The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Series)

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A sensation across Europemillions of copies sold A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery family saga love story and financial intrigue. Its about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. Its about Mikael Blomkvist a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case hired to get to the bottom of Harriets disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her ageand a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with itwho assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialismand an unexpected connection between themselves. Its a contagiously exciting stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.