant but unworldly hacker (when we catch up with her, she's reading a mathematics treatise picked up during one of her frequent visits to university bookshops) needs Blomkvist's help to get out of. Some of the traditional elements of the espionage thriller turn up in Larsson's pages, while others are turned on their head - sometimes literally, at least where the romantic bits come in. Still, while endlessly complex, the plot has the requisite chases, cliffhangers and bloodshed. Not to mention Fermat's theorem.Fans of postmodern mystery will revel in Larsson's latest. Those who prefer the old Jason Bourne (or Mr. Ripley, for that matter) to the Matt Damon variant may not be quite as wowed. (Kirkus Reviews)