Tuesday, August 30, 2011

??And yet the recommendation was that she should be institutionalized??? ??That was based on her prior history.

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Annika. That??s why S. But I would be grateful if you would listen to what we have to say. he would not have given the car a second glance.D. he needs a new kidney and spends a lot of his time in dialysis or some other treatment. If Armansky??s account was true. But he was still alive. Salander used to train at a gym in S?der. ??I??m cutting back on the training now. In Blomkvist??s copy. and from there she would create a new identity somewhere in the world. ??Mikael isn??t here today. not for S?po alone but probably for intelligence services all over the world.?? ??That doesn??t sound so good.

00. ??May I ask a personal question??? She looked at him. Salander swore in frustration and pinged Plague. Salander is. and he perfectly understood that this was.?? ??I hope she will. Drama last night as triple murderer Lisbeth Salander is finally captured.?? Beckman was completely O.?? Modig cocked her head to one side.?? ??Does anyone know about Torstensson??s condition??? asked one of the inspectors from Violent Crime.?? ??What kind of job??? ??Do you trust me. ??Give me a few years at the daily and then. and I can??t tell the others before I tell him. Blomkvist was asking her for permission to tell the truth in his book. A police dog followed the trail to a narrow trench in a clearing in a wood about four hundred metres north-east of the farmhouse.

At the same time Blomkvist had been suffering through an appalling period as I. Then her I. In its place hung a rope from a hook. You??ve got to decide for yourself. to lunch. ??I thought you were a health-food fanatic. and which he wants S.?? ??You started it. She skipped down to the fourth paragraph. Edklinth had a sense that cogs were whirring at high speed behind the P. It is forbidden to defame or slander another person. Her constitutional rights are being violated by the very people who ought to be protecting her.?? Modig looked at the time again. At the age of forty Gullberg consequently found himself in a situation where he did not have to explain his actions to any living soul and could initiate investigations of anyone he chose. three of them around thirty-five years old.

?? Her husband sighed. obviously. He was almost at the door when he heard Zalachenko??s voice again. 1966).?? ??Forget I asked. not through official channels and bureaucratic regulations.?? Holm said.?? ??I must not have realized that it would centre on Salander. But those two copies have to be recovered. By the early ??80s Zalachenko had calmed down and begun to adapt. Her left shoulder stabbed like a knife if she moved carelessly or tried to shift her weight. He started up the hill straight towards her. But I can see to it that you get a nicotine patch or some gum. In that case. Going back down the corridor.

?? Silence. he invited Milton Security??s C. had been shot and killed at Sahlgrenska hospital in G?teborg. ??I need a favour. I might be able to postpone the move for another week. and Zalachenko. We??d be sent down so fast it??d make your head spin. It was our treasury. but asked questions until he was satisfied. after all. Let me put it on record that you do not have to say anything at all. And I??d have a serious problem if it became known. She went back to her inbox and opened the message that had arrived two days before.B.?? ??This conversation is over.

?? Eriksson said. I thought we might be able to come to an understanding here.?? ??Therefore an intruder would have a good chance of approaching your house without being observed. are you going to come quietly or do I have to handcuff you??? The consultant from Milton Security was waiting for Berger when she got home at around 7. and who the killer was. Jonas. with dormer windows looking out on Gamla Stan and the waters of Riddarfj?rden. he always felt a little out of place in Stockholm. Documentation to the hilt. But he did not have access to her room and had never even seen her. Lisbeth Salander.?? Blomkvist said. He landed in the spotlight when he shot dead some hooligan a couple of years ago.?? Edklinth said with a faint smile. and you??re not telling me anything.

??Hello. That??s much more serious. Bj?rck??s prints were on the handle and the blade. Then he gave Zalachenko a long. ??They??ll twist what I say and use it against me. Salander summed up her situation in five lines. In the background O. It was surprisingly regular. against members of the Immigration Division. They do their best to ignore anything they hear about us. Statistics also argued that the majority of poison pen artists were either teenagers or middle-aged. But what is worse ?? Because the prosecutor has isolated Lisbeth. and Armansky did not think a little discreet surveillance was such a bad thing.?? the P. wasn??t established until four months later.

It was entirely up to him to decide whether he would talk to her or not.?? she said.?? ??So who in the building is working for the Zalachenko club??? ??We don??t know yet. There were computers now. An Internet search showed that there was hardly any current literature on the subject. ??Then I??ll choose to interpret it that way. Something has come across my desk that is so remarkable that I believe both you and the Prime Minister need to be informed. But that usually happened only with patients whose doctors were already managing their treatment. at which time the Soviet Union was heading for collapse and Zalachenko had ceased to be a priority.?? ??Interesting thought. I tried to persuade Paulsson to bring in a dog unit???? ??It??s on its way now. Her life was her own business. Gullberg was suddenly a big player: he was welcomed with respect in the exclusive club of selected warriors. Do you get along with her??? ??She??s alright. Right now he??s on the run and he??ll be seriously dangerous to anyone he runs into.

But Salander??s being isolated presented one other acute problem. Gullberg saw a red flower-shaped splatter on the wall behind the bedhead. ??O.?? ??But let??s save the secrets till we meet again tomorrow.?? Eriksson smiled at him sadly. ??My family. It can only be someone at S. ??I??m really sorry that somebody decided to target you for this ugly campaign. But I??m not lumbered with that sort of restriction. who boxed with him.?? ??That sounds fishy. Unlike Lundin. ??But our supposition is that Bjurman assaulted Salander and that she struck back and did that ???? He pointed at the tattoo in the autopsy photograph. that her hair was one big lump of dried clay. you??re worryingly habit-forming.

I won??t get involved in any horse-trading that might be constitutionally dubious.?? * Berger was slightly annoyed when she walked into Samir??s Cauldron. But he was still alive. In his editorials he came across as boring and conservative. with a broad experience. I have a source who provides me with some info.M.M. I have. She turned on her mobile to check for messages. ??He??s going to be digging up that stuff himself if he keeps at it for a while. On the other hand. a small group of dormant Cold-Warmongers who hide out in some dark corridor at S?po. One nurse had merely said in a neutral tone that her condition was stable. If I like it.

I??m something as old-fashioned as a democrat. and he in turn went to the Prime Minister. alias Karl Axel Bodin.?? ??Thanks. It won??t be over then. whore. that Figuerola and Blomkvist wrapped sheets around themselves and went to her kitchen to make a cold pasta salad with tuna and bacon from the leftovers in her fridge. But I???? ??You left the material with Holm. She found correspondence between Teleborian and a person with a hotmail address who sent encrypted mail. ??O.?? ??So there??s no actual substance to this story at all. ??I have to call Erika and???? ??No. We??re going to be talking to each other quite a lot. But it??s a balancing act.M.

in principle.A.?? Flodin said. slender woman with dark hair and a boyish hairstyle.?? Holm said. A uniformed officer drew his attention to a cigarette butt ?C a filterless Pall Mall ?C some distance from the hole. almost all of it above the fold. I??ve worked in the media for twenty-five years and I have never met a person like him in a management position. It was impossible. Vinge had been dismissed from the service after he had given voice to the view.?? The woman came to the living-room doorway and asked if Gullberg would like anything. Just that???? ??Yes??? ??Sonja. ??He??s got us over a barrel. the investigation and registration of Swedish citizens who might be suspected of harbouring communist or subversive views. then it??s illegal.

the report would be printed out and scrutinized. and primarily outside Stockholm. Can we keep it on a friendly level??? ??I think that would be best. that??s a fee I??ll gladly pay. And as such you need help. Assistant County Police Chief Carina Sp?ngberg tapped her pen against her glass of water and asked for quiet. Then he put on some jeans and the maroon sweatshirt that needed washing.C. He opened them again and gave the policeman an angry glare. Do you get along with her??? ??She??s alright. At 7. and against all odds the court decided to follow his recommendation ?C so long as she was placed under guardianship. She unfolded it and read a line written in an elegant script: You??re the hacker. Niedermann is known to have a habit of burying people. When she returned to her station.

For them costcutting was what counted. went to Salander??s office and picked up the telephone from the desk.?? Bublanski closed the preliminary report with distaste. Jonas. and it??s to look at the differences between reality and the T. The prosecutor is dealing with a marked deck. Don??t you understand what???? Clinton cut him off. according to the report. Blomkvist was not ordinarily impressed by celebrity. Within S. & E. He suspected that the Russian defector wanted to be exposed. ??Good morning. Her intelligence.nu>.

Then they walked about a hundred and fifty metres into the woods behind Nieminen??s property and scraped away the thin layer of soil that concealed a chest containing six handguns. 7.B. Who took your place??? ??I don??t know. Gullberg??s condition was critical.?? ??I apologize for putting you in the middle of a duel between me and Holm. as well as the handful of details Palmgren had been able to provide.?? ??I can show you chapter and verse to prove that the person who leaked this information is a police officer called Hans Faste. ??Christer will need a couple of days for the layout.10. My name is Anders Jonasson. One question he could not answer ?C based on the existing documentation ?C was who in S?po. whom they believed to be Jonas. You all know our deadlines.?? ??And yet the recommendation was that she should be institutionalized??? ??That was based on her prior history.

there??s one very large room. Why am I not surprised? Berger hesitated for ten seconds.

I am able to tell you that Karl Axel Bodin??s daughter
I am able to tell you that Karl Axel Bodin??s daughter. ??Hello. Lisbeth Salander. He said that he??d told you almost everything. or that you don??t care??? ??I don??t know.?? When Blomkvist reached home at 5. Nieminen was boiling over.M. and those responsible must be held accountable. If he claimed not to have known that many of the workers there were only twelve or thirteen years old. but I have another skill that is as crucial to her welfare. You write well and you have an eye for detail. I explained that I wanted information in advance on all proposed articles. but Palmgren himself had insisted. in 1968 whom he had personally evaluated as unsuitable.

That is serious.?? ??Media??? Modig asked. but no words were exchanged that gave her any clue as to who he was or what sort of I.?? ??But let??s save the secrets till we meet again tomorrow. They were sitting at the same conference table at which Blomkvist had sat the day before.?? said Andersson. And then the key witness.?? ??But I??m not a lawyer. ??She??s mid-twenties. and maybe a hundred other reporters had by now been briefed at police headquarters. as you know.?? ??Who gave him the instruction??? ??The chief of Secretariat??s assistant.I. He reached out his hand and mussed her hair affectionately. Falun would make 10.

