Stieg Larsson is a household name thanks to his bestselling trilogy of crime novels that introduced The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to the world. But he should be better known for his dedication to monitoring neo-Nazism in Sweden. Friends and colleagues commemorate the man who worked himself to death and never realized his success. A love letter to research and the search for truth, Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire is the story of journalist as superhero. Larsson's work is dramatized using re-enactments and film noir detective tropes that make the investigative writing process exciting. History doesn't repeat itself in a vacuum, and patterns can be predicted if you're paying attention, which Larsson always was. A defender of democracy to the end, Larsson was always looking for an audience to keep his message alive: Fascism is never conquered, it just lies dormant until it can rise again. Angie Driscoll

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