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Part One: Chapters 1-3

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lagercrantz, Author David. The Girl in the Spider's Web. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Hardcover.

• In Part One, Chapter 1, the National Security Administration (NSA) in the United States is introduced.

• Since the NSA was established in 1952, it has been involved in signal surveillance.

• Today it monitors 20 billion conversations and messages every 24 hours.

• It is November, and Frans Balder has quit his lucrative job at Solifon in order to take care of his son.

• Balder believes that his autistic son, August, is being abused by his ex-wife and her boyfriend, Lasse Westman.

• He takes the first plane to Sweden and shows up on his ex-wife’s doorstep announcing his intention to take his son.

• He expects a confrontation, but his ex-wife just turns August over to him.

• August does not speak, make eye contact...

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