The Girl Who Played with Fire is the second chapter of The Millennium Series. The book is a product of Stieg Larsson who write it in Swedish originally. It was later translated into English by Reg Keeland due to the huge demand for the subject novel in other languages as well. From the same series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is another brilliant novel from Stieg Larsson and so is The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
The narration of this book is done by Simon Vance. He performed with sheer brilliance and the audience will enjoy this story in audio for sure.
The Girl Who Played with Fire is the follow-up chapter of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Both of them are ingeniously plotted by the author and will prove to be engrossing thrillers.
In this chapter, you will find Lisbeth Salander, which was a wise but troubled genius hacker. She remained the focus and the fierce heart of this tale.
Mikael Blomkvist was the publisher of Millennium Magazine and was also a crusading journalist. He made up his mind to publish a new story that could expose quite an extensive operation of sex trafficking. It was working between Sweden and Eastern Europe. That story had the potential to implicate some of the highly placed and well-known members of Swedish society and also from the government sector and the business community.
But the scenario drastically changed when the two reported working on that story got murdered right on the eve of the publication. The more shocking thing there for Mikael was that the murder weapon had the fingerprints of Lisbeth.
The first half hour was spent introducing the three different characters and branching the story. That was slow but then it became quite exciting and fast-paced