Zalachenko. It was as if he needed a platform. He visited her room. but they were old colleagues. But if Salander was shot and buried.

And Evert Gullberg ?C the man who had shot Zalachenko
And Evert Gullberg ?C the man who had shot Zalachenko. Ten minutes later the woman with the camera came out of the building again. we??re going to need new blood. but how gigantic this problem would become was something Gullberg could never have imagined in his wildest dreams. ??Zalachenko was shot dead at 1. Niedermann is a murderer who has no grain of conscience. and then served for nine years in Uppsala police and studied law in her spare time. ??I thought you??d be dead by now. our preliminary investigation leader has dropped all charges against Lisbeth Salander relating to the murders for which she was being sought. a long time and he??s been news chief for fifteen years. Do you get along with her??? ??She??s alright. to lunch. I need to get in touch with my client so that she can approve me as her defence lawyer. The old bastard had a pistol too.G.U. lifted weights. She had severe hypothermia. ??Stockholm is making noises. I??ll have a copy of that. He noticed that the other reporters were taking notes as feverishly as he was. And then she called to say that Teleborian and somebody called Jonas were meeting at Central Station this afternoon. Do some more checks on Bellona.?? ??Run that by me again. He also recommends that Salander should be offered the best conceivable psychiatric care. He??s out repairing the roof of the cabin. ??Animal Sex. My colleague here would like to question him also in connection with the three recent murders in Stockholm. I want to talk to Erika.

Not one of them had heard of Hans von Rottinger. The woman who crushed Wennerstr?m??s empire. He was an agent for the Soviets?? G.I. ??Nieminen refuses to say anything about what happened. Statistics also argued that the majority of poison pen artists were either teenagers or middle-aged. In any normal situation she would have knocked on the door. opened the door to him. but riddled with suspicion. ??Are you livid??? ??Insanely. He??s acting on orders from the government. on G?tgatan. a murderer. If the Zalachenko story gets out. She has been called a psychopath. ??And to be able to persuade him to keep his mouth shut. Blomkvist ordered couscous and a beer. S.O. A number of pictures were of infants. Finally he lit upon the obvious solution.?? ??You??re right. He would never be able to tell anyone what had happened in Stallarholmen. no question. He chose first class and had the compartment to himself. She is twenty-seven years old and one metre fifty centimetres tall. At present it consists of you. ??I??m sorry I missed your lecture. According to the newspapers.

??We believe that Salander is in some way the link between all of them. the Juiciest Horse Fuck in the Universe. She took Cortez??s folder with her and spent the next half hour reading through the whole story.?? ??No need to apologize.. Then their eyes met.iv At 5.?? ??It could be as simple as Lundin carrying the pistol and Salander disarming him. Mikael and Malin have been working like demons. He wanted to get an idea of how the ward was laid out. It would have been a fine ending to her years at Millennium. And fucking Salander. an antibiotic. 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. an anal plug. There??s a darker area here.?? ??The eternal vicious circle. She looked up at her police colleagues. she tried to avoid padding her bill with expensive hotel charges.?? he said. We have to be a single-level organization. Things could not go on this way. He called the front desk to ask if he could get coffee and a sandwich at this early hour. Salander was not sure. don??t say a word.?? ??It??s not the same thing.30 p. You??re a terrific writer. He had a limp.

He had thought about asking Cortez or someone else to rent a car for him. Cortez. but bit by bit she gathered that a man was being sought for the killing. where she??s been isolated since April? She doesn??t want the police to know she has access to the Net. She is no longer part of the preliminary investigation so far as we??re concerned.?? ??I can??t give you that insight.?? ??That??s also true. He fished some keys out of his jacket pocket and opened a door at the far end of the barn. She heaved a sigh of relief when Berger closed her bedroom door. Her life was her own business.?? ??From S?po??? ??Yes. She watched as M?rtensson walked to the machine to pay his parking fee. Gullberg thought.P. the number of readers will drop and the number of advertisers too. who had an alcohol problem. who informs me that it is very easy to fake a sender??s address. She looked about her in astonishment. ??Indeed.?? Eriksson said. strengths and weaknesses of all his colleagues. They died in an accident in 1946. I should probably also mention that there are some individuals in the police force who are actually on Lisbeth??s side in all this.?? ??Falsifications??? ??I think that??s the only appropriate description. The woman had been shot in the head and there was no exit wound there either. The paper we??re making today is still H?kan Morander??s paper. Since it was a woman in the car. the very time when she was obviously more vulnerable. All except for one thing.

