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S. and at the offices. or unfeminine??? ??No.?? ??I have a feeling that this story is going to be about something altogether different. for example. And at the same time. ??Well. it??s a reasonable speculation. and most crucially: what was the truth surrounding Bj?rck??s report from 1991? ??That is a serious matter. He infiltrated the B. the same in every A. She punched in the code on the street door. ??Last night he also murdered a police officer from Trollh?ttan.I. including several from the family which owns the paper. isn??t just hiring Erika Berger. What should have happened is that you should have taken the information to Holm. He could just as easily be white. Not once had he seen its driver. His own copy and his sister??s copy were gone. since Niedermann had not yet been captured.?? Eriksson said. Ricky. I??m perfectly aware that this is going to create difficulties in the office. listened to her heart and took her pulse. and then would always break it. But both of them were part of the circle closest to Zalachenko. She tired easily and her left shoulder was tight and hurt at the very least effort. What do you know about his role??? ??He??s one of the major players.

?? Blomkvist said. and then he produced rolls and coffee from a thermos.?? ??Could I read the original??? ??Certainly you can. ??O. They were not pleasant thoughts. She had not tackled the Peter Fleming account because she did not need to have full administrator rights. thirty-three years old and number three in Svavelsj? M. ??All this stuff about insults and aggressive resistance is just nonsense. She was exhausted. I??ll know exactly what you talked about less than an hour after I get to my office in Stockholm.?? Fransson wondered whether she could somehow arrange to hand the entire business over to Prosecutor Ekstr?m in Stockholm. Offhand I would guess it??s to do with an internal shake-up of some sort.. Ellis shrugged. A colleague sent for the forensic report on the patient.S. which the chief of Secretariat must be aware of. ??I imagine we??ll have to book appointments with each other. She sat on the edge of her bed. ??I know. She kicked him twice. Are you going to disappear to work or do you want to come to my place and come to bed with me??? ??Well ???? ??You don??t have to feel pressured. The story simply did not sound credible. had blood and bruises all over his body. It was a code that Kalle Bloody Blomkvist had been forced to work out when he got into her apartment on Fiskargatan uninvited and tripped the burglar alarm. She heard the faint scraping of the crutches as he quietly retreated down the corridor. and the watcher would stand exposed on the footbridge like a swallow perched on an old telephone wire in the country. and in the end the price burden falls on the renters or the taxpayers. please.

?? Figuerola said. It was. She tried to open her eyes. but a Karl Axel Bodin seems to have been born in 1942 in Uddevalla. ??Editor-in-chief of S. which is six weeks for the basics.?? ??I gather you??re still busy with excavations in Nykvarn.?? ??We??? ??Listen ?? the story was slated to run in the July issue. She was wearing a short-sleeved summer dress and had laid a brick-red leather jacket over the top stair.?? He smiled at her. writing with the stylus on the keypad. and he was about as much help as he was when he was on holiday. There was no exit wound: the round was still inside her shoulder.?? ??That sounds serious. If she tried to kill her father.?? ??I??ll have a taxi waiting outside by the time you get down to the lobby.I. Editor-in-Chief She printed a copy of the email and then pressed send so that the message went out to all employees in the company. showered.?? he said.?? ??So what happened??? ??Well ?? F?lldin left office. But every time she had decided to sleep at Blomkvist??s. Poison. not to discuss the topic in his office without taking special precautions. I hope you??re not thinking of taking the story with you to S. He took him out to Viktor??s.M. sidetracking them into the search for Niedermann.I.

And if they want to convict me.B. A mobile that was connected.?? ??The Bodin who??s in Sahlgrenska with an axe in his skull??? ??The axe isn??t still in his head. Has advanced rather quickly in her career. He prescribed various medications and complete bedrest. It did not seem as though she would ever be able to finish it ??Hi. Trinity wrote. Some of his patients had died. ??The others are on their way.?? Figuerola said.?? Blomkvist said. If he won??t say anything.?? ??What kind of weapon is it??? Jervas said. Jonasson seemed distracted and bent over to arrange her pillow. ??Well ?? what is it that??s so urgent??? ??Alexander Zalachenko.?? ??All food is decent. most recently at the editorial meeting on Friday.?? ??You changed the whole door??? ??Yes. That bastard aimed at me. As Blomkvist tried in frustration to manoeuvre his mobile out of the breast pocket of his jacket ?C it proved to be an impossible task with his hands cuffed behind his back. The last time she tried explaining what a pig Zalachenko was. He had been tracking Salander. In 1997 he was no longer on the official roster of the external service. And Inspector Erlander in G?teborg has been focusing his search in that direction from day one. about sixteen hours after he had finished the operation.?? ??And if it is a forgery ?? who did it and why??? Bublanski shrugged. She had instinctively made the right decisions.?? the P.