When he was dropped off.?? ??Aha. The plane landed at Schiphol airport at 4. ??I have met Mikael Blomkvist on several occasions in the course of this investigation. Kurdo. The designation S.?? Blomkvist burst out laughing. but it had been a long day and a long journey.?? ??What a shame. which meant that some operator would go in manually and listen to the conversation to decide whether it was of interest or not. And don??t rock the boat. I would guess that somebody in Stockholm will be assigned to compile all the material for a prosecution.?? ??I was following M?rtensson. ??Mumbo jumbo. Paolo Roberto got it through a boxing club in Germany.

have been devoting themselves to criminal activity for a long time. A theatre nurse was applying bandages to the gunshot wound on Salander??s hip. Many of them were sadistic. I??m convinced that he??s involved. He was Prime Minister at the time. to a certain extent. advertising reps. He served in G?teborg before he moved to Trollh?ttan. author of the report. her I. He watched the flow of people on G?tgatan. Convicted of insurance fraud in the ??70s. but I??d rather stay here. ??As the situation stands.?? He sat down on the sofa in the living room with his iBook on his lap and worked without any breaks all day.

S. Herr Blomkvist. I had to read them the riot act. told the whole truth either to Armansky or to his sister.?? ??No.?? he said. ??Hello. 4. A mobile that was connected. But after five governmental ?C and roundly criticized ?C S?po investigations. Ultimately Zalachenko decided to restructure his entire operation in a new corporation that would be owned by Niedermann and himself. She worked first in the Violent Crime Division and then in the unit that specialized in financial crime. ??Thanks. Inspector Monica Figuerola. In his view.

Most of our employees have no idea of the others?? existence. She did not advise S?po of this decision.?? ??Mikael. and Holmberg wondered who did the sowing and harvesting.?? Erika had never had an opinion about Morander. You don??t have to say anything before your lawyer gets here. Then he saw a figure by the window. He should have been on sick leave.?? ??Palmgren??? ??Yes. nor was it clear to him how he was going to be able to use it ?C several more vehicles containing both uniformed officers and technical personnel arrived at the Gosseberga farm. Everything was running as usual in her head.S. He was talented. Her only problem was that she had an arrow through her skull. Then Figuerola called the assistant chief of Counter-Espionage.

?? ??I know. but you have to think about Christer and the others on the staff too.?? ??Next. You??ve been damned good as assistant editor. Do you want me to be your lawyer? Armansky and Mikael are paying my fee and???? ??No. ??Believe it or not. ??Good morning. series. There were photographs from various parties.30. and a third to operations. Malm lowered the camera. agent who defected from the Soviet Union seems impossible to verify. Lottie? Dig up her passport picture. Then he looked up and got a split second??s glimpse of Teleborian??s dishevelled profile and goatee as he came out of Pressbyr?n on the other side of the ticket hall.

.?? He smiled at her. ??It??s a shame that you should be having this setback when you??ve been recovering so well over the past few weeks.?? Blomkvist sighed. which were greeted by a worried muttering. But the nurses would know. 8. I??m leaving for G?teborg later this afternoon.?? Gullberg put his briefcase on to his lap. Quite apart from her injuries. And you??re picking at the scab on your head.?? ??That can be considered a step forward. 3. But this was not going to be of any help to Salander. She took a chance and hurried to the corner of Sveav?gen.

00 he ordered a cranial X-ray. I simply wasn??t thinking straight. Salander was locked up at Sahlgrenska. We can imagine two alternatives. That left 141 individuals. First.?? Figuerola said. First. He pushed up his glasses and scratched the back of his neck. I have no idea yet. You made it sound as if you knew what was being discussed at the Prime Minister??s secretariat. He walked slowly through the station. of course. He??s not afraid to get into a public scrap with the police ?? and he??s most certainly in a position where his voice will carry just as much weight in the media as any report from Paulsson. highly paid employees retired at the beginning of the year.

That??s where I met him. which reported to the police commission or the justice department. weighing her chances. and I don??t think there is any other doctor in Sweden with the same insight into her clinical condition.?? ??Hello.?? ??Name??? ??Protected source??? ??Naturally. and shook hands with his client. ??To your right. There was no time to act. And yet his liver. When he was finished. less regular breathing.?? ??I was afraid of that.v Blomkvist put his laptop case on the desk.?? When Blomkvist left Caf?? Copacabana next to the Kvarter cinema at Hornstull.

One of the medics tended to Salander while the other took care of Alexander Zalachenko. ??you had a message from Blomkvist.?? ??So it??s serious??? Ellis sat up and swung his feet out of bed. ??There??s an American professor from Boston called Frank Ellis.?? Flodin shrugged.C. and grievous bodily harm or attempted murder in the case of Karl Axel Bodin. He absolutely did not like the fact that Zalachenko and Bj?rck had.S. he has to be treated as a madman. He did not answer either. It was a structure with only two ranks. say. but he wasn??t. In the long term there was another worry.

?? He tied a sheet around his waist. then I??m sure she will. Too many cooks might wreck the whole dish. ??How does Bjurman come into the story in the first place? You say he was the one who started the whole thing by contacting Zalachenko and asking him to kill Salander. That might result in a fine of ten times his daily income. The head of Secretariat sat on the news for several days before he explained to Gullberg that the defection was so big that the chief of S.I. And I have a strategy. He sauntered after the man tailing Blomkvist even though he had not been instructed to do so. She then glanced at the bedside table and saw the water glass. ask Annika to do this favour. She was obviously prone to violence and mentally disturbed. Bj?rck was moved from his post within the Immigration Division to a desk in the apartment in ?stermalm. the case isn??t exactly rock solid.?? the P.

??Well. What else could he do? She returned to the subject of the front page.?? ??Good man. she had stabbed Zalachenko.?? ??Sometimes you can be surprised. She thought for a moment. Sometimes three.?? ??Just a moment.?? ??Third. Edklinth.?? She fell silent and stared at Annika. who boxed with him. Salander updated her download of Armansky??s hard drive and then switched off the Palm. Because this had been going on for many years ?C at least since 1976.?? ??O.

At lunchtime on Monday she had a visit from Dr Jonasson. He had a limp. One of the first things Blomkvist did when he realized that his mobile was bugged was to send Cortez out to buy some used handsets. staring in bewilderment at the Palm. ??You??re telling me that the Security Police is involved in flagrant criminal activity. She seemed lost in thought. Adamsson glanced his way. He made sure he had left clear fingerprints on each sheet. They make toilets at a factory in Vietnam which has been condemned by the U. who described her as emotional. ??Dr Jonasson??? he said. The work was routine.?? Malm said.?? He stopped and looked at the clock. A promise he kept for more than six months before he turned up at Agneta Sofia Salander??s place and beat her so savagely that she ended up in a nursing home where she would be for the rest of her life.

But you??re going to have to make up your mind whether to take on the assignment or not. ??A scandal to bring down the government??? ??The survival of the government isn??t my concern. and pinged up the address she had created for him through the Yahoo group [Idiotic_Table]. They had had a long. The first half is basically what??s in the magazine. The P. out and we??ve alerted the police in Norway and Denmark. She saw at once that he was not being funny. ??Hello. contacted the G?teborg police just two hours after the murder and gave them information about Gullberg??s threatening letters.?? ??She is extremely manipulative. I feel stressed out and unhappy.m. Otherwise there??s one very large room. Why am I not surprised? Berger hesitated for ten seconds.

record about Zalachenko.?? ??It??s very simple.

told them that she did not have time to wait
told them that she did not have time to wait.?? ??And who are his superiors??? ??He won??t say.?? She had not expected Jonasson to make special visits to see her. (Which he also did. ??Just a moment. And if Carlsson had received an email like that. ??By God. maintenance and I. Nieminen grimaced. and damn near destroy him with two blows of an axe. You should know that you are no longer a suspect in those cases. on the horns of a constitutional dilemma: he did not have the authority to conduct secret investigations. he was unwilling to name his source. ??Marcus ?? tell us what really happened at Gosseberga. It??s more about the boxing world in general. Either the person who did the falsification was someone in the psychiatric or forensic medicine departments. ??I??m sorry for chasing you down. Do you want me to be your lawyer? Armansky and Mikael are paying my fee and???? ??No.?? Clinton propped his elbow on the arm of the sofa and rested his head on his hand. piecing together what had happened overnight. went to Salander??s office and picked up the telephone from the desk. but it could be used as evidence that the meeting had taken place. of course. He watched the flow of people on G?tgatan.

She felt a small twinge of fear. and he had to pay the bill.?? ??In this case ??nothing?? could be quite a lot. The first patrol car with Torstensson and Ingemarsson from the station in Trollh?ttan arrived a few minutes after the helicopter landed. ??She was operated on during the night. Seconds later Blomkvist could also see Cortez. she said.?? ??But why would the K. He would not have thought any more about it except that he spotted the same car a few hours later when he was having lunch with Cortez and Eriksson at Medborgarplatsen.?? As she waved him out of the glass cage she saw Holm watching her from the other side of the news desk. Bublanski and the others who arrived at the summer house had treated it as a crime scene from the word go. maintenance and I. ??No. Jervas raised her hand. was not switched on. where I live. and he has Niedermann as a scapegoat. The best thing would be for you to think of me as a temporary work colleague. It??ll be on J?rnv?gsgatan. Lisbeth had aroused attention in other quarters as well. and she ended the meeting by getting up and going back to her office without another word. Who wants to go first??? Berglund cleared his throat.M..

she tried to avoid padding her bill with expensive hotel charges.?? ??Calculating what??? ??I mean. but they did not exist anywhere in the formal structure of the Security Police. He??s going to get away again.?? Dr Endrin said. Henry ?? you??ll have to go full-time and take Malin??s place as assistant editor. He??s been working here for four years and is in charge of operations. I??m a survivor. When they were alone she had asked her why she so provocatively refused to talk to the police. ??You know how it goes. She had no memory of seeing the folder that morning. they would have at the very least questioned me. and you can communicate with me only via hotmail. If the newspaper were stable and bringing in a tremendous profit. or where. When he was gone she stared at the ceiling. and around two kilos of explosives. And Georg Nystr?m you know. For the security to work.K. took on the first patient who was wheeled in ?C an elderly man with his head bandaged. ??I think I can handle Millennium.?? ??But isn??t that supposed to be done by her lawyer??? ??As you must have gathered by now. In other words.

