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Swedish born journalist and author Stieg Larsson has spun an intricate web of disturbing crime, horrific discovery and thrilling mystery in his first instalment of the Millenium series: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Working his whole life to expose corruption in extreme right wing and fascist industrial organizations Larsson’s extensive knowledge gives this fictional story a disturbing sense of plausible reality. Unfortunately, Stieg Larsson died before his works could be published and never knew his own success.

Set in Sweden, the story begins with the conviction of Micheal Blomkvist, a once renown business journalist charged with libel. With his professional name in ruins and his magazine under attack the truth he has fought so long
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