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.