Tuesday, August 30, 2011

fax of a threatening letter that hadn??t yet reached its addressee. with an address near Norrtull in Stockholm. SixOfOne wrote.

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?? ??Some girl. ??Then I??ll have to start by thanking you for coming to me with this matter as soon as you did. ??Probably. ??And how long have you known about this??? ??Since today. He had transferred the most crucial documentation to her desk. and she had severe headaches.K. And what does that mean??? ??The obvious explanation is that he was given a false identity. established cover companies outside the building in the ??50s and ??60s. but somebody in the newsroom got an email from you. You don??t have to stress out about it. Four were spam. She had read Blomkvist??s articles and brooded over what he had to say. The technology of R. I have no idea what these particular grey cells are for. He took into account that Salander must be under a great deal of stress for having been suspected of three murders plus a damn-near fatal assault on her late father. ??I don??t deserve any applause today. I have to go. ??What in God??s name are you doing up??? the night nurse said.I.?? Three inspectors gave Holmberg an astonished look.?? ??As I said. When she left patrol duty to become a criminal inspector. And her stomach. What was maddening was that she had the feeling she had seen a solution ?? that she had discovered a solution. ??I just wanted to check on you.

?? ??But the present situation has arisen because you have been subject to a direct threat from a specific individual. The system had an obvious weakness. He can be surly sometimes. She isn??t the type to ask anyone for help.?? ??I hope she will.000 kronor a month for a three-cube apartment. He took a shower and changed his clothes while Waltari waited patiently in the kitchen. put on her dressing gown and leaned on a crutch.?? Ekstr?m had a dozen questions that Nystr?m meticulously noted.?? said Andersson. I don??t know whether that affects things.S. ??You wouldn??t happen to have a cigarette. Consequently Blomkvist had no clue whether Salander had revealed that her previous guardian had raped her. Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R. Those positions have not been filled. And Skanska calculates it and comes back and says it??ll cost around 500 million kronor. He used the probe cautiously to prise at the edge of the bullet.?? ??Which of course you are not. I know I have to sign a contract. Then there was the incident in the tunnelbana.?? Bublanski said. All such matters should be discussed with Malin. and besides. he did learn Russian and Polish.?? ??Someone??? ??Dragan.

An ultra-secret unit that was given strategic positions within the Firm. he had decided that Millennium Publishing would publish Svensson??s text about sex trafficking. Someone would have called in a favour and got someone to talk. For the moment he needed medical attention. ??I??m Karl Axel Bodin now. Blomkvist had given him no good reason for insisting that he patrol the neighbourhood near the Copacabana on Sunday afternoon looking for a grey Volvo with a registration beginning KAB. She called her friend on her mobile. My colleague here would like to question him also in connection with the three recent murders in Stockholm. The tide of this crap never receded. The prosecutor is going to try to get you locked up in the psychiatric ward. David Rosin was a short. Salander never talked to the authorities.?? Blomkvist said. out every day. Then she stumbled up the stairs to the fifth floor and pounded on her friend??s door. That did not work either. 18. which Niedermann was presumed to be using. asked him for it. He listened with increasing dismay to Giannini??s account of what had happened. by the look of them. if you add in your annual bonus.?? ??O.M. Go on.M.

You??re an errand boy. Which means that Holm and the legal editor are up in arms. are simply practical extensions of the Right to Free Speech.?? Gullberg and Wadensj?? glared at each other for a long moment. She knew. Nieminen estimated that Svavelsj? M. They were summoned to Edklinth??s office and told of their assignment as well as the need for absolute secrecy. printed out the document and began to read it at once. She bent down and bit him on the ear. He infiltrated the B. deceased ?C a suicide. ??This is a man with an impressive criminal history. You make the decisions. But I need somebody to tell me if I??m doing anything stupid. That drove him to such depths of despair that he took his own life. the toilets??? ??The little that has changed since the Construction Cost Delegation??s report has happened at the local level. My mother was Agneta Sofia Salander. so far as they could tell. But for the KAB.??s department of Counter-Espionage in a quite different case. but I just didn??t have time???? ??We??ve been doing our own investigation at Milton.?? Blomkvist looked at Malm intently. after all. If it were just a matter of anonymous hate mail we would make a decreased threat assessment. Espionage in Sweden by Mikael Rosquist (Tempus. Plus.

When he passed ?rstabron he took out a ballpoint pen and a plain paper pad. It must have been backed by the government.P. ??How did you know who Inspector Figuerola was??? Edklinth said. Blomkvist did not speculate about Bjurman??s motives.?? ??I understand.I.P.?? ??Blomkvist thinks there??s a faction within S?po.?? Cortez said. married to Hans Wilhelm Francke.I. At least Morander understood the necessity of the reductions.m. the U. Salander had not thought about the fact that she would need a lawyer. but there are sites on the Internet where such things can be arranged. but it will take only a minute of your time. He could be in Oslo by now. and taped hours and hours of conversations of no interest whatsoever. if this had been during the communist days???? ??That??s an illusion. The van was eighteen years old and was not able to go much faster anyway. Ronald Niedermann. and I??m afraid she??s going to get the same medicine when the trial begins. Zalachenko is an ordinary gangster who??s probably mixed up in several murders and other criminal activities. ??I??m going to need somebody on the inside I can trust.

Then I??ll tell you here and now that until Fr?ken Salander says otherwise.M. He was slightly surprised that the Swedish Security Police had been able to penetrate the Russian military to the degree Nystr?m was describing. as you know.?? Beckman was completely O.?? Ghidi said. If you feel threatened in any way. since they were the closest things to God??s representatives here on earth. who did the investigation in G?teborg. When he started. Francke and P.?? ??Please explain.?? ??Fourth. Blomkvist was working with Eriksson and Cortez.W.?? ??It??s going to be hard to keep this under wraps. Eventually he became director of the agency. He switched on the T. ??Is there any way we can isolate them??? Wadensj?? lit another cigarillo. Holmberg had been tasked to work out how Bj?rck had died. What bothered her was that something had happened at the office. and we have extensive forensic evidence against her. From the moment I sat down in that glass cage. they ask 10?C 12. ??Congrats. The fact was that if Salander could claim to have any sort of family or group affiliation.

?? ??What??s this about??? ??I??ll tell you when you get here.?? ??And what??s their stated business??? ??God only knows. Holmberg nodded. When Blomkvist??s objections were ignored by Paulsson. ??It sounds to me as though your suspicions are for the most part based on assumptions and circumstantial evidence. One part concerns Zalachenko. And I don??t have sex quite that often either. I don??t dare get mixed up in anything like that. He shaved and took a long shower. Holmberg had been tasked to work out how Bj?rck had died. the budget of the Security Police was in excess of 350 million kronor. and Trelleborg. He could not stay in the borrowed summer cabin in Sm?dalar?.?? Holmberg said. Now! Teleborian is meeting Jonas at the Ring in Central Station at 3. the news editor ?C you??ll be working with him a lot.?? Blomkvist said. she had spent her time trying to work out how to escape from this locked room at Sahlgrenska. She looked about her in astonishment.?? ??He will be. but there are sites on the Internet where such things can be arranged. apparently with a serious wound to the face. by a single blow to the neck. originally from Ume? in northern Sweden. of course. and when I asked for it back he said he??d make me a copy.

The Section was faced with its worst crisis since the day he had created it. What about G?ransson??s car??? ??Since we found Kaspersson??s car at G?ransson??s place.?? said Ekstr?m. If we??re going to have the slightest chance. It??s Mikael. V. have been devoting themselves to criminal activity for a long time. and did it in a way we didn??t think was possible.?? Gullberg??s excursion lasted nearly three hours. the night before. in your opinion. ??Do you think it??s such a good idea for me to be hanging around at police H. He would have to turn to the chief to secure political support for what he was working on. ??What happened??? he said. and Lisbeth still hasn??t talked to the police about it. and appearing in the order and position they had decided on in the morning meeting. and not chasing political mirages.?? Inspector Erlander saw Giannini through the doorway to Salander??s room.?? ??Who answered if you called the number??? ??I don??t know.M.K.?? ??O. it??s you ?? wait a second. He started up the hill straight towards her. He left her standing by her car in astonishment. The other participants at the meeting were two individuals from the top echelon of the Firm.

She used Mace and kicked Lundin in the balls and face with such aggression that she crushed one of his testicles and then broke his jaw. So why are you talking to me? Should I take it to mean that you have a certain amount of trust in me??? She did not reply.?? They sat in silence for a moment before Jonasson stood up. The usual.00.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??I won??t tell him. Via the front door. The trapdoor is secured by nothing more than a latch. 2. including bow and arrow. ??Mine too. When she left her office she locked the door. It??s not until page thirty-three.?? ??Is it possible to trace an email like that??? ??Almost impossible.?? said Berger with a smile. He glanced one last time at the door to Salander??s room. He looked about for a taxi. ??Hello! So you??re still here??? and then sailed right in. but I??m putting what I know in mothballs.30.?? ??I understand ?? Frank. The problem is the ones who won??t let them do their jobs. Because Trinity could record the calls from Ekstr?m. ??Could I give you a piece of advice??? ??Of course. We also have a contract which explicitly gives me free rein to make the editorial changes I deem necessary.

Bjurman commented on the fact that I had several tattoos and piercings. and maybe a hundred other reporters had by now been briefed at police headquarters. But I advise that you wait for the report from forensics.?? Bublanski added the suggestion of a press conference out of sheer cussedness. since Billing took an unpleasant tone with most of the people to whom he wrote messages ?C reporters. assault. Just let??s see if you understand this message.?? Modig said. Mikael.?? Sandberg nodded his agreement. It was always a shock to meet him in person.?? ??And??? ??There are seven full-timers.E. I had to read them the riot act.?? Sandberg said.?? ??I don??t even know which colleague you??re talking about.?? ??Fine. Salander woke with a start when she heard the door open. He was a chubby and very charming man. The incident in Stallarholmen was connected with the discoveries at Nykvarn. He wished that the decisive Fredrik was still there.?? Malm said. She wanted to leap up and follow him.?? ??Henry. but you sat in your office for a while and didn??t know in which direction to go. ??I think it??s time we had a discussion in peace and quiet to try to make sense of this mess.

assistant chief of Immigration Division. with which the company had a contract. but it was not likely that he would be able to take thirty kilos of electronic gear on a normal flight. So he must know that M?rtensson is not at Counter-Espionage. At 10. He saw an unusually tall and muscular woman looking back at him with a polite.?? ??I can show you chapter and verse to prove that the person who leaked this information is a police officer called Hans Faste. What would he have done? Absolute secrecy. I don??t think so. She scrolled back and read through the text of a section where she told how Advokat Bjurman had violently and sadistically raped her. What complicated the issue was that not a word of what he was writing was true. But what really interested Salander were the forty-seven folders containing close to nine thousand photographs of explicit child pornography.H against Carl-Magnus Lundin at Stallarholmen ?C i. I can make another copy???? He broke off as he felt the hair rise on the back of his neck. eliminated all the men in the twenty-six to fifty-four age group who were married. Edklinth??s palms were sweating when he put down the telephone. ??Editor-in-chief of S. Niedermann got away. ??He drove a Saab. assigned to prosecute crimes against F. But more precisely.?? ??Exactly.?? Flodin shrugged. you??re not going to do anything for the moment. He himself had grown up in H?lledal outside Ramvik. That??s why I insisted on seeing you at once.

she had pushed all thoughts of the Section to one side and concentrated on Berger??s problem. Erika ?? that may be true. olive skin and black hair going grey at the temples.?? ??And the woman ?? who??s she??? ??Sonja Modig.?? ??I understand. I??d also like to know if you want Giannini to come here to G?teborg. It was through this organization that the young man was brought to the attention of the Section and recruited. He could be clean out of the country.00 in the morning. ??He claims he had no idea what Lundin was up to in Stallarholmen.?? Her husband sighed. manoeuvring back and forth around his bed. He stopped in surprise. ??Sorry. even to one who knew more of the story than she did. by turns as researcher. During surgery the night before. If he decided to fight.?? ??That??s my husband??s studio.?? the Prime Minister said. That might result in a fine of ten times his daily income. and they planned to do something as old-fashioned as have a bite to eat and go to the movies. Then give me some insight into Edklinth??s investigation. Right now he had to focus on himself.?? The Security Police did not normally spend time investigating robberies of groceries. but after going back and forth about this.

??? Gullberg went down to Stureplan and hailed a taxi. and he would not exchange his appointment for any other position in the entire Swedish legal system or police force. Agneta Sofia Salander. He looked somehow familiar. who formally advised him that he was a suspect in the grievous bodily harm or attempted murder of Lisbeth Salander.S. ??Which I assume is good news.?? ??Very well written too. Whatever happens. The question is. series. they would have at the very least questioned me. I ???? Zalachenko hesitated a few seconds.com>. by turns as researcher. on what??s going on.?? ??It??s not the same thing. Two hours after the murder there was still chaos in the corridor.C.?? ??Margareta called me with the proposal at 11. He has to go regularly to the hospital for dialysis. gentlemen.?? Berger suddenly felt an enormous wave of relief.S. but her head was immobilized by the brace. trying to convince me to let him examine you.

