![]() ![]() Larsson jabbed the button for the elevator, but it wouldn’t come. “You don’t look well,” his friend remarked. He never exercised, subsisting on a diet of frozen pizzas, fast-food value meals and cigarettes - he smoked as many as 60 a day. Today he was even paler than normal, and insomnia had carved dark lines under his eyes. “In a time of great danger,” Larsson had written, she remains “cool, calm and collected.” Salander, who has a dragon tattoo on her shoulder and dozens of piercings, is lovingly described in the books as “a girl who looks as if she’s barely entered puberty and who’s less than five feet tall.” She has near-magical powers: She survives sadistic sexual violence, a point-blank gunshot to the head and lethal prose. The books, which Larsson called the Millennium series, were a hybrid of sexual fantasy and political-crime thriller, featuring an investigative journalist and an affectless, horny, cyberpunk hacker named Lisbeth Salander. And he had recently received news that would change his life: A trilogy of epic crime novels that he had written in a frantic, two-year burst had just sold to a publisher, and yesterday, he had met with a producer about the possibility of a film deal. He had to finish the next issue of Expo and had a deadline looming for a short book about the rise of neo-Nazis in Sweden. On the afternoon of November 9th, 2004, Larsson and a friend entered the lobby. ![]() The Secret Obsessions of ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Author Stieg Larsson Next to the buzzer for the seventh floor there is a single name: “Larsson.” The name Expo does not appear anywhere in the lobby. He needed a location that could not be easily found. In the decade since he co-founded the anti-racist magazine, he and his staff had been stalked, their printer’s office had been vandalized, and police had uncovered photographs of Larsson and his girlfriend in the possession of a violent neo-Nazi group. It is a gray building on a gray side street in a gray part of Stockholm. The offices of “ Expo” magazine are on the top floor of a seven-story office building in the drab, middle-class neighborhood of Fridhemsplan. ![]()
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