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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Rating:  1738 reviews
Sales Rank: 938
Format: Deckle Edge
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st American
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.8 x 1.5
ISBN: 0307269752
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 9780307269751
ASIN: 0307269752
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
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Product Description
A sensation across Europe-millions of copies sold
A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.
It's 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.
It's about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet's 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 age-and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it-who 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 industrialism-and an unexpected connection between themselves.
It's 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.
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch--and there's always a catch--is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues. Little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don't want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo. --Dave Callanan
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 The best of the three September 3, 2010
wspann
Great series. Highly recommended. If/when you see the movies...make sure you read the books first, b/c they don't develop Lisbeth's character fully in the films. The first two movies were very good.
Steig Larsson book #1 September 3, 2010
Susan Lee Thuener (Mohawk Valley NY)
Another excellent book which I highly reccommend. Only one more in this series. I understand all three manuscripts were offered at the same time and the author died shortly after.
 Heavily Explicit Material September 3, 2010
Sherah B. Rosen (Los Angeles, U.S.)
I think people should know that this book contains Explicit Material in it's story content. It is about a Serial Rapist.
There are a lot of graphic and grusome details of the sex crimes that are made upon women. If you are aware of this then fine, but I think the author and publisher's made a mistake by not mentioning this to the public in it's reviews or cover.
 I've Read Better September 3, 2010
L. Garufi (Maryland, USA)
It was hard to get through this book in places and I pretty much guessed who the murderer was as soon as he was introduced in the book. The shining star in the whole book was Lisbeth Salander. For some reason I really cared about what happened to her. We women don't get too many female heroins we can relate to. The fact that she came from disadvantaged childhood, which also led to a less than ideal adulthood made her an even more sympathetic character. Not that I'm that well read, but most heroins in books that I've read (at least books that are fiction) usually come from at least middle class or wealthy backgrounds. I find myself cheering her on, and she is the only reason I would read the 2nd book in the Trilogy. By the way the Swedish version of the movie was a real turd, hopefully the US version will be better, but somehow I doubt it!
I felt in love with Salander September 3, 2010
gian andrea
I loved the characters and the story. I read the saga in one single breath.
I'll miss the girl with the dragon tattoo.
Thanks Stieg
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