?? Modig said. was founded in the ??70s. After a five-hour operation. He tried again to call Gullberg. In real life. silent partner to handle the financial side of the business. I was just annoyed they were being so pushy. ??I??m in G?teborg. You can take the lift instead of going up the stairs. The result was that a fabulous opportunity to plant long-term informants in Moscow had been lost. As luck would have it. A nurse reported on her blood pressure ?C 100/70 ?C while the doctor put his stethoscope to her chest and listened to her heartbeat. Is that alright with you two??? ??That??s fine. the Prosecutor General was too lenient with cases concerning what were. Zalachenko??s biography was still vague ?C all he had was what he had blackmailed Bj?rck to reveal. & M. And then he had attempted suicide. I have no recollection of any of that. wanted for the murder of a policeman. That would be against the law. Blomkvist had his arm around her shoulders.M. ??I have a plan. The hotel was centrally located and clean.?? Figuerola promised that she would. That really would have thrown a spanner in the works. She checked the sender and then picked up the telephone and called Peter Fleming. it might be better if we didn??t call. The sender was centraled@smpost.

I??m a cynic. but it??s been three years since the last time. We incline to the view that the falsification was done a long time ago. She remembered the terrible hatred she had felt. as you are all aware.?? ??I??m coming into the city this evening. He shot Zalachenko in the head several times and then shot himself. He had met Chief of Secretariat Albert Shenke at meetings and internal conferences on countless occasions. At 2. The autopsy revealed that she died as a result of a staggeringly vicious assault. Someone from N. You know Salander was the victim of an injustice in the early ??90s. We won??t see you for three months while you hop from one T. But last night Paulsson??s behaviour was so bizarre that several of his people mentioned it to me. and she directed the investigation with a force that matched her physical appearance. but she suspected that Dakota was a woman. She bought a coffee in the restaurant car. letter by letter. He listened to the news and heard a summary of what had been said at the press conference. I don??t know what he??s referring to. Blomkvist had convinced her that she had nothing to lose. which was described by the social-democratic media as extreme right-wing. of course not.?? ??I know. I ?C or rather. ??Yes. they agreed to meet at his place at 10. ??I don??t want details of the investigation or anything like that. 9.

He was wearing blue jeans.?? He knows that I have a photographic memory ?? and that I??m a hacker.000 other mobile telephones within a kilometre of police headquarters. Then I can tell you that I like neither your tone nor your evasions nor your lies. How much would all that stuff weigh? No. Who??s going to talk next? What do we do if Bj?rck signs an affidavit confirming his story? And Clinton.?? ??Did he remember who it was??? ??It was Bertil K. showered. married to Hans Wilhelm Francke.58 a. He was never going to be able to tell anyone about his triumphs. I was given a dressing down because I jumped the gun and brought him in. Salander never talked to the authorities. Finally he had a hole big enough to give access to Salander??s brain. Instead she called the duty officer at Milton Security and explained her situation. And he could keep the mobile when the job was over.?? she said. ??Mikael isn??t here today.?? ??Is that really so??? ??This story. But the rest is guesswork. ??This is great.?? ??She had an operation soon after she was brought in and was awake in the early evening. Was he alive or dead? She could not clearly remember what had happened with Niedermann. ??I just want to say that we on the police force don??t put much faith in Zalachenko??s story. She bought a tin of Catch Dry snuff and went back out on to S?dermalmstorg and turned right across Katarinav?gen. Then her daughter was locked up in a mental hospital on the basis of a fabricated diagnosis.?? ??And who else was at the meetings??? ??It was a long time ago ?? I don??t remember. as it turned out. He was based in London.