She had a long list of the movements she was to perform each day to strengthen the muscles in her shoulder and hip in the wake of her operation three weeks earlier. Nystr?m had first come to see him in the days following the murder of Karl Axel Bodin. which at that time was a name used for all of north Africa west of Egypt. But it??s going to be a little up and down until we put this story to bed. Within a few hours the Section had taken on tangible form.?? Wadensj?? said.?? She walked briskly through the newsroom and was aware of the drop in the noise level.M.?? ??I??ve been in touch with the Prosecutor General. and that might cause trouble ?? for instance.B.M. Dakota wrote.?? ??You??re wrong. His injuries seem to be similar to those of a car crash victim ?C it??s hardly credible that anyone could do such damage with his bare hands: a broken leg. if a little stupid. She had cut through all the rhetoric and intimated that the Prime Minister himself was responsible. There had to be a group ?? a division or unit of some sort. She reached for her mobile and called her brother. whose task it was to handle the most sensitive of the sensitive. He was one of the owners of Millennium. deep inside she was pleased with Salander??s silence. since Zalachenko had never operated in Sweden and had little knowledge of the country. Salander stared for a long time at the locked door. That was why she was still alive. Instead of exacerbating the issue. and put on some coffee. ??The rules of the game. It was the same hotel Blomkvist had spent the night in several days before.

?? ??Oh. talking on the telephone. The years of ??Sweden??s best government?? had also confirmed his worst fears.?? Borgsj? looked puzzled. ??He??s crossing Vasagatan. But Erika. May I offer you some coffee. Since then she has been allowed to drift aimlessly.?? ??That would be a mistake. I??d actually thought about becoming a psychiatrist when I was a teenager. He opened his iBook again and read through his text. she did not intend to back out. Blomkvist calls them ??the Zalachenko club??. She started by ordering passport photographs of Faulsson. But Blomkvist was a man in the public eye.?? ??Who should I say is here??? ??An old colleague. it??s not my problem.?? They exchanged hotmail addresses. listening out for sounds in the vicinity. I was told to file a report at the local station.?? ??Whichever. and we all have to adapt to them. and we don??t have a single informer who knows him or has any idea where he might be. Ekstr?m had also to investigate and bring charges against Lisbeth Salander. ??We need to talk to you. ??Thanks. barring unforeseen complications. kept the cash that was waiting to be invested and laundered. He??s perfect as publisher and damned good at editing articles and tying up loose ends in work that is going to be published.

staying at the Radisson on Avenyn. The tide of this crap never receded. by the look of them. What actually convinced her to decide to play the game Blomkvist??s way was her desire for revenge.?? ??Hmm.?? ??There??s a division of labour.?? It was fascinating that despite the collegial atmosphere they had shared for so many years at the Section. He was supposed to start work again at new year. She staggered out of bed.?? ??The basic story was an interview with Martina Fransson about the confiscation of anabolic steroids. He glanced around and walked away from the door of the corner shop. He was under great pressure. V.K.?? Jonasson nodded. who??s the news editor. ??We??re the ones nobody will ever thank. And Criminal Inspector Faste is an unadulterated idiot who believes that Salander is a lesbian Satanist.?? the Minister of Justice said. and now. and a person in that role is under no obligation to report his activities to the government. We have more serious issues to discuss. V. Holm was off that day.R. But there was one policeman dead and another severely wounded on the road to Nossebro. ??The only option is cutbacks.?? ??Not on your life. Her fingers had no feeling in them at all.

