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<center><small>To purchase from this site please use a browser that supports frames.</small><p></center> <div> <div > <div id="wrap"> <div id="mainwrap"> <div id="main"> <div id="header"> <table> <tr> <td><a href="/shop/books/argyle_store.php?astore_url=amazon.com/argyle-books-20/" id="mainheadertitle">Book Store</a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div id="mainsubheader"> <div id="contentsubheader"> <div id="subheaderlinks"> </div> <div id="subheadertitle">Product Details</div> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <table cellspacing="0" id="detailheader"> <tr> <td id="detailImage"> <div class="relative"> </div> </td><td> <div id="titleAndByLine"> <span>The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest<br> <span class="by">By Stieg Larsson</span> </span> </div> <table id="prices"></table> <br> <p></p>Average customer review: <br> </td> </tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"> function registerNamespace(ns) { var parts = ns.split("."); var root = window; for(var i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) { if(!root[parts[i]]) { root[parts[i]] = new Object(); } root = root[parts[i]]; } } registerNamespace('Associates.Util'); Associates.Util.getElementsByTagAndClass = function(tag, class_name, parent_element) { if(!parent_element){ parent_element = document; } var tags = parent_element.getElementsByTagName(tag); var class_tags = new Array(); var class_regex = new RegExp("\\b" + class_name + "\\b"); for (var i = 0; i < tags.length; i++) { if(tags[i].className.match(class_regex)) { class_tags.push(tags[i]); } } return class_tags; } Associates.Util.findAncestor = function(child, test) { var test_func; if(typeof test == 'object') { test_func = function(obj){ return obj == test }; } else if (typeof test == 'string') { test_func = function(obj){ return obj.nodeName == test }; } else { test_func = test; } while(child && !test_func(child)) { child = child.parentNode; } return child; } Associates.Util.getSelectedRadio = function(form, radioName) { if (typeof form == 'string') { form = document.forms[form]; } for (var i = 0; i < form[radioName].length; i++) { if (form[radioName][i].checked) { return form[radioName][i].value; } } return undefined; } function AttachEventListener(object, event, handler, useCapture) { if( !useCapture ) { useCapture = false; } if( object.addEventListener ) { object.addEventListener(event, handler, useCapture); } else { object.attachEvent('on' + event, handler); } } registerNamespace('Assoc.DOMEvent'); Assoc.DOMEvent.AddHandler = function(object, event, handler, context) { var event_handler; if(context) event_handler = function(event){ handler.call(context, event) }; else event_handler = handler; AttachEventListener(object, event, event_handler); } function GetEventTarget(event) { return (event.target)? event.target : event.srcElement; } //borrowed from quirksmode. Stops event bubbling. function StopEventPropagation(event) { if(!event) { event = window.event; } //MSIE event.cancelBubble = true; //w3c if(event.stopPropagation) { event.stopPropagation(); } } function StopEventDefault(event) { if(!event) { event = window.event; } //MSIE event.returnValue = false; //w3c if(event.preventDefault) { event.preventDefault() }; } //does both StopEventPropogation and StopEventDefault function StopEvent(event) { StopEventDefault(event); StopEventPropagation(event); } function mouseOverFromElement(event) { return (event.relatedTarget)? event.relatedTarget : event.fromTarget; } function mouseOutToElement(event) { return (event.relatedTarget)? event.relatedTarget : event.toTarget; } var wImages; var link = document.getElementById('imageViewerLink'); function openImageViewer(event) { if (wImages == null || wImages.closed) { wImages = window.open(link.href, 'ImageView', 'width=625,height=700,scrollbars,resizable'); } else { wImages.location = link.href; } wImages.focus(); return false; } AttachEventListener(link, 'click', openImageViewer); </script> <div id="productDescription"> <span>Product Description</span> <p><b>The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogy<br></b><br>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.