Millenium [02] The Girl Who Played With Fire

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Stieg Larsson was the editor in chief of the antiracist magazine Expo and for twenty years the graphics editor at a Swedish news agency. He was a leading expert on anti-democratic, right-wing extremist, and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

  Translation copyright © 2009 by Reg Keeland

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by

  Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  www.aaknopf.com

  Originally published in Sweden as Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden by

  Norstedts, Stockholm, in 2006. Copyright © 2006 by Norstedts Agency.

  This translation originally published in Great Britain by MacLehose Press,

  an imprint of Quercus, London, with agreement of Norstedts Agency.

  Published by arrangement with Quercus Publishing PLC (UK).

  Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of

  Random House, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Larsson, Stieg, 1954–2004.

  [Flickan som lekte med elden. English]

  The girl who played with fire / by Stieg Larsson; translated from

  the Swedish by Reg Keeland.—1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  Originally published: Stockholm: Norstedts, 2006.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-27230-0

  I. Keeland, Reg, 1943–II. Title.

  PT9876.22.A6933F5713 2009

  839.73′8—dc22 2009014053

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places,

  and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination

  or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,

  events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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