Tangled but worthy follow-up to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(2008), also starring journo extraordinaire Mikael Blomkvist and
Lisbeth Salander, the Lara Crofts of the land of the midnight sun.
That's not quite right: Lisbeth is really a Baltic MacGyver with a
highly developed sense of outrage, a sociopathic bent and brand-new
breast implants, to say nothing of a well-stuffed bankbook. The
late Larsson's sequel does not absolutely require knowledge of its
predecessor, but it helps, given the convoluted back story and the
allusive, sometimes loopy structure of the present book. In all
events, Lisbeth bears her trademark dragon tattoo still, but her
wasp is gone, for a curious reason: "The wasp was too conspicuous
and it made her too easy remember and identify. Salander did not
want to be remembered or identified." She cuts a fine figure all
the same on the beach at Grenada, where she falls into a sticky
skein of intrigue involving the usual suspects: self-righteous
crusaders, bored Club Med types and some very nasty characters on
both sides of what used to be called the Iron Curtain. So sticky is
the plot, in fact, that Lisbeth finds herself accused of committing
murder. It's a predicament that the utterly self-reliant but
unworldly hacker (when we catch up with her, she's reading a
mathematics treatise picked up during one of her frequent visits to
university bookshops) needs Blomkvist's help to get out of. Some of
the traditional elements of the espionage thriller turn up in
Larsson's pages, while others are turned on their head - sometimes
literally, at least where the romantic bits come in. Still, while
endlessly complex, the plot has the requisite chases, cliffhangers
and bloodshed. Not to mention Fermat's theorem.Fans of postmodern
mystery will revel in Larsson's latest. Those who prefer the old
Jason Bourne (or Mr. Ripley, for that matter) to the Matt Damon
variant may not be quite as wowed. (Kirkus Reviews)
Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists
about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are
murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of
unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger
to society - but no-one can find her. Mikael Blomkvist, Millennium
magazine's legendary star reporter, does not believe the police.
Using all his magazine staff and resources to prove Salander's
innocence, Blomkvist also uncovers her terrible past, spent in
criminally corrupt institutions. Yet Salander is more avenging
angel than helpless victim. She may be an expert at staying out of
sight - but she has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies.
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