P. she had had it up to here with other work. She looked up towards the roof of Bellmansgatan 1. and she kept trying to call her husband or Blomkvist. He fumbled to turn on the bedside lamp and looked at the clock. And Berger??s account had complete access to those. Gunnar Bj?rck.P. they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical. I??m going to stay on as a partner and will attend board meetings. There were two kinds of injury that he hated.?? At 8.S.?? ??It??s a matter of intuition. She got up from the bed and made for the shower. For fun. She ran her hand over the neck brace and located the fastenings that held it in place.?? she said. There were 223 employees. He knew that his guesswork was on the mark when Edklinth??s eyes widened. For all practical purposes. ??I can document every detail. It had upset F?lldin that an important Soviet agent had sought asylum in Sweden. ??Hello. as you know. such a revelation would be a political disaster for the Prime Minister.

Neither Teleborian nor Faulsson ?C especially not Faulsson ?C had any position inside S. ??Erika ???? ??Mikael. pushed open the door. She had short. whose task it was to handle the most sensitive of the sensitive. That??s why F?lldin sent me to see you.?? ??I don??t have any news on Salander. Between the time when she had stepped on the shard of glass and Rosin??s arrival that morning. She dressed in black trousers.?? ??I know.C. is still one of the big papers. He??s not married. I need to know now. Salander visited him only once in a blue moon.?? Edklinth said. Eriksson realized that he was reporting in to her the way he had with Berger. where she??s been isolated since April? She doesn??t want the police to know she has access to the Net. A dental nurse by the name of Anita Kaspersson left her home by car at 7. and he wasn??t mentioned in Svensson??s material. Some of the board members.?? she said. You have the option to remove me as leader of the investigation ?? but if you did that I would be forced to write a harsh memo about the matter. Figuerola suddenly had the feeling that she was a policewoman. I don??t want to see any rings on the water or hear of a single ruffled feather. We went over to tabloid format ?C which we should have done twenty years sooner.

The first hours of her workday had been taken up entirely with meetings. and she recognized all the signs of a reporter who had a story in the works.K. He??s going to get away again. Plague ran Ekstr?m??s digitized voice through a program called V. Malm raised his Nikon in the shadows of Caf?? Rosso??s awning across the street and took a series of twelve photographs of the two men who followed Blomkvist out of the caf?? and past the Kvarter cinema. If the pinkos want to start a war with Denmark. ??Yes??? ??Apologies for bothering you on the street outside your home.?? ??Good man. This arrangement involves cooperation. I didn??t know that. it is a tragedy that could have been prevented if there had been more support within society. I know I have to sign a contract. surveillance and so on. kept the cash that was waiting to be invested and laundered. For that to happen. ??I don??t understand this. ??Listen. which reported to the police commission or the justice department. She pinged him. Her stay at Sahlgrenska was in any case going to come to an end in a few more weeks. ??Monday. She saw at once that he was not being funny. putting the pencil in her pocket. on sick leave from his job as assistant chief of the Immigration Division of the Security Police. A man in advanced old age.

But the work is often to do with people who have been threatened.00. She was exhausted. He noticed the grey Volvo at once. He walked to Dressman on Kungsgatan and bought a shirt and a change of underwear. you may regard me as her legal representative. In great excitement she turned on the computer at once and discovered that it was password-protected. And he could not have that conversation because she was under arrest and no visitors were allowed. After some palaver over jurisdiction between Str?ngn?s and S?dert?lje.T. and pulled up a chair. He??s going to be in the slammer for a while. At lunchtime on Monday she had a visit from Dr Jonasson. Meanwhile. ??You should have the answer to that question quite soon. Zalachenko dragged himself to the toilet. ??As Prime Minister you may not influence the judicial process in any way.P.?? ??Hi.s that are five or six years old ???? ??It??s simply out of the question that we invest in new computers in the coming year.?? ??She is extremely manipulative. A man in advanced old age. Daniel. Finally she found a rubber doorstop and wedged it under the bedroom door. as it turned out. so Erlander was willing to listen.

She could not stay away. It would have been a fine ending to her years at Millennium. as you can appreciate.?? ??Why ??unfortunately????? He gave her a cheerful smile.?? ??And who is your superior??? ??I regret it.S.?? ??It sounds like the bedroom won??t be such a romantic place in the future. his whole cover. he would slip into an indolent state of indecision. ??My name is Benny Svantesson. ??Christer will need a couple of days for the layout. Erlander glanced at Salander and then back to her lawyer.?? said Sp?ngberg emphatically. well. ??I??m sorry for chasing you down. and import everything from Thailand. She??s considering taking on Salander as a client. Then the assassin??s shots rang out on Sveav?gen and the matter became irrelevant. Teleborian had done a strikingly good analysis.?? Blomkvist said.

after all. to give a second example. whoever did it had access to the very typewriter that Bj?rck used. I should perhaps mention that I opposed that action.?? Jonasson thought that if it had been anyone other than Blomkvist he would have refused. some pathologically obsessed ones who stalked celebrities and looked for love by hiding in woods near their villas. it is not merely a criminal conspiracy ?C it is a threat to national security. she was his patient. & E. Peter. And here we can??t go through the Prosecutor General. I??m just bringing him in for questioning. letters and photographs.P. a passport. And now here we all are. And sex with Blomkvist.?? Modig said. but the blond man was gone. She had tried friendly reasoning and direct orders.

??No bones broken??? he said. ??May I say something??? ??Please do. Given a few years she would probably be able to make a good anarchist out of Dr Anders Jonasson.000 kronor a month. Gunnar Bj?rck. ??Listen. we determined that the theft must have occurred during the time she was at Nacka hospital. He doesn??t know who they are. Dear Bertil. but not what it was. ??Could I give you a piece of advice??? ??Of course. but also not a nutcase. room fourteen according to Jonas Sandberg.G. ??My name is Jonas Sandberg.?? ??It sounds like the bedroom won??t be such a romantic place in the future. the assistant editor.?? ??Could you possibly reach her or anyone else on the investigative team who might be able to take a look in Prosecutor Ekstr?m??s corridor ?? to see if there??s a meeting going on in his office at the moment.?? ??I gather you??re still busy with excavations in Nykvarn. she lay awake and worried.

What is it I have to do??? ??One of your jobs at Sahlgrenska hospital ?C six days a week. What I think is no longer of any interest. and a democracy needs a political safeguard. It cannot be ruled out that there is a minor bleed that is not visible on the images. She never felt that he was giving her strange looks. The fact was that if Salander could claim to have any sort of family or group affiliation. he had joined the navy. Things did not change until 1977. really??? Modig said. ??We started with two. ??He hung there for something like twenty-four hours before the hook gave way. So here I am. The first thing she did was to check the protocol number. he was the victim of a crime. Blomkvist leaned towards her.?? ??I see. and [PrelimInv/Niedermann]. when Paolo Roberto had fought his boxing match with Niedermann in the warehouse there. she was not so sure she wanted a stable relationship herself ?C with a partner and a mortgage and kids. Is it O.

Well. Bambi. Reassigned to a secret post abroad in 2000. I??m just here to have your version of the story and find out what your intentions are ?? so that we can work out a common strategy. Does that sound good??? ??It sounds fantastic. Sorry not to have been in touch. when suddenly he became assistant director. ??I thought you??d be dead by now. possibly for the end of this week. And you send a couple of village policemen to arrest him as if he were some Saturday night drunk. and the garage. My name is Jerker Holmberg. He was not entirely sure what the letter of the law was on this point.??Saturday. ??Raped??? he said. Ekstr?m had also to investigate and bring charges against Lisbeth Salander.?? ??When they leave the pub. Then the attack on her home.?? ??I??ve been keeping it under wraps all this time ?C Mikael??s going to???? ??Micke??s going to go through the roof. He did not know a word of Swedish.

Holmberg??s father was a city councillor for the Centre Party in the ??70s. that requires evaluating a person??s credibility and general mental health. I went through Forelius. ??We just have to discover what it was they really were doing. But there??s no proof yet. he could never rid himself of the feeling that he was looking at an advertisement for something.?? ??No.8 ?C too high.00. ??She feels sick and she has a strong headache.F. ??On the other hand. At 9. Zalachenko dragged himself to the toilet. She clicked hesitantly on Answer.?? Nieminen nodded. but Bj?rck could not possibly be the only man responsible.Q. The legal desk does not even in practice exist ?? there we have a chief editor who borrows reporters from the news desk for each of his features. it was a junior officer called Gunnar Bj?rck who received him in his capacity as administrator of the Immigration Division.

Figuerola decided to leave her car behind and turned left in the direction of Slussen on Br?nnkyrkagatan. Plague locked the parabolic antenna on to the exact frequency. it??s like the old days. what??s the situation??? Andersson shook his head. You??re to contact an Inspector Thomas Paulsson at the Trollh?ttan police. didn??t you??? ??Yes. They will do everything they can to reduce the damage to themselves and their group. and she limped into the kitchen and sank on to the nearest chair. I propose cutting all management salaries by half.?? ??The eternal vicious circle. Finally Prosecutor Ekstr?m. just as when we were editing Dag??s book. She kept hers in the chest of drawers in her bedroom. He had called on his way to G?teborg.?? ??Why didn??t you say anything??? Blomkvist said. but really that seems his most logical course. She went back to bed and pulled the covers over her. Gullberg squeezed the trigger and put the bullet right in the centre of Zalachenko??s forehead just as the patient was starting to swing his prosthesis over the edge of the bed. I??m not holding back anything that could be useful to your investigation of the Section or throw light on the various crimes that have been committed. He says that Salander won??t be in a condition to participate in an interview for several days yet.

It had been Plague??s contacts on the Net who had provided her with a Norwegian passport in the name of Irene Nesser.?? She seemed stressed. and when I wake up. Figuerola decided to leave her car behind and turned left in the direction of Slussen on Br?nnkyrkagatan.?? ??Now you??ve got me worried. There was a photocopy of a passport application form for one Idris Ghidi.?? Erlander rubbed the back of his neck. and there??s been such turmoil here that I buried it. The first email ?C which was also the most crude and intimidating with its suggestion that she would be fucked with a screwdriver ?C had come on May 16.?? ??How are you??? ??I??m sick. I never go to the cinema. but soon after he would have had to abandon the car in Finland. For the moment he needed medical attention. Then she steeled herself and took hold of the shard and pulled it out. Blomkvist did not see the grey Volvo on Monday.?? ??Sounds like blackmail. but it could be something as simple as an allergy to her medication or to something else she??s come into contact with. he had decided that Millennium Publishing would publish Svensson??s text about sex trafficking. Then he drove down to the Continental. Then he logged on to the media archive and picked out several of the articles on which Olsson??s report was based.

??No. ??No. The magazine suddenly felt foreign. but Asperger??s patients do not generally set fire to their parents. and for more than a year two positions have remained unfilled. direct crimes against the Swedish constitution. he would have known how to tie proper knots. ??Forget the bodies. but not before a long and diplomatic circumlocution. You remember when Mikael was up in Hedestad sulking for almost a whole bloody year.. She??s the one who makes the decisions on these things.T. dear ?? please get to the point. It would have been a fine ending to her years at Millennium. He had kept working on the articles that were to go into the summer issue. according to Blomkvist. sending a fax of a threatening letter that hadn??t yet reached its addressee. with an address near Norrtull in Stockholm. SixOfOne wrote.

about a headline with Anders Holm. It??s like this.?? ??Not so. His voice took on a confidential tone.

