Thanos as well................man oh man...........

Plot[edit]

Frans Balder, a computer scientist, returns to Sweden—abandoning a prestigious job with a Silicon Valley company—to take custody of his autistic son August. Balder is informed by several law-enforcement agencies that he is in danger from a criminal organization who call themselves the "Spider Society", but he ignores their warnings, preferring to focus on his neglected son. August exhibits savant syndrome; he produces drawings of impressive veracity and demonstrates facility with numbers.

Mikael Blomkvist feels like he is stuck in a rut. In the year since Millenium magazine's scoop on "The Section" (as chronicled in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2007)), the publication has stagnated and is in danger of losing creative control to the whims of outside investors. A former associate, Linus Brandell, puts Blomkvist on Balder's scent and relates Balder's tumultuous history. Blomkvist is largely bored with the recitation until Brandell mentions that some of Balder's activities were aided by Lisbeth Salander.

Spurred by a childhood memory, Salander is attempting to track down someone from her past, and her investigations have led her to the Spider Society. She has taken on a side project: helping the Hacker Republic gain access into the servers of the US National Security Agency. As the novel opens, she succeeds, much to the fury of the agency's top IT Security agent, Ed "The Ned" Needham. This puts her on the NSA's radar, making her a top priority alongside other persons of interest whom NSA agent Alona Casales and agent Gabriella Grane of the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment are working on identifying: an elite group of Russian criminals who call themselves the "Spider Society." They are led by an individual named "Thanos".