<br><br>Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p> </div> <div id="productDetails"> <hr/> <span>Product Details</span> <ul> <li>Amazon Sales Rank: #2 in eBooks </li> <li>Published on: 2010-05-19</li> <li>Released on: 2010-05-25</li> <li>Format: Kindle Book</li> <li>Number of items: 1</li> </ul> </div> <hr> <span>Editorial Reviews</span> <div id="editorialReviews"> <p> <span class="reviewtitle">Amazon.com Review</span> <br> <strong>Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010</strong> As the finale to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, <i>The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest </i>is not content to merely match the adrenaline-charged pace that made international bestsellers out of <em>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</em> and <em>The Girl Who Played with Fire</em>. Instead, it roars with an explosive storyline that blows the doors off the series and announces that the very best has been saved for last. A familiar evil lies in wait for Lisbeth Salander, but this time, she must do more than confront the miscreants of her past; she must destroy them. Much to her chagrin, survival requires her to place a great deal of faith in journalist Mikael Blomkvist and trust his judgment when the stakes are highest. To reveal more of the plot would be criminal, as Larsson's mastery of the unexpected is why millions have fallen hard for his work. But rest assured that the odds are again stacked, the challenges personal, and the action fraught with neck-snapping revelations in this snarling conclusion to a thrilling triad. This closing chapter to The Girl's pursuit of justice is guaranteed to leave readers both satisfied and saddened once the final page has been turned. <em>--Dave Callanan</em> </p> <p> <span class="reviewtitle">From Publishers Weekly</span> <br> The exhilarating conclusion to bestseller Larsson's Millennium trilogy (after <I>The Girl Who Played with Fire</i>) finds Lisbeth Salander, the brilliant computer hacker who was shot in the head in the final pages of <I>Fire</i>, alive, though still the prime suspect in three murders in Stockholm. While she convalesces under armed guard, journalist Mikael Blomkvist works to unravel the decades-old coverup surrounding the man who shot Salander: her father, Alexander Zalachenko, a Soviet intelligence defector and longtime secret asset to Säpo, Sweden's security police. Estranged throughout <I>Fire</i>, Blomkvist and Salander communicate primarily online, but their lack of physical interaction in no way diminishes the intensity of their unconventional relationship. Though Larsson (1954–2004) tends toward narrative excess, his was an undeniably powerful voice in crime fiction that will be sorely missed. <I>500,000 first printing. (May)</i> <BR>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p> <p> <span class="reviewtitle">From <a href="/shop/books/argyle_store.php?astore_url=amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000027801">Booklist</a></span> <br> *Starred Review* When we last saw Lisbeth Salander, she was teetering between life and death. And who wouldn’t be after having been shot by her father and buried alive by her brother? Salander was rescued, at the end of The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009), by journalist Mikael Blomkvist. She’s now in a Swedish hospital, slowly mending and awaiting trial for three murders she didn’t commit. Meanwhile, her father, a former Soviet spy, is down the hall, recovering from the injuries he sustained when Lisbeth stuck an ax in his head. Blomkvist, Salander’s loyal friend, sets out to prove her innocence, but to do so he must expose a decades-old conspiracy within the Swedish secret service that has resulted in, among other travesties, a lifetime of abuse heaped upon Salander, whose very life threatens to expose the deadly charade. The late Larsson (this third novel in his Millennium Trilogy is his final book) can be accused of heaping too much plot between two covers—in addition to the Salander story, there is an elaborate subplot involving Blomkvist’s lover, Erica, and her travails as the first female editor of a major Stockholm newspaper—but he is remarkably agile at keeping multiple balls in the air. But it wouldn’t really matter if he weren’t a skilled craftsman because Salander is such a bravura heroine—steel will and piercing intelligence veiling a heartbreaking vulnerability—that we’d willingly follow her through any bramble bush of a plot. She spends more than half of this novel in a hospital bed, but orchestrating the action from her Palm computer, she dominates the stage like Lear. There are few characters as formidable as Lisbeth Salander in contemporary fiction of any kind. She will be sorely missed. --Bill Ott </p> </div> <div id="customerReviews"> <hr> <span>Customer Reviews</span> <p> <span class="reviewtitle">Beautiful Conclusion to an Almost Perfect Trilogy</span> <br>Just as Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" is held up as the trilogy to which all fantasy trilogies are inevitably compared, I've little doubt that Larsson's Millenium series will play that benchmark role