?? No such agents existed. He was fully aware that everything had gone about as badly as it could have. obviously. He had returned to his apartment in M?lndal at 1. the car belongs to G?ran M?rtensson. Next week I??ll be travelling. There was no way in the world she was going to be able to work in the dark. At Armansky??s instruction Bohman had been following the Salander investigation from the very start. She closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep. I didn??t even know that his name was Zalachenko. Zalachenko??s answers were much more aggressive and hostile when she asked the questions. You know I??m not a criminal lawyer. ??You wanted to know if Ekstr?m had a meeting. ??That sounds like child labour and stuff like that. I??d really like to read the infamous report. you control the operation. A nice-looking man. They relied heavily on computers connected to the incident reporting network of the regular police. We??re the ones who will decide what we can tell you.?? he told the nurse in attendance. In his old age he became a gangster. If he won??t say anything.000 kronor a month for a three-cube apartment. Then she looked up at him and answered every question in a perfectly matter-of-fact way. On Sunday morning they said a hasty goodbye before Berger drove home to her husband.se> with the subject line [Attn: Editor-in-Chief]. Orring turned it in at 3. Berger thought for while before she replied. He was behind me.

?? ??But he refuses to give the police any information about Salander. cradling his coffee.?? ??Which makes it even stranger that he hasn??t been found.00 on Friday afternoon.45 1911 Government model that he had found earlier that day at Salander??s apartment in Stockholm. He had slept through fifteen hours. She picked up the telephone and called Holm. has eaten into a great many old consolidated assets. ??What happened to Zalachenko??? ??Who??? ??The old bastard. 1989. Was he exaggerating? Should she dismiss his professional caution? In that case. ??You spend a couple of hours a week at the gym. I??m something as old-fashioned as a democrat.?? ??I know. And now we come to another stumbling block. however. Was he alive or dead? She could not clearly remember what had happened with Niedermann.?? the P. Millennium was the kind of small office where co-workers were close. cybersex with ??The Sexiest Lolitas on the Net?? for only $4.?? ??Not necessarily. The disk is very strong evidence. You??re a typical example.?? ??Really??? ??It contains no diagnosis.?? Gullberg said.M. and the glass partition to the corridor was covered by curtains. Ultimately Zalachenko decided to restructure his entire operation in a new corporation that would be owned by Niedermann and himself.?? Edklinth said tentatively.

But from a purely political standpoint. That left 103.00 p.?? ??I won??t have time to write all the missing pieces myself.M. This means that you have confirmed the existence of what I call the Zalachenko club. She remembered still the humiliation she had felt when she saw her walk off down Hornsgatan with Blomkvist the day before New Year??s Eve a year and a half ago.?? Edklinth said.?? Cortez said. Finally Prosecutor Ekstr?m. who lived three blocks down the same street. but her breathing was not quite normal. I went through Forelius.?? ??Until then I??d rather you didn??t stay here. when he needed to restructure certain funds connected to a small financial firm that he owned in Liechtenstein. But he was absolutely not a friend. F?lldin could hardly still be an active farmer. You must be a raving masochist. ??Yes??? ??Apologies for bothering you on the street outside your home.?? At 8.?? ??No indeed.iv By 1. but thanks for the offer.?? ??Which means that my problem is definitely the government??s problem.I. She took a hammer from the tool box in the basement and put that in the master bathroom too. ??That??s not what I asked. politicians of various affiliations. Then.

000 kronor.V.?? ??I??m sorry about that. ??Yes. She was locked up inside her shell and kept her distance from those around her.?? ??Who could blame them.?? ??What do you mean??? ??She??s sleeping at the office. Annika won??t be able to go out and do a media campaign in the same way that the prosecution can (and does).00 and discovered Blomkvist still asleep. was that the Constitutional Protection Unit had only an analytical and investigative function. but the letter to the Deputy Minister wasn??t logged in at the department until the following day. I want to know the whole layout of the corridor. I??ll even arrange for somebody to carry you back and forth on a stretcher if necessary. later this morning. ??I think I have an argument that will persuade Zalachenko to keep his mouth shut. and Blomkvist heard the inspector report over his radio that Salander had evidently attempted to kill yet another person. or nigger-lover. it could be ruined. but she sent the copy on to Bublanski. At 1. but having Kalle Bastard Blomkvist??s sister working for her was hard to stomach. She probably found it in Bjurman??s summer cabin.?? ??It??s a fake.?? ??Since we have now had confirmation that a conspiracy exists within an exceptionally sensitive part of the administration. that is.?? Gullberg said. It was past 10.?? ??I get it. I??m editorial assistant now.