Which. All democracy has its limits. they are anxious to arrest him as soon as possible. The first thirty pages of the report that Blomkvist discovered agree with the original. Blomkvist nodded. after all. He was taciturn but pleasant. ??I know. ??One more thing. The relatively limited technology to which Trinity had access meant that he had to park his van on Bergsgatan or one of the nearby streets and laboriously calibrate the equipment until he had identified the fingerprint that represented Ekstr?m??s mobile number. Lisbeth Salander. And to cap it all. ??You suspect that there??s a conspiracy within the Security Police that is acting outside its constitutional mandate. Baksi had been caught in the act by Per-Erik ?str?m ?C the same man who went on to be the paedophile hunter at Save the Children ?C who in the ??80s was the research secretary at the Trades Union Federation. It probably depends on who made the decision. and was admitted by the rabbi himself. Jonas.B. but it??s been three years since the last time. It has been 56 days since your last visit. It should have been obvious that everything was not going well. I repeat. and dressed.?? Wadensj?? turned to Gullberg.

and present documentation that annihilates the prosecution??s game.?? She glanced at her watch. Of course it??s a long way from being a bonus as huge as the ones that some of the directors of Skandia grabbed. starting when she was a child. said. Somebody must have made that decision. Figuerola sat motionless for thirty seconds.v Berger took a deep breath as the lift door opened and she walked into the editorial offices of Svenska Morgon-Posten. ??The people who were looking after Zalachenko went far beyond their jurisdiction. Same registration.?? ??Correct. ??Get on to the Undersecretary of State and the head of the legal department. ??Good afternoon. I don??t want to see any rings on the water or hear of a single ruffled feather. For a moment she envied Berger. They tell us in advance the days they aren??t available because of holidays or something else. a pure media circus with himself at centre stage.?? ??You don??t quite understand the hard economic facts.?? ??And??? ??I asked what sort of medical expertise he thought he had to assess your condition and then I told him to go to hell. She put her hand on Salander??s chest and shoved her client down on to the bed. Blomkvist was irresponsible and kept vanishing on another of his mysterious trips. Andersson. It could be if someone is trying to break in or turns up in the garden or something like that.?? ??This is one hell of an investigation.

They chatted for a while. Trinity wrote.?? ??No. I took down your registration and ran a routine check. He is a 78-year-old man who has been undergoing treatment for a terminal illness and the psychiatric problems associated with it. and he has backing from higher up in the bureaucracy. the lawyer Annika Giannini. a folder on the kitchen table. still relatively unsure in his role. There is no added cost that can satisfactorily explain the price difference. She also knew that he could accept any number of idiocies from his friends. In this expanding organization ??the Enemy?? were presented with dramatically improved opportunities to place agents within the division. Some are embedded in the brain tissue. They rejected marriage as subjugation. The plan was for her to end up in that warehouse in Nykvarn. ??We can certainly install an alarm that will work.P. which would otherwise no doubt also be held against her in the psychiatric evaluation that sooner or later would inevitably be conducted. I must have been hallucinating.?? ??I see. The technology was not perfect. train at Stockholm Central Station. it??s not my problem. How much would all that stuff weigh? No.

?? Only after she had finished her conversation with Armansky did Berger realize that she had overslept. Some years earlier that post had been occupied by the notorious Colonel Wennerstr?m.?? ??I??m beginning to have strong reservations about Ekstr?m. A whole lot of stuff. His name was Gunnar Bj?rck. He pushed the telephone as far into the vent as he could. We have no witnesses to the murders. blue eyed. You met him down in G?teborg. because you shot him in the foot and broke his jaw when you kicked him. Martin Thomasson was therefore the third guest of the day at Zalachenko??s sickbed. ??I??d like permission to go through the personnel files from the ??50s. but there was no alternative. but what is new is that the construction industry is a couple of light-years ahead of all other Swedish industries when it comes to competition and efficiency. department.?? ??I??m in the hall with a wardrobe and hat-rack on my right. then. of course. and he had made the connection to the woman in 11C.?? She told Blomkvist to fasten his seat belt and drove over Slussen to ?stermalm and parked on a side street off Artillerigatan. But she was on the path to recovery.I.O. A theatre nurse was applying bandages to the gunshot wound on Salander??s hip.

??And now she??s wondering if it was me that wrote to her.??s assets were in the form of bonds that he could access. But more precisely. sixty-three.D. we changed your bedroom door today. It might be some sort of flu ???? ??Does she have a fever??? asked Jonasson. By 10. as far as we can tell. I ?C or rather. so she reinforced it with another improvised bandage. The switchboard told her that it sounded like Susanne Linder.?? ??I saw him a little while ago.?? She acknowledged as much with her eyes. What??s the problem??? Blomkvist said.I.C. an official high up in S. For herself. He was known as Ruben. we won??t know anything until she wakes up. probably just after 3. A police dog followed the trail to a narrow trench in a clearing in a wood about four hundred metres north-east of the farmhouse. Zalachenko patiently explained that.

?? Blomkvist said. He used the term ??S. ??It??s Anders. That applied to Gullberg and equally to Bj?rck. She took the stairs up to the next floor and stopped at the door to the corridor. Unlike Lundin. An ultra-secret unit that was given strategic positions within the Firm. He was a dangerous bastard and a psychopath ?C a psychopath that the police were looking for with a vengeance. at which time the Soviet Union was heading for collapse and Zalachenko had ceased to be a priority. Both IB and S. She was about one metre seventy and looked to be in pretty good shape. In June 1997 Borgsj? had gone to Vietnam to sign the first contracts. 100 B. Erika had me to lean on. while she and Karim were expected to do all the spadework for the next issue of a magazine that had not had any real leadership since Berger left.?? Blomkvist could feel the blood rush to his head. Then there were a hundred other details. I made several copies of that one and have tucked them away in safe places. the previous day. but I could see that something happened just now that got you more agitated than I??ve seen you in all the time you??ve been in my care. A .P. she had not been in her study since ?? since she had read through the file in the bath the night before. and thereafter we increased our surveillance of her.

??Granny knots. She exercised so often that the endorphins her body produced functioned as a drug that made it tough for her if she had to stop training. which seemed not to trouble him.?? Figuerola gave a summary of the circus that had sprung up around Blomkvist??s building on Bellmansgatan. Francke and P. It was as though her time at S. don??t say a word. Has a shop at Norrtull. Ten minutes later the woman with the camera came out of the building again.?? ??She reads them with obvious interest. ??Hi. a dog collar around her neck. In fact he had not planned to visit the capital ever again. He was still in the kitchen with Paulsson when the armed response team sent to relieve Torstensson and Ingemarsson reported back.v Three days after Berger started as acting editor-in-chief of S. the Social Democrats having been in power for more than forty years.?? ??But isn??t that supposed to be done by her lawyer??? ??As you must have gathered by now. I was never privy to the details. All the blood was either in his head ?C the noose having prevented it from running into his body ?C or in the lower extremities. but nothing from Poison Pen. ??I got it for reasons that I don??t want to discuss. Opposite Ekstr?m??s office was a conference room big enough for ten people. That medication had been prescribed for him.M.

she thought. All that is nonsense. I don??t have your disgusting eating habits. The robber was waiting for her inside the stairwell at 6. If the newspaper were stable and bringing in a tremendous profit. That should be enough of an explanation. For most of industry.00.?? Blomkvist said. She was irritated with Giannini.K. I can make another copy???? He broke off as he felt the hair rise on the back of his neck. We have to talk. I have to draw the conclusion that some sick individual is doing this. the I. Then she lay quite still in bed and stared at the ceiling. She saw the glass doors of the editor-in-chief??s office. ??Thanks. and would have been passed over to the next administration. She changed the ring to silent and leaned back in her chair. Frustration was gnawing at him. Figuerola sat motionless for thirty seconds.?? Edklinth said. The pinkos.

which he at once identified as belonging to the Security Police. just as when we were editing Dag??s book. which sells genuine Swedish toilets for 1700 kronor apiece. It??s Mikael. from which several weapons had already been confiscated. That time the Volvo was parked on a side street near the Millennium offices. No luck. F?lldin said that he hadn??t known how he should handle it. I want to have you naked. she would like a cup of tea. Of course it??s a long way from being a bonus as huge as the ones that some of the directors of Skandia grabbed. ??Hello. without his father there to guide him. shaking his head. so she went down to the tunnelbana concourse. but she can??t work for nothing.Q. The government has the power to adopt a wide range of measures in the event that breaches of the constitution are threatened. He recognized her straightaway as Monica Figuerola of S. Then he gave Zalachenko a long. getting his bearings.?? Sellberg looked rather startled. But the point of hiring Milton Security is so that you have an alternative to doing that. The shot in Lundin??s foot must have happened after she kicked him.

Here??s the registration number. She had spent an hour infiltrating and charting the intranet at S. ??I come from a working-class family. ??I??m sorry. and together we would have decided what to do. where Figuerola had parked. he arranged. Then she found the brick in the middle of the living-room floor. was pleased. then you??ll have to call Milton??s alarm centre immediately to cancel the emergency vehicle. explaining her presence at the house and that she had been called in by Rosin. who was snoring peacefully. That matter will be taken up at the appropriate time. except for a few details. What do you know about his role??? ??He??s one of the major players. She was told that there was no car available to come and take her statement. his sister was no help either. so I??m going to see who owns Vitavara Inc. still wet behind the ears. out and we??ve alerted the police in Norway and Denmark. ??Based on current information.?? ??And what about his demand ??. She put down her book about God in antiquity.?? ??Let him interrogate me.

I have reason to believe that you know his story. and what we believe to have happened. ??You should have the answer to that question quite soon.10 he took the tram to Angered and got off in the centre of town.?? Blomkvist said. She took him by surprise. Drama last night as triple murderer Lisbeth Salander is finally captured. but we??ve had no report of a car being stolen thereabouts. In addition. ??Would you be angry with me if I asked you a personal question? I want to ask you as a private individual. ??Which pub are they in??? Blomkvist told her. he was more or less sober. and then ?? I need about a fortnight off to recharge my batteries. Figuerola locked all the material in her safe.?? Edklinth said. She did not understand what it was about. ??and get a couple of hours?? sleep yourself. to think things over. That was why it was generally either the regular police or other divisions within the Security Police who stepped in when Nazis were to be arrested.?? ??I??ve been running. Figuerola came to Edklinth??s office. ??My name is Annika Giannini. almost as if to confide in the other man. The ambassador finally relented and agreed to meet him at 10.

?? ??Did you write a report??? ??No. She had regularly smuggled in a few Marlboro Lights for Salander during the past month. ??I??m beginning to like my contact with S?po.?? ??But if someone else got one in ?? would you report it to the police??? Giannini raised her eyebrows. I can??t give you her name. with Nilsson as the only available reporter.?? Blomkvist said. He smiled.?? Berger clenched her teeth and put down the article about the forthcoming Salander trial. Palme continued to baffle them. Then he backed out and headed across Liljeholmsbron towards the E4. This is getting us nowhere. He was also about to go on holiday. ??First of all. Status report??? ??Rather unsettled.?? ??I see.P. M?rtensson left home at 7. Good grief ?? a video of me shagging my husband and another man ?C I??m going to end up on half the websites in the world. then Zalachenko. Then she turned and locked the bathroom door. She never pestered them for anything and had never before asked to speak to a specific doctor. He packed away his laptop and stood up. That was all Ghidi had to do.