for mystery thrillers over the next few decades. <br /> <br />"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" is an incredibly worthy successor to the previous two books in the trilogy. And toward the end, there will be moments when tears are brought to your eyes. Larrson knew precisely how to play with timing, rhythm, and wording to pace the story and its ending just right. I'm hard pressed to even guess how else he could have ended this series. <br /> <br />The story follows the natural conclusion of the events in the first two books as everything dovetails toward a "behind-closed-door" trial. Larrson did a very good job of the first part of this book that takes place in the hospital where Lisbeth is recovering. I really enjoyed reading things from her perspective, then spinning out to others involved and each of their limited pieces of the evolving puzzle. And things just get better as the book moves along. <br /> <br />Frankly, once you hit part three of the book, it's almost impossible to put down. I picked it up just once...just to read a chapter or two in the second half of the book...only to find that three hours had gone by and the book was over. <br /> <br />Larrson's tying up of many loose ends throughout the book - and this is key - throughout the book (not all in the last few chapters like so many other writers) is masterful. And that emphasizes the one tragic aspect of this final book: knowing that we will never again be graced with Larrson's storytelling mastery. <br /></p> <p> <span class="reviewtitle">A must-read for fans of this trilogy, but...</span> <br>For the ending of this book alone, it is worth reading. However, while I wish I could say that this book was of the same caliber as that of the prior two books, in my opinion it was not. The book picked up right where the last left off, with Salander in the hospital being treated for her injuries. Blomkvist continues to sleuth on her behalf in order to expose those who have made her life hellish and attempted to frame her for all manner of crimes. Of course, in his spare time he also still manages to attract every woman within a 500-yard-radius like a bee to honey, but I digress. All of the other familiar characters from the prior books return. <br /> <br />I don't want to spoil the plot of the book, so I will give a general review. The overall feel of the book to me is that it was the least edited and least considered of the three. This would make sense if Larsson had intended to go back and do some more tweaking and editing before publication, but he was obviously unable to do so after his death. There are entire sections of the book that meander on and on with no apparent purpose with regard to moving the story forward. These sections would have benefited greatly from some serious editorial paring. <br /> <br />To me, the plot did not at all move along at the same clip as the prior books. The suspense just wasn't there to the same degree. I recall that I simply could not put down the previous books, but I was nowhere near as riveted by this one. In addition, there were a number of somewhat annoying grammatical errors, sentence fragments, etc. <br /> <br />For the good points of the book, the ending (if that is what we can call the last 150-200 pages) is a very nice, tightly written section that ties everything together beautifully. Again, it struck me that perhaps Larsson had written the ending earlier than the rest of book three, as it appeared to be the best-constructed section of the entire book. For the ending alone, this story is worth reading. I wavered between a 3-and 4- star review for this reason. Ultimately, I considered whether the book, standing alone without the other two, would be a 4-star book, and I don't believe that would be the case. <br /> <br />As an aside, one minor issue is that on the book cover of the copy I picked up while in Belgium, the first blurb says "The Trial", as if the book is mostly about Salander's trial itself, which it is not. The trial itself takes up about the last tenth of the book. Whether this type of advertising will occur with the North American edition I don't know, but I write this warning simply so you might know what to expect. <br /> <br />In summary, anyone who has read the first two books simply will not be able to deny themselves the final installment, nor should they. Although I did not find the book to hold the same level of suspense and I sometimes found it rather dull, the ending of the book makes it very worthwhile reading. It is a great loss that Mr. Larsson passed away before he could really fine-tune the final book, and before he could write another.