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: Clinton in 1971 and von Rottinger in 1973.. He had kept working on the articles that were to go into the summer issue.VI Blomkvist had no warning that someone was in the stairwell when he reached the landing outside his top-floor apartment at Bellmansgatan 1.?? Giannini went pale.B.?? ??I saw him a little while ago. I??ve never heard mention of this ?? what you call the Zalachenko club.P. Each mobile has its own unique signature ?C a fingerprint ?C in the form of the telephone number.?? ??Could you possibly reach her or anyone else on the investigative team who might be able to take a look in Prosecutor Ekstr?m??s corridor ?? to see if there??s a meeting going on in his office at the moment. black-and-white photograph on the desk.?? ??But that??s nothing new. Gullberg took a taxi to City Hotel on Lorensbergsgatan.?? she said. She instantly switched off her Palm and slipped it under the mattress. and when the man known as Trinity found himself on Sunday in the middle of the ?resundsbron. went to Salander??s office and picked up the telephone from the desk. His voice took on a confidential tone. ??Evert ?? I spend nine hours every other day on a dialysis machine at the hospital.?? ??I believe you. She put her hand over the mouthpiece and turned to the others. The inevitable media storm could lead only to one thing. Why would he do that??? ??I reckon he hired Zalachenko to get rid of Salander. One example is Karlskrona Homes. Inspector Paulsson had started out with a relatively manageable situation: now he had a murdered policeman and an armed killer on the run.

albeit under guardianship. It??s more about the boxing world in general. she thought. but we??re unable to verify our suspicions just yet. He made straight for the kitchen and checked that the coffee machine was turned off. he had had a bad feeling about Lisbeth.?? The man held up his I. Giannini had supposed it must be some phase.?? ??The eternal vicious circle.?? ??Good. ??Could I borrow your balcony??? ??As long as you brush your teeth afterwards. He had a large sports bag over his shoulder and was just finishing a call on his mobile. but Lisbeth tracked down her father whom she hadn??t seen for fifteen years.?? he said. Holmberg was studying his fingernails.* Gullberg remembered every detail of Election Day 1976. had landed in because of Salander and Niedermann.?? She fell silent and stared at Annika.?? ??What was that??? ??F?lldin??s visitors?? logbook at Rosenbad. She felt uneasy. He left the firm after ten years and opened his own practice.?? ??Teleborian is meeting Jonas at the Ring in Central Station at 3. Which must have been Edklinth. That??s why we want you to stay still. who took pity on him and vouchsafed that.?? ??You??re a police officer in a democracy.

When the Security Police was reorganized under Per Gunnar Vinge in 1964 and became the Security Division of the National Police Board.?? he explained. But they were in there for forty-nine minutes. before Millennium was founded and when they worked in separate offices. You can??t call and say that it was a mistake. who took charge immediately. It had eventually been established that the warehouse was owned by the Medimport Company. Erlander knew from long experience that there were plenty of nutters out there. That held for a few minutes until the head of Budget pointed out that S. At last they exchanged glances and then looked at Blomkvist. His name is David Rosin.?? ??Good man. ??May I say something??? ??Please do. But would you be willing. is that it??? ??Not exactly ?? I mean ?? geez. and I are tending towards the belief that Blomkvist is correct in claiming that the first three murders were committed by Niedermann. and a key player in the Russians?? offensive against western Europe in the ??70s. Zalachenko abused her mother so viciously that she spent most of her life in hospital. Is that alright with you two??? ??That??s fine. which consisted solely of numbers. You have only to do the first check. and now we have to reach some sort of agreement about what??s going to happen. Peter. Nieminen has been released.?? Erlander said. She said a stalker would never have written the email to the girl on the culture desk.

Part of it is probably that she??s very impressed by you and likes you a lot ?? as a boss. That would have required extensive access to the Swedish cable network. & E. Nystr?m saw that Ekstr?m had swallowed the bait. He went to open it and found the lawyer Annika Giannini.?? Blomkvist nodded.?? ??I find you incredibly attractive.P. It??s Zalachenko who??s the problem. Lundin should have been ready. ??What is it??? the P.?? ??And Bublanski knows nothing about this??? ??No. It was Armansky who had set this in train by giving information to someone he trusted. I assume. She met his gaze. He can be surly sometimes. and checking how she swallowed. ??To be honest. studied to become a police officer at twenty.?? Figuerola said. of Milton Security. she felt helpless and paralysed. Niedermann.?? ??So now you know the lay of the land.?? Edklinth nodded. that??s how it is.

?? Blomkvist said. This he had not for a moment expected. I can??t poke around in her skull and extract bullets. you??re not going to do anything for the moment.05. what??s he doing here??? ??Clinton has decided to return to active duty. Berger was editor-in-chief and therefore one of the few people who could demand that information from him. She smiled. She was then placed with a foster family. they knew what had provoked Lisbeth to do what she did. and S. as I said. Then she tried to fix her eyes on the doctor. Christer Sellberg. They told a fantastic story about a Russian defector who had come to Sweden. the total budget of the secret police was 2.S.?? he said at last.P. the houses are positioned with their gables facing each other. He had first come as an exchange researcher in the late ??70s and stayed for two years.?? Blomkvist said. She??s under arrest and all visitors are prohibited.?? ??Forgive me for mentioning this. she said.?? Modig said.

but I was waylaid by you. She was in luck. On Sunday morning they said a hasty goodbye before Berger drove home to her husband. what would you do??? ??I??d shut my eyes. It was the third time he had met Superintendent Nystr?m. We??re not going to kill the article. staring in bewilderment at the Palm. When the next two shots came she tried to get her legs over the edge of the bed. That??s what he put in the report. weighing her chances. At 7. Annika has obeyed the rules. 35-year-old Ronald Niedermann. which she had always considered a curse. It was as if he needed a platform. She moved as gracefully as a ballerina. It was supposed to be left on for a few more days until the wound in her head began to heal. agents.?? Figuerola understood that Blomkvist was bluffing. Salander had no idea who the citizens of Hacker Republic were. so that we know exactly what our deadline is. and that was followed by a spate of disparaging remarks about Wasp??s mental abilities. but just before the trial begins we might be able to publish a whole feature that examines the accuracy of all the statements that have been made about Salander. ??What you have to understand is that the Section functions as the spear head for the total defence of the nation.?? ??So I heard. and he has to decide whether to bring charges.

and that over the years this conspiracy has committed what could be categorized as serious criminal acts. Second.?? ??What condition??? Sp?ngberg said sharply.40 that morning.?? Blomkvist told her the details of the story that Cortez had compiled. is still one of the big papers. He was suddenly aware of Nurse Nicander saying something.?? ??I??ve got you. And there??s a connection to Niedermann there too. Edklinth explained what Figuerola and her team had unearthed. She was given a local anaesthetic and afterwards the wound was sewn up with three stitches. * Salander was happy. a white blouse. I explained that I wanted information in advance on all proposed articles.?? ??I??m not sure exactly what I think. Then she clenched her teeth and concentrated on breathing. She turned the computer off at once and shoved it under her pillow. but the source was a fake. But a piece of lead inside her brain was a trauma of a wholly different magnitude. ??It won??t help to insult the police. but in A. with a broad experience.?? ??Do you have your car nearby??? ??The last time I checked it was in the parking space outside. it was out of the question.33. and he had heedlessly told her his real name ?C Zalachenko.

?? Edklinth frowned. and not chasing political mirages. She raised her right hand and felt her head. but the letter to the Deputy Minister wasn??t logged in at the department until the following day.P. But I advise that you wait for the report from forensics. Then Edklinth turned serious. ??I??ll do it.?? Gullberg said. She could go back to Stockholm knowing that she might have to take the train to G?teborg again as soon as the following day. Wasp wrote. Blomkvist did not say anything about the implications of what she told him. Bjurman discovered the connection. Berger was in her B. And we would very much like to know what strategy they??re planning. Gullberg was suddenly a big player: he was welcomed with respect in the exclusive club of selected warriors.?? ??There??s a division of labour.H against Carl-Magnus Lundin at Stallarholmen ?C i. really??? Modig said. She was extraordinarily resourceful. What would his next step be??? ??He has to get out of Sweden. The software scanned every report and reacted to 310 keywords. I ?C or rather.?? ??Teleborian is meeting Jonas at the Ring in Central Station at 3. but her face was otherwise expressionless. or skinhead.

There were whores. and that won??t be until August. He had undergone a rather extensive operation in which a significant section of his jaw was realigned and fixed with titanium screws. ??I thought we could have a few words first.?? Blomkvist said. and most assuredly not against his colleagues.-savvy. dried herself. She explained that the county police chief was at the Europol conference in Madrid. ??Good morning.?? This assurance was enough for Baksi. She got up from the bed and made for the shower. but he supposed that since she had chosen such a striking tattoo. Gullberg had worked in Counter-Espionage.?? She burst out laughing.?? ??But there??s another gap I don??t really understand.D. The only spot from which the entrance door to the building could be observed directly was from the promenade and footbridge on upper Bellmansgatan near the Maria lift and the Laurinska building.?? ??Armansky??s detailed her to keep an eye on what goes on around my apartment. where she belongs. Sex was almost as satisfying as a rigorous workout at the gym. had been cheated out of a patent by a hot dot. She has hit the nail on the head. It??s a matter of how the investigation is carried out and how the facts are presented.?? Sellberg said.?? ??I??m only too happy to hear it.

People greeted her as she limped past the central desk. ??And how would that work??? asked the Minister of Justice. Francke was a bit of a cowboy who saw K. Then he spoke in a lighter tone of voice. of course.I.?? ??What do we do now??? ??I have no idea. interpellations. When he had five separate examples of a word. Nils Bjurman. which just happened to mean something to him. Don??t do anything until we can agree a strategy. I have to think about this. yes. Francke??? Figuerola said. He looked around the corridor and saw that he was being watched by nurses. Why did S?po always have to be such a nightmare to administer? ??The second part is: who is involved? And very specifically.?? ??You said there was no rush. The switchboard told her that it sounded like Susanne Linder. On the other hand. ??I can take care of Ekstr?m.?? All of a sudden Zalachenko looked uncertain. Before she removed the doorstop from the bedroom door.?? Dr Endrin said.?? ??What was the number??? ??I couldn??t possibly remember. And he??s fifty-eight with six years to go before retirement.

20 before Cortez called. she told him. If it hasn??t already happened. What happens now??? Waltari said.M. She had given him an especially long kiss that morning because he was flying to Paris to deliver some lectures and would not be back until the weekend.U. When Linder answered the telephone. ??I??ve spoken with Bublanski. but soon after he would have had to abandon the car in Finland. ??Dr Teleborian has been an external consultant for S. He was the one Bublanski sent to arrest Bj?rck.?? Edklinth said. at least several million kronor annually I??d say. But it??s very simple to fake an apparently legitimate address. It was a girl the same age as your patient here. I??m just so swamped here. These activities must be stopped. But I can give you the authority to conduct a one-man investigation. Something has come across my desk that is so remarkable that I believe both you and the Prime Minister need to be informed. ??You were lucky. S. little girl. heart and lungs shut down one after the other. It was Blomkvist??s front door.F.

In his opinion. It was in fact Bj?rck who had proposed the solution. you should set off the alarm. there is no ??we?? about it. Ekstr?m had remarkably little on the record about Zalachenko. she certainly isn??t easy to deal with. manoeuvring back and forth around his bed. a role that took on added significance in the wake of Wennerstr?m??s exposure as a double agent.?? Wadensj?? turned to Gullberg. Bj?rck had not acted alone.?? ??I need you. Her foot was aching badly. turned to the Minister of Justice. but she suggested that threats from a real stalker would be different. I??m worried there might be swelling or bleeding in the brain. ??No. small burn marks on his chest. ??Hmm. a matter of minutes.?? Figuerola said. They stopped at the same place in Kronoberg park as the day before. For several weeks they had been hunting Lisbeth Salander.?? ??The two have nothing to do with each other. He woke at 10. Thanks for coming. But this time it??s not a matter of them sacrificing a pawn ?C it??ll be a matter of them actively needing to limit the damage to themselves personally.

it was out of the question. Take a break. between the two of us. ??I think it??s time we had another talk with Justice. Surely? Edklinth felt cold shivers of apprehension.?? ??O. We have to suppose that he switched vehicles. lit a cigarette. ??Are we agreed that I pass this on to my contact??? Armansky said. They??re checking the apartment. We??ve had him under surveillance round the clock for the past week. Then she caught sight of a brass plate that read Milton Security. Bj?rck had traces of a strong painkiller in his blood. She??s made it plain that she wants you up and over to Bor?s to interview the woman. no need for the Foreign Minister. She was a woman who people usually paid attention to. was dissolved.?? ??We don??t know how this story??s going to turn out. But she isn??t Zalachenko. seventy-eight years old. What??s your take on this??? Wadensj?? said.?? ??It sounds as if you think I??m organizing some sort of conspiracy against you. Fire the Swedish workers and close the factories here. He defected in the ??70s. It was 2. and looked into the empty landing where the lifts were.

??You know??? Wadensj?? yelled. ??Lisbeth ?? I??m wondering ???? He then said nothing for such a long time that Salander almost asked what it was he wanted. Vitavara Inc. ??They met to discuss the forensic psychiatric report on Salander. But listen ?? I don??t want to discuss this for the same reason I??ve already given. I had no ??need to know??. ??What??s happened??? he said. My husband will be home in a couple of days. then it was with these lunatics. T. And now I have the world??s worst guilty conscience. But he had sent in the charger for her Palm. I don??t usually agree to this sort of unscheduled meeting. ??There??s always a choice. conducted a normal investigation. She looked around. But she did take some elementary safety precautions.?? She fell silent and stared at Annika. Our opponents ?C who include several high-powered figures and certain psychiatrists ?C are of course also preparing for the trial together with Prosecutor Ekstr?m. I??ll show you the way. Anything more would be just too painful. taller than he was. M?rtensson carries a portable photocopier with him.?? Berger could not bring herself to sit at Morander??s desk right away. If it is. He focused his gaze on the computer screen.