?? he said and shook hands. surveillance of the farm. Salander was extremely aggravated by the time he had finished. Vinge never saw eye to eye. He turned left on to Kungsgatan. And then we need a bad guy for the story. ??Nor do I.?? ??Oh. ??Good idea. There??s bleeding there. rattling off the number. which in turn was owned by one Anneli Karlsson.000 kronor on the Salander story.M. ??Well. The board is going to???? ??The board is going to do as I say. He found himself.O. It was a plain wooden pencil. ??I came here late so as not to attract attention. ??Hmm. Jerker. She stood up. ??Explain. I won??t make any record of your answer and I won??t discuss it with anyone else. ??Blomkvist. Nilsson was not unhappy that she had been passed over.M. and some very senior officers began to wonder whether the Section was not run by paranoid conspiracy theorists.

if Bjurman were to breathe so much as one syllable about Zalachenko. software and endless files containing preliminary investigations that seemed to stretch back several years. of course. I worked for him for three months as a temp in the mid-??80s. In his opinion. He??s been working here for four years and is in charge of operations. You can use it if you have anything to tell me. That goddamn fucking Blomkvist.?? she said. ??I am sorry for coming to see you without warning.M. Did anyone ask Lisbeth Salander her opinion??? ??Quite frankly ?? we haven??t had the opportunity to speak with her yet. She was a pretty. M?rtensson appeared at the corner by the Bishop??s Arms and watched Blomkvist go. To the bathroom with you.?? ??What??s the killer??s name??? ??We will not give out that information until his next of kin have been notified. ??Svensson. could you smuggle me in a hand-held computer so that I can keep in touch with people online??? ??No. ??Go to work. ??Since the early ??90s S.P.P. He got him on the line within five minutes. but she could not. she had also studied for a degree in political science.?? Ghidi nodded. The public register listed eighteen Susanne Linders in Stockholm county. She felt sick.?? she called.

and through the doors of Central Station as the station clock ticked over to 3.?? ??What??s happened??? ??Blomkvist found Salander. I??m going for a walk. Neither chose to answer the telephone. A defector of Zalachenko??s status would have to be handled with the utmost secrecy. Then a crime would have been committed and led to a prosecution. It was the third time he had met Superintendent Nystr?m. Now we have burglaries. The matter-of-fact tone gave the text such a surreal touch that it sounded like an absurd fantasy.?? ??Andersson is a tough customer. She knew that on Walpurgis Night she had had her twenty-seventh birthday.?? ??So I do need to visit her to do a first-hand evaluation of her condition. registering how exhausted she felt. He stood for a long time looking at his face in the mirror before he turned off the light and went to get dressed. maintenance and I. There must be chiefs.?? Sandberg said.Friday. Sandberg. That had to be the most idiotic intelligence operation in the history of the world. describes the Amazons of Libya. For herself. ??No.?? ??We??ll use the whole front page and move everything else back. but as I told you I??m not active in any political party. where he would seek protection among contacts in Zalachenko??s criminal empire. When the hook came out and his body fell. She saw a reporter and a photographer heading for the lift.?? ??Right now we??re confronted with an exceptionally complicated situation that requires operational expertise.

to think things over. I??m thinking of the ferry to the east. in 2001 and 2004. Or. In any case he had a penchant for civil disobedience on a private level. with Gunnar Ingemarsson dead in Gosseberga. ??Somebody has to write an obit. Ten minutes later the woman with the camera came out of the building again. M?rtensson ?C he works as a bodyguard in S. You??ll have to accept what I??m saying. ??How long was she in the building??? ??Nine minutes. He was not particularly interested in why she had decorated herself in such a way. software and endless files containing preliminary investigations that seemed to stretch back several years.?? The red Audi turned south on Sveav?gen. ??What have we got? Sonja??? She smiled weakly. We??ll put it out in at the same time as the trial. His spectators vanished as if by magic.?? ??And he was the person with primary responsibility for Zalachenko when he defected. I think we could assume her actions were on some level self-defence. We??re not going to lift a finger to help you this time. he insisted. probably just after 3. was that the Constitutional Protection Unit had only an analytical and investigative function. They relied heavily on computers connected to the incident reporting network of the regular police. If she wants to tell you where she lives. Berger sat at her desk in the glass cage. A whole bunch of experienced professionals who know how to do their jobs. We have no authority to travel to Holland to interview the ambassador.?? ??And Faste has replaced us.

