Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew Up... in a dysfunctional family. After an incident when she was 12, Lisbeth was taken away from her family and assigned to a legal guardian. She spent a few years locked in a mental ward for violent behavior, and then in and out of foster homes.
Living... in Stockholm. She lives alone, which she likes. Typically, seven minutes is the absolute maximum she can stand to be in someone else's company.
Profession... researcher, which really means she is a professional hacker. She is a self-described information junkie and has a photographic memory, so it's the perfect job for her. She gets a lot of satisfaction from her work. As she says, "If I can hurt a bastard who deserves it by digging up stuff about him, then I feel good."
Interests... getting tattoos and piercings. She can never have too many. Lisbeth has a dragon on her left shoulder blade, a wasp on her neck, loops around an ankle and an arm, a Chinese symbol on her hip, and a rose on one calf.
Relationship Status... single. Lisbeth doesn't have a type. She is open to dating women as well as men. Now she's involved with her fellow investigator Mikael. She knows it's not the best idea to get involved with a colleague, but he is the first person to ever treat her as a human being. And as he says, they have a connection as addictive as heroin.
Challenge... a tough case. Lisbeth and Mikael were hired to search for a woman named Harriett Vanger, who has been missing for forty years and is presumed dead. Her body was never found, so a family member is still holding out hope. But the truth may turn out to be even worse than anyone imagined.
Personality... detached and tough. She has to be. Since she was twelve, she has been fending for herself because she couldn't trust anyone else. So she has taken her life in her own hands and will do whatever it takes to survive and get revenge. Though along the way, she hasn't totally given up on trying to find happiness in her life - for once.
Get to Know her in...
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This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
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After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.
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Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.
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Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return
She is the girl with the dragon tattoo—a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution.
Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Salander for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals, and governments around the world, and someone is prepared to kill to protect it . . .
The duo who captivated millions of readers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest join forces again in this adrenaline-charged, uniquely of-the-moment thriller.
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Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge—against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.
Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back. -
Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, this second book in the Millennium series 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 with the Dragon Tatoo is about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden. And about her octogenarian uncle is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It's about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism and an unexpected connection between themselves.
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Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
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In Stockholm, Sweden, hacker Lisbeth Salander is hired by Frans Balder, a computer engineer, to retrieve a program that he believes it is too dangerous to exist.
