The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Summary
Swedish born journalist and author Stieg Larsson has spun an intricate web of disturbing crime, horrific discovery and thrilling mystery in his first instalment of the Millenium series: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Working his whole life to expose corruption in extreme right wing and fascist industrial organizations Larsson’s extensive knowledge gives this fictional story a disturbing sense of plausible reality. Unfortunately, Stieg Larsson died before his works could be published and never knew his own success.
Set in Sweden, the story begins with the conviction of Micheal Blomkvist, a once renown business journalist charged with libel. With his professional name in ruins and his magazine under attack the truth he has fought so long
to find seems not to matter anymore. Then, approached by an old-school Swedish business tycoon Herald Vanger, Micheal accepts an intriguing offer of employment: look into the unexplainable disappearance of Vanger’s niece which has haunted him for 40 years. Thinking he would find nothing, Micheal begins his research and it is not long before the threads of deception begin to unwind. In a family as twisted as the Vanger’s, everyone has their secrets. Meanwhile, readers are sporadically introduced to the fascinating, brilliant, but deeply troubled Lisbeth Salander. An incredible researcher, she teams up with Micheal Blomkvist, and together they discover the twisted, sick truths hidden in the history of the family corporation.
Stieg Larsson has masterfully created intricate characters that are both realistic in their emotion and yet supper-human in their abilities. A commitment to get through the first 500 pages (Larsson’s descriptions are little more precise then they need be for the average reader’s understanding of Swedish business and its history,) but the reward in the conclusion is worth the grind.
Set in Sweden, the story begins with the conviction of Micheal Blomkvist, a once renown business journalist charged with libel. With his professional name in ruins and his magazine under attack the truth he has fought so long
to find seems not to matter anymore. Then, approached by an old-school Swedish business tycoon Herald Vanger, Micheal accepts an intriguing offer of employment: look into the unexplainable disappearance of Vanger’s niece which has haunted him for 40 years. Thinking he would find nothing, Micheal begins his research and it is not long before the threads of deception begin to unwind. In a family as twisted as the Vanger’s, everyone has their secrets. Meanwhile, readers are sporadically introduced to the fascinating, brilliant, but deeply troubled Lisbeth Salander. An incredible researcher, she teams up with Micheal Blomkvist, and together they discover the twisted, sick truths hidden in the history of the family corporation.
Stieg Larsson has masterfully created intricate characters that are both realistic in their emotion and yet supper-human in their abilities. A commitment to get through the first 500 pages (Larsson’s descriptions are little more precise then they need be for the average reader’s understanding of Swedish business and its history,) but the reward in the conclusion is worth the grind.