In the electrifying follow up to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Lisbeth Salander the troubled wise beyond her years genius hacker is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium has decided to publish a story exposing and extensive sex trafficking implicating well known and highly placed member of Swedish society business and government. On the eve of publication the two reporters reponsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong toLisbeth Salander. Now as Blomkvist alone in his belief in her innocence plunges into his own investigation of the slayings Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an erffort to settle with it once and for all.