She tried to call Greger. and that means that Salander has been subjected to a lifetime of injustice ?C since she was twelve. but it had a strong moral and emotional impact.K. later this morning. and through Niedermann he was the architect of the murders of Svensson and Johansson. He visited her three times that evening and noted that her temperature had stabilized at 37. ??You spend a couple of hours a week at the gym. he previously worked as an accountant and tax lawyer. ??As I said ?? all I want is the research you come up with.P.?? ??Yes. Lundin was formally charged in connection with Nykvarn. ??Maybe you??re just bothered by seeing a girl with muscles.?? ??But Blomkvist has already been warned ?? they stole Bj?rck??s report from there. but his colleagues had learned that Ekstr?m was planning for a trial in July. and he has backing from higher up in the bureaucracy. In any case he had a penchant for civil disobedience on a private level. He had reserved the room the day before and presented himself as Evert Gullberg. The Russian defector who came to Sweden in 1976. He had started out from Laholm just after 8. ??Well ?? you could just accept a friendly personal invitation.?? ??The question is. Wadensj?? poured coffee. I don??t believe that this activity is sanctioned by the leadership of S. ??Hello there. It took him an hour to make up his mind. And you send a couple of village policemen to arrest him as if he were some Saturday night drunk. He prescribed various medications and complete bedrest.

and did it in a way we didn??t think was possible.47. ??That??s about it. nothing yet.L. By that time it was already too late. except possibly M?rtensson.?? ??Tip off the police??? ??Yes. ??How long has this been going on??? ??A couple of weeks. ??So.nu>. It cannot be ruled out that there is a minor bleed that is not visible on the images.?? ??Can you prove that??? ??I can. They relied heavily on computers connected to the incident reporting network of the regular police. and it definitely doesn??t work for me. all of which had contained the word ??whore. and this paper will come out tomorrow too. Find out the registration number. is guilty of these crimes. ??No. An editorial meeting at 2. Tonight. The state subsidizes the cost with taxpayers?? money just so that the prices aren??t prohibitive. Who was murdered??? ??Herr Bodin. He did not know whom he could trust. He listened to the news and heard a summary of what had been said at the press conference. had decided to harass her. and squeezed the trigger. And Bj?rck??s report is in it.

So when I finished school I studied to be a welder and I even worked as one for several years. ??It depends on how decisive you can be in the Section these days.M. Cortez left the Academy bookshop running like a madman. ??See you. He froze when he saw another entry wound. Salander suddenly gave her a cautious smile. The inevitable media storm could lead only to one thing. To be honest. to quote you ?? I honestly don??t know how I should be managing this.?? ??Did you make eye contact??? ??No. ??Everyone??s here. ??Died in the early ??90s. It??s cheap and far below what I would charge if I took the job for Milton. Don??t misunderstand me. On the other hand. and there he murdered the club??s treasurer and ?C we may assume ?C went off with an unspecified sum of money. His job was to decide what to do. Or possibly both of you. and force the board to dismiss Borgsj?.15 he introduced himself on the entry phone and was buzzed inside. He got up from the kitchen table.?? ??Two weeks should be sufficient. But that??s just the problem. I don??t usually agree to this sort of unscheduled meeting. he must have been acting rationally during the twenty-four hours since his flight from Gosseberga. We don??t have a shred of evidence leftSUNDAY. Erlander said he would call if her condition took a turn for the worse.?? Erlander said with an audible sigh.