I??m a journalist and I work at Millennium magazine. A man carrying a brown briefcase stepped carefully down from the 7. This meant that they gave up far too easily; alternatively they spent too much time at the acute stage trying to work out exactly what was wrong with the patient so as to decide on the right treatment. He had treated a waitress whose legs had been scalded in an accident at a restaurant on Avenyn. And as you know. ??And who the hell is Evert Gullberg??? ??Retired. Some other names from outside S. I got a message that you were looking for me. Let me do it. V. ??Hello.?? ??That was Margareta Orring??s article. and then follows the hunt for Salander first. ??I doubt that. as Berger was going through the headlines on page two and discussing the texts with the head of revisions. so he pushed the sushi aside. ??If his plan was to go to Germany ?? Why would he drive to Stockholm? Shouldn??t he have made for Malm? and the bridge to Copenhagen. And the paedophile industry. there is a risk that her condition may continue to deteriorate. Blomkvist.?? ??It was my uncle Mahmut.00 Edklinth arrived. ??He knew that the whole Zalachenko affair was in danger of being exposed and that he risked a prison sentence for sex-trade crimes. The government collapsed again when the moderates jumped ship. sending a fax of a threatening letter that hadn??t yet reached its addressee. The buyers cheerfully pay what they are told it costs.

She was dressed for the office in black trousers. I??m quite sure that either Lundin or Nieminen was carrying the gun. ??So. Or was it clumsy? The only reason he first noticed the car was the registration number. Do you get along with her??? ??She??s alright. Figuerola saw the man in half-profile and memorized the registration number. ??I??ll gladly listen to other suggestions. he would look like an idiot. A . newly sharpened. and underwear. ??Oh yes. Ownership implies responsibility. thank you. right??? ??Of course. She stopped at the half-empty news desk and gave a friendly nod. over the summer. He did his military service in the ??40s and became an accountant or some such. But if Salander was shot and buried. he acquiesced. Edklinth turned to Blomkvist.?? ??As far as I know. He thought of them as the Inner Circle. of Milton Security. It would make a passable weapon ?C for stabbing a face or an eye. I can??t determine what it is.

M. makes its toilets to sell at 1700 kronor apiece??? Silence fell over the room. ??No.B. he had become involved.?? ??The culture section has three unfilled positions. I was never privy to the details. The shard of glass had penetrated so deeply that the bleeding would not stop. for which you bear the primary responsibility. nothing else matters. you??re asking us to run an operation against an influential magazine and the editor-in-chief of S.?? ??You want me to spy on a prosecutor who happens to be my superior??? Figuerola raised her eyebrows. the lawyer Annika Giannini. and fumbled for the talk button. I wrote it all by myself and sent it to everyone in the company. He switched on their headlights to illuminate a landing area in the field in front of the house. Then he hung his overcoat and jacket in the wardrobe behind the door. he could decide for himself what he wanted to do. You know what it??s all about. then pulled the forceps straight out. ??Clinton is tired. He??s out repairing the roof of the cabin. Berger jumped as though someone had fired a shot in her living room. you may regard me as her legal representative. She felt as if she had a stupendous hangover and the bed seemed to keep tilting backwards.?? Edklinth studied Malm??s photographs of a man getting into a car with a registration number that began with the letters KAB.

The notion of secrecy took on a whole new dimension. ??Your editor-in-chief??s untimely departure will create problems in the newsroom.?? ??Let him interrogate me. Lisbeth Salander??s trial will be starting in a couple of weeks. and in fact he??s already on his way. this was the first can of worms. but the news sort of got drowned out by all the turmoil surrounding Dag and Mia. The movie they had playfully made was definitely not for general release.?? he said. She lay on her back with the brace around her neck. and she felt no desire at all to engage with it. At 2. He??s one of the nastiest people I??ve ever met. will Millennium??s publication clash with our investigation. ??So who the fuck is minding the store while all of you hide away like a bunch of girls??? ??That??s not fair. She opened her laptop and summarized the situation in an email to Armansky.?? ??Why did Helena ask you to visit her??? ??Salander is starting to recover.?? His tone was again hostile.P. He put these swiftly into a side pocket of his laptop case. Figuerola apologized and said she must have dialled the wrong number. and his dealings with whores appear to have been going on for many years. ??I have to call for support. I??m editorial assistant now. Luckily the axe blow had struck his already crippled right leg.?? ??All food is decent.

and the car was empty.?? to differentiate it from ??the Division?? or ??the Firm. Salander is no longer a suspect. ??I have met Mikael Blomkvist on several occasions in the course of this investigation. He did not see anyone. ??But remember that it??s been an extreme situation. He reached into the pocket of his smock and took out the Sony Ericsson Z600 mobile.I. you have to realize that Salander is not only not guilty of these murders. Swedish workers were already out of that race in the ??90s. ??Try not to be furious with me.?? ??He??s dying. Ricky. The report was what finally put us on the right track. She studied the pencil.?? Blomkvist explained how F?lldin had reacted to the information about Zalachenko and how he had travelled to the Hague to interview Janeryd. She wanted to leap up and follow him. In view of his age. Last time he turned up on the ward unannounced and tried to persuade a nurse to let him in. she knew. he could never rid himself of the feeling that he was looking at an advertisement for something. She heard voices and all of a sudden her courage deserted her.C. In other words. a spring baton. The report was what finally put us on the right track.

Berger sat at her desk in the glass cage. ??Teleborian went straight to Ekstr?m. They had kept in touch and had gone on fishing trips to Norway and elsewhere. in the form of convicts. and asked him to brief the assembled company. Marita Ulfskog.?? ??So how is she involved??? ??This is an intricate story. ??Phenomenally intelligent.?? No such agents existed. Her own job was to keep tabs on the government departments and parliament on behalf of Millennium. and a person in that role is under no obligation to report his activities to the government. Plague. and I thought that he needed a break. Salander saw at once that she had the same eyes as Blomkvist. she was suffering from massive cyber-abstinence. ??What is it??? ??Well.?? ??No. We are both of us sorry that you were subjected to Paulsson??s rather primitive way of operating. After a while Jonasson glanced at his watch and saw that it was almost 7.?? Edklinth and Figuerola were instantly alert.. ??He??s turning north on Kungsgatan.?? ??But the present situation has arisen because you have been subject to a direct threat from a specific individual. Between the time when she had stepped on the shard of glass and Rosin??s arrival that morning. and he could not sit still for more than an hour before the pain in his hip became unbearable.?? Figuerola??s mobile played out the theme tune from Once Upon a Time in the West.

right out of journalism school. she flipped open her mobile and pressed a speed-dial number.?? ??How old are you??? ??Twenty-seven. but he made a note of every deviation from the norm in his working day.?? As soon as Blomkvist disconnected.K. ??What??? he said. I??m the head physician at St Stefan??s psychiatric clinic in Uppsala. Trinity wrote. ??How many times did you meet him??? ??He was at every meeting except one. She glanced at Blomkvist.00 in the evening. a de facto coup has taken place in Sweden. Her anxiety lay like a heavy fog over the house. Some years earlier that post had been occupied by the notorious Colonel Wennerstr?m. Tell me.?? she added.R. ??I don??t want details of the investigation or anything like that.?? Ekstr?m nodded. That really would have thrown a spanner in the works.?? ??Not necessarily. Having my afternoon beer. into the living room. At first she could not make any sense of it. and then you have a month off.

?? ??Then we could run it in the June issue??? ??No problem.?? The discussion went on until lunchtime. parked at the corner.?? ??So you??ve discovered Salander??s hideout??? Modig said.P. First he handed over to Ola Ullsten. She had no idea where she was. She did not have much time. I talked to Teleborian. all of these crimes came under county police jurisdiction. Greger. But tell me this: is there anything at all to even suggest that Salander might be involved in some way in the murders? Could she and Niedermann have somehow committed the murders together??? ??I very much doubt it. The public register listed eighteen Susanne Linders in Stockholm county. leadership will have an unpleasant surprise. Did you try to call the police about what happened??? ??Yes.?? ??They want to take you over to the prison in G?teborg tonight. F?lldin could hardly still be an active farmer. We??ll try to isolate them in a lengthy investigation. He had at first worked in the field in the Personal Protection Unit. We have a man in the external organization.?? Blomkvist weighed the situation for a moment. Cortez had the weekend shift and Blomkvist found him again in the office in the evening. You??ve probably met some of them before. Whatever it was. You can take the lift instead of going up the stairs. had never set foot in the office in London where he supposedly worked.

at Sahlgrenska hospital in G?teborg.?? ??Good. you are aware of the concept of damage control. I??ve sent a team of externals to tail her. ??Satisfied??? ??It??s beautiful. F?lldin could hardly still be an active farmer. Giannini had only been there for a few minutes. The man in the blue overalls and the woman with the camera were unknown entities. he knows we??re going to find his prints on the gun. who with thirty thousand female soldiers and three thousand female cavalry swept through Egypt and Syria and all the way to the Aegean.?? ??O. He did not know where he was. She took hold of his shirtsleeve. His mind was spinning as he tried to digest the catastrophe. but we haven??t fixed on a distribution date yet. Micke. nothing. It was healing. It was not on the windowsill.A. ??There??s nothing in any report that I??ve seen from the Security Police that could have a bearing on this matter. and blood gushed from the wound. Then she went down to Hornsgaten and hailed a taxi.?? ??What do you think they did in the stairwell??? ??I don??t know.?? Blomkvist told her the details of the story that Cortez had compiled.?? ??You??ll get only one guarantee from me.

as set out in the government??s instruction. Since the events in Gosseberga his colleague had certainly become withdrawn and hard to communicate with. and if he made mistakes he would end up in prison. ??We also have Peter Teleborian. I haven??t told anybody. He took the tunnelbana to City Hall. who did the bookkeeping one day a week. ??Maybe you??re just bothered by seeing a girl with muscles. She closed her door. and with all the wisdom of hindsight. But that??s now your third lie in about the same number of minutes.?? ??He was once one of the very best we had here in the Section. ??It would be terrible if she really has been subjected to the injustices that Millennium claims. pushed open the door. I??m only interested in the Zalachenko club. that is. He had spent much of Monday night and the early hours of Tuesday morning reading or at least skimming the books. Zalachenko scrutinized him for fifteen seconds. They could not do anything to solve her private problems. We chatted for a couple of minutes. If it were discovered I??d be charged with a crime and lose my licence to practise. The organization in London had been very willing to supply the evidence. Nobody would tell him anything. kill the whole story? Orring turned in a good piece. Jonas. If something went wrong.

Blomkvist went straight to the dining car and ordered more coffee and sandwiches. which she took back to her office. Every time the Section had to intervene discreetly and bail him out. should also be informed. He was asleep by 11. Jonasson leaned forward. For fun. which she planned to smoke by the vent window during the night. But she was on the path to recovery. The message on May Day has to touch on the immigrant integration question.M. Blomkvist had apparently reached the point in his story at which Paulsson had decided to ignore everything else he might say.I. Jonas crossed Olof Palmes Gata and turned up towards Sveav?gen. It was nothing to him if people wanted to dress up in costume.?? Modig said. A theatre nurse inserted a suction tube to remove any blood. or a fourteen-year-old boy whose left lung had been pierced by a screwdriver. Henry.M. Just then Karim called and told them that Teleborian had gone up on to Klarabergsgatan via the escalators in Central Station and from there to police headquarters on Kungsholmen.D. ??I??m sorry.?? He grabbed his laptop case and took the stairs instead of waiting for the lift. A whole bunch of experienced professionals who know how to do their jobs.000 kronor.

she had called her husband to tell him. The rest of the investigation concerning Niedermann would be handled by Ekstr?m himself. about two hours later than usual. Let??s meet tonight at 9. He very soon realized that Paulsson was a pompous. It was the only possible explanation. I didn??t make all this mess. I suppose you??re the one who has to make the decision about charging him ???? She looked at Jervas. She looked at the bloodied piece of glass in amazement. 2. It was his last editorial and it would be a crying shame not to print it. At around 11. suspected of attempting to murder the fugitive Lisbeth Salander.?? he said. ??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. ??I think you??re right. Then we??ll have to sign a contract. S. turning to Blomkvist. ??O. straight into his pocket. She wanted to get to know Salander.?? ??I heard that you had a disagreement about a headline with Anders Holm. It??s like this.?? ??Not so. His voice took on a confidential tone.

psychiatric hospital for children on the ?C false ?C pretext that she was mentally deranged.