</p> <p> <span class="reviewtitle">Complex, Satisfying, Clever, Moral; Evil Versus Good</span> <br>For those of you who have not read the first two volumes of this trilogy, I urge you to start on Volume one and proceed. The characters are so complex and real that an understanding of their background seems to me to be a must. The first two novels set up the reader for this wonderfully clever conclusion. The tale of good versus evil is one that is a history in time, and Stieg Larsson has given us a treat to savour. <br /> <br />The first one hundred pages of the third novel brings us up to date, and then we start the real read. More characters are introduced and at times during this 600 page read, I wondered if I could keep them straight. For the last two hundred pages, this book is very hard to put down. This is a tale of a series of conspiracies and how they come to cloud the Swedish democracy. How did Lisbeth Salander become the abused young woman, and will the people and times trying to destroy her win? And, Mikael Blomkvist, the journalist, will he be able to expose through his words, the wrongs that have been done. Will he regain Lisbeth's confidence? <br /> <br />Lisbeth Salander is in the Intensive Care Unit, she has been shot in the head. Her father is in a room down the hall, reportedly shot by Lisbeth. How did this come to be. Why are the Swedish Secret Service surreptitiously going in and out of his room? Why do we pick on those we do not understand? It is easier for us to believe those that are in power than to question the truth. The theme of the trilogy is that women are equals. There is no unnecessary overt sex and even though there is violence, it is believable. Blomkvist is a hero, he is the main antagonist and the muscle behind the investigation. He is out to assist Lisbeth Salander in becoming the woman she is meant to be instead of the woman who was looked at as the mad lesbian killer. He says, "When it comes down to it, this story is not primarily about spies and secret government agencies; it's about violence against women, and the men who enable it." The characters who surround them are wonderfully sketched out. We can picture in our mind's eye their faces and their countenance. This novel sums up the story of Lisbeth Salander, but leaves us wondering what is to be. Unfortunately, Stieg Larsson. because of his death, won't be continuing the series, it is up to us to find her rightful place. <br /> <br />It is easy to understand why this trilogy of Stieg Larsson's has become such a phenomenon. The search for justice and truth from a young, abused woman who has the nerves and strength of steel gives us all hope. We can believe through this wonderful narrative that the world is indeed a good place. <br /> <br />Highly Recommended. prisrob 10-13-09 <br /> <br />The Girl Who Played with Fire <br /> <br />The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)</p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <p> </p> <a href="/shop/books/argyle_store.php?astore_url=amazon.com/argyle-books-20/">Book Store</a> | | <a href="http://www.argyle.com" target="_top" rel="nofollow">Back to Argyle</a> <br/> <p> </p> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <ul id="widget"> <li class="widget"> <div id="searchbrowse"> <form method="GET" action="/argyle-books-20/search/" onsubmit="return search(this);" style="margin-bottom:13px;"> <select name="node" class="searchwidget"> <option value="">Select Category</option> <option value="0" >Books</option> <option value="1" >Magazines</option> <option value="5" >Software</option> <option value="20" >Harry Potter</option> </select> <br> <input id="searchwidgetkeywords" name="keywords" type="text" value="" width="100" size="25"> <input type="image" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/buttons/go-orange-trans._V192189913_.gif" width="21" alt="Search" align="absmiddle" value="go" id="searchbtn" height="21" border="0" /> <input type="hidden" name="preview" value="" /> </form> <div id="homelink"></div> <hr style="margin-top:13px;"> <div id="browsetitle">Browse by Category</div> <a href="/shop/books/argyle_store.php?astore_url=amazon.com/argyle-books-20/?_encoding=UTF8&node=0">Books</a><br/><a href="/shop/books/argyle_store.php?astore_url=amazon.com/argyle-books-20/?_encoding=UTF8&node=1">Magazines</a><br/><a href="/shop/books/argyle_store.php?astore_url=amazon.com/argyle-books-20/?_encoding=UTF8&node=5">Software</a><br/><a href="/shop/books/argyle_store.php?astore_url=amazon.com/argyle-books-20/?_encoding=UTF8&node=20">Harry Potter</a><br/> <hr/> <a href="http://www.argyle.com" target="_top" rel="nofollow">Back to Argyle</a> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>In association with Amazon</div>