and the watcher would stand exposed on the footbridge like a swallow perched on an old telephone wire in the country.B. She had worked an average of five hours each day. He was not.?? ??You don??t seem to be exactly enamoured of your board.?? ??Did he call you or did you call him??? ??He called me. Figuerola accompanied him up to the offices of the Constitutional Protection Unit. That was the natural order of things. and she was instead put under guardianship. not counting the attic and basement.?? ??Aren??t there??? ??No. 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.m. He??s a tough old boy. Going back down the corridor. She happened to identify him and track him down to Gosseberga.00 on Friday afternoon. At last she raised the stylus and tapped out a few more lines of text. be able to work undisturbed for a while. Suddenly she remembered having seen Kalle Bastard Blomkvist.?? Gullberg could not think of anything more to say. which meant that some operator would go in manually and listen to the conversation to decide whether it was of interest or not. Salander was sweating. but I cannot reveal the name of anyone working on this case. and he has to decide whether to bring charges. His murderer had shown interest also in Salander. hangs himself. it??s all speculation. 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.

There was something in one of the pockets. but he had finally realized that there was so much material that not even an issue devoted entirely to the topic would be sufficient.?? ??Oh. Palme was defeated. and opened the windows in anticipation of his guests?? arrival. or hostile??? ??No. eleven days after the meeting with the Prime Minister. He seemed surprised that she was saying anything at all. Are you and Erika Berger together??? ??Erika Berger??s married. managers or middle managers aged thirty-five or older. She knew her brother. of course. at any rate. But that won??t work for the rest of us. ??Am I being arrested??? he said. ??Do you have the address??? Blomkvist nodded. As luck would have it. That was why she was locked up. He opened the brown briefcase and unpacked two shirts. I??ve been deliberately keeping quiet about my decision for weeks now.?? he said.?? Baksi said. She saw him look up at the footbridge on upper Bellmansgatan. Blomkvist suspected that he would not pass the language test recommended by the People??s Party of Sweden. Gullberg did not have a clear sense of what Wadensj?? was made of.M. Fredriksson was the acting news editor. overtook the unit. if that happened.

?? ??I understand ?? Frank. The woman turned the corner at McDonald??s and Figuerola hurried after her.B. But you have already been placed under arrest on a charge of grievous bodily harm. Slowly she put down her coffee cup.000 Swedish kronor. And you??re better than I am at what you do. After a period of computer celibacy. Berger was aware that her objections were being systematically stonewalled by Flodin and Sellberg. She was dressed that day in tight blue jeans. We don??t know who this person is.M. ??You suspect that there??s a conspiracy within the Security Police that is acting outside its constitutional mandate. What actually convinced her to decide to play the game Blomkvist??s way was her desire for revenge.?? ??She sort of halfway believed the first email although she was quite surprised by it. And then there had been the visit of Jonas Sandberg. Berger had been a boss she could always rely on. including the one who called himself SisterJen. In shock she stood still for about a minute.00 on a Saturday afternoon??? Figuerola and Blomkvist exchanged a sceptical look. Salander updated her download of Armansky??s hard drive and then switched off the Palm. had worked at St Stefan??s in 1991 and was today its senior physician.30 on Friday night. only women were allowed to hold high office. I??ll handle it. Naturally he has stayed in contact with the Section throughout. My colleague here would like to question him also in connection with the three recent murders in Stockholm. At first she said no..

narcotics and sex trafficking. or die. said. ?str?m had looked at the front page and said: ??God Almighty.?? ??You require things of me??? ??Yes. 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. Are you awake??? ??No. Instead of going back up the hill to Tavastgatan. a lieutenant in the Swedish army who later turned out to be a colonel in the Soviet military intelligence service. when there was less demand for this type of operation. At present he??s being sought only for the murder of Officer Gunnar Ingemarsson. then with me. The screen changed again and now had a blue background with the text: [Welcome to Hacker Republic.00 and discovered Blomkvist still asleep. I have spent years trying to help Lisbeth Salander. ??May I come in??? Salander studied her without expression. Two masked men had robbed at gunpoint a shop owned by an immigrant.I.?? She coughed.I. In fact. she undressed and climbed into bed.00 yesterday morning. Have you got the number of Mikael??s second mobile? The one that??s not tapped. and in 1999 he had registered his own company. Blomkvist had promised Salander that he would never reveal her secret.?? ??Which is what ????? ??Lisbeth Salander suffers from a serious mental disorder. who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood.?? ??The chief of Secretariat is the only person who could make this sort of arrangement.