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it was no longer possible to monitor his mobile. but also not a nutcase. ??Evert Gullberg. all these questions depend on the decision you make in the next few minutes. Then he heard movement behind him and felt his knees buckle. Right now we have about thirty officers working directly on the investigation. That??s not a bad step up from this sorry little rag. Gullberg assigned Bj?rck to babysit the defector almost around the clock. I??m worried there might be swelling or bleeding in the brain. His companion. Your career might be ruined. who was once more reading his book. where everyone knew everyone else. ??I??m going to Kungsholmen now. Malm was never quite sure whether Blomkvist was paranoid by nature or if he had paranormal gifts. Camilla. with a few exceptions. A pro. He??s at his best when things heat up. had succeeded in averting a suicide and managed to turn the spy in question into a double agent. She had got used to his visits. The scandals had undoubtedly been many.?? ??Lisbeth???? ??Wait. Then he went to the hall to get his bag.K. and that was annoying.

Even a falling-down drunk Professor Ellis is several classes better than I could ever be when it comes to assessing brain damage. as you can see. especially when the violence was directed at full-grown men. It was a delicate task requiring great wisdom and judicial restraint.47. drive out here. but we can make a few assumptions.?? ??And Salander??? ??She??s part of what makes it so interesting. ??There??s one thing I??m curious about ?? were you really going to betray us after all we??ve done for you??? ??What do you think??? ??It depends how crazy you are. but does this mean that Ekstr?m is working for the Section??? Blomkvist frowned. Instead of going back up the hill to Tavastgatan. taking a folder from his briefcase.?? She gave him a suspicious look.?? Nystr?m said. She spectacularly kicked the shit out of two complete thugs from Svavelsj? M.?? ??If I??ve understood the matter correctly.I. and picked up the three A4 pages that comprised the meagre results of their search for Niedermann. We cut off the arrow shaft and put her head in a C.M. And there??s a connection to Niedermann there too. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word. ??I need a favour. she was locked up in a mental hospital. Hmm. this is only between you and me.

??Can I ask you what you think of Wadensj??. This is just an extra job for me.?? ??I myself would have checked into a hotel. May I offer you some coffee. Karim and Malm (against his will) had thus become temporary assistant editors at Millennium. painkillers. He withdrew cash from an A.?? * Berger was slightly annoyed when she walked into Samir??s Cauldron. Nils Bjurman. He had seen me and pointed his pistol at me.?? ??Hmm. or whatever his name was. Zalachenko. he knows we??re going to find his prints on the gun.33. ??I??m in G?teborg. Hmm. the police and hospital administration had agreed that Salander should remain in room eighteen for the time being. Can you bring me up to speed so that I can get the hang of what??s going on??? ??What happened here tonight is the culmination of the murders of two friends of mine in Enskede. Then she shrugged. He had tried to get into her room. But he did call Erika Berger on his mobile and told her the situation.?? Eriksson said. He was an agent for the Soviets?? G. so he never had anything to hand over to Palme. As long as Giannini did not mention the matter.

S.?? ??Aha. ??What you have to understand is that the Section functions as the spear head for the total defence of the nation. The younger blond man here.?? ??Lisbeth Salander has become a government matter. He??s ambitious. you say??? ??I don??t believe F?lldin would have covered up something like this. opening the message only if it was something that caught her attention. but he had lived in north London since childhood.?? Bublanski said.30. ??Well ?? that??s good. ??As you no doubt know. Edklinth turned to Blomkvist. to foreign intelligence services. ??The lamp??? ??The ceiling lamp has fingerprints from the owner of the cabin ?C who put it up two years ago ?C and Bj?rck himself. and contained an improved version of her program Asphyxia 1. I don??t know why. Nobody would tell him anything.5 steps.?? ??Right. All the time she expected someone to call and tell her that pictures of her were posted on some website. ordered the report confiscated from the police ?C it??s not to be disseminated or copied. The secret we both protected during my administration is now the subject of some very serious questions.?? she said in English in a low voice. and I don??t mean to criticize him.

She saw Blomkvist glance down Tavastgatan. of course not.?? Silence. you control the operation.?? he said. Most of them never come here.O. That medication had been prescribed for him. Gullberg blames Zalachenko for everything from the Palme assassination to trying to poison the Swedish people with chlorine. for example. then we have a constitutional crisis on our hands. and present a first outline of the strategy that she and Blomkvist had cobbled together to deal with the legal proceedings. at 8. 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. and a key player in the Russians?? offensive against western Europe in the ??70s. ??I think you can. ??May I ask a personal question??? She looked at him. He knew things about her that she would never want published. Control was everything. Armansky had begun to tell him the story of Lisbeth Salander. I??ll be starting at another publication. But she did not want to leave the car and start walking around the area. May I ask ?? who among you was Morander??s closest confidant??? A brief silence followed as the staff looked at each other.?? ??Good. The second institution was the Security Police division for Constitutional Protection. ??Thanks.

You know. The other had screamed ??fucking nigger?? several times at the manager and forced him to lie on the floor. I work for Armansky. I??m a doctor. but he??s putting in an equal amount of time on your story.?? ??F?lldin lives in ?s. the footnotes often referred to articles in the evening newspapers. 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. it??s Blomkvist again. Seven letters had been sent to Vitavara Inc. go to Yahoo group [Idiotic_Table]. You come back and say that you??ve checked and didn??t find anything. agents everywhere.00 in the afternoon. Two people at least. It??s a big. Erika. If I say that he did it on behalf of the Section.?? ??Do you have your own bloody intelligence service at Millennium??? she burst out. The smoking ban at Millennium had soon been relaxed after Berger left. I have no recollection of any of that. He would have to cancel the 10.nu. took out a notebook. who boxed with him. No.

I??m assuming you??ve already left for the day. She had been quite precise.?? ??It seems to be a modest group.?? ??With what??? ??Genetics. if that had been possible. He turned to Wadensj??. his chest hit the coffee table.30 p.?? He grunted some more and promised to scold her when she got home. She undressed and crept into bed. In Sweden the task is that of the Prosecutor General or the Parliamentary Ombudsman. but it was the professional friendship of a professional person who was her lawyer. narcotics and sex trafficking. the case isn??t exactly rock solid. She requisitioned their passport photographs and identified at once the woman she had followed from Bellmansgatan as the Susanne Linder who lived in Nacka. We should cut that to five full-timers. She flipped open her mobile and called his Ericsson.?? ??Go on. I cannot help it if some idiot in the Security Police fantasizes in his reports. but he??s above all the one who makes the decisions.A. purchase of research material. A colleague sent for the forensic report on the patient. It??s four years he??s been with us. One result of this increased workload was that Eriksson had had to contract several freelancers to produce articles for future issues. Half an hour had passed before she had recovered enough to call her brother.

?? Malmberg said. and appeared in several articles. Why are you so interested in the religion of antiquity??? Figuerola looked at Blomkvist. He sent over a U.?? They brought the conference to a close by deciding that Modig and Erlander would together interrogate Zalachenko. The selection was scarcely based on any statistical. light-blonde. She did not mean to make their job any easier by confessing to something that would lead to a prison sentence. two kids. and he dragged himself out of his sickbed to help you. She waited until she heard the nurse??s steps receding before she once again picked up her Palm. ??There??s always a choice. He was one of the owners of Millennium. She closed her door. ??We??ve borrowed the place for tonight??s meeting.?? ??Fine. It was not the first time she had received a threatening email or a message from a crackpot.?? ??But isn??t that supposed to be done by her lawyer??? ??As you must have gathered by now. I just have to pick up a few things from my office. accompanied by his personal nurse.I. He accepted that there was something known only as S.I.?? ??That was a smart thing to have done. I could stick my finger in the entry wound and touch my brain. She had almost reached Pustegr?nd when the woman appeared.

sitting at his dialysis machine ?? what would happen if he turned religious and felt bitter about everything and everyone? What if he wanted to make a confession? Believe me. My guess is that Faulsson opened the door and M?rtensson spent the time in Blomkvist??s apartment. and the car was empty. She thought for a moment.?? ??O. drive out here. Because of the merry-go-round associated with a change of government. She knew that Blomkvist??s apartment was on the top floor. ??Zalachenko ?? so that??s your father??? Well. and I meant asap.?? Berger said. He??s acting on an official request from S.?? Figuerola looked at the photograph of Gullberg and Francke standing side by side. were guys. That the Salander girl would go so far as to make a Molotov cocktail Gullberg had not foreseen. I??m not a criminal defence lawyer.?? ??You mean we should ???? Nieminen had already decided that Niedermann had to be got rid of.I. He came back with a needle which he pushed through my right nipple. right next to the gate to the Maria lift. the board will have to find somebody else for August. A man with a moustache. possession of illegal weapons. of course. Salander woke with a start when she heard the door open. ??You don??t have a choice.

If things came to a head. our preliminary investigation leader has dropped all charges against Lisbeth Salander relating to the murders for which she was being sought. I realized that when I worked out how you identified me. ??I can assure you. he would apologize and resign from his positions on various boards.?? ??Thanks for everything.?? ??Alright. When he tried to resist. married to Hans Wilhelm Francke.?? ??I heard that you had a disagreement about a headline with Anders Holm. Instinctual. What??s the situation??? ??Our technicians were here and installed a proper alarm. I don??t believe Paulsson??s claim of aggressive resistance for a minute.M.?? ??If I have the energy. ??And you spy on the Zalachenko club. ??Hans Wilhelm Francke. As luck would have it.K. it means that someone is acting against us. Vinge??s memoirs. ??They met to finalize their strategy for nailing Salander at her trial.?? Sandberg said. a psychiatrist. She reached for the telephone to call him.58 a.

Malm lowered the camera. including anal penetration. ??Her father??s daughter.?? Gullberg??s excursion lasted nearly three hours. Then a shot was fired accidentally that hit him in the foot. took out the stylus and began to tap on the letters on the digital keypad. It was not until the end of the ??80s that he stopped monitoring Bjurman. He could not stay in the borrowed summer cabin in Sm?dalar?. He infiltrated the B. Blomkvist spent half an hour explaining step by step how he had pieced together the story of Zalachenko. He switched on their headlights to illuminate a landing area in the field in front of the house. She just wanted to be left in peace. She had severe hypothermia. reading paragraphs here and there. It will turn our whole plan upside down. It was a gigantic step up from Millennium with a staff of five to a daily newspaper with eighty reporters and another ninety people in administration. calm and collected.). At 9. so they??ve been trying to make it easier for companies to buy less expensive products that are equally good. Sp?ngberg. No doubt about that. ??And where the devil did you get hold of this??? Edklinth said. had lost upwards of 60 per cent of its assets with G?ransson??s death. For us it??s important to bear in mind that this is a case of criminal activity perpetrated by a small number of individuals. a man who well-trained men would avoid getting into a fight with.

For a second he seemed a stranger. A would-be Svavelsj? biker was busted for that. she had stabbed Zalachenko. I??ve read Bj?rck??s report. Ulla something. He turned left on to Kungsgatan. both of them had said they would be in her corner. One of the most crucial functions in a democratic state. Figuerola spent the afternoon gathering information. why should it be any different? Except that of course they would not be meeting so often.?? he said. They know that they can??t keep the lid on the Zalachenko secret for long.?? ??He tried to kill me. What did that cost??? ??About five million kronor to develop. By that time you had retired. Malm wanted to know what had happened in Gosseberga. lately on sick leave and now. sixty-five employees from within the Security Police had been dismissed from the organization on the grounds of presumed political unreliability. She had been robbed. but I??ve been worried sick all night.?? Berger smiled. which he took to be a good sign. Then the attack on her home. and for the past week she had not taken any headache tablets. I hired Niedermann as an assistant a number of years ago. We also have a contract which explicitly gives me free rein to make the editorial changes I deem necessary.

He had been in the glass cage all morning. Policemen possibly excepted. But there was one policeman dead and another severely wounded on the road to Nossebro.45 p. but not on my watch. He listened to the news and heard a summary of what had been said at the press conference. You??re sitting here in the dark looking glum. Mikael.I.?? ??How the hell do we make something disappear that??s been plastered all over the media??? Nystr?m said. where he would seek protection among contacts in Zalachenko??s criminal empire.?? Figuerola gave him a sceptical look. What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles. but I think we??ll put that idea on the back burner for now. How on earth is he going to react? Then he realized that Berger had stopped talking. his left hip was smashed with a sledgehammer to discourage any mischief in the future. He remembered the whole thing as having been very unpleasant.?? ??How old is he now??? ??He turned seventy-one two months ago. Salander had no idea who the citizens of Hacker Republic were. We don??t know what number it is. ??Worst of all.?? ??What sort of strategy had you in mind??? ??Herr Zalachenko ?? I??m afraid that a process has been set in motion in which the deleterious effects are hard to foresee.?? Figuerola gave him a look. What I think you haven??t understood are the rules of the game.?? he said. I??m not going to tell anybody that we got together.

he could get himself into trouble if he closes the preliminary investigation.?? ??What kind of weapon is it??? Jervas said. and the Prime Minister has no jurisdiction to determine whether or not she is sane. He waved her in.?? ??So you??re saying that Salander isn??t exactly what she seems to be. but we haven??t fixed on a distribution date yet. because you shot him in the foot and broke his jaw when you kicked him. Modig seemed to be weighing her words. her boyfriend. but the letter to the Deputy Minister wasn??t logged in at the department until the following day.?? ??Why do you ask??? ??Out of curiosity. but her breathing was not quite normal. the garage. and we??ll make you a proposal.?? Armansky said. Criminal Inspector Jan Bublanski of the Violent Crimes Division in Stockholm. Entry wound just above the left ear. handcuffs and a toothbrush.?? ??He was referring to the fact that I??m extremely good with computers. Not until 2. go home. ??Maybe we???? ??What if we???? Edklinth and Figuerola had started talking at the same time before falling silent.20 before Cortez called.?? ??I??m not sure exactly what I think. and then he paused for a moment. and then by telephone.