He was pleased with what he had written.00 on Saturday night. ??If he??s out of the country.?? ??I don??t think so. ??There??s nothing in any report that I??ve seen from the Security Police that could have a bearing on this matter. She was in luck.D. He had been key as a consultant in connection with Counter-Espionage??s surveillance of a suspected industrial spy.?? ??Hmm. like twisted tree limbs. Acquitted of all charges. We??ve got them covered.?? ??Why ??unfortunately????? He gave her a cheerful smile. Right now I just feel like shit. May I offer you some coffee. On her side of the wall there was presumably a similar screwed-on cover.?? ??That??s me. and she looked miserable. we??re going to need telephone taps and bugs in everyone??s homes.I.?? The man held up his I. But after a month of conversations ?C ignoring the fact that the first two weeks had been wasted time because Salander was hardly able to speak ?C their communication was still distinctly one-sided.?? Berger nodded. or whatever he was.

We deal more with computer hacking and electronic surveillance and such like. Bingo. He went out in grand style.M. Janeryd looked surprised. She pulled up a chair and sat down. You know him. It was pure chance that he had noticed it at all. She showered. And since I??m co-operating with your Stasi-style bureaucracy. she told him. and in such detail. but the news sort of got drowned out by all the turmoil surrounding Dag and Mia.I. Go and find Benny. with all the advantages and drawbacks. No luck. She was not interested in being editor-in-chief of Millennium and working a minimum of twelve hours a day as well as sacrificing her weekends. Wadensj?? glanced at Gullberg and was struck by how thin the old man had become. of course not. She had been working fifteen hours a day since May 1. and paused to watch two Muslim women in veils hurry past him.?? Wadensj?? said. and asked him to brief the assembled company.

C. and her job included tracking violence against persons born abroad to decide whether or not the crime was racially motivated.?? he said.?? he said. But that won??t work for the rest of us.?? Blomkvist laughed.m. There had been no doubt in his mind that Salander was guilty of three murders. Sonja.?? ??Such as who??? ??The Minister of Justice. Someone had been in his apartment. ??Careful.?? she said. subdued conversation.?? ??I never believed you sent them. the man who murdered your officer tonight.?? They sat in silence around the conference table for a moment.I. And you??re picking at the scab on your head. Mogren was a carpenter and bodybuilder and had been her training partner off and on for three years. By now resigned to his futility. and it has to be done immediately and cannot be mentioned outside this room. Nilsson was not unhappy that she had been passed over.S.

He knew one. But I would be grateful if you would listen to what we have to say.?? ??As I understand it. sixty-five employees from within the Security Police had been dismissed from the organization on the grounds of presumed political unreliability. It had been one of Gullberg??s last responsibilities. her army scattered.?? ??How are you feeling??? Berger said. Teleborian had done a strikingly good analysis. At first she just saw strange lights until a figure appeared in the centre of her field of vision. ??She owns 30 per cent of Millennium and sits on our board.??s administration. He had treated a waitress whose legs had been scalded in an accident at a restaurant on Avenyn.?? The P. but he had a short fuse and was a dangerous man. whom he had known for many years and had dealings with at numerous departmental meetings. We also have a contract which explicitly gives me free rein to make the editorial changes I deem necessary. and that he had come to her room at 3. Maybe you should call a press conference. ??Hi. National Security Agency. She sank back on to the pillow. and he was proud of what had been achieved that night when Salander was brought into A. She took a sip of coffee and had just opened her mouth to take a bite of toast when she heard the headlines. It was through this organization that the young man was brought to the attention of the Section and recruited.

Eventually he became director of the agency. the total budget of the secret police was 2. She was surprised to be alive.00 on Friday evening Salander had a visit from Dr Jonasson. That way Bublanski would have his hands full for a while. It was 9. ??Why not give it to her lawyer??? ??Because Lisbeth is the only one who knows how to get at the evidence. he had probably succeeded. ??I owe you one. ??What??? he said. Given a few years she would probably be able to make a good anarchist out of Dr Anders Jonasson. But for the KAB. I??m going to kiss every inch of your naked skin. and I??ve also been made a mentor for a couple of interns. It??s a public document. These pages. I??m quite sure that either Lundin or Nieminen was carrying the gun. we won??t know anything until she wakes up. What an excellent tool the Internet was for freaks. H?kan Morander. and for possession of an illegal weapon. She had a fever that would not abate. had been distracted all morning. Saturday.

while she and Karim were expected to do all the spadework for the next issue of a magazine that had not had any real leadership since Berger left. The problem was that she could scarcely sit upright in bed. would you??? she said. it was that she was certainly not manipulative. He pulled out a Palm Tungsten T3. Then he looked up and got a split second??s glimpse of Teleborian??s dishevelled profile and goatee as he came out of Pressbyr?n on the other side of the ticket hall.?? ??And in order to do that.?? Endrin hesitated for a moment. I called him an imbecile and an incompetent fool. he would be forced to tender his resignation immediately. he had no objection to doing Blomkvist this favour ?C a favour worth 1000 kronor a week. The risk you are running is that you could have bleeding in your brain. purchase of research material. then we??ll lose the trial. He got up to find a telephone booth and called Wadensj??. Then Giannini crossed the room and pulled open the door. According to the P. Thorbj?rn. The problem was that the patient was in danger of dying while the doctor was still doing his thinking. 13. Bambi. At lunchtime on Monday she had a visit from Dr Jonasson. All that was needed was a legal psychiatric report. I??ll be starting at another publication.

Seven individuals who over the coming years would constitute a special Section within the Section. There are now nine hours left before we go to press and four before the front page has to be resolved.?? ??You??re at the Sahlgrenska in G?teborg.?? They made their way to the police canteen to have breakfast. Entry wound just above the left ear.?? ??And??? ??I can??t tell you anything about that. we have to be decisive and resort to tough measures. So she came to me and asked for my advice. She had almost reached Pustegr?nd when the woman appeared. He checked her chart and saw that she was free of her fever. The matter-of-fact tone gave the text such a surreal touch that it sounded like an absurd fantasy. It has nothing to do with Mikael.P. The exact same. Quite apart from her injuries. there is no ??we?? about it.M. Erlander thought. She isn??t the type to ask anyone for help. Gullberg??s still alive. ??Take your time. ??I don??t know. Edklinth. The door was locked.

??I just collapsed in exhaustion last night. Hacker Republic comprised a very exclusive club of the best of the best. Someone who was trying to cover Zalachenko??s tracks. about fifty square metres. a woman by the name of Kristina Cederholm. What??s happened to him since I retired??? ??Bj?rck is probably one of the very few internal colleagues who left the Section and went back to external operations. I??d like you to have company here for the rest of the week.P. ??We think we know what happened in broad outline.D.?? ??Not a problem. (who is regarded as an unreliable source by other historians).A. It was 10. T. ??We can??t go into the archives without authorization from the chief of Secretariat. a van pulled out and left a parking space on Bellmansgatan at the corner with Tavastgatan. ??Ask the boss??? said Bublanski. you??re going to have to fight. It was obviously premeditated ?C the attacker had brought his can of spray paint. We got the alarm roughly sixteen hours after they died. Finally she turned off the computer and went out to find a caf?? where she could sit and think. ??Yes. but the doctors don??t give him more than a few weeks.

P.?? ??No. Be there in five minutes.H. ??Do as I say and the Section might survive. let??s say ?C could publish selected excerpts from it.?? ??Micke ?? I??m so sorry.A. The next morning. She had no idea where she was. but he was a Kurd.P??. watching the door of Ekstr?m??s office. They went straight to the front desk. It was not until the end of the ??80s that he stopped monitoring Bjurman. She tired easily and her left shoulder was tight and hurt at the very least effort. and then within the Constitutional Protection Unit as an analyst and administrator. but if he uses an account that he set up at hotmail. or he can do something else.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??But I don??t think???? ??Shut the door. the police have been looking for Salander since Easter. Ekstr?m had remarkably little on the record about Zalachenko.?? ??It??s very simple.

to defend Salander. Then there??s the investigation at Nykvarn ?? three cold-case killings.

?? Inspector Modig woke with a start when her mobile rang at the other end of the bedroom
?? Inspector Modig woke with a start when her mobile rang at the other end of the bedroom. Cortez sat on the sofa in Eriksson??s office looking guilty.?? ??Are you sure??? She nodded. scaring the hell out of a couple and their kids.N. he had found her sitting in the chair by the window.?? ??Do you know him??? ??I certainly do.?? ??That was after Stig Wennerstr?m. That unnamed individuals in government circles had great confidence in him implied that he could count on their gratitude if he played his cards right.?? ??And how many hours a week do you do it??? ??Two hours a day. First. ??Around the entry wound you have all sorts of bone fragments.?? The next morning Edklinth was in his office at police headquarters. Red Audi.?? ??Good. She was content to confine her dealings with him to the Net. and that had to be prevented at all costs. The image was pornographic: a naked woman with exceptionally large breasts. a couple of days after Zalachenko and Salander had landed in Sahlgrenska hospital.?? ??What I mean is that you should go on with your life and not feel as though you need to entertain me. Cortez wrote feverishly. Then he put on some jeans and the maroon sweatshirt that needed washing. nothing.00 in the morning.

K. This caused the activists in Hacker Republic to devote a startling amount of energy for six months to hacking and destroying every computer owned by that company. The same is true of S?po. ??Forceps.?? Bublanski leaned forward. They had to decide what to do.?? ??I understand. Was I wrong??? one of the G?teborg policemen said.00. It depends on her rate of recovery. Her Palm had to be recharged only once every three days. Gullberg had objected to telling the government at all.?? Blomkvist had said. On the other hand. A man in advanced old age. And Blomkvist did not believe it. stamped top secret. It rang four times before Waltari picked up. to be honest. ??Take your time.?? ??The government does not cover up criminal activity. It was entitled [Read this first]. on the first of May. ??Are you going to examine me??? Salander said.

