The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (English, Paperback, Stieg Larsson)

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest is a pulse-racing action novel about a magazine editor and a skilled hacker, and is part of the trilogy written by Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson.

Summary Of The Book

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest is about two people who are thrown together under extraordinary circumstances. These two are the main characters of the book. One is called Mikael Blomkvist, who edits a magazine known as the Millennium. The other is Lisbeth Salander, a small, lithe “goth” girl who has remarkable hacking skills. She is the “girl” in all three of the author's books in this series.

The Millenium is a magazine which was mainly focussed on exposing radical and racial groups in the vicinity, which is probably semi-autobiographical, since the author himself worked for a magazine called Expo that was dedicated to the same causes. Salander is a reckless girl with a rather complicated past, and along with Blomkvist, she takes on all the criminals of the European world in The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest.

The first book of the series, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, opens with Blomkvist’s reputation coming under the scanner because of a libel verdict, owing to which he is forced to turn to a private assignment that a rich industrialist, Henrik Vanger, submits for his consideration. In the course of this assignment, Blomkvist meets Salander and the duo that dominates the series is born.

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest just continues where the previous book has left off, with a number of thrilling twists and turns. It begins with Salander critically injured in a hospital. Once she recovers, however, her troubles will only have begun, because she needs to stand trial for three murders.

With the help of Blomkvist, Salander will have to prove her innocence and then go on to find out who tried to kill her, and why. Does Salander get her revenge? Is she able to denounce the people in power who love playing such games with the weak? Find out by reading The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest.

About Stieg Larsson

Stieg Larsson was a writer and journalist.

Other books by Larssen include The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Stieg Larsson was born in 1954, in a little Swedish village known as Skelleftehamn. He was the editor of a magazine called the Expo, which was devoted to exposing racist and extremist organizations in Sweden. He was also a left-wing activist, and used to research Right-Wing Extremism in Sweden when he was not working on his day job. Stieg Larsson has sold more than 65 million books. He died in 2004 at the age of 50.