it??s you I will be working for.10 on Tuesday morning. She had accepted Blomkvist??s reasoning that she had already been so savaged in the Swedish media by such grotesque libels that a little sheer nonsense could not possibly further damage her reputation.S. Figuerola spent the afternoon gathering information. The fact was that if Salander could claim to have any sort of family or group affiliation. her husband. but she had a body like ?? hmm.?? Erlander said. Forged documents had never been his department or his expertise.?? ??Who gave him the instruction??? ??The chief of Secretariat??s assistant. and Jonasson could not imagine that this would be some sort of tomfoolery. Despite the fact that he had a reasonable grasp of what had happened.M. By that time you had retired. Zalachenko acknowledged for the umpteenth time that it was a shame and a crime that his son did not possess certain qualities. She heard a movement and turned to see Salander just starting to clamber out of bed again.?? ??Lisbeth. said. Bublanski was the leader of that investigation. I??d like you to have company here for the rest of the week. He was Kurdish. Take a break. Better to have him on the inside than a security risk on the outside.?? ??Quite a few people out. She caught herself thinking over and over about Salander. The unknown quantity. and almost any political blunder gave rise to headlines: ??S?po suspects that ???? A S?po statement carried a lot of weight in a headline.00.

of course. placed it around his neck. and that??s why you were cuffed. There had to be a budget. He pressed his stethoscope against his wrist for a moment to warm it. ??Call Christer in. She did not have much time. which meant that he would be able to control the flow of information.30 without her being told. But let me make this quite clear ?? with regards to this affair it??s Clinton who will be making the operational decisions.. in their experience. She did not like asking for help or showing any sign of weakness. ??I??ve decided that Salander should be moved to a different room. ??Dag??s book went to the printer yesterday. She??s a freelancer. But he tried to get into Lisbeth??s room. She turned to the first page. One of them had the address editorial-sr@swedishradio. Who were those dead bodies??? Nieminen had a vicious retort on the tip of his tongue. But it??s absurd that you should think I would discuss it with a journalist. Then he placed his hands gently around her neck and turned her head back and forth and to the sides a few times. The same D.C. They??re sitting in the Tre Remmare pub on Vasagatan by the stairs down to the Akalla line.?? ??He will be.?? ??No. Here too are the original documents from the correspondence between him and Teleborian. I must have been hallucinating.

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. But she could see that he was lost in his own thoughts.30 a.M.?? ??It??s the least I could do. ??It feels to us as though the score between the private investigators and the police investigators is about 3?C0. It will turn our whole plan upside down. ??What do you want me to do??? ??Go back to your desk and start working on another story. ??Good. But she waited for him to speak. ??They??re bound to move the date of the trial. and it was as silent as the grave in the conference room. Edklinth??s palms were sweating when he put down the telephone. Late on the evening of the fifth day. putting the pencil in her pocket. A . I never had any information. Behind this conclusion lay no exaggerated trust in government. and her job included tracking violence against persons born abroad to decide whether or not the crime was racially motivated. Finally.?? ??Ah ?? yes.B.?? ??I meant every word. This involved recruiting new personnel and continual problems breaking them in. ??Lisbeth ?? I??m wondering ???? He then said nothing for such a long time that Salander almost asked what it was he wanted. The case has been transferred to Stockholm. ??Can I share information with you and discuss things with you without the risk of your leaking it to the police or to anyone else??? ??I can??t get involved in criminal activity. He glanced at Nystr?m. and Trinity.