?? Ekstr?m looked as if he had just swallowed something very sour. ??Hardly. which meant he was thin and wiry. he has a plan. Sorry. ??Today is all about May 1. By signing this directive. jumped on the Katarina lift up to Mosebacke and took a circuitous route to Fiskargatan 9. say.v ?C 6.?? Bublanski said. Cortez frowned and followed Berger with his gaze as she cut across the hall from her office to the kitchenette. ??Good morning. She was no longer limping. You won??t win any points with the Trades Union Federation.?? ??Hmm. ??Black eye. National Security Agency. They were sitting at the same conference table at which Blomkvist had sat the day before. he had helped in the attempt to murder and bury her. and after six months they had put him on a flight to Spain. expecting that he would be asked to smuggle something in for her.?? ??Congrats. to shoot you too??? ??I have no way of knowing.

promising to make it up to him as soon as she could get home. The departing editor-in-chief. ??We??re the ones who don??t exist. Expert in complaining about taxes.A. He had given them a clear description of her injuries and the bullet wound in her head. I called him an imbecile and an incompetent fool. That is how the media work.P. feeling stressed. You might bear in mind that the beating that provoked Lisbeth??s attack put her mother in hospital for the rest of her life. Modig had to take the question. He stopped and looked about him.?? She lay quiet for a moment.* and the like. and examined her to check on her progress. could present a more forceful strategy. Every time she declined in a friendly but firm way.?? a highly placed Swede ?C or possibly other Scandinavian politician ?C who worked for the K. but on the blueprints from the city construction office she knew that it was on the other side of the building. of course. Documentation to the hilt. ??By God. ??In the kitchen.

The conclusion was just as unpleasant as it was obvious. She was ice-cold and stiff. My father was a psychopath. In those days she was spending two hours a day pumping iron. Frank. I took down your registration and ran a routine check. ??No bones broken??? he said. or that she had taken revenge by tattooing a shocking message on his stomach. Malm lowered the camera. It takes more than that to do in Erika Berger. And for this job Ghidi would be paid 1000 kronor a week. I should probably also mention that there are some individuals in the police force who are actually on Lisbeth??s side in all this. which he never did. Someone. But she isn??t Zalachenko. born 1950. Magnus. ??No. ??You know who I am ?C so you don??t have to be afraid of me. Then he drove down to the Continental. ??He??s lodging a complaint with the police against Salander ?C for G. Kalle Bloody Blomkvist had somehow planted a mobile just outside her room. ??The book states only that the Prime Minister met with the chief of S?po along with a colleague to discuss general questions. it??ll be the second time it??s happened.

?? ??It??s a small monitor.?? She braked at the Klaraberg viaduct and considered the options. But I would be grateful if you would listen to what we have to say.?? ??Let me call you back. I??ve talked with the head of the legal department and fixed it so there won??t be any hassle there.?? ??He succeeded in getting a policeman killed tonight. or the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. and I??ve also been made a mentor for a couple of interns. Your career might be ruined.?? Silence. But I need somebody to tell me if I??m doing anything stupid. She wondered whether she could manage to get out of bed. I wrote it all by myself and sent it to everyone in the company.v Figuerola woke at 6. Greger Beckman. That meant that Blomkvist had about a month to finish writing and patching up all the holes in his text.?? ??And??? ??I asked what sort of medical expertise he thought he had to assess your condition and then I told him to go to hell. At a stroke she eliminated all employees in distribution.?? ??I understand. where she works ?? and anything else you can find.?? ??What did Vinge and Francke quarrel about??? ??They were just very different. they were surprised to see me there. Somalia was a much better place for that sort of attire. Jonas.

Zalachenko??s biography was still vague ?C all he had was what he had blackmailed Bj?rck to reveal. I want to have something that shows that Prosecutor Ekstr?m is today working with Teleborian in some inappropriate manner.?? She told Blomkvist to fasten his seat belt and drove over Slussen to ?stermalm and parked on a side street off Artillerigatan. Figuerola escorted Blomkvist out of police headquarters at 10.S. Finally. There was no reason to volunteer the information that Lundin had called her a whore or that she had bent down and picked up Nieminen??s P-83 Wanad and punished Lundin by shooting him in the foot. Yet he was not hungry. He stopped short when he saw a woman with short.06 in the evening. By signing this directive.?? Modig raised her eyebrows.?? ??There must have been some other purpose ?? a secret organization within the organization. A detective named Hans Faste from Stockholm. Lillian had cleaned it with alcohol and put a bandage on it. But you could do it.?? ??Let??s hear it. who examined her patient briskly and prescribed a powerful painkiller. Ellis liked living in Sweden.M. It took her 17 steps to reach the room. which was mostly figuring out what was going on on the other side of the Baltic. joining Holmberg at the kitchen table. ??Torsten Edklinth has been given the task of finding out whether we can confirm this.

I want you to know this: you are my patient.?? ??No. Thereafter the story became more sluggish. So he had decided to play it safe. / Mikael Salander read his letter twice.?? ??It??s about a man named Alexander Zalachenko.?? Fransson wondered whether she could somehow arrange to hand the entire business over to Prosecutor Ekstr?m in Stockholm. but he knew that some time in the future he would have to pay her back and erase the shame. And not quite right in the head. Zalachenko.T. Zalachenko would give his word.B. and Trinity.?? Nurse Agneta frowned. but it turned into a wearisome sort of arm-wrestling contest. Then the memories came rushing back to her. His other two reports had involved less significant evaluations: one was of an employee inside S. and that it was a question of gaining her trust.?? ??Whichever.?? a highly placed Swede ?C or possibly other Scandinavian politician ?C who worked for the K. Salander seemed at times to be in a deep depression and had not the slightest interest in dealing with her situation or her future. Blomkvist briefly explained what had happened and asked Cortez to pass the information to Millennium??s editor-in-chief.?? ??He??s dying.

?? Edklinth took off his glasses and polished them thoroughly with paper napkin. I??m not.D. A man in advanced old age. a lieutenant in the Swedish army who later turned out to be a colonel in the Soviet military intelligence service.. political parties. it could be ruined. I can??t release her. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and pulled the electrodes off her arms and chest. As the plywood was being put up. I mean. You could have switched places at any time. Then he stood up and put the muzzle to Zalachenko??s temple and squeezed the trigger twice.R. But more precisely.?? ??Thanks. You??re going to need a specialist. it??ll be the second time it??s happened. but to her surprise he crossed the street right in front of her car and turned down the hill towards Blomkvist??s building. As far as I can work out. She was irritated with Giannini. Infernal bastard piss rats. but it??s not his normal mobile number.

?? ??I don??t think so. and that in turn would lead to even more damaging speculation and perhaps yet more insistent investigation. She??ll have to choose between selling her share of Millennium and leaving our board ?? or in the worst case. but I was waylaid by you.O. essential that the scandal should not implicate the government ?C which is what would happen if the government tried to cover up the story. The conversation was in Kurdish. which meant that policemen would die and Niedermann probably would as well. and maybe a hundred other reporters had by now been briefed at police headquarters. it??s all speculation. as you know. I wish he had left a letter. He opened the evening papers and read everything that had been written that day about the search for Ronald Niedermann and the case of Lisbeth Salander.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??Micke. but that was because Berger had always managed to balance an extremely tight budget. That was good.K. They contained data. Pain stabbed through her shoulder. even though he was obviously not supposed to write it until after he had been given the opportunity to examine her. And then she lay back and stared up at the ceiling.?? ??Fourth. She should be able to send a text message to Blomkvist??s mobile ?? but it was tapped.

were of the kind that were never going to be proven. I can??t get a sensible answer from anyone. He had only one. a hospital nightshirt and a pair of plastic flip-flops that she had managed to borrow. forty-four. Peter. He glanced at Nystr?m. but it was always during subsequent treatment or for completely different reasons that had nothing to do with his interventions. For several weeks they had been hunting Lisbeth Salander. said a polite hello. ??He hung there for something like twenty-four hours before the hook gave way.?? Three inspectors gave Holmberg an astonished look. But I understand making newspapers. In her role as undercover officer her looks worked against her. he patiently but firmly explained that the man who had committed the murders in Stockholm was Ronald Niedermann. ??Hello.?? ??But that??s nothing new. there??s good reason for you to be worried. When his uncle heard that Saddam Hussein??s police were looking once more for Ghidi. I??ve thought about it. it must have a special meaning for her. One last operation. with the help of Berger??s account. You know what it??s all about.

but we think you have a good chance of making a full recovery.?? ??And if you did that. ??Now. Inspector Erlander woke at 7. But M?rtensson was still there. But we have him in the system and can call him in again for questioning. it is. ??Who is this woman. He went into Salander??s room and held out his hand to introduce himself. Editor-in-Chief Morander died at lunchtime. I??ve never heard mention of this ?? what you call the Zalachenko club.01.?? ??Eriksson??? ??Unless you want to be editor-in-chief ???? ??Good God. There is substantial documentation. ??Why in heaven??s name don??t you go over to my place and sleep if you have to sleep on the job. That bastard aimed at me. The ambassador finally relented and agreed to meet him at 10. She thought the most important thing was simply to stop the bastards. Berger had received twenty-three emails by the time she arrived at S. That??s why F?lldin sent me to see you.?? ??If that was all there was to it. But I can??t swallow the scenario that says she was the one who was armed. ?str?m had enlisted him to proofread and give Black/White some editorial support. An hour??s research turned up the information that M?rtensson held the title of business consultant and owned a private company whose address was a P.

a pervert and a rapist. Adamsson glanced his way.?? Figuerola said. had climbed on to a stool. Nieminen bent down and looked at the bodies. He turned to Wadensj??. the lamp hook in the ceiling came away and Bj?rck??s body fell to the floor. who was looking more and more hollow-eyed. It was 4. most often those on the extreme left or the extreme right. But what does a twenty-year-old do who wants to move out of the family home? They can??t afford to.?? ??Lars Faulsson. ??What happened??? he said. Good God. There were 223 employees. O. I??ll ask your advice and I??ll depend on your skill and experience. ??Will do.?? ??I??ll do my best. Blomkvist was the only one absent from the meeting.?? Figuerola said. to every word I say. ??The task of Constitutional Protection is to defend the constitution against what we call ??internal threats??.?? ??I got a tip this morning and took it to Holm.

and lastly Inspectors Modig and Holmberg from the Stockholm police.?? ??Excellent idea. a role that took on added significance in the wake of Wennerstr?m??s exposure as a double agent.?? ??I??ll make the decisions and do the surgery. She put down her pen and looked at the totals. as you all know. The citizens were information junkies and wanted a functioning Internet that they could hack. We have a younger talent who does some field work.??? Blomkvist said. He was about fifty-five and had worked at S. The situation is as follows: The police haven??t found your apartment and don??t have access to the D.?? ??What kind of job??? ??Do you trust me. but it will take only a minute of your time. On the one hand. Do you know if she??s at headquarters??? ??I doubt it. And Georg Nystr?m you know. I??ll go over the details with you.K. He thought about it for two minutes.?? ??You don??t understand the situation???? ??I??m tired of hearing that I don??t understand the situation. I??ll show you how it works in a minute. You and Bj?rck arrested Salander in 1991.?? She glanced at her watch. He used the term ??S.

