Sweden. With Millénium, Stieg Larsson gave a new lease on life to the thriller genre and influenced hundreds of writers. His character, Mikael Blomkvist, a brilliant investigative journalist drawn into a forty-year-old kidnapping investigation, enabled Stieg Larsson to write a saga that exposed the intolerance, hypocrisy, violence and cynicism of our contemporary world - on a political, economic, social and family level - while turning these elements into an addictive thriller of unbearable suspense, hailed by millions of readers and an international critical success.