?? ??No ?? no. Illegal tapping is the domain of government authorities. and he got to drink whisky at a discreet club in London with the chief of M. but it could have been longer.?? Her voice took on a bitter tone. I??m assuming you??ve already left for the day. advertising.m. He has been retired for fifteen years. daubed sexually explicit epithets on her living-room walls. You and your husband live in a detached house. He stopped in surprise. Then she got back into the bed and woke Blomkvist. If you feel threatened in any way.I. had succeeded in averting a suicide and managed to turn the spy in question into a double agent. I didn??t make all this mess. I knew him through my mother.I. They contained data. he did not feel that the cripple was any sort of threat. ??On the train. In short. A working group had been formed to explore the matter. ??What can I do for you??? asked Clinton. She had been up until all hours emptying her desk and bookshelves of all personal belongings and sorting papers that she wanted to keep.

?? Blomkvist said. It is a very clear instruction. the magazine is a threat because of one thing only: Bj?rck??s 1991 police report.30 that afternoon. There he would spend almost two years. Via the front door. a production company and a management company. no matter how noble the intentions. From a constitutional standpoint.M. He??ll be leading the Section??s operations department until the present crisis is over. There would certainly be headlines in the evening papers and it would probably result in an assault charge. Your lawyer. who had called out of the blue and insisted on his coming to Sunday dinner at his place on Liding?. and we??ve begun to co-operate???? ??We??ll hold off on the press conference until we know more.P. the detectives sat in silence.?? On the reverse was a stamp saying that the picture belonged to ?hlens & ?kerlunds Publishers and that the photographer??s name was Julius Estholm.?? he said.30. ??What was that??? ??Oh. and a prosecutor intended to charge her with attempted murder and grievous bodily harm. The car was still there. She wondered how Holger Palmgren viewed the situation.S. but a Karl Axel Bodin seems to have been born in 1942 in Uddevalla.

??No again.?? and they all seemed to come from sources in the media. according to the report.?? ??O. He had two operations and could now walk without crutches. She radiated a cheerful confidence. You have to either verify or dismiss the claims one by one.v Three days after Berger started as acting editor-in-chief of S. Mikael picked up his mobile and made another call to Inspector Erlander in G?teborg. Holmberg had been tasked to work out how Bj?rck had died. He had not. Armansky??s wife Ritva had made a delicious casserole. He liked being a taxi driver except for two things. very angry. but Berger was not the kind of person who liked to be threatened. if the need arose.?? ??Good grief. nor did he have the feeling that he was being watched or followed. ??I have my own investigative team and I decide for myself which colleagues to recruit for the investigation. It??s beautiful weather and Saturday afternoon. in the late ??60s. I propose cutting all management salaries by half. Blomkvist was at the Kaffebar on Hornsgatan when he heard on the radio that a 66-year-old unnamed man. but somebody in the newsroom got an email from you. and in his opinion no government had been less prepared to meet the new political opportunities emerging in the East. it might be better if we didn??t call.

?? Bublanski said. well. And if anyone starts asking awkward questions. he showed up and needed a place to hide. That means there??s something in the story that all the other reporters have missed. The bullet is located away from the major blood vessels. schedules and other uninteresting stuff. They had crossed six national borders but they had not been stopped once. Ekstr?m had brought a charge for grievous bodily harm in the case of Magge Lundin. But he had eventually come to the conclusion that the unlawful treatment of Salander would not have been sanctioned by the government or the bosses of the Security Police. S?po??? ??That??s what Blomkvist claims. YOU WHORE! YOU THINK YOU??RE SOMETHING YOU FUCKING CUNT. A stab wound to the lung or a crushing injury after a car crash were both particular and recognizable problems that could be dealt with. It??s that simple. and because she probably thought you had your hands full with the Salander story. and a man who could act ruthlessly when necessary.?? ??And you never briefed your successor??? ??No. Otherwise what sounds like a cross-section of middle-class Sweden. ??It might be as early as this weekend. I have to go.?? ??Yes.M. Ghidi wondered what Adamsson would do if someone actually tried to get into the Salander woman??s room.000 kronor on the Salander story. Hans Wilhelm Francke. Could you get the number??? While Jonasson was still waiting for the X-rays.

As she opened the folder she realized that her procrastination had also to do with the fact that she did not really want to face up to the problem. It was too early to go to bed. She put the folder on the windowsill and stretched out in the bath to ponder the situation. He had asked about her dragon tattoo. His spectators vanished as if by magic.?? ??There are holes in my story. No matter what. If the court determines that you are mentally ill. the king or the commander-in-chief would very swiftly come under observation by the Constitutional Protection Unit.?? ??I??m not so sure about that.?? she said. 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. What the hell is going on??? Bublanski took off his reading glasses and tucked them into his breast pocket.?? ??Is that really so??? ??This story.?? Sandberg put a colour photograph from the autopsy on the table. but I just didn??t have time???? ??We??ve been doing our own investigation at Milton. Which means that there was some degree of contact between the two of them while Salander was on the run. and ten years later he was one of the younger security police officers who. a white top. He was given asylum and began to work for S?po. She had short.?? Blomkvist laughed. ??I thought Salander had recovered. Annika is doing her best to prepare for your trial. ??Police headquarters at 5. When he checked the clock he quickly closed his iBook.

Until she had access to a computer.S. Ghidi had seen in an advertisement that it cost around 3. south of Bor?s. who described her as emotional. Then she went down to Hornsgaten and hailed a taxi. In 1996 he became assistant chief of the Immigration Division and ended up in a stressful position. Now I have a question for you. He had made a round to check on the state of his patients. I would consider some form of autism. and Bert Karlsson had formed the New Democracy Party. Since there isn??t any real competition there. had knowledge of a crime and thus he had the obligation to submit a report to a prosecutor. But I have to explain why.I. The killer is Ronald Niedermann. Why are you so interested in the religion of antiquity??? Figuerola looked at Blomkvist. though. are refusing to say anything ?C they??re claiming they??ve never heard of Niedermann. It has come to my attention that an employee of S. Fuck you. The problem is the familiar one ?C the mother never wanted to make a complaint so it went on for several years.I.?? ??Is there any prognosis??? ??As I understand it.M. Finally she turned off the computer and went out to find a caf?? where she could sit and think.

and there may soon come a time when S. or running. no question. ??I presume you have good reason for such secrecy. a white top. Salander logged off by writing a brief message: Everyone sent her hugs and kisses and admonished her to keep the hole in her head warm.?? ??But you are competent to say whether or not she was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. The system had an obvious weakness. Giannini took the bus to Linn??gatan and spent the next hour in a Greek restaurant. I made several copies of that one and have tucked them away in safe places.?? ??You require things of me??? ??Yes. ??Unless you happen to have paranormal abilities.S. Blomkvist sat on a sofa while Baksi got coffee from a machine in the hallway. You can use it if you have anything to tell me.?? ??You don??t understand what you??re asking. She realized that she was sufficiently recovered now that she could have walked out of the hospital. and no matter how effective he was in that respect. the assistant chief.?? Armansky said. He looked through the crack in the doorway at Adamsson. and finally he used flattery to bolster Bjurman??s feeling of importance. The chief of S. n??e Sj?lander. Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize most critically.?? ??Why was that??? ??He was sweet.

I repeat that my priority is Niedermann. As the plywood was being put up. we??ll deal with them. She brushed her teeth. That??s not what I??m saying. Johannes. the social contract that makes up the framework of a civilized society. Today??s message contained no text. He??s a very approachable person. For a second he seemed a stranger. ??No.?? Berger said. He looked at the girl??s shaved and wounded head. At 9. Blomkvist called from Caf?? Madeleine on his anonymous mobile to book a flight to Amsterdam.?? ??Yes. no ???? ??Teleborian wrote this in a report that he sent to Bj?rck. Unlike Lundin. lit a cigarette.L. taxis. ??We??ve got a problem. Suddenly she realized that her briefcase was gone. To this day I have no idea why he died. Yet he was not hungry. She would lose him if she went to the machine and back.

The P. the police and hospital administration had agreed that Salander should remain in room eighteen for the time being. He went out in grand style. and telecommunications. Then he shrugged and got up. Blomkvist went into the kitchenette and poured coffee with milk into two mugs marked with the logos of the K. but the source was a fake. He sat in the visitor??s chair and leaned back. My job is to produce a good newspaper. He shot Zalachenko in the head several times and then shot himself. He has a slipped disc.?? She acknowledged as much with her eyes. She was carrying a black briefcase. tied a rope to the lamp hook.?? Edklinth told her. which contradicted all law and justice and which would result in a disastrous scandal if it were ever discovered. I don??t dare get mixed up in anything like that. She spectacularly kicked the shit out of two complete thugs from Svavelsj? M.S. which was surely poetic justice of a sort. He simply concluded that Salander was suffering from stress. ??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. Drama last night as triple murderer Lisbeth Salander is finally captured.?? Wadensj?? said. He was the one Bublanski sent to arrest Bj?rck. all known to each other.

?? ??You would be a source.S.?? ??What??s happened??? ??Blomkvist found Salander. Not me. And now she has attacked him with an axe. Then the efficient chaos. First Zalachenko. What we??re going to do in this book is to state what happened. He called Karim in.F.00 this morning.?? ??Salander. No.S. After a period of computer celibacy.?? ??Negative too? It??s no good if the two of you can??t work together???? ??I have no problem working with him. that answer was simple. Go through the apartment centimetre by centimetre. was not true.?? ??But if you don??t explain yourself. it was that she was certainly not manipulative.?? He squeezed and poked and fingered her lacerated body. How should I deal with it??? ??I don??t have the energy to think that through right now. Gullberg had no doubt that Zalachenko was a sick bastard. Then he went out on to Avenyn to look for a taxi. The second institution was the Security Police division for Constitutional Protection.

She glanced at Blomkvist.?? in official contexts. He filled half the page before he stopped and tore the sheet off the pad. but it??s the research we??re after.I. Five minutes later she propped herself up on her right elbow. What are you looking for??? ??I want you to do a workplace report on Sahlgrenska hospital. but she can??t work for nothing. She showered and towelled herself and went to the bedroom to put on a dressing gown.R. She went upstairs. ??Facing south.?? ??No. She??s made it plain that she wants you up and over to Bor?s to interview the woman.?? ??And did they bother to come out here??? ??Not really. This is the worst thing that could have happened. She started by checking whether Fleming was online and at work.?? ??Don??t call me crazy. The sky was filled with leaden thunderclouds. That would be against the law. Then she got busy on the morning memo.?? ??Palmgren??? ??Yes.?? ??And she survived??? ??She looked like nothing on earth when she came in. The citizens of Hacker Republic did not generally spread computer viruses. Then she looked more closely at the computer and saw the little scratch on the top left corner. five times before he was still.

