Found guilty of libel, Mikael Blomkvist, the disgraced journalist working for the radical magazine Millennium, has six months to settle his affairs before serving three months in prison. It's been forty long years since the unaccountable disappearance of the then-sixteen-year-old Harriet Vanger, and now, her uncle, the powerful industrialist, Henrik Vanger, enlists his help to get to the bottom of the baffling case. As Mikael goes through piles of archives, newspapers, and photos with suspects, an unexpected ally in the shape of the taciturn misfit and brilliant computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, decides to lend a hand, bent on leaving no stone unturned to unearth the dark and ugly secrets of the cryptic Vangers. And now, more than ever, missing Harriet demands justice. Can Mikael, and the girl with the dragon tattoo, shed light to the opaque mystery?—Nick Riganas