The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Played with Fire () is the second novel in the best-selling "Millennium" series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009. The book features many of the characters who appeared in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2005), among them the title character, Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant computer hacker and social misfit, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of "Millennium " magazine. Widely seen as a critical success, "The Girl Who Played with Fire" was also (according to
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