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By David Lagercrantz · shortly after the fourth book

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

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Behind bars, Lisbeth finds clues to a secret study of her childhood

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Quick recap

Lisbeth is serving two months in Flodberga, a maximum-security prison. There, inmate Benito torments Bangladeshi prisoner Faria Kazi every night, and Lisbeth decides to step in. Her old guardian, Holger Palmgren, visits with medical files pointing to the Registry, a secret project that studied children by separating them from their families. Palmgren is poisoned and the file disappears. On the outside, Mikael looks into financier Leo Mannheimer and finds out he has a twin, Dan Brody, another subject of the same study. Lisbeth tracks down the woman behind it, Rakel Greitz. She is kidnapped and rescued, Benito and Greitz are arrested and Faria's charges are reduced. The book closes with Palmgren's funeral.

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What changed in the movie

  1. Behind the scenesThe title Brazil kept

    Mannen som sökte sin skugga means "the man who sought his shadow." The Brazilian and Spanish editions kept that; the English one went another way.

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  2. ReferenceWhere the dragon came from

    The book ties Lisbeth's tattoo to a statue of Saint George slaying the dragon that she saw as a child.

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