working there nowadays.?? ??That??s insane. It arrived with a later delivery. She had plotted her escape step by step.

that Bjurman had been Salander??s guardian; on the other hand he could not see why the old Zalachenko story should surface
that Bjurman had been Salander??s guardian; on the other hand he could not see why the old Zalachenko story should surface. that the picture painted of her on the billboards is nonsense. And he could not resist going to intensive care to look in on the patient whose brain he had rootled around in early that morning. however. She??s hiding something.?? ??That poor girl. whenever it is. staring at the ceiling above Figuerola??s bed. Retired in 1991. I didn??t make all this mess. Which says that he took the lamp down.?? He went back to her bedside and looked her in the eye.?? ??I??m beginning to have strong reservations about Ekstr?m. Then what??? ??Whoever smashed your window and sprayed your outside wall was able to do so undisturbed. I??m thinking of turning him loose this afternoon. 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.?? ??He has to be tough to handle the job. His parabolic antenna would be permanently listening out for a call containing Ekstr?m??s characteristic graph curve for one of a dozen commonly occurring words. But before the end of the year we will have to eliminate ten positions. ??Good evening.000 Swedish citizens who were held to harbour undesirable political sympathies.?? ??But he??s alive. ??I need to know what you and Blomkvist have cooked up to help her.

but I just didn??t have time???? ??We??ve been doing our own investigation at Milton. deep inside she was pleased with Salander??s silence. including bow and arrow. weighing her chances. After five days of investigations.B. What mattered was her head.. ??Call Christer in. ??Secondly. she would not have hesitated. ??Information for information. So go to your superior and tell him what I??ve said. he could always fall back on the fact that it was a policeman??s duty to investigate a crime ?C but the breach was now so sensitive from a constitutional standpoint that he would surely be fired if he took a single wrong step. the media regarded S?po as an excellent news source. He went back to the cabin as fast as his aching back would permit. had been distracted all morning. She broke out in a big smile. but I think only the Prosecutor General could appoint a preliminary investigation leader in this situation. Teleborian had done a strikingly good analysis. that is. and she was instead put under guardianship. have you? Lisbeth Salander is in fact innocent and the police have violated her and destroyed her reputation in ways that beggar belief.

Then he raised the revolver one last time.?? Malm said. and we know for sure that he didn??t take any of the ferries. Improbable??? ??Doesn??t it? One might think it??s the stuff of a spy novel. So there is no record of him until the ??70s. She poured black coffee into a paper cup and ate a lettuce and cheese baguette. She did not expect anyone to be her friend. ??Why the hell is it that the first thing Millennium does after I leave is to start running background checks on S.?? Modig said.?? Berger studied the chairman of the board. Gullberg blames Zalachenko for everything from the Palme assassination to trying to poison the Swedish people with chlorine. but bit by bit she gathered that a man was being sought for the killing. Cortez exhaled in relief. She needed care. but she did not sense the same condescension from him. however. Finally she opened the last one.?? she said. ??Take your time. She opened her eyes to two narrow slits and saw a silhouette with crutches in the doorway. Our former I. I??m certainly not used to this kind of situation. He aimed the revolver at her and took a step forward.

Malin. as I said.?? ??And in order to do that. She sat up in bed and looked at the man beside her. Gullberg blames Zalachenko for everything from the Palme assassination to trying to poison the Swedish people with chlorine. They had eaten well and talked politely about nothing in particular. then it??s documented. She closed her eyes. Zalachenko would give his word. The medics remarked that this. They searched the place the day you were arrested. Besides. she had stabbed Zalachenko. Blomkvist shook his head. As long as Giannini did not mention the matter. it??s Berger. And shrewd municipal buyers started to scratch their heads and wonder why they were shelling out 1700 kronor when they could get a similar toilet from Thailand for 500.?? ??All food is decent. there is no ??we?? about it. ??He?? could even be a woman. there is no doubt that Lisbeth Salander was shot and buried alive on his property in Gosseberga. What mattered was her head. where Bj?rck draws conclusions and makes recommendations.

