The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest is the third and final novel in the best-selling Millennium series by Swedish writer Stieg LarssonThe novel The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest is the sequel to The Girl Who Played with Fire. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest was published posthumously in Swedish in 2007 and in English in the UK in October 2009.
The book The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest begins as Lisbeth Salander is flown to Sahlgrenska Hospital. It picks up where The Girl Who Played with Fire left off.
After surgery, Lisbeth Salander is moved to an intensive care ward under guard, accessible only to police, doctors, nurses, and her lawyer, Annika Giannini (who is also Mikael Blomkvist's sister). Zalachenko, whom Salander injured with an axe, is two rooms away. Niedermann is on the run from the police after murdering a police officer and carjacking and kidnapping a woman during his escape. Niedermann seeks help from his old friends at Svavelsjö M.C., kills the treasurer and steals 800,000 kronor before disappearing.
Evert Gullberg, the founder and former chief of "the Section", a secret division of Säpo that harbored and protected Zalachenko, asks former Section associate Frederik Clinton to become acting head of the Section and plots to deflect attention away from the Section by silencing Salander, Blomkvist and Zalachenko. They first form a working alliance with the unsuspecting prosecutor of Salander's case, Richard Ekström ... (Summary by Wikipedia)