Nieminen walked the fifty metres to the barn. ??Find out which room she??s in. but roughly half of all the calls that Ekstr?m made on his mobile from anywhere near police headquarters were monitored and recorded. On four separate occasions Gullberg tried to have Bergling removed. Clinton sank silently on to the chair that was offered.?? They brought the conference to a close by deciding that Modig and Erlander would together interrogate Zalachenko. Which means that there was some degree of contact between the two of them while Salander was on the run. Two of Figuerola??s team were going to keep working. the media regarded S?po as an excellent news source. ??This is how things stand. They were sitting at the same conference table at which Blomkvist had sat the day before. I??ve told him he can??t see you. ??The day after we publish this. ??Lie still. Everything pointed to the conclusion that Gunnar Bj?rck.M.?? ??I gather you??re still busy with excavations in Nykvarn. ??Which way is he facing??? Figuerola said. In real life he was a severely overweight and socially challenged thirty-year-old living on disability benefit in Sundbyberg. ??It is legal. layout artists and others. I??d like to leave these flowers for Karl Axel Bodin.?? Modig said. ??One of my colleagues recently went to see former Prime Minister F?lldin.

?? ??Shall we take it from the top??? Berger said. explaining her presence at the house and that she had been called in by Rosin. As the situation is now. a need had arisen for the Section to assign a trusted colleague to the operation who could reinforce its control.?? ??Hmm. If the situation had been reversed ?C if S. He and the whole of Sweden had seen her passport photograph on billboards outside every newspaper kiosk for weeks. She had no memory of seeing the folder that morning. ??Can you open your eyes??? Who was this bloody idiot harping on at her? Finally she did open her eyes. Welcome. As long as he had a licence. Salander used to train at a gym in S?der.?? ??Alright. Three others were members of the Democratic Alliance too. I should think. no matter how many times she tried to block it. Blomkvist wrote a note on a yellow Post-it.?? ??Fredrik.?? ??First thing is to locate all the copies ???? ??I??ve already done that. but Paulsson was not interested. Metro and Stockholm City.. ??Nothing??? Modig said. That applied to Gullberg and equally to Bj?rck.

1989); An Assignment by Carl Lidbom (Wahlstr?m & Widstrand. and that over the years this conspiracy has committed what could be categorized as serious criminal acts. long before I went home at 6. Have you got a mobile on you??? ??A what??? ??A mobile. And. and that means you??ll once again be a pawn in their game. and ate a late but nutritious dinner.?? ??According to Blomkvist. He did not exist in any register or in any public document. Gullberg pushed open the door to room fourteen and stepped quickly inside.?? ??So you think there??s a single hand behind all this? I know Inspector Erlander. The police wanted to question him also in connection with the murders in Stockholm. To the bathroom with you. Salander seemed at times to be in a deep depression and had not the slightest interest in dealing with her situation or her future. Which was not very likely. and now. Zalachenko??s activities since then have nothing whatsoever to do with national security. but he was so exhausted that he did not have the strength or the means to get out there to fetch it. Lisbeth??? Go away. In Sweden you have to do it through a constitutional committee.00. he shouldn??t have had a clue that she was Zalachenko??s daughter; it??s not in any public records.?? ??I understand. She waited while he read her four pages.

She was attractive and dressed in a way that she knew made her more so. and he reckoned that the final book would run to 320 or 336 pages. At the last moment she changed her mind. We have no choice. Finally. It would take a very few seconds to stretch out her arm and break off the rim of the glass with a firm rap against the hard edge of the table.??s staff and finances. That gives us only two hours to make up for a whole lot of lost time. ??And we??ve only known each other a few days. could wander into a hospital with a bunch of flowers in one hand and a pistol in the other. the assistant editor. But she did not want to leave the car and start walking around the area. He and the whole of Sweden had seen her passport photograph on billboards outside every newspaper kiosk for weeks. You??ve got to decide for yourself. ??This is what I want you to do. As Blomkvist tried in frustration to manoeuvre his mobile out of the breast pocket of his jacket ?C it proved to be an impossible task with his hands cuffed behind his back.?? he said. ??The whole thing stinks.?? Only after she had finished her conversation with Armansky did Berger realize that she had overslept. the way you do when you haven??t seen someone for some time.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??But if things go well. he would stay in the intensive care unit for a few more days yet. We??ll do everything in our power to assist you with a lawyer and so on ?? but we need your cooperation.

who did the actual eavesdropping. He reached out his hand and mussed her hair affectionately. He had an office on Stureplan.?? Zalachenko felt elated and would have burst out laughing had he not been so trussed up.M.B.?? ??Could we stop going round in circles? Why do you think I arranged this meeting??? ??To find out what I know and what I intend to do with it. When it came to Agneta Sofia Salander. Something was eluding him. but she expressed in a thousand other ways her dissatisfaction with how things stood. almost made it on to the Swedish Olympic team. He looked concerned. the same in every A. ??I??ve got them. Nystr?m had first come to see him in the days following the murder of Karl Axel Bodin. we need to have clear documentation of all the measures we have taken. ??Can you explain what prompted her to do that??? ??You would have to ask my daughter. Unfortunately there was not much he could help with. First with Henry and Christer. But he could not get into the room and he did not have the strength to force the door. that I be informed of everything that has a bearing on the Salander case. depending on the state of Salander??s health. The document was stamped top secret and filed in the special protocol of S. Although.

but it was always during subsequent treatment or for completely different reasons that had nothing to do with his interventions. It was 6. She??s considering taking on Salander as a client. on the other hand.I. forty-minus. It??s not over. The next moment she saw a thin. This investigation is being conducted in great secrecy. You and your colleague are sources and you have complete source protection. She thought of Holm.H. ??Who??s going to take over the investigation of Salander??? ??I don??t know. though it might come to that. I??m only interested in the Zalachenko club. Gullberg considered various alternatives and then chose to steer Bjurman carefully out of the picture. had enormous resources and used a vast network in order to capture a large number of mobile conversations in a certain region simultaneously.?? Nystr?m said with a slight smile. after all. taken when he was sixty-six. There was no reason to volunteer the information that Lundin had called her a whore or that she had bent down and picked up Nieminen??s P-83 Wanad and punished Lundin by shooting him in the foot.?? Malmberg said. She??s at the hospital in Bor?s. He stopped in G?teborg to have lunch with an old friend before resuming his journey to Stockholm.

?? Blomkvist ran into Cortez at the entrance to the Millennium offices. Where exactly this boundary was seemed to vary from one person to another. when some operation went into a critical phase and they had to work around the clock. He stopped at a rubbish bin and tore up the photocopies of his letters. ??The biggest industry in Sweden by far is construction. Don??t do anything until we can agree a strategy.?? ??How do you mean??? Sandberg looked so nervous for a second that Zalachenko had to smile. ??Is it something personal between the two of you??? ??You could say that. That bitch Salander. Bj?rck had not acted alone. He??ll be leading the Section??s operations department until the present crisis is over.?? Salander said. and Jonasson could not imagine that this would be some sort of tomfoolery. He and Malm had thought of a paperback edition.?? Giannini was both tired and irritated on Wednesday evening as she boarded the X2000 at G?teborg Central Station. An intelligence agent who let his cock rule any part of his life was obviously not a good intelligence agent.?? Modig tilted her head to one side. It revolves around this Zala ?? Alexander Zalachenko. Torsten. a work of art. She had 200 kronor in cash from Annika Giannini to pay for sweets from the hospital snack shop. She followed him to the kitchen and filled a large glass with cold water.?? They said goodbye. ??The matter has gone to court.

given to her by Giannini and hardly used. It was a plain wooden pencil. She had accepted Blomkvist??s reasoning that she had already been so savaged in the Swedish media by such grotesque libels that a little sheer nonsense could not possibly further damage her reputation. But it definitely does mean that some individuals within S.?? They exchanged hotmail addresses. and had probably saved her life. He had had the feeling before and had trained himself to interpret it as an alarm triggered by instinct. In 1963 Gullberg was transferred from Counter-Espionage to personnel control.Tuesday. we were fast asleep moments after we got here. only to me. but asked questions until he was satisfied.?? ??And what happened??? ??His nearest competitor was a Swedish wholesale outfit called Vitavara Inc.?? ??So what happened??? ??Well ?? F?lldin left office.A. rigid drill sergeant type.?? ??And how are we supposed to give her the proper care here if we can??t have access to her records? The medical responsibility for her right now is ours. Two patients.?? ??If I were to tell you that this story is untrue. He??s over two metres tall and built like a tank.?? Edklinth said with a faint smile. For us it??s important to bear in mind that this is a case of criminal activity perpetrated by a small number of individuals. She exercised so often that the endorphins her body produced functioned as a drug that made it tough for her if she had to stop training.?? They brought the conference to a close by deciding that Modig and Erlander would together interrogate Zalachenko.

?? Salander heard footsteps in the corridor. and how empty it was going to seem without Berger. But someone with Niedermann??s distinctive appearance is not going to go unnoticed for long. Or that he could.?? ??We didn??t agree on the angle in the article about the government??s tax proposal. you listen here???? ??Imbecile. Henry.S. it is. She closed her door. After the meeting at Milton Security the previous evening. and he has backing from higher up in the bureaucracy. She introduced herself and her colleague. As long as he had a licence. If I run into him sometime. How should I deal with it??? ??I don??t have the energy to think that through right now. Policemen possibly excepted. and what we believe to have happened. He had a very deep gash across his face and another just below one kneecap.?? Gullberg said. The K. ??Why not give it to her lawyer??? ??Because Lisbeth is the only one who knows how to get at the evidence. and if we make a smaller newspaper.00 Jonasson came up to the ward just as Dr Endrin was about to go home.

I have let it be known that our Zalachenko documents are gone. of course.I. She was a threat to his entire future and well-being.?? ??Barring the unforeseen. and he has a very painful facial wound.P. ??We??ve got a deadline now.. He had the face of a model and looked weak. but that was no longer possible. At the age of seventy-nine. There were photographs from various parties. Ricky. but her face was otherwise expressionless. but again in vain. you. is Niedermann still hiding out somewhere in Sweden?; two. The revolver was a present he had received from British Intelligence twenty-five years earlier as a reward for an invaluable piece of information: the name of a clerical officer at M. You stay here and sit down. 11.?? Blomkvist weighed the situation for a moment. and I??m the one paying her to defend Salander. Then there??s the investigation at Nykvarn ?? three cold-case killings.

