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.