They might not have been best friends. The bullet emerged with almost no resistance. From a constitutional standpoint. He had terrible pain in his back. I was told to file a report at the local station. She took her child to day care and should have arrived at her place of work by 8. That was her intention. Finally he lit upon the obvious solution. By any interpretation that would be attempted murder. the police will be alerted automatically. and if she??s going to be taken to court in the near future. I have to tell you too that I will receive advice and support during any trial from your former guardian.?? ??I can see that they might be. and he wondered if a copy of Bj?rck??s report might be in her briefcase. and then he switched to study at the police academy in Solna. Edklinth. Giannini understood what went on in her brother??s head.P.?? She waited until Holm had closed the door behind him and studied him in silence. ??You do know that I could get into very deep water for this.P.?? ??She sort of halfway believed the first email although she was quite surprised by it. There was nowhere there to park a car.

There were whores.?? ??My colleague is Jerker Holmberg. He had considered coming to the same conclusion.?? said Holmberg.K. wondering what else could go wrong that night.000 kronor tax-free for a job that would take about ten minutes. not for S?po alone but probably for intelligence services all over the world. he had done his military service with the coast guard. albeit under guardianship. She seemed to have sharp pain in her left shoulder when she tried to move her arm. ??No..S. Magnus. Two years earlier she had met him for a few hours when he helped her and Blomkvist in the hunt for Harriet Vanger by doing an illegal tapping of a landline in St Albans. In this case there are no differences of opinion to divide us. But if he can??t handle the fact that you screwed up one time in twenty years. With difficulty she propped herself up. He did not seem to take in anything that Blomkvist said. he finally sent Andersson to bring him in.M. Not even the head of S.

Blomkvist did not see the grey Volvo on Monday. there??s a risk that a woman??s rights will be shockingly violated. She was breathing hard and felt wretchedly out of shape. ??Jerker ?? this is how it is: Ekstr?m laid claim to it on Friday. She doesn??t look as though she has the tonnage to take on either Nieminen or Lundin. She arranged for Magnusson to talk to Morander??s family so that the widow could come herself when it was convenient. Those positions have not been filled. Vinge never saw eye to eye.?? ??I understand. Otherwise there??s one very large room. The document must not state that you are conducting a preliminary investigation ?C I may be wrong. You??re a typical example. He would not have thought any more about it except that he spotted the same car a few hours later when he was having lunch with Cortez and Eriksson at Medborgarplatsen. She had scarcely sent the message before she heard that Berger was up and moving about again.?? ??I see.30 she made Berger call S.?? ??So Salander was supposedly armed with a taser. The problem. Putting a mobile telephone into an air vent inside a locked cleaning supplies room.?? Gullberg said.?? Nystr?m said. He??s under pressure from every direction. He would grieve for his son.

He looked back at her for a moment. You can give me hell tonight. She sounded shocked. And then there had been the visit of Jonas Sandberg.S.2 degrees. She had been with Borgsj? for forty-five minutes without mentioning one syllable about Vitavara. I??m on my way. Could you get the number??? While Jonasson was still waiting for the X-rays. It was not on the windowsill. Zalachenko patiently explained that. that was an advantage.?? It was several seconds before he could absorb the whole impact of the news. and shook hands with his client. and she took it from them. he could always fall back on the fact that it was a policeman??s duty to investigate a crime ?C but the breach was now so sensitive from a constitutional standpoint that he would surely be fired if he took a single wrong step. It??s relatively isolated. I don??t really know.?? Cortez said. I was about to lock up Bjurman??s cabin outside Stallarholmen when Carl-Magnus Lundin and Sonny Nieminen arrived on motorbikes. I??m putting my reputation and career on the line by calling you with this request. ??I don??t deserve any applause today. and pulled out a 9 mm Smith & Wesson with a gold-plated butt.

and sometimes she would answer a question that Giannini had asked several days earlier. ??Not quite yet. We??ve got them covered. we have to play it safe. If she wakes up again you can give her two mg.?? Nystr?m said. Her temperature was steady. even though this time there was no strap holding her down.?? said Holmberg. He needs your keys if you??re not going to be home.?? He sat down on the sofa in the living room with his iBook on his lap and worked without any breaks all day. I can??t believe she??s gone already. Slowly she put down her coffee cup. ??You spend a couple of hours a week at the gym. A single word.B. By tomorrow morning I want a document drawn up granting the Constitutional Protection Unit extraordinary authority to act in this matter. and some very senior officers began to wonder whether the Section was not run by paranoid conspiracy theorists. Through this network she could also find herself hideouts abroad. nothing serious. You feel an enormous sense of wellbeing when you give something your all. and he was sure that the hospital would offer him some soon.?? ??I see.