Sunday morning they said a hasty goodbye before Berger drove home to her husband. but in fact I forgot to deliver it to his office before I left.

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S. Instead she clicked on the [O] in [ERROR]. but they were utterly expressionless as she looked at Jonasson. even if the person in question is so stupid that he sends it from his home computer. If you publish before Edklinth has completed it. From a medical standpoint. I??m putting my reputation and career on the line by calling you with this request. ??We have enough evidence to charge Lundin with participating in the kidnapping of Miriam Wu. He flew across Klarabergsgatan between a bus and two cars. It was his last editorial and it would be a crying shame not to print it.?? ??Good. and I don??t end up in bed with that many men. And of course it was usually after somebody had given in to such impulses that Inspector Bublanski was called in. then do it. The walls are sturdy and it would take quite a while to break down that door even if your assailant had tools at hand. and be the news editor??? ??I wouldn??t do it for anything.?? ??If I don??t get a new kidney I??m not long for this world.I. Paolo Roberto got it through a boxing club in Germany.?? ??O. ??Could you manage to tell us the whole story from the beginning??? Holmberg said. then said. But I hadn??t thought of telling my boss. But I can see to it that you get a nicotine patch or some gum.

Which must have been Edklinth. then three murders in Stockholm. In his old age he became a gangster. I??m smitten by an insatiable desire for you. He had no difficulty with the work. the realm was ruled by a Queen Myrina. of whom two were administrative secretaries of the old school and the remainder were professional spy hunters. ??That??s a guess. but it??s also a sensor for the ground floor that you??ll have to turn on when you??re upstairs at night. shook hands with Blomkvist.Q. She could not stay away. Second. The Salander affair had cracked wide open. slowly.?? Nystr?m took out a blue folder and opened it.30 a. In shock she stood still for about a minute. Thomasson could provide him with all that. he knows we??re going to find his prints on the gun. Which could explain the low price.M.00. It must be the first time a journalist has sat in on a meeting of the Security Police.

??What I??m thinking of asking you is unethical. He spoke of how Morander had dedicated the past fifteen years of his life to the newspaper.P.P.P. He works for Prosecutor Ekstr?m.B. ??That means that our adversary is well organized.?? ??Do you know anything about how Salander is? I??ve been sound asleep since I last saw you.I. You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life. He knew he was being watched and he must have seen M?rtensson??s Volvo.P.30 Linder managed to talk Berger into getting into bed to rest.??? ??This evening if possible.. Your lawyer. The same rules apply as in your day.S. my last week at Millennium. But that won??t work for the rest of us.S.10.?? ??But while we??re going backwards and forwards with bureaucracy.

?? ??Let??s hear your diagnosis. It must be done each day.?? ??But if you get difficult about the fact that I??m going to use unethical methods. ??I imagine we??ll have to book appointments with each other. and he??s afraid to get the Section involved in the necessary field work.?? Erlander said. ??I can understand why you??d want to quit this madhouse ?? but to be the head of Sweden??s most turgid old-boy newspaper ?? that??s going to take some time to sink in. He managed a slight curl of his lips.?? ??What is it??? ??Since you were shut up at St Stefan??s when you were twelve. ??Interesting. She clicked hesitantly on Answer. as I gather. After a while the P. Blomkvist. He was Inspector Bergling. ??To your right. Millennium will have an opportunity to present its version of the story in the next issue.?? ??I know. He spent fifteen minutes walking down the alleys and boulevards around Mosebacke before he headed for Fiskargatan 9. then the chief of Secretariat would have to know about that too. but she still worked out obsessively at the gym five nights a week. ??First-class research. We still flag Salander for monitoring whenever she turns up in any database.A.

He??ll understand.?? Clinton sighed. we??ll publish it.m.?? ??As things now stand.?? ??That??s good.?? Wadensj?? said. Salander held the tablets under her tongue and spat them out as soon as she was alone. They conferred briefly. worrying. In his view. studied to become a police officer at twenty. The constitution had nothing to do with it.?? * The distance by land from London to Stockholm is roughly 1900 kilometres. They sat in the living room for a private conversation. you and my people. If she wakes up again you can give her two mg.?? ??You??re right. ??But I haven??t been run over by a bus. ??He did talk to the nurse and he left the flowers at the desk. He was the only policeman in Sweden whose official job description was to function as a political police officer. I don??t think we should let the state archives have footage of your naked self. As far as I can work out. letters and photographs.

??I??m so linked to Millennium that no-one will believe I didn??t have a finger in this. but we??re unable to verify our suspicions just yet. Photographs too. everything was under control. How much would all that stuff weigh? No.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??I see.M. An A. Her clothes were full of sand. your sister. Nieminen was boiling over.?? ??No. but having Kalle Bastard Blomkvist??s sister working for her was hard to stomach. Blomkvist said hello to Modig. They??re the last people he??d want to run into. but Zalachenko was guilty of repeated assault against his girlfriend. He had read about the eccentric journalist in the newspapers. it??s a blot on the entire profession. But what I??m asking is whether or not you??re willing to put yourself in her corner and get into a pitched battle with her enemies. and in his teens he was a skinhead. she thinks it??s embarrassing and doesn??t quite know what to do.?? Edklinth said. ??I??ve never had to give out information on a story before it??s published.

Berger could not believe she was asking this question.?? ??You got him in one. the antivirus program didn??t react. Keep me posted by mobile.00 at the Ring in Central Station. and what vehicles drop anyone off at that address. I??m guessing that the government secretariat was in turmoil during those transition periods. strengths and weaknesses of all his colleagues. She looked in the bathroom. ??Christer will need a couple of days for the layout. She knew what I. have you got anything new??? ??Nothing I haven??t already told you on the phone. It??s irresistible.C. Illegal weapons are more serious. Janeryd looked surprised. She sat paralysed and tried to work out from which direction the sharp reports had come. At least not when this picture was taken. not as a doctor. but in a couple of days. no matter how noble the intentions.M. That bastard Zalachenko. He nodded.

I have to take the report with me when I go. ??I??m just dead tired.?? ??Micke.6. He took the lift up to the reception on the fourth floor and was immediately shown into a conference room. Over the years he had noticed that if he stopped giving instructions or gave Niedermann too much latitude to make his own decisions. deceased ?C a suicide.?? Blomkvist could feel the blood rush to his head. The conclusion was just as unpleasant as it was obvious. and some very senior officers began to wonder whether the Section was not run by paranoid conspiracy theorists. for instance. Figuerola giggled. no matter how improbable it might seem. Because Trinity could record the calls from Ekstr?m. and had become one of its trusted veterans. Jonas.?? He wrote an email address on a page torn from his notebook. Nobody would tell him anything. terribly sorry.M. is Bjurman. As it was growing light an observant police officer found traces of blood on the ground behind the woodshed.?? ??I get it. He was not looking at her.

?? Berger said. More??? ??We only I. gentlemen. An hour??s research turned up the information that M?rtensson held the title of business consultant and owned a private company whose address was a P. The bleeding was so minor and located in an area that shouldn??t have affected anything else at all. Lundin had been shot in the foot and then the police showed up. ??I understand that your daughter threw a Molotov cocktail into your car in the early ??90s.00. There were also old love letters which she had kept from her teenage years. and I??ve found out the truth about what happened to her. ??He??s lodging a complaint with the police against Salander ?C for G.?? The Prime Minister said: ??And my job is to run the country in accordance with the constitution.00.?? ??It??s precisely the same thing. The news neither pleased Nieminen nor made him any calmer. without back-up. ??You don??t want to tell me what it??s about??? ??The fewer people who know. S. I can??t believe Salander knows anything about it. since Niedermann had not yet been captured. The difference. Lisbeth??s mother. had been shot dead. He had a small bump and a very slight bruise.

and finish the job.?? she shouted. He faxed copies of the letters he had written the day before. Even if she??s acquitted of murder. by turns as researcher.?? he said. He appeared confused. Fr?klund cannot find a single reference to Gullberg anywhere.?? ??I know that. Borgsj? is going to be persona non grata.?? Jonasson looked at Blomkvist in astonishment. that gave him a status that was beyond most people??s wildest dreams. Sorry. To Modig??s great frustration the meeting in Ekstr?m??s office was lasting a long time. Lisbeth Salander logged on to Hacker Republice and saw that Plague was online. We have excellent documentation in Dag Svensson??s notes.S. At first she said no. naturally curly hair. She would be fascinated by a problem. both as a kid and as an adult. She reached out and slid the bag under the covers and pressed the coil of cord into her crotch. I don??t think so.?? Edklinth said.

?? ??His own shop??? ??He became a consultant in security for industry. Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize most critically. M?rtensson ?C he works as a bodyguard in S. and added very little water. Ten years ago I was doing rock-hard bodybuilding. The relatively limited technology to which Trinity had access meant that he had to park his van on Bergsgatan or one of the nearby streets and laboriously calibrate the equipment until he had identified the fingerprint that represented Ekstr?m??s mobile number. you have to trust me. considering all the revelations that have already come out about her. Some time after 4.?? No such agents existed. But it??s the market decides whether you make a profit or take a loss. and I saw to it that Bjurman became her new guardian. ??Mumbo jumbo. just as he was about to leave early. She free-associated.?? ??Tell me about our relationship to S. ??Call him. a T-shirt and a grey jacket.?? ??So you don??t think she??s crazy.?? ??I think you??d better explain. but stopped and held the door for me. but Ekstr?m could not know that.?? Modig said. By 10.

He reckoned that he would have to produce twice as much text again for the summer issue. An injured man and a younger woman. At 4.?? Berglund said. We have Karl Axel Bodin??s own testimony from the officers who interviewed him. but if this pans out we??ll have a fantastic article for the June issue. of course. nothing urgent. She had also told Giannini what happened in Gosseberga. Marita Ulfskog. Hans von Rottinger. when he moved back to Sweden. ??I??ll sum up so that I am absolutely certain that I understood you correctly.07. ??A likely story.?? ??But that??s nothing new. The Constitutional Protection Unit publishes an annual report..00. she thought. and Trinity. but it came in waves instead of being constant. I??m a journalist and I work at Millennium magazine. Take a break.

??I??m getting to that. who did not easily forget an enemy.?? Edklinth said. about fifty square metres. Photographs too. She knew perfectly well that no such address existed at Millennium. ??Wouldn??t you like to come and work for us??? ??Not on your life. He happened to know Figuerola??s father and had followed her career over the years. She had mixed feelings.M. It was Friday. She frowned and studied the text. cutting prices is the constant challenge. On her side of the wall there was presumably a similar screwed-on cover.I. I was going out with a guy this spring. purchase of research material.?? ??Does he have any connection to Lisbeth Salander??? ??No.?? The officers nodded. memorized. Zalachenko is dead. they??ve set the trial date for July 13. He pointed to the front page of the evening paper. we questioned him.

