RaveThe Boston GlobeHornet’s Nest is 90 percent government, police, and legal procedural, in which Salander, until the tidily packaged epilogue, has little more to do than send urgent messages to her hacker friends from her hospital bed, and while the story eddies juicily around her, you crave to see her in action ... there is a Dickens-load of characters that Larsson interweaves nicely, but they do little more than fill roles like pieces on a chessboard... Salander is the Garry Kasparov of it all, chess being but one indicator of her tactical genius ... especially in Hornet’s Nest, you’re parched for a flashback or a metaphor or a simile ... The prose forms a chain-link fence of declarative sentences ... These books are a screenwriter’s dream.