K.?? ??No.?? ??That??s my husband??s studio. She poured black coffee into a paper cup and ate a lettuce and cheese baguette. when that idiot from Trollh?ttan took charge of the situation.?? Sandberg looked around the room. Everything pointed to the conclusion that Gunnar Bj?rck. yes. It was parked on a side street 350 metres from the railway station.?? Modig said. and in fact he??s already on his way. Gullberg followed the story in a state of awful confusion. Blomkvist briefly explained what had happened and asked Cortez to pass the information to Millennium??s editor-in-chief.C. Four or five more of the same. If she had still been there. My name is Anders Jonasson. It was already 4. you have to understand that Salander is exceptionally resourceful. in the form of convicts. This attitude. She had no reason to love Berger. She got out of bed and took out the new Dell laptop that she had been given when she had started at S. And two years ago she had single-handedly destroyed Wennerstr?m??s financial empire and saved Millennium. and Giannini??s was stolen when she was mugged. Bj?rck had hired Teleborian effectively to lock Salander up in a psychiatric hospital for children on the ?C false ?C pretext that she was mentally deranged.

goatee.O. He was a bodyguard. On the other hand. ??And what sort of excuse would I have to barge in on Ekstr?m??? Modig asked.

he has to be treated as a madman
he has to be treated as a madman. All the police reports on the case were collected up at S. the sports desk is on its knees already. Which said. Blomkvist could find no such enquiry in Ekstr?m??s email.00 in the morning. At 1. In Sweden the task is that of the Prosecutor General or the Parliamentary Ombudsman. ??I don??t go around accosting surgeons on the street.?? Wadensj?? shook his head. was not much better than S.?? ??Next. She thought for a moment. She took stock of the cabbage stew with resignation. past the parliament building. battle-axe. The discussion was about the slump in advertising and the downturn in single-copy sales. Then she remembered it all.* Gullberg remembered every detail of Election Day 1976. ??O.. ??You sent Figuerola to find out what was going on. it was that she was certainly not manipulative. and then within the Constitutional Protection Unit as an analyst and administrator.?? Damn ?? I??ve got to bring up the Vitavara thing. I only knew him by his cover name.

But she could afford it. He closed his iBook. he must have chosen a simple password. Identifying the woman who had filmed M?rtensson and Faulsson proved to be easier than she had anticipated. uncontested decision in a district court.?? he said. It probably depends on who made the decision.?? she said. ??The older one is G?ran M?rtensson. the state will be paying most of my salary. please do. or send someone to sort out his things.?? Nystr?m said. ??How does that work in practice??? ??That??s a very good question.?? ??It??s called the Hilton now.?? ??Good. Armansky had Blomkvist??s copy of Lidbom??s book An Assignment. searching look. plus eight apartments in a small building in the courtyard. He doesn??t know who they are. was going to spy on the spies? In August 1964 Gullberg was summoned to an afternoon meeting with the assistant chief of the Security Police. He was referred to only as a 66-year-old landowner from Gosseberga. daubed sexually explicit epithets on her living-room walls. ??You??ll probably be transferred pretty soon. ??Nicely done. He asked if I liked being pierced and then left the room.

She could not imagine how he could finish in time. Decision-making political bodies had been induced to take decisions in a certain direction. He did not even want to begin to estimate how many counts of illegal activity must have taken place. ??The outline story is pretty much correct. ??Jerker ?? this is how it is: Ekstr?m laid claim to it on Friday. and in this case it??s regrettable since it shouldn??t be necessary. I??m not going to steal your story.?? ??Not necessarily. You were injured and you??re waking up after an operation. Sonja. The woman who crushed Wennerstr?m??s empire. so he pushed the sushi aside. A doctor had explained that the axe blow had crushed his cheekbone and damaged his forehead. which was one of the most beautiful places in the world. So too was her brother. ??You want to run a story on toilets? In Millennium??? Eriksson could not help laughing. National Security Agency. You don??t have to say a word or give me any information. Annika won??t be able to go out and do a media campaign in the same way that the prosecution can (and does). You and your colleague are sources and you have complete source protection. I only knew him by his cover name. but there was no alternative. said. He had played it safe.?? Edklinth said. I don??t think so.

. They had taken 2. I just want to leave the flowers. ??Mikael isn??t here today. She had been at the helm when Svensson was murdered. is to provide you with information. plus being hung out to dry in the media. ??Sonja ?? I think you understand how things stand. ??When this is all over I??m going to found an association called ??The Knights of the Idiotic Table?? and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. Annika has obeyed the rules. On the other hand. Her clinical status also includes periods of manic depression and she lacks empathy. But she also felt tremendously depressed.?? said Holmberg.?? Salander said breathlessly. well someone did. If you have to work. ??that we make the whole thing disappear and put Salander back in an asylum??? ??Salander we can handle.I. ??Say that again??? ????diot. We suggest that you share your knowledge. A policeman she thought.?? she said.?? ??But why would the K. Holmberg was studying his fingernails. He??s a journalist who happened to stumble upon one of the most secret operations ever conducted by Swedish defence.

??Let me guess. Jonasson put his hand on her forehead and felt that it was damp. A second later the man from Malm??s photograph materialized at Teleborian??s side. ??Listen. I don??t have to use their technical terms.?? Gullberg could not think of anything more to say.F. ??I made a copy for Curt but I never had a chance to give it to him before the Prosecutor General collected the others. Keep your eyes peeled ?? So tell me. a former agent of Soviet military intelligence. ??I don??t deserve any applause today. He was not going to make it. I??m a lawyer and I??d like to see my client again. She spent a while limping around the living room. She was looking for Zalachenko. I can??t do that if I have to cut staff. but there are strong indications that he did indeed attempt to kill her. as well as the tool drawer. Which means that she doesn??t intend to. some years ago.?? Wadensj?? said.B. On the other hand. Has a shop at Norrtull.?? The man held up his I. also possibly that she was injured.

In both latter instances. But that??s just the problem. demanding her attention and vexing her intellect. and he wasn??t sure how things would turn out at the magazine. The first time he was given a light prison sentence; the second time he got three years.?? or ??Salander??.P. ??You don??t understand.?? Malm said.?? Salander felt an icy chill run down her spine. who was also a temp. It was humiliating.?? ??I see.?? she said to the P. she won??t be able to do the research she needs to do to prepare her defence. and on her way through the city she noticed that the workers?? groups had begun to gather. Cortez now kept an ashtray on his desk. The switchboard told her that it sounded like Susanne Linder. He had spent ten days there on that occasion and been round the company??s factories. ??Promising??? ??If somebody has a bullet in their head and they??re still alive.?? ??Yes??? ??Well ?? er ?? good instincts. he does wear a size XXL. we won??t be able to draw any conclusions. and he wasn??t sure how things would turn out at the magazine. thinks that Bjurman raped Salander.?? Jonasson frowned.

I??ve read your file from S?po. She went around the car and got into the driver??s seat. The mailbox had one message.?? ??That sounds reasonable.?? ??We want the legal process to take its course even though this is a difficult situation. (2) They have to separate the ??Salander affair?? from the ??Zalachenko affair??. 11.?? ??Falsifications??? ??I think that??s the only appropriate description. S. She staggered to the door and turned to kick it with her heel. Blomkvist had told her once how Salander had put paid to the serial killer Martin Vanger with a golf club. Then he vanishes. Wadensj?? poured coffee. ??He??ll be home by 5.?? he said.?? ??I can??t help you with that. The legal desk does not even in practice exist ?? there we have a chief editor who borrows reporters from the news desk for each of his features.?? He paused to let what he had said sink in. ??M?rtensson works for S?po. That part of the story focused on the deaths of Svensson and Johansson ?C what they were working on.?? ??So we have to ask ourselves. Finally Modig spoke up.?? she said in a low voice. Salander pressed her lips together and looked at the screen of her handheld.?? ??Hi.?? Blomkvist handed the mobile across the table.

00 p. his late wife??s name.?? He walked away down Hantverkargatan. His visits to her were outside his schedule. In any case. But that doesn??t mean he has to behave like an idiot. He??s been an investigator at Justice and has handled a number of cases that got a fair bit of attention. number to a server. and I don??t mean to criticize him.?? ??No. He waited until she nodded. ??Hello. ??What were you told about that group??? ??Nothing.?? Armansky nodded.?? ??Check her out anyway. and she looked miserable.?? She expected him to get up and say he would come back in a few days. I feel like a crazy teenager. and after six months they had put him on a flight to Spain. modern. I don??t think any one of us could even imagine what would happen if Zalachenko talked. ??I??ll hobble in as soon as I??ve pulled myself together. Right now it??s some seriously unpleasant individual???? ??Who??s got a hang-up about you in particular. They were just passing Sergels Torg in the city centre. slowly. Berger woke at 7.

After a while she turned her head. But it was now forty-eight hours since Niedermann had fled. You??re probably thinking of me as a guest you have to entertain. Comes from Norrland and is in fact a specialist in crime scene investigation. and the Violent Crimes Division had racked up a vast amount of overtime since Wednesday. kill the whole story? Orring turned in a good piece. You have a beach at the back of the house and a few large houses in the immediate vicinity.00 in the morning and reported Berger??s discovery that diaries.?? Nystr?m said. He visited her three times that evening and noted that her temperature had stabilized at 37. Could you give me your impression of her??? ??Well. ??No. Karim had parked herself at police headquarters and was doing her best to get some solid information out of someone.P. if that happened. I just wanted to hear how you??re doing and if everything is going well.?? ??Who could blame them.?? ??Credibility? That??s a peculiar question. writing down the registration number Cortez read off to him. nutters who had the gift to read messages hidden from the normal world.37. was given a liquid lunch. When he got up to the room he went straight to the bathroom. But today is my last day of work. We??ll see what he has in mind. But I??ve understood that you??re driven by several factors.

But tell me this: is there anything at all to even suggest that Salander might be involved in some way in the murders? Could she and Niedermann have somehow committed the murders together??? ??I very much doubt it. Zalachenko had at first been thought of as a potential breakthrough in the Palme mystery. are refusing to say anything ?C they??re claiming they??ve never heard of Niedermann. it??s his knife. She considered the doctor??s words. They parted company at the grey Volvo. Is there anything you want us to do??? ??No. Her foot was throbbing painfully. she lost interest. he had done his military service with the coast guard. he did learn Russian and Polish. and apart from a couple of hour-long stops along the way.?? ??O. ??I don??t want details of the investigation or anything like that. Daniel. He might also be a man who worked in maintenance. She was a threat to his entire future and well-being. She was shot and buried here. A woman in her forties opened the door. If Salander talked.?? Jonasson said. There would be a scandal of enormous proportions. You can give me hell tonight. She turned it on and searched for connectivity.?? ??I see. Plague ran Ekstr?m??s digitized voice through a program called V.

stood on tiptoe and unscrewed the three screws in the round white cover of a vent in the wall of Salander??s room. (Which he also did.?? Endrin hesitated for a moment. He had not been to Stockholm for two years. I don??t have your disgusting eating habits. On the other. When you??ve read it I want you to come again.R. She consulted the vehicle register and found that G?ran M?rtensson was the owner of a grey Volvo with the registration number legible in the photographs. He contributed to our investigation by profiling Lisbeth Salander. He had not. and lance. ??Sonja ?? I think you understand how things stand. or parallel to. Which means that Holm and the legal editor are up in arms.C. but he made these journeys less and less often. As she heard the key in the door she realized that the cloth bag and charger were still in view on the bedside table.P. I??m sure you??re going to be a journalist when you grow up.?? Nystr?m said. had landed in because of Salander and Niedermann. To be honest.?? ??Our activity is completely legal ?? we??re actually working under the auspices of the government. Figuerola giggled..

?? ??On the other hand I??m afraid that if I don??t do something. hasn??t done any serious coverage of the civil service and government agencies for at least eight years.?? ??So you know nothing about it.?? There was a charged silence around the conference table before Erlander went on.?? ??Until then I??d rather you didn??t stay here. But this will be O. But their proposal to shut down the Swedish government was not an idle threat. where he would seek protection among contacts in Zalachenko??s criminal empire.S.?? ??Take your time.?? He stood up and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Blomkvist described him as an Olympic-class idiot. that her hair was one big lump of dried clay. Whoever had stolen the report already knew that his copy too had been stolen. ??South. and was actually located within the Str?ngn?s police district in S?dermanland county. At first he was sceptical about the information that the excited young officer was telling him.?? he said. He turned his head to the right and saw the exit at the other end.. We just don??t have the editorial capacity for what we??re trying to do. T. but I doubt that??s who you??re working for.G.?? ??No ?? no. But as long as he risks being busted.

the Bildt government had cut back the Soviet desk for financial reasons and had at the same time got themselves involved in the international mess in Bosnia and Serbia ?C as if Serbia could ever threaten Sweden. it??ll cost a lot of money. Bates had taken more than 200 photographs of the community and created a gallery of small thumbnails. to make you aware of the sensitive nature of the situation. At 2. he must have chosen a simple password. for God??s sake.?? Modig said. He looked at his telephone with the utmost suspicion and took out his mobile.?? ??Two weeks should be sufficient. I??ll be out of my office tonight. What??s your take on this??? Wadensj?? said. Two years ago he was on sick leave for four months. or even with the duct tape that some inspired soul had applied. Then he turned on Salander??s computer.?? Erlander closed his mobile.V. One part concerns Zalachenko. Torstensson and Ingemarsson. ??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 did not exist in any register or in any public document. No-one voiced any objections. and then to India. you have to get on board with the program. All the police reports on the case were collected up at S. ??You were lucky.

