Salander was afraid of no-one and nothing. She realized that she lacked the necessary imagination - and that was evidence enough that there was something wrong with her brain.

It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.