The easy part was done. Benny was nowhere to be seen. We??re interested in hearing what he has to say about the murders in Stockholm.?? ??And who are his superiors??? ??He won??t say. who has worked in S?po for many years. which had a photograph of Niedermann and the headline POLICE KILLER HUNTED IN DENMARK. You??re a victim.?? ??If you had been the prosecutor.?? ??I hear you. Olsson had dug up much more on Ghidi than on any other hospital worker.?? Gullberg said.?? ??I get it. ??The task of Constitutional Protection is to defend the constitution against what we call ??internal threats??. On the contrary ?? if you have any instructions for me. ??So what??s this all about??? he said when they had got their coffee. And I need the telephone number of the prosecutor.?? ??May I ask ?? Paulsson. friends from dozens of skirmishes with the Enemy. She had measured the window and discovered that her head would fit through it and that she would not have much problem squeezing the rest of her body through.?? the Prime Minister said. with the fact that Blomkvist was his wife??s lover.S.?? ??Witnesses??? ??Well. but now they??re working for us.

But I can??t pay before I have access to the Internet. or whatever he was. He knew he was being watched and he must have seen M?rtensson??s Volvo.?? Blomkvist absorbed this news. This attitude. What you??re proposing means that we??ll have to cut back on sports coverage. It??s not a wholly inaccurate description. He was sponsored or supported by a faction within S?po that tidied up after any crimes he committed.00. Good cop. There were bloody-minded individuals who harped on and on about real or imaginary injustices and who sometimes turned to threatening behaviour. He began to feel sick immediately and was taken by ambulance to A. What am I doing here? She felt exhausted.?? ??He seems not to have had any contact with his old friends in Hamburg. Edklinth felt the floor sway slightly beneath his chair.?? ??Armansky. The magazine will be printed by then. a dog collar around her neck. ??Forceps.?? Blomkvist held up a week-old evening newspaper.?? ??The problem is that none of this could have happened if S?po weren??t involved somehow.m. I feel like a crazy teenager. But this letter tells you to use your own good judgement.

?? ??The old bastard had a pistol. the woman turned 180 degrees and went down the steep hill towards Bellmansgatan 1. ??We can??t go into the archives without authorization from the chief of Secretariat. as usual. bought the evening papers and two bananas at Pressbyr?n.?? Wadensj?? said. he was behind the kidnapping of Salander??s friend Miriam Wu ?C you probably heard of Paolo Roberto??s title bout in Nykvarn. ??A source within the investigation claims that Lisbeth is non compos mentis. What motive would he have had to get rid of her??? ??It??s complicated.I. but Paulsson ?C whose opinion had little influence on Erlander ?C had warned him that Blomkvist had been babbling on about Russian agents and German hit men ?C hardly routine elements in Swedish police work. making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework. Her anxiety lay like a heavy fog over the house. but he stayed. ??Are you livid??? ??Insanely. She tried to call Blomkvist to tell him that the Borgsj? folder had been stolen.C.?? ??Why is that??? ??You??re proposing that the newspaper should not be profitable.15 in the morning. Three of them were called [PrelimInv/Salander].?? ??O. I spoke to Margareta and she said that she clearly explained to you what her interview was going to focus on.?? Gullberg said. Check the masthead.

and he had no idea what they were talking about. The meeting had lasted forty minutes. a psychiatrist. the woman G?ransson lived with. He had worked like a fiend with Zalachenko.?? Ekstr?m said. ??So what??s this all about??? he said when they had got their coffee. So too was her brother. She was ice-cold and stiff. What??s your plan??? ??My choice would be for you. Since Blomkvist presumably intended that she should use the computer. and in 1999 he had registered his own company. He leafed rapidly through the hundred or so pages. The page was designed around a black-bordered portrait. ??There are a few holes in your account. don??t do it. ??His behaviour was a bit odd and a little too eager. but I have a job to do. ??Evert. One of the most crucial functions in a democratic state.?? He threw up his hands. I got to bed at 1. of course. She had verified something that could be known only to a very restricted group of people.

P. how??? ??Tell me what you want to know. what we can document. She had 37. but he looked both frozen and deathly tired. you slammed an axe into his head. slender woman with dark hair and a boyish hairstyle. I met them about twice a year during the time I worked for the government. She took a photograph with the mobile that she knew would be only 72 dpi ?C low quality.?? ??No. It depends on her rate of recovery. But they were every one of them computer wizards. That was the natural order of things. but she kept her distance.P. ??No. to an apartment with the name Martinsson on the door. My job is to produce a good newspaper. a new generation of civil servants had come through. The only thing that had gone right was that he had persuaded them to send a helicopter to take the girl to Sahlgrenska hospital. Normally I??m involved in civil cases in which I represent victims of rape or domestic violence. She did not like asking for help or showing any sign of weakness.?? ??No.?? ??I no longer have access to the report.

But that??s just the problem. a former accountant and sometime business consultant and tax lawyer. ??Hello. But more precisely. The burek was fantastic.?? ??Take your time. chatted a while. was pleased. ??When I was assigned to make contact with you. I??m guessing that such a request will arrive next week. I??m being paid a monthly salary of 88.V. Bjurman was not a real security policeman ?C he was really no more than a trainee at S. He would never regain full health. I will expose you and do everything I can to ensure that you are never re-elected. Every time she accessed Teleborian??s hard drive she felt as if her body temperature dropped a few degrees.K. ??We??ll have to postpone the meeting a bit longer. we changed your bedroom door today. no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy.?? ??Same here. It was three storeys to the ground. She had been incredibly lucky. had been suffering chronic pain for a long time ?? I don??t know.

T.?? Modig said.?? ??And if you did that. ??Sure. ??I made a copy for Curt but I never had a chance to give it to him before the Prosecutor General collected the others. He??s kept quiet about that. I need to have a meeting with you and the Prime Minister.?? Armansky said. who informs me that it is very easy to fake a sender??s address.?? Baksi spoke for a short while before he hung up.?? ??Who??s H. I don??t know exactly what happened here tonight. That was why she was still alive.?? ??No. For fifty-three minutes absolutely nothing happened except that her screen saver started up from time to time. The wound in your shoulder seems to be the cause. We suggest that you share your knowledge.m.?? Wadensj?? felt the panic rise. Landskrona. but that Zalachenko might have any connection to the affair had not dawned on him. but in this case a person has actually taken the trouble to drive to your house ?C and it??s pretty far to Saltsj?baden ?C to carry out an attack. sociological or scientific rationale.?? ??But??? ??He??s an analyst.

Do you think it??s a turn-off. His became the worst scandal in the history of the Swedish Security Police. and you don??t have to produce an article at the end of it. and a typical libertarian when it came to freedom of the press. It dawned on her that here he was calmly talking of the possibility of there being a threat to her life. puzzled. But she did not want to leave the car and start walking around the area. He wiped the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand and set off in pursuit of the two men. I know what you want and you know what I want. I suppose my answer to that is the same one you gave me: I believe in a constitutional democracy and sometimes it has to be protected. not for the past two years.?? Nystr?m said.B. 2.iv By 1.?? he said. There was blood on her palm. ??Clinton is tired. She started by ordering passport photographs of Faulsson. I shouldn??t have done it. where all the documentation was being assembled. Last night she had a temperature of 38 and vomited on two occasions. Go and wake her up or something. She made coffee and poured it into a thermos and then made sandwiches.

looking at her pupils. We??ll deal with any problems as and when they crop up. A pro. We all know that when you??re in the throes of a story.M. I have let it be known that our Zalachenko documents are gone. I was ignominiously ditched earlier today. has been to see me twice in the past few days. His official duties took up a great deal of his time. ??Hans Wilhelm Francke. But Ekstr?m??s the boss. My father is Gustav Holmberg. We have a stock portfolio that has dropped in value by about 30 per cent compared to ten years ago. the car belongs to G?ran M?rtensson.?? ??So you??re suggesting in all seriousness that the board should decide to abolish dividends and bonuses.?? Gullberg said. rather than unleash him to condemn the entire police force in his magazine and elsewhere in the media.?? ??Alright. She was interrupted when the Securitas guard put the key in the door to let in Dr Jonasson. Figuerola woke at 8. But before you approach him you have to follow the bureaucratic procedure. Annika is doing her best to prepare for your trial. On the other hand.?? Berger studied the chairman of the board.

and through Niedermann he was the architect of the murders of Svensson and Johansson. ??It also tells us something about the character of our adversary. It was entirely up to him to decide whether he would talk to her or not. ??You could turn out to be a bad habit. We??ll need every contact we have in the clubs all over Scandinavia to keep their eyes peeled. He did not know where he was. It??s that simple.?? Armansky said.nu. ??Perhaps we haven??t found the car because Niedermann drove out of the country to the north via Haparanda? A big detour around the Gulf of Bothnia. why had she telephoned Milton Security in the first place and asked them to install an alarm? ??O.?? Dr Endrin said.?? Salander said.?? ??And he spent his sick leave running around with prostitutes??? Gullberg said. She knew that Blomkvist??s apartment was on the top floor. On the same day.M. Modig went back to Bublanski??s office and knocked on the door jamb. angular face about a foot from hers.?? Erlander made notes between taking sips of his coffee.?? Blomkvist said. ??This is the second time my daughter has tried to kill me.?? ??Next question.?? ??I made the mistake of trying to hand over a weapon to him.

?? ??And what did you tell her??? ??I said that someone had faked your address and is obviously harassing her. He was obviously not the faithful type. The folder from Bjurman??s summer cabin with Bj?rck??s report was taken. and apparently the media had taken him for an innocent victim.?? ??Could I read the original??? ??Certainly you can. Two masked men had robbed at gunpoint a shop owned by an immigrant. The whole point of the socialized human being was to not give in to that sort of impulse. and von Rottinger had entered the civil service to do investigations for the Swedish Atomic Energy Agency. if you??ll forgive me for saying so. Kalle Bloody Blomkvist was complicating life for her.?? ??You have my word.?? ??My superior is the one who wants to talk to you. I can??t poke around in her skull and extract bullets. Palmgren stood up for Salander.?? ??Damn. it??s Blomkvist again. We have a stock portfolio that has dropped in value by about 30 per cent compared to ten years ago. She spent a while limping around the living room.?? ??Nevertheless. He smiled. I have to see you. Unfortunately the trial is going to be held behind closed doors ??to protect your privacy??. On Sunday morning they said a hasty goodbye before Berger drove home to her husband. but in fact I forgot to deliver it to his office before I left.