Chapter 2 – Friday, December 20

Michael Blomkvist is being investigating for Milton Security, one of Sweden´s most competent and trusted security firms; who are behind this investigation? Dragan Armansky, the COO of the Company, instructed Lisbeth Salander to do this job. Although nobody seems more out of place in a prestigious security firm than she does, Lisbeth is the best investigator in the place; she has the ability to get under the skin of the person she is investigating. She looks almost girlish, she is pale, short and thin; however, she also looks chillingly threatening, she is a pierced and tattooed punk with attitude problems and with an apparently lack of emotional involvement. Nevertheless, behind her sullen facade there is an unusual intelligence, she is a prodigy. That’s why the job was trusted to her. The investigation was requested by Dirch Frode, a lawyer who wanted to know everything about Blomkvist’s life, finances and moral issues. Lisbeth’s research revealed that Blomkvist was an honest and careful reporter that had been set up in the Wennerstrom’s case. Frode requested a new investigation. This time he wanted Lisbeth to unravel the truth in Wennerstrom affair.

How do you thing the new investigation is going to develop? Make your predictions!

Chapter 1 – Friday, December 20

Michael Blomkvist, a Sweden journalist of the magazine Millennium, who devoted much of his life exposing corruption in the banking and business word, was sentenced to 90 days in prison and to pay 150.000 kronor in damages for aggravated libel of industrialist Wennerstrom. Blomkvist claimed that Wennerstrom had used state funds intended for industrial investment in Poland for arms deals. However, Blomkvist couldn’t back up their assertions and Wennerstrom sued him. The court ruled that Blomkvist had libelled and defamed the financier and so he had to pay. Michael just could think about all the consequences: he would have to stay 3 months in prison; he also would have to pay the sum of 150.000 kronor, so probably he would have to sell his apartment, and there were the court costs and his own lawyer’s fee. But the expenses were nothing beside the fact that professionally he had received a real smack in the nose. It would take a long time to repair the damages.

A Friday in November

Like a ritual, Henrik received an anonymous present for his birthday. It was his eighty-second birthday. Every year, since her niece disappeared, a strange flower was delivered by post on the first day of November. The flowers were always beautiful and rare, always pressed and mounted in a simple frame. Their sender was always unknown too. The mystery tormented Henrik, who kept each of the frames on his wall. By that year, there hung forty-three pressed flowers on the wall.

About the Story...

Harriet Vanger, scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Michael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.