He turned off the alarm.?? ??Revelations that are largely lies and distortions. a freelance journalist in G?teborg.?? ??Beatrice.?? ??Alright. ??Good evening. But how?? In amazement she glanced over at the locked door. which supplies the only reliable statistics on political crime. we??ll deal with them. That means that I work for you and not for anyone else. Finally his uneasiness took the upper hand. > Salander disconnected from Plague and accessed the server he had directed her to. She set out her day??s work in a memo and went in to see Edklinth. but she already knew it would be impossible to explain this away. Annika. I??d like you to have company here for the rest of the week. I??d give a lot of money to find out what they talked about. it??ll be the second time it??s happened. His job was to save his patient??s life. For several weeks they had been hunting Lisbeth Salander. and Nurse Nicander will be there to meet you and get you kitted out. Erlander said he would call if her condition took a turn for the worse. Which means that there was some degree of contact between the two of them while Salander was on the run.

?? ??Listen. ??We need to work on the ??cheese plane?? principle. But this trial is going to be about entirely different things.?? ??Did he threaten anyone else??? ??I have been advised that he did. and I saw to it that Bjurman became her new guardian. Before that I studied both philosophy and the history of ideas. That did not work either. but he also has a reputation for being crusty and obstinate. It seemed to be challenging her. He honestly did not give a damn about the man. and it has to be done immediately and cannot be mentioned outside this room. ??You do know that I could get into very deep water for this. Giannini had supposed it must be some phase. by the way. Whore. but from even the little I managed to know of him. Peter. In addition. the most her lawyer could do was to file a report with the Parliamentary Ombudsman. he would be better off bribing one of the nurses to smuggle the telephone in to her. this is Jonas Sandberg.S. scaring the hell out of a couple and their kids.

I??m assuming you??ve already left for the day. You??ll see what I mean when we talk. The only problem was that Bjurman was such a mediocre lawyer that he was hardly capable of exploiting his opportunities. Headquarters was almost deserted on this summer afternoon. The system had an obvious weakness. He wanted to get an idea of how the ward was laid out. Lisbeth is not allowed to have visitors. So I lift weights once a week and spend the rest of the time doing some cross-training. At 8.?? Figuerola said to no-one in particular. We??ve come across a story that will sink your chairman. On the way he passed Zalachenko??s door. and then Carl Bildt. coupled with the suicide of a man who was dying of cancer.?? ??Probably. layout artists and others. ??So we??ve got a month before the next issue.P. She was amazed to be still alive. The state subsidizes the cost with taxpayers?? money just so that the prices aren??t prohibitive. Before I??m through with you. of course. He was not looking at her.

had butterflies in his stomach as he asked his team leader Inspector Bublanski to take a seat opposite him. and went up to Inspector Bublanski??s office. The old bastard had a pistol too. H?kan Morander. 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. ??Of course it depends on how we interpret the confiscated weapons. ??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. We don??t know what number it is. he watched as Torstensson and Ingemarsson drove off in their patrol car. ??I had to ?? go ?? to the toilet. They tell us in advance the days they aren??t available because of holidays or something else. But outsiders were allowed into the corridors by special invitation. It??s relatively isolated.P. Figuerola expected him to follow his quarry. And there was the ever-present anxiety that the Enemy would notice his overseas journeys. It was the weapon he had used to disarm and disable Niedermann ?C not a straightforward matter with that giant of a man. What??s happened??? ??News.S. When he was finished with him. At the same time Blomkvist had been suffering through an appalling period as I. Forged documents had never been his department or his expertise. It was in fact Bj?rck who had proposed the solution.

He was completely exhausted and realized that he had eaten only two slices of bread all day. Palmgren stood up for Salander. But it felt good to be back in the saddle again after so many years of silence from his former employer. It felt as if she had alcohol in her mouth and she tried to swallow.44 she heard steps in the corridor and the rattle of the Securitas guard??s key ring.M. ??One more thing.?? ??I understand. No date had yet been set. and he??s one of the chief reasons why it??s almost impossible to get the staff to work as a team. But after what happened today I??m more than ever persuaded that you were the ideal choice. She watched his face. She found the assessment Rosin had carried out of Berger??s house. Millennium??s financial situation had been healthy at the last annual general meeting. It begins with the murders of Dag and Mia. but you??re standing here lying to my face. what tone of voice and frequency range it had.P.000 kronor.?? ??He is forbidden to talk about it.?? ??Alright.00 p. ??You don??t like the Security Police.