?? ??I got a tip this morning and took it to Holm. He turned over Bj?rck??s report as soon as S. Karl Axel Bodin. In came Jonasson. maybe even two million kronor. I??ll review your situation with my colleagues at Milton. There was no way in the world she was going to be able to work in the dark.?? Modig said in apology. She put the Palm in the recess behind the bedside table and waited while two Eritrean women vacuumed the room and changed her bedlinen. to bring some clarity to the fog in which Paulsson was apparently enveloped. said. But there was still a gigantic gaping hole. In the area around the warehouse in Nykvarn we have so far found three graves. but I??ll probably be following him pretty soon.?? ??That??s exactly what I don??t understand.20. Svensk Handel had brought in a man from Thailand who was selling toilets for 500 kronor apiece. keeping his weight on his uninjured leg before trying to stand on the other.?? Wadensj?? said.?? Gullberg said. but he made a note of every deviation from the norm in his working day. As soon as he entered the apartment he saw that the folder he had left on the kitchen table was gone. ??No. ??He shot himself.I. On her side of the wall there was presumably a similar screwed-on cover.?? ??It??s her. ??Our number one objective is to discover if she has any information as to where Ronald Niedermann might be. no matter what they ask you.

several cars will arrive at the scene within a short time.?? ??I??m going to expose two doctors who were errand boys for S?po. While he waited for the helicopter. ??Lie still. You??ll have my support if you need it.?? Gullberg said then with such coldness in his voice that Zalachenko froze. The plain truth is that your cutbacks have weakened S. and had managed only by holding a gun on him the whole time. even though she may have felt a certain frustration that she was not going to be the editor of that particular issue. and came to the realization that most of all she felt indifference towards her entire life. Their service weapons and the marked police car were gone. Well done. Hallberg is retiring this year. it??ll cost a lot of money. She had been extraordinarily lucky. But it has to be done in one fell swoop. Unremarkable.. Video cameras were still a relatively new phenomenon. Start by reading the Bj?rck report. Before he scrubbed up and put on his operating clothes he sent for Nurse Nicander. in 2001 and 2004. I don??t think any one of us could even imagine what would happen if Zalachenko talked.?? ??Annika ?? this isn??t the way I had planned to end my time at Millennium. looking at her pupils. I can see at least a dozen that are a couple of millimetres long. that Bjurman had been Salander??s guardian; on the other hand he could not see why the old Zalachenko story should surface. That medication had been prescribed for him. He was beyond all help.

D. That could be explained. Paolo Roberto got it through a boxing club in Germany. Of course it??s a long way from being a bonus as huge as the ones that some of the directors of Skandia grabbed. I have no idea yet. and we??ve had an A.?? said Berger. He had interrupted her planning how to break out of Sahlgrenska hospital. the nigger was not allowed to clean inside the prisoner??s room ?C that was done by two cleaning women in the morning ?C and besides. who had called out of the blue and insisted on his coming to Sunday dinner at his place on Liding?.?? ??It sounds like the bedroom won??t be such a romantic place in the future.?? ??We don??t think it is a coincidence. Sorry. She did not expect anyone to be her friend. Some time after 4. a bathtub retails at 5.M. He remembers Sandberg quite well. She realized that once again she was confined to an institutional bed. He would have urgent-sounding conversations in Kurdish or possibly Turkish or Arabic or some other language that Blomkvist did not understand.?? Giannini repeated. I don??t like this business with Ekstr?m and Faste and a new trial. He had hung up his jacket and was leaning back in his chair at the conference table. Four or five more of the same. He was moved from Personal Protection and is working on his own. As it says in the report. She disconnected and looked up at the ceiling.?? Jervas said. we??re talking about at least eight murders.

I??ve studied law and political science while I??ve worked for the police.?? He kissed her cheek and headed for the bus stop on Fridhemsplan. It was Fredrik Malmberg from the investigative team. but he assumed it had something to do with the military. For us it??s important to bear in mind that this is a case of criminal activity perpetrated by a small number of individuals. too.?? ??So how is she involved??? ??This is an intricate story. of course. but he could not remember his name ?C some sort of foreign name ?C but Adamsson did not feel the need to check his I. which helped them turn the informer so that he could become a double agent. getting to his feet. Then there??s the investigation at Nykvarn ?? three cold-case killings. She did not understand what it was about.?? ??You don??t quite understand the hard economic facts. Could you give me your impression of her??? ??Well. but they did not exist anywhere in the formal structure of the Security Police. so he was far from wide awake when he reached to answer it. We all know that when you??re in the throes of a story. And Bj?rck??s report is in it. I??m thinking of moving you to the Constitutional Protection operations unit. ??You wrote down my car registration when I was parked on the hill outside your building. and went into Kungstornet. For a moment he considered turning to the regular police. ??I know that. A second later the man from Malm??s photograph materialized at Teleborian??s side.?? Figuerola went to the gym at St Eriksplan.P. Kalle Bloody Blomkvist was complicating life for her.?? ??What do you mean.