Instead of turning down towards S?dermalm she kept going straight to Kungsholmen. ??The only option is cutbacks.?? ??A graze over three centimetres long on the outside of his left knee. Modig shrugged. There were plug sockets by the door and in the panel behind the bed. I got in at the same time he did. She felt the alarm spreading up from her diaphragm. but she had not even reflected on the fact at the time.?? ??What do you mean??? ??It means that I have no legitimate reason to keep you isolated here.00 she logged on to Hacker Republic and uploaded the list to Plague. also in some quarters known as the Salander case. That was the part she had spent the most time on. but did not doubt the truth of it. who was engaged.?? ??It??s a matter of intuition. Carefully she wrote the password MonkeyBusiness. ??There was one thing that struck me. was Bellmansgatan 1. and the garage. At the same time Blomkvist had been suffering through an appalling period as I. and Blomkvist freely admitted that he himself had put him there. was one. but???? ??I can??t wave a magic wand and conjure up the contents of a daily newspaper by sitting in my glass cage and just wishing for things. Wadensj?? has a young kid.?? ??How old is he now??? ??He turned seventy-one two months ago. Seven individuals who over the coming years would constitute a special Section within the Section.?? ??Drottninggatan heading north.I. but the editor.

What happens now??? Waltari said. Careers were built on Zalachenko. He knew one. And here we can??t go through the Prosecutor General. When the cleaner had finished in the corridor. This arrangement involves cooperation. As soon as the doctors discharged her. V. He had reached the age when he had to use the toilet rather often. We suggest that you share your knowledge.?? ??Benny Karlsson??? Nieminen yelled. But he had no proof that Gullberg??s shots had been anything other than what they seemed. shaking hands with his former chief.M. There should be nine employees there. No matter how hard Blomkvist tried.?? ??Magnusson can take over for the time being. though it might come to that. a hand-picked state secretary. Johannes. He issued instructions that required even the chief of S.?? Erlander made notes between taking sips of his coffee. and whose background and political loyalty made him eminently qualified to work alongside the officers in the Section. especially when he had been drinking. until after the summer. Eventually he became director of the agency. and former Criminal Inspector Sonny Bohman. Prostitutes. but he walked briskly from the Academic bookshop to the side entrance of N.

?? ??Who??s H. I mean. point by detailed point. but he??s above all the one who makes the decisions. He knew one. The patient was still awake. We??re looking at a conflict of interest. Since he did not know Swedish. Nystr?m saw that Ekstr?m had swallowed the bait. the media??s interest in continuing to dig around in the ??Salander affair?? will die away. This morning she had not had a single visitor. My assignment is to be your guide in this labyrinth. A doctor had explained that the axe blow had crushed his cheekbone and damaged his forehead. Blomkvist??s plan was to have the book printed and ready to distribute on the first day of the trial. and Blomkvist spent more than an hour sorting through its contents. south of Bor?s. You know I??m not a criminal lawyer. when Paolo Roberto had fought his boxing match with Niedermann in the warehouse there.S. He previously worked in western Europe for the Soviet military intelligence service G. You might be able to trace the I.S. ??You have a very talented colleague. I believe. the reporter.I. moving away. I can??t promise that. When you??ve read it I want you to come again.

An Agent in Place contained so much inaccurate information about Sweden in the first chapter that he threw the book into the wastepaper basket. to Zalachenko??s farm. The text was short. ??The question now is how we should proceed. This time he had left that bloody Modig woman behind and instead was accompanied by Inspector Holmberg. He was moved from Personal Protection and is working on his own. First she checked her email. and I was counting on having the time to learn from his experience.T. O. Through its global satellite monitoring the N.?? ??If you trip the burglar alarm by mistake. ??Now. As a result of this outburst.?? ??But we could ask the boss. he was willing to listen. had stood his ground ?C it was constitutionally indefensible not to inform the Prime Minister. it??s you.?? ??I don??t know anything about that. then he isn??t worth the time you??ve put in for him. ??So. Ekstr?m hated press conferences. He chose first class and had the compartment to himself. It??s just that I didn??t want to track you down at work. burglary and receiving stolen goods. There was no need to follow the van. Nystr?m had first come to see him in the days following the murder of Karl Axel Bodin. a black leather jacket and running shoes. sixty-five employees from within the Security Police had been dismissed from the organization on the grounds of presumed political unreliability.

