The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (original title in , literally, "the air castle that was blown up") is the third novel in the best-selling "Millennium" series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published in Swedish in 2007; in English, in the UK, in October 2009; and in the US and Canada on 25 May 2010. The first three novels in the series, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2005), "The Girl Who Played with Fire" (2006), and "The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" were written by Stieg Larsson before
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on "The New York Times" Best Seller list. Alex Berenson wrote in "The New York Times", "The novel offers a thoroughly ugly view of human nature"; while it "opens with an intriguing mystery" and the "middle section of "Girl" is a treat, the rest of the novel doesn't quite measure up. The book's original Swedish title was "Men Who Hate Women", a label that just about captures the subtlety of the novel's sexual politics." The "Los Angeles Times" said "the book takes off, in the fourth chapter: From there, it becomes classic parlor crime fiction with many modern twists...The writing