The woman had been shot in the head and there was no exit wound there either. If she won??t trust me. and until we??re able to identify the remains. He had never before seen a psychiatrist land like a flying saucer and more or less demand to be given access to a patient. In a broader sense.?? ??If someone attacks me then the chances are that I do intend to bash in that person??s skull.?? Wadensj?? felt the panic rise. and together we would have decided what to do. Blomkvist had never before read anything by Lidbom. is Bjurman. S. Furthermore. but he made these journeys less and less often. I can??t give you the name. But after a month of conversations ?C ignoring the fact that the first two weeks had been wasted time because Salander was hardly able to speak ?C their communication was still distinctly one-sided.?? She walked off down the corridor.?? ??Does it have anything to do with terrorists and threat assessments???? ??No. but decided it was too late. During the first year. he was handcuffed and pushed into the back seat of Paulsson??s car. Well.?? ??Yes. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word.

??You could turn out to be a bad habit. But that sort of temporary reassignment was not unusual ?C covering a shortage of personnel here or there in an emergency situation. Contact with the Net.?? He paused. could hardly get her thoughts in order.M. Comes from Norrland and is in fact a specialist in crime scene investigation.S.?? Jonasson looked over his shoulder at the door. not at all. The police are looking for a German citizen by the name of Ronald Niedermann.?? ??But we may have a problem. Fredrik. Instead he booted up his iBook and plugged the cable into the broadband jack. But I??ve moved. At S. Salander pressed her lips together and looked at the screen of her handheld. Two are in Syria and my little sister is in Madrid. He was talented. ??Yes. ??Do you understand me? Yes or no??? ??I heard what you said. a feeling that had grown stronger with every visit he made since his retirement. walk the fifteen metres to Frisk??s desk.

?? Zalachenko said. ??I have a plan. That??s eleven rooms on two floors. He comes and goes as he pleases ?? I have nothing more to say about it. but Thomasson??s skill had been exceptional. Salander swore in frustration and pinged Plague. and around two kilos of explosives. He??s a tough old boy.?? ??Social Democrat??? Gullberg said. he had come home and worked until 5. And I??ll see to it that a guard is stationed outside her door round the clock. ??I??ve got a meeting at 11. So Salander was locked up in an asylum because she tried to kill her father ?? this Zalachenko.?? ??So you think there??s a single hand behind all this? I know Inspector Erlander. some unknown lawyer appointed by the court would probably be worse. ??Not quite yet. and then ?? I need about a fortnight off to recharge my batteries. Why am I not surprised? Berger hesitated for ten seconds. He happened to look into the living room and stopped short in surprise.L. She obviously wanted to tell you first. She shook her head.?? ??O.

she would leave hospital with a scar on her scalp.?? ??What does Blomkvist say??? ??He concedes that he was insulting.?? ??You??re a police officer in a democracy.?? ??Good. I??m only interested in her wellbeing. By that time it was already too late.?? Blomkvist said. She had regularly smuggled in a few Marlboro Lights for Salander during the past month.?? Figuerola said. It was the reorganization of 1964 that had shaped Gullberg??s future career. it??s not a unique situation in the wake of the Soviet Union??s collapse. only vice versa. Two patients. Why? Because she had stirred up a secret that S?po was trying at any price to keep a lid on. it still took five minutes to force the lock to Blomkvist??s apartment.?? ??I made the mistake of trying to hand over a weapon to him. but he did not want to seem very unclever by asking questions. and Bert Karlsson had formed the New Democracy Party. was pleased. This he had not for a moment expected. calamity would be inevitable. that is. He was too busy monitoring the movements of the journalist Mikael Blomkvist.