Which was an irony. ??One flight up. ??Alright.?? Berger nodded. hoping to get rid of the daughter. and time kept slipping by ?? And then she found herself with an unbearably guilty conscience and was feeling terrible.. especially when he had been drinking. ??I promised to give him an update on Niedermann yesterday. 4. and picked up the three A4 pages that comprised the meagre results of their search for Niedermann.?? ??Good.?? ??Thanks. There was blood on her palm. but the surplus in the budget was primarily made up of the profits from Blomkvist??s book about the Wennerstr?m affair. He was obviously not the faithful type.C. But he could not keep a trace of incredulity out of his voice. she undressed and climbed into bed. He could not stay in the borrowed summer cabin in Sm?dalar?. you??ve been here a month and I want us to have a chance to catch up. Three chatters at once. She knew perfectly well that no such address existed at Millennium.?? Armansky said.?? Giannini was both tired and irritated on Wednesday evening as she boarded the X2000 at G?teborg Central Station. is no longer profitable. It was too early to go to bed. Generally there aren??t any decisions that are 100 per cent right or wrong.H on another officer.

Salander had a canister of Mace. He was about ten minutes late for their meeting. Blomkvist had got two cars out of the barn. Lisbeth??s mother. He happens to be in G?teborg tonight. not for the past two years.?? ??Forgive me for mentioning this. a certain Lisbeth Salander is a patient on 11C. If he made the wrong decision.D. Jerker. cybersex with ??The Sexiest Lolitas on the Net?? for only $4. codes that she glanced at. Then there was some basis for his arrest after all. 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. Bublanski looked at the notes from his meeting with Ekstr?m. or maybe even Stockholm. ??No. ??Not you.T. Gullberg had objected to telling the government at all.I. but stopped and held the door for me. a hospital nightshirt and a pair of plastic flip-flops that she had managed to borrow.?? he said.00 last night. First of all.?? ??So what should we do??? Bublanski said. But they were in there for forty-nine minutes.

An A. also Lisbeth Salander??s guardian.?? ??I??ll make the decisions and do the surgery.?? Frisk scratched his head. Fourteen were from reporters at various newspapers who wanted to talk to him. You shouldn??t do that. Mikael. but having Kalle Bastard Blomkvist??s sister working for her was hard to stomach. about sixteen hours after he had finished the operation. That would mean savings of almost 21 million kronor and the chance to beef up S. Even so. She had been an outstanding gymnast in her teens and almost qualified for the Olympic team when she was seventeen. and in his teens he was a skinhead. you were the only one in the group who offered any opposition when he answered our questions. or even where Clinton usually spent his holidays. We??re already out on ice so thin that we??ll need paddles rather than ice picks. why should it be any different? Except that of course they would not be meeting so often. On Friday morning Jonasson was faced with an obviously irritated Inspector Faste on the other side of his desk. He stopped and looked about him. and I watch only the news on T. At least Morander understood the necessity of the reductions. But I need your help for an introduction ?C so that Idris will listen to me. working at the Karolinska hospital in Stockholm. She was feeling guilty because she had not contacted Blomkvist even once since the day she had walked into S. She almost missed the terse message: Saturday.?? ??But??? ??He??s an analyst.D. What the hell? Is there some sort of spy convention on Bellmansgatan today? The two men parted at the top of the hill without exchanging a word.?? Olsson said.

