#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson’s first novel” (The New York Times). Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
IT'S A FEAR MORE PARALYZING THAN FALLING. MORE TERRIFYING THAN ABSOLUTE DARKNESS. MORE HORRIFYING THAN ANYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE. IT'S THE ONE FEAR YOU CANNOT ESCAPE, NO MATTER WHERE YOU RUN...NO MATTER WHERE YOU HIDE. IT'S THE FEAR OF YOURSELF. IT'S REAL. IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. AND FACING IT CAN BE DEADLY. FEAR FOR YOUR MIND.