He did not want to use his own telephone. ??You know as well as I do that a loosely formulated document that was written in the mid-??60s isn??t worth a damn today. ??Could he have found a hiding place where he??s just lying low. she was suffering from massive cyber-abstinence. a lieutenant in the Swedish army who later turned out to be a colonel in the Soviet military intelligence service. More than once Zalachenko had had to intervene when Niedermann began acting irrationally or lay curled up in terror.. but they chose to protect Zalachenko because he was a source of valuable information. However.?? The rabbi offered him a kippa for his head. taken to a prison outside Mosul.?? ??It??s a matter of intuition. & M. of course he is.K. They died in an accident in 1946. He did not anticipate having any problem handling a state secretary. but just pottering. She requisitioned their passport photographs and identified at once the woman she had followed from Bellmansgatan as the Susanne Linder who lived in Nacka. It was Giannini.?? ??Not a hope. He had been tracking Salander.00 Linder arrived and knocked on the door.

She had been robbed. other than the parts that concerned the conspiracy against her ?C Giannini needed help with those. and they were well versed in the art of contriving viruses.?? ??What did he do??? ??He realized that he had no choice but to do what the gentlemen from S?po were proposing. He had found a roll of duct tape and this he had used to close the wounds. Wadensj?? glanced at Gullberg and was struck by how thin the old man had become. but ???? ??Yes??? ??This young prostitute who was murdered in S?dert?lje ?? her name is Irina Petrova.00. Honestly. Everything points towards a suicide. and went up to Inspector Bublanski??s office. Almost all of them are negative. But outsiders were allowed into the corridors by special invitation. Stage two is Millennium and Mikael Blomkvist. the better to represent you.?? ??So what??s wrong with her??? ??I don??t know. All such matters should be discussed with Malin. An Internet search showed that there was hardly any current literature on the subject. She had scarcely sent the message before she heard that Berger was up and moving about again.C.?? ??You??d better tell me the whole story. and parallel to the rest of the Security Police. She skipped down to the fourth paragraph.

We also have a contract which explicitly gives me free rein to make the editorial changes I deem necessary. He switched on their headlights to illuminate a landing area in the field in front of the house.?? ??Media??? Modig asked. ??Could you tell Malin that I??ll be back in two hours??? ??What??s going on??? ??I think I??ve got a lead on a story. Same registration. Blomkvist closed Cortez??s research folder and pushed it away with distaste. She found her shoulder bag. it??ll cost a lot of money. I fall asleep like a blown-out candle as soon as I get home. blue in the face. ??We have to be of one mind. he finally sent Andersson to bring him in. Three others were members of the Democratic Alliance too.?? ??I assumed that the case would be handled in Stockholm. ??First of all. Blomkvist could contact Figuerola if he needed to be in touch with S. After a while the P. but with no success. Her temperature was steady. He went to the bathroom to shower and brush his teeth. ??Nor do I. He took the escalator three steps at a time down to the main ticket hall.?? the Minister of Justice said.

??Are you going to do anything??? ??I??m not going to discuss that with you. ??Hi. That would require us to believe that Salander is innocent. She found that he had already written her forensic psychiatric report.?? He looked at her. eleven days after the meeting with the Prime Minister.?? She paused. and turned to a blank page. After a while she took her Filofax from her briefcase and opened it to the notes section. He always needed somebody to tell him what he was supposed to be organizing. ??Around the entry wound you have all sorts of bone fragments. we??re going to need telephone taps and bugs in everyone??s homes. She arrived in Saltsj?baden at 9.?? Jonasson sat for a while. just as Blomkvist had asked him to. I don??t want to see any rings on the water or hear of a single ruffled feather.30. She had a black eye and a gash above her eyebrow that was still bleeding. Trinity was the other.?? ??So Blomkvist had a gun. and his job is on the line now too.?? He looked Holmberg steadily in the eye.?? ??Because we??re facing a conflict of loyalties too.

police work was largely uncomplicated when it came to looking for one specific individual. reunited with her husband.?? Edklinth said. effective immediately. he had become involved. the psychologist at Sahlgrenska who had been made available to trauma patients. He paid with a credit card and took a taxi to G?teborg Central Station. Bj?rck proposes that Zalachenko??s rehabilitation ?C he suffered very severe burns ?C be carried out abroad.?? ??Just like M?rtensson. so he was mildly surprised when he opened the inbox and found an email from ressallskap9april@hotmail. and Lisbeth Salander was unlucky enough to have him as her father.?? ??Understood. There aren??t many people who are as stubborn as Mikael about not being available when you need him.?? ??I need you. She wanted to leap up and follow him. ??Alright.I. without back-up. With rare exceptions.?? ??There are quite a few girls working there nowadays.?? ??That??s insane. It arrived with a later delivery. She had plotted her escape step by step.