I??m a journalist and I work at Millennium magazine. You can bill us for five days. She had not moved it anywhere else. And if Carlsson had received an email like that. She knew about Teleborian. he would apologize and resign from his positions on various boards. She sat paralysed and tried to work out from which direction the sharp reports had come. He took a pen torch out of his pocket and bent over to shine it into her eyes. F?lldin said that he hadn??t known how he should handle it. I??d give a lot of money to find out what they talked about. eliminated all the men in the twenty-six to fifty-four age group who were married. She felt as if she had a stupendous hangover and the bed seemed to keep tilting backwards. By now resigned to his futility. shook his head. ??Good idea. colon and bladder. Inspector Holmberg returned to Stockholm at lunchtime on Sunday. ??I??m in. The case is now at the prosecutor??s office. Yet she felt uncomfortable. so long as its objective was to safeguard the security of the nation. and he was proud of what had been achieved that night when Salander was brought into A. who??s somewhat renowned in my profession.?? She fell silent and stared at Annika.L. At 4. He picked four colleagues. and he perfectly understood that this was.N.

She ran her hand over the neck brace and located the fastenings that held it in place. Just as Figuerola reached the Bishop??s Arms.?? Wadensj?? said. At first she just saw strange lights until a figure appeared in the centre of her field of vision. the matter would be simple. ??That sounds like child labour and stuff like that. Ideally he should have come under the auspices of the military intelligence service.?? Modig said. It had always been this way on his other visits to Black/White Publishing.K. Is that what you??re saying??? ??No. ??Now.000 instead. he could even turn Per Gunnar Vinge??s life inside out. He hovered between life and death for several days.S. Ever since he had heard the news at the Kaffebar he had had his heart in his throat and a panicky feeling that Salander might have been the killer. She had short. They make toilets at a factory in Vietnam which has been condemned by the U.?? She lay quiet for a moment. Find out the registration number. ??It would be terrible if she really has been subjected to the injustices that Millennium claims. Berger sat at her desk in the glass cage. He??s very experienced and doubtless one of the most competent news chiefs I??ve come across. The shot in Lundin??s foot must have happened after she kicked him. They??re the last people he??d want to run into. Just that???? ??Yes??? ??Sonja. ??All this stuff about insults and aggressive resistance is just nonsense. On her side of the wall there was presumably a similar screwed-on cover.

30 on Friday night. but his mind was working on a completely different level as he reconstructed the key points.?? He looked Holmberg steadily in the eye. This may have been because many documents were stamped Top Secret and were therefore off limits.?? ??Tip off the police??? ??Yes.?? ??And what are you going to do??? ??I don??t know. I can??t poke around in her skull and extract bullets. promising to make it up to him as soon as she could get home.?? ??Media??? Modig asked. Magnus. What else??? ??The only one who could tell us exactly what happened.?? ??I see. We ?? that is.?? said Sp?ngberg emphatically. In 1982 the Palme question arose again when he became Prime Minister for the second time. a pure media circus with himself at centre stage. it??ll be sheer hell. And then she lay back and stared up at the ceiling. given that she??s still alive with a slug in her brain. He was offered supervisory training a few years ago but turned it down. a madman. born 1971. where she had written: She had spent several weeks in the Caribbean last winter working herself into a frenzy over Fermat??s theorem. The movie they had playfully made was definitely not for general release.?? Modig said. ??I wouldn??t be able to swear it??s the same person???? ??But it is. He seemed surprised that she was saying anything at all. She stood there for a while.000 kronor.

A. she lost interest. Dakota. She was a suspect in all three murders. I obtained the information in my capacity as editor-in-chief of Millennium. 1989.?? ??You were equally good. had gone and hanged himself.?? ??Er ?? that device of yours???? ??I??ll leave it in the recess behind the table here. welcome to S. The one conspicuous thing about him was that he had licences for no fewer than sixteen weapons. What did you say? Helsing?rsgatan. Then the two old agents embraced. with capital letters.?? ??You started it.?? ??I made the mistake of trying to hand over a weapon to him.?? Bublanski shrugged.?? ??This is all temporary. I had to read them the riot act.?? said Ekstr?m. sweeping up the floor. you. but he did not know the daughter??s name. Normally I??m involved in civil cases in which I represent victims of rape or domestic violence. They were the ones who had taken care of Zalachenko. It was as if he needed a platform. He visited her room. but they were old colleagues. But if Salander was shot and buried.