He had seen him almost every day since he had been posted outside the room. Inspector Erlander returned. And you can still spend nine hours every other day on dialysis. and I think I know how I??m going to do it.?? ??Alright. But you could do it. but they were old colleagues. But Lisbeth has enemies. Mogren was a carpenter and bodybuilder and had been her training partner off and on for three years.?? ??Cancer??? ??He??s been carrying that gun around for the past six months. Then he turned to F?lldin. She kept hers in the chest of drawers in her bedroom. Then the memories came rushing back to her. ??O. they don??t have the evidence. I??m a necessary evil that??s suddenly appeared in your life. frankly. We thought that it would be best for all concerned if she disappeared into some institution again and availed herself of the opportunities there.?? ??Media??? Modig asked.S. Even if somebody were following Teleborian for Blomkvist. Then she checked the hard drives of Ekstr?m (some routine correspondence about the trial) and Teleborian. But G?ransson and his girlfriend were murdered late on the night of April 9. Blomkvist nodded. Pippi and the password is p9i2p7p7i. of course. for at least twenty-five years.?? Berger was at home. He said that he couldn??t know who would be going to the Hague.

Dakota. when diabetes and coronary artery disease had forced him into retirement. A blond man with intense blue eyes and a tilted. and when I wake up. where he used Salander??s keys to get in. ??I think it??s time we had another talk with Justice. Deceased (Suicide?). but the glass was her only reachable weapon. And you were one of them!?? ??But you??re an officer in S?po.?? The Prime Minister nodded grimly. Foolish to think otherwise.K.?? ??We??ll install the alarm this afternoon. He has been retired for fifteen years. that Salander??s condition was stable enough for her to have visitors.?? Jonasson unlocked the door and ushered the visitor in. now Swedish ambassador in the Hague. He was the one in charge of the Zalachenko affair.?? Modig tilted her head to one side. In June 1997 Borgsj? had gone to Vietnam to sign the first contracts. On Friday KAB was conspicuous by its absence. You??ve been damned good as assistant editor. If you feel threatened in any way. Berger told him not to bother. neither could he.?? ??So who in the building is working for the Zalachenko club??? ??We don??t know yet. She got the instant reply [PROVE IT ?C OR ELSE ??] as the animated Lara Croft unlocked the safety catch on her gun. ??As the situation stands. cares about it.

that I won??t take the job if it??s illegal. Anyway ???? ??Yes??? ??She had no good reason to trust the police.30 p. he??ll only tell me what he feels like telling me. She was exhausted. was Zalachenko. was involved in Zalachenko??s murder. That yielded better results. ??We put the neck brace on for a reason ?C you have to keep your head still for the healing process to get started. cleaned the brushes. if I do an examination??? She nodded. This morning she had not had a single visitor. demanding her attention and vexing her intellect. Chairman Borgsj? appeared neutral. Go and wake her up or something. He was brilliant at anything involving graphic design or presentations.M. I??m on my way. about his conversation with Giannini. It did not seem as though she would ever be able to finish it ??Hi. The noose had cut so deeply into his flesh that the rope itself was hidden in the skin of his neck. such as the Prime Minister himself. Borgsj? went to Vietnam twice more.M. It was as if everything outside the Section were sacred. Suddenly Borgsj? smiled.?? ??I understand ?? Frank. but she had a body like ?? hmm. don??t say a word.

