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PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Translation copyright © 2009 by Reg Keeland

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Originally published in Sweden in slightly different form as Luftslottet Som Sprängdes by Norstedts, Stockholm, in 2007. Copyright © 2007 by Norstedts Agency. This translation originally published in Great Britain by MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus, London, in 2009, with agreement of Norstedts Agency. Published by arrangement with Quercus Publishing PLC (UK).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Larsson, Stieg, 1954–2004.
[Luftslottet som sprängdes. English]
The girl who kicked the hornet’s nest / by Stieg Larsson ; translated from the
Swedish by Reg Keeland.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Originally published in Sweden as Luftslottet som sprängdes by Norstedts,
Stockholm, in 2007.
Sequel to: The girl who played with fire.
eISBN: 978-0-307-59367-2
1. Political corruption—Sweden—Fiction. 2. Revenge—Fiction.
I. Keeland, Reg, 1943–   II. Title.
PT9876.22.A6933L8413 2010
839.738—dc22        2010006361

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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