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The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
The international best-selling novel The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest ,by Stieg Larsson, is a murder mystery which place in Sweden in the 21st century. The author Stieg Larsson lived in Sweden and died in 2004. The main characters in this novel are Lisbeth Salander, a genius investigative hacker who is under arrest for attempted murder and use of illegal weapon, and Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who helped uncovering the corrupt plot against his friend Lisbeth Salander. Erika Berger is the head and chief of the Millennium magazine and Blomkvist is her occasional lover but leaves Millennium of SMP. Annika Giannini, is Lisbeth Salander’s lawyer and Mikael Blomkvist’s sister. Dragan Armansky, is CEO of Milton Security, where Salander …show more content…
They're beginning to build a case to discredit the evil psychiatrist who's wanted to keep Salander imprisoned. Berger's stalker broke into her home and stole private items like sex tapes and love letters. Salander finishes her autobiography and sent it to Blomkvist. Salander has recovered from her brain surgery and was to be moved to a jail in Stockholm to await her trial. While waiting to be moved, though, Salander does a bit of hacking and realizes Berger has a stalker. She identified him as a news guy at SMP, Peter Fredriksson. Suzanne Linder of Milton Security confronts Fredriksson and got back Berger's personal items. At SMP the next day, Berger's boss found out that Millennium was going to expose his child-labor toilet business, and accuses Berger of being behind it. She resigns from SMP, but first has Cortez's toilet article about her boss published on the front page of SMP. Blomkvist's book about Salander and the Section is to be published the same day as her trial. The Section wanted to prevent the book from being printed, but when they reach the publishing house they find that Milton Security is guarding Blomkvist's book. They decided to have Blomkvist killed and plant cocaine and a lot of cash

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