A tragedy with a happy ending?
Ha ha ha, you think we’ve gone completely bonkers.
So, can there really be a tragedy with a happy ending?
Yes, indeed if you are familiar with the sorry account of Lisbeth Salander’s life.
For those of you who get off on thrillers, the late Swedish writer Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest is a must-not-miss book.
The last volume in Larsson’s trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest brings forth the familiar set of characters – the oddball, anti-social, much maligned and much wronged Lisbeth Salander, the aggressive investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist, Millennium editor Erika Berger plus a whole bunch of new ones you haven’t encountered previously.
If Larsson’s first book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo focused on the disappearance of Harriet Vanger and the second volume on sex trafficking, in the third volume the author turns his gaze upon the Swedish state security agency SAPO and a small but dangerous top-secret organization within it called The Section that has wreaked havoc on Lisbeth’s life in the name of state security. Continue reading »
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