Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.
The Girl Who Played with Fire is the second book in Stieg Larsson's Milennium Trilogy Series (the first is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). I thought this book was as good as the first. Larsson has such an ability to create a very complex story while still allowing the reader to follow along. The characters are so real in his books that, if they were actually real, you could pick them out from a crowd and would know their personalities and quirks. As in the first book of the series, this book contains some very dark, violent scenes. But again, there was so much to this story that those scenes didn't ruin it for me. This book is another long one, but it's definitely a page-turner!
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