?? ??Well.?? Salander said nothing. Criminal Inspector Faste was the investigative leader in all matters dealing with Salander. Believe me ?C it??s going to cause uproar. was involved in tax fraud ?C were gleefully posted on the Net. and F. Figuerola giggled. and it??s potentially as serious a threat as Zalachenko. And what does that mean??? ??The obvious explanation is that he was given a false identity. with capital letters. > Salander disconnected from Plague and accessed the server he had directed her to. ??So our starting point has to be to persuade Zalachenko to keep his mouth shut.?? Blomkvist said. I can??t determine what it is. He was one of the officers responsible on formal occasions for the safety of the Prime Minister. Instead he made his second mistake: he offered to hand over the weapon he had in his jacket pocket ?C the Colt . That was one thing. ??I need a favour. But it has to be done in one fell swoop.K. She gave him twenty minutes to deal with his post. She took a sip of coffee and had just opened her mouth to take a bite of toast when she heard the headlines.?? ??Where do you want me to begin??? ??Start with the simple things. He had not. All of a sudden a heavy downpour lashed at the window.).

The thieves were eventually caught.. and the garage.?? He wrote an email address on a page torn from his notebook. and then stopped about four centimetres into the brain.C.R. Berger woke at 7. Perfect dramaturgy with a bad guy who swindles Swedish tenants through the system ?C which is legal ?C but who is so greedy and so bloody stupid that he outsources to this company in Vietnam. And we did a thorough investigation of Bj?rck??s place. scaring the hell out of a couple and their kids. F?lldin had in practice demonstrated that he had been informed. Somehow he had to establish contact with her. but we may have to postpone it for a month. which sells genuine Swedish toilets for 1700 kronor apiece. coffee and cake will have to do.?? ??As things now stand.S. and a prosecutor intended to charge her with attempted murder and grievous bodily harm.?? ??Yes.?? She paused for a moment. barring unforeseen complications. It took all of Linder??s powers of persuasion to send her to bed. But she knew that. Mikael Blomkvist.berger@smpost.

??We need images.?? ??That??s good. The next day it would take less. the alarm we installed today contains two components.?? ??Alright. She put the Palm in the recess behind the bedside table and waited while two Eritrean women vacuumed the room and changed her bedlinen. She knew that much from his biography. Even so. not for the past two years. But Millennium can??t be manipulated in the same straightforward way. and he had made the connection to the woman in 11C. It was impossible. It was blocked. She also has a bullet wound in her shoulder and another in her hip. and in 1987 he started his own company. Returning to his office he discovered a man in a dark suit leaning against the wall outside his door. to get him across the border into Turkey and thence with a false passport to Europe. What about the defence leadership and the government??? ??We cut off the defence leadership some ten years ago. Spain.I. were of the kind that were never going to be proven. Berger was in her B. He. After discussing the matter with Fru Berger. and then to India. I asked her to be here because what we??re going to discuss will also affect her job.

??We??ll be there in fifteen minutes.C. and then he produced rolls and coffee from a thermos. I??m thinking of the ferry to the east. Zalachenko looked up in surprise at his unannounced visitor. During the first year. But I???? ??You left the material with Holm. As he talked to Berger. ??It depends on how decisive you can be in the Section these days. ??What kind of car does G?ransson have??? Nieminen said. The issues we??ll be discussing now are in very many respects confidential and highly classified. so it was no surprise that she had killed these people.?? Figuerola was on her feet and reaching for her car keys. you??re receiving this information in accordance with your agreement with Edklinth.?? ??His own shop??? ??He became a consultant in security for industry. P. and I??ll try to work out what??s going on. had been suffering chronic pain for a long time ?? I don??t know. She??s the one who has to decide what she is willing to tell you. But???? ??Could she be faking??? Jonasson smiled politely. but that there was a boundary and it could not be infringed. ??I can take care of Ekstr?m. He would probably sleep through an artillery barrage. But we have several suspects. ??Hans Faste. where the contacts were made through personal friendship and trust.

we??re going to need new blood. ??So our starting point has to be to persuade Zalachenko to keep his mouth shut. ??She??s mid-twenties. ??It would be a national catastrophe if the whole truth about Zalachenko were to leak out. The file was stamped Top Secret.?? said the Minister of Justice. She stared in frustration at the blinking screen.?? Figuerola parked beside the Nordic Light Hotel next to the Arlanda Express platforms. that the police existed to prevent crimes like that. If you forget the password. For most of industry. a long time and he??s been news chief for fifteen years. ??I??m sorry for chasing you down. the better to represent you. He called it ??the last line of defence??. her state of mind??? After a while Karlgren said: ??I??m not sure how I should answer that question. He was asleep by 11.?? ??Zalachenko??s daughter.?? Gullberg turned his head very slowly and looked in surprise at the woman he had followed out of the lift. He??s at his best when things heat up. a member of the police. he graduated as an engineer and had been part of the ??great economic leap forward?? in the ??70s. He thought about the fact that his daughter was very close by. seventy-eight years old. Figuerola giggled. he invited Milton Security??s C.

wrapped her arms around her client and lifted her up. She had a taser. and the registration number.?? ??May I ask ?? Paulsson. who??s just here for the bus fare. I think you surprised us all.?? Salander??s heart sank. Now we have burglaries.?? Sandberg said. Until that moment Salander had meant nothing to him. and thereafter we increased our surveillance of her. getting up. He did not answer either. The biggest surprise was Lidbom??s An Assignment.?? ??It doesn??t have to be a physical attack. and did it in a way we didn??t think was possible. He undertook never to discuss the matter with anyone. ??How many killings do you reckon this case involves??? Holmberg rubbed his eyes wearily.?? ??And what??s their stated business??? ??God only knows. that. and that committing her in 1991 was justified. I assume it was Salander who nailed him. forty-three years old. Although. You??re a policeman down in Stockholm now. But Lisbeth has enemies.

Holm was off that day.?? ??It would be hard to do her any more damage. The focus has shifted to Niedermann. show him the document. ??Pnkllrs.Q. ??Yes??? ??Erika. for Christ??s sake. And ?C most disastrous of all ?C there was a video taken on holiday in the early ??90s when she and Greger had been guests of the glass artist Torkel Bollinger at his villa on the Costa del Sol. and had managed only by holding a gun on him the whole time.M. which was even now disappearing over the treetops in the direction of G?teborg. Add to this the unforgivably absurd bonuses that will cost S. As soon as he entered the apartment he saw that the folder he had left on the kitchen table was gone. What did you say? Helsing?rsgatan. Gunnar Bj?rck. direct crimes against the Swedish constitution. when Figuerola excused herself and went to the gym for some peace. and if she had been sober at the time. and no questions should be asked. Her left shoulder stabbed like a knife if she moved carelessly or tried to shift her weight.G. It was healing. Plague ran Ekstr?m??s digitized voice through a program called V. I would have gone for the Silbersky type or another of the heavy-duty criminal lawyers. This was enough for Figuerola??s team to initiate the preliminary investigation and to set about enquiring whether the robbers had a connection to the neo-Nazi gang in V?rmland.

He looked at his telephone with the utmost suspicion and took out his mobile.?? ??What sort of co-operation are you talking about??? ??You??re responsible for her medical condition. On the right.?? ??Others??? ??Hans von Rottinger. there was no mobile in the room. She calculated the distance. I was going out with a guy this spring. ??Twenty-two what??? said Holm. I got to bed at 1. There were no signs on my door of a break-in. She put down her pen and looked at the totals. Bj?rck??s prints were on the handle and the blade. I think the dyke needs some cock. The first half is basically what??s in the magazine. ??I have an appointment to meet someone I know here. No doubt someone made a blunder when the cover story was devised. Armansky studied Malm??s photographs of the men who had followed Blomkvist from the Copacabana. manslaughter and drug crime. Just that???? ??Yes??? ??Sonja.. Check the masthead.?? ??That??s what I wanted to discuss with you. cut more than 180 jobs since 1980. Jew-lover.D.O.

and started reading the Bj?rck report while she ate her sandwich. Nieminen bent down and looked at the bodies. I want to have something that shows that Prosecutor Ekstr?m is today working with Teleborian in some inappropriate manner. So Salander was locked up in an asylum because she tried to kill her father ?? this Zalachenko. She was a threat to his entire future and well-being. I refer to the fact that Salander hit her father with an axe.?? Wadensj?? said. My job is to produce a good newspaper. I??ve never seen him before. S.?? ??Oh.?? ??It wasn??t exactly an invitation. He has a three-year-old daughter. ??Partly. Kalle Bastard Blomkvist was out there somewhere ?C Giannini was for some reason reluctant to talk about her brother. especially when the violence was directed at full-grown men. He happened to look into the living room and stopped short in surprise.?? Blomkvist said again. He was on duty until 6. But he had stopped the bleeding from the wounds in her hip and shoulder in the simplest possible way. They were the ones who had taken care of Zalachenko.?? ??I wish I could. however.Q.?? ??I see. Then she turned icy with rage.

F. At first he had travelled frequently to Stockholm.K.iv Dr Jonasson was woken by Nurse Nicander five minutes before the helicopter was expected to land.?? ??The appalling thing is that Bj?rck has hanged himself.?? ??Me??? Eriksson said. Who were those dead bodies??? Nieminen had a vicious retort on the tip of his tongue. it??s because he knows or suspects that you??ve got something brewing.?? Blomkvist wrote down the information. the journalist who was murdered. was a brand-new form of bandage. you are aware of the concept of damage control. He left the firm after ten years and opened his own practice.?? ??Micke ?? I ???? ??Your very last editorial. leaking information as they see fit. and most crucially: what was the truth surrounding Bj?rck??s report from 1991? ??That is a serious matter. ??What time is good??? They agreed that Giannini should turn up at around 6.?? Salander thought for a while. but to her surprise he crossed the street right in front of her car and turned down the hill towards Blomkvist??s building.?? ??What??s???? ??Just hurry. we??ll just cruise up to wherever he lives and ask the former Prime Minister if he faked identity documents for a defecting Russian spy. Berger stared at the screen in frustration. I can??t break the law. He??s ambitious. After a few minutes she had worked out what was routine mail in the form of daily memos. ??I??m sorry.

It is almost entirely fabricated. ??Not as far as we know. born 1971. and that impression was magnified by the fact that she was standing two steps above him. I think we can handle this matter successfully. In his day plans of Kronan and Wasa had hung on the walls. ??Hardly. yes. The problem was that she did not know what she should do.?? he said.?? ??Good man.?? ??If only that were the case. Who did you hand everything over to??? ??How do you mean??? ??When F?lldin??s term came to an end. Malm could see for himself that Blomkvist was indeed being tailed. to make you aware of the sensitive nature of the situation.?? ??So the sister was your informant??? ??Camilla was mortally afraid of her sister. ??Yes. That was the part she had spent the most time on.?? ??That??s exactly what I don??t understand. Lottie will follow Teleborian. Second. You??ll never regret it. almost as though it had nothing to do with her. Who were his friends? Who had he been in prison with? Where does his girlfriend live? Who did he drink with? In what area was his mobile last used? Where is his vehicle? At the end of that sequence the fugitive would generally be found. Some years earlier a citizen of Hacker Republic. But Jonasson had never before had a patient with a bullet in her skull.

L?derman. She looked at the bloodied piece of glass in amazement.M. you can. There were 223 employees.00. when he came back here. As things stood. Gullberg went to Salander??s room and tried the door handle. showered. the Juiciest Horse Fuck in the Universe. but we??re going to have to act fast so that we don??t squander the opportunity. The signature of the Prime Minister meant that the Section was now a legally approved institution. shut down her computer. about his conversation with Giannini. don??t you??? ??You were sitting with a map spread out on the front seat. I mean how long before I can get up and start walking and moving around??? ??That depends on how the healing progresses. She felt a fool. no question??? ??Yes. and I can??t direct what prosecutors and the courts decide. This is urgent. he had had a bad feeling about Lisbeth. The Russian defector who came to Sweden in 1976. What do you want me to do??? ??Meet Jerker Holmberg at Central Station. Take a break. ??But I haven??t been run over by a bus.

I have ordered an investigation.G.?? ??I need someone for a research job. In January 1992 he left Upplands V?sby a free man. ??I would never have guessed you were such a good poker player. He had not managed to catch the registration number. lined up the possibilities. ??And what are you going to do with that? Shoot me? You??ll spend the rest of your miserable life in prison. she did not intend to back out. They relied heavily on computers connected to the incident reporting network of the regular police. The question was how to travel there without being observed or leaving a trail. Blomkvist??s plan was to have the book printed and ready to distribute on the first day of the trial. shut the door behind her. we did an extensive investigation of your background. The prosecutor has also pushed through a prohibition of disclosure for her lawyer.?? ??Let him interrogate me. I??d give a lot of money to find out what they talked about. then he pulled up the visitor??s chair.F. She was afraid that it was a moral issue. But then she took him too. plump man in his fifties with a reddish goatee.O. He was a bodyguard. On the other hand. ??And what sort of excuse would I have to barge in on Ekstr?m??? Modig asked.