?? Blomkvist said. The dental surgery is about 150 metres from the spot where the patrol car was found. but Magnusson had such a distinctive appearance and was so familiar from his T. and explained how a policeman??s death was a needless catastrophe because Niedermann had already been shackled. He wanted to be sure this time that the bastard really was dead. at least. It was glorious May 1 weather. And sex with Blomkvist. where she had written: She had spent several weeks in the Caribbean last winter working herself into a frenzy over Fermat??s theorem. An editorial meeting at 2. He was supposed to get down the mobile. The Social Democrats won. all of which had contained the word ??whore. V. He would then take the used batteries home and recharge them overnight. He had reserved the room the day before and presented himself as Evert Gullberg. He is a 78-year-old man who has been undergoing treatment for a terminal illness and the psychiatric problems associated with it.?? Eriksson said. You said that F?lldin was visited by two people from S?po.?? Berger smiled. She had thought that she was beginning to get to grips with the actual process of producing a newspaper and had planned to reward herself with a weekend off ?C the first since she started at S. ??Hi. It was 1.00 on Sunday morning. Or was it clumsy? The only reason he first noticed the car was the registration number. P. ??So. the wrath of the Prime Minister was not going to come down on him. but statistics showed that the absolute majority of people who harassed women were men.

?? ??May I ask ?? Paulsson. and there must be hundreds of articles you don??t know about. ??What??ll we do about Sonny Nieminen??? Fransson leafed through to the section on Nieminen in the papers on her desk. She sighed and plugged in her laptop. He thanked Janeryd for the meeting and walked the short distance along Lange Voorhout to Hotel des Indes.?? ??He??s so upset that he??s complained to the board. This solution to their multiple problems had presented itself at a time when the Zalachenko unit was on its way to being dissolved.?? ??Yes ???? ??Look at the man on the left behind Danielsson. Lisbeth ?C seriously ?C this battle is going to be decided in the mass media and not in the courtroom. Then he shrugged and got up.B.?? ??Please tell me how I??m doing. and that this had then been the subject of magazine articles.?? ??Which makes it even stranger that he hasn??t been found. ??I??ve got them. ??Do you think it??s such a good idea for me to be hanging around at police H. During the first year.?? ??That sounds reasonable. Normally he would borrow Berger??s car. But as things look now. Olsson had dug up much more on Ghidi than on any other hospital worker.S. they??ve set the trial date for July 13.?? ??But that??s all speculation ???? ??Where are the old personnel files kept??? ??Gullberg isn??t in them. did he arrest Mikael Blomkvist last night??? ??He wrote a report citing offensive behaviour. But I need to have a few words with him. ??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. nodded.

??s office in Vienna. That was one of the things he liked best about his office. to foreign intelligence services. How am I going to do all this alone??? ??You won??t have to. Was not the assassination of Anna Lindh* the result of precisely such a crazy impulse? But Inspector Erlander did not like the idea that a mentally ill accountant. We got the alarm roughly sixteen hours after they died.?? When Blomkvist left Caf?? Copacabana next to the Kvarter cinema at Hornstull.?? Salander thought for a while. Adamsson watched as he took a bottle of cleaning fluid and sprayed the reception counter-top twice before wiping it with a rag.?? Jonasson looked again at the unconscious patient??s face. ??Nieminen. compared to all other handguns.30 this morning. When we get to that courtroom the prosecutor won??t have a single syllable from any interrogation to fall back on. How??s Mikael doing??? ??He??s dead to the world. The crossroads of Bellmansgatan and Tavastgatan. I want to have sex with you and I??m going to reward you handsomely. Why has one of our reporters spent the day working on Salander without anybody telling me??? Frisk squirmed. ??What did you say??? he asked in a low voice.?? Blomkvist said to himself. Ask Paolo Roberto.O. Millennium will have an opportunity to present its version of the story in the next issue. but not before a long and diplomatic circumlocution. The arrow went straight through her brain. Lisbeth??s mother. Someone wanted to sell her Viagra. But that usually happened only with patients whose doctors were already managing their treatment. What would he have done? Absolute secrecy.

the general secretary of the Swedish Helsinki Committee. Modig raised her voice. The question was how to travel there without being observed or leaving a trail.?? Salander was studying the vent window in her room when she heard the key turn in the door. just as he was about to leave early. S.?? ??But the officers who??ve read Bj?rck??s report are a big problem.?? ??Andersson is a tough customer. Inconceivable. Apart from the more sophisticated weaponry and an unusually sophisticated T. 2. but she worked so furiously on her projects that she was encouraged to go home when the day was done.G. For him the point is to be seen to be tougher than all of us.?? He got up and walked once around the table before stopping in front of Edklinth. The batteries.?? ??Tip off the police??? ??Yes. That??s not a bad step up from this sorry little rag.A. Open up S. Teleborian. Ekstr?m had remarkably little on the record about Zalachenko. ??Hi. looking at him with amused affection. Then give me some insight into Edklinth??s investigation. you??re going to have to fight. First Zalachenko. She took out her mobile and looked at the time display. He defected and was granted asylum by S?po.

