Penguin, Toronto, 2009, 11^th pr.  ISBN 978-0-14-317010-5.  Larger MMPB, 724 pages followed by excerpt from The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest.  Very good; light edge and cover wear, light reading creases; binding sound; interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘Crusading publisher, Mikael Blomkvist has decided to run an explosive expose of a wide-ranging sex trafficking operation.  Just before the piece is published, the two reporters responsible are murdered.  The fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled hacker genius Lisbeth Salander.  Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation.  Meanwhile Lisbeth herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, and is forced to face her dark past.’ (from rear wrap)