Blomkvist could not be absolutely sure. now at intervals of about twenty-four hours. pointing at the photograph. People called from all over the world to talk to Baksi. She took out her mobile and pretended to make a call.?? Berger said. Anyone watching the building would think that he was spending the night at Millennium. Greger. It did not bode well. [Slush/Salander].?? ??Yes. They were summoned to Edklinth??s office and told of their assignment as well as the need for absolute secrecy.?? she said.?? Figuerola said. And that??s why we sent Inspector Figuerola to invite you to this meeting. whenever it is. He felt a great weight on his shoulders. When he had worked for seven straight hours. He noticed that the other reporters were taking notes as feverishly as he was. feels like a dying body. It was impossible.?? ??We always owe each other one. Your task.?? ??I know. He had come by special transport for the disabled. A man carrying a brown briefcase stepped carefully down from the 7.K. she needs this. And not a word in the daily memo about Svavelsj? M.

Everything she had written was true. I looked up the tenants. Going back down the corridor. His official duties took up a great deal of his time.E. Blomkvist briefly explained what had happened and asked Cortez to pass the information to Millennium??s editor-in-chief. Henry ???? ??Yes??? ??I don??t need them until tomorrow.00 a. She had spent an hour infiltrating and charting the intranet at S.?? ??It??s about Lisbeth Salander??s future and wellbeing. he had to relay the conversations via another mobile back home to Plague.?? ??I don??t believe in collective guilt. ??He drove a Saab. of course. But since we don??t know who the enemy is. I??ve studied law and political science while I??ve worked for the police. Teleborian??s report from 1991 has been leaked. suspected of attempting to murder the fugitive Lisbeth Salander. holding the flowers.?? Armansky said. ??When the city edition of the paper landed in my letterbox this morning we had a three-column story about Salander and the developments in the Stallarholmen incident in our best news spot. He had ridden over there with Lundin to burn the damned summer cabin down. She already knew that however she dealt with it. while the Security Police took care of the criminal investigation and paid the bill.?? Giannini sighed. But I actually have some news.?? * Berger went to bed at 11.?? he said. That was one thing.

and grievous bodily harm or attempted murder in the case of Karl Axel Bodin.?? ??A picture? I??m in your debt. I don??t intend to interrogate them.U. don??t you think??? ??Well. Be realistic. In the morning two nurses had come to change her bedlinen.S. He was twenty-six years old and had been at Millennium for four years. His injuries seem to be similar to those of a car crash victim ?C it??s hardly credible that anyone could do such damage with his bare hands: a broken leg. I can??t get a sensible answer from anyone. she would be transferred to Kronoberg prison in Stockholm to await trial. Giannini hesitated a moment. and his job was to make sure she got well. who had a minority government in 1979. The men had been discovered near a MOOSE CROSSING sign by the side of the road.. It was the only possible explanation.berger@smpost. She scrolled back and read through the text of a section where she told how Advokat Bjurman had violently and sadistically raped her.S. Just as Figuerola reached the Bishop??s Arms.C. and she took it from them. wary look. and Giannini??s was stolen when she was mugged. ??Take your time. One of the medics tended to Salander while the other took care of Alexander Zalachenko. He prescribed various medications and complete bedrest.

?? Berglund said. apparently with a serious wound to the face. or he cracks the Section wide open. For a moment he stood indecisively outside the door.I. I want them on my desk when I get back to H. possibly three. Blomkvist was working on the Salander story and would not share any part of it. After completing his law degree. If you say no. Which Blomkvist by definition had actually done. If you need to talk. but that you just might know what you??re talking about. Talk with doctors.?? ??O. In 1983. she accepted. or to make use of the art of espionage. He practised moving noiselessly on them.. Thanks.S. She probably went in to collect the film. which he considered a pretty clever idea. were masters of forgery and disinformation. One of the most crucial functions in a democratic state. a number of practices would be revealed that were not always consistent with the dictates of the constitution. She saw that it was 5. I mourn for my friend.