??Precisely. ??I made a copy for Curt but I never had a chance to give it to him before the Prosecutor General collected the others.

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on May 18. He checked that nobody else was in the corridor. ??It also tells us something about the character of our adversary. He might be a genius at finessing the budget.?? Ekstr?m looked as if he had just swallowed something very sour. ??My dear Mikael.?? ??Hello. Blomkvist opened the driver??s door a minute later. and Superintendent Edklinth took on this responsibility with the utmost seriousness. opening the door. This is all criminal activity: Swedish authorities helping to cover up crime against individual citizens.?? Sandberg looked around the room. ??My name is Benny Svantesson. Salander woke with a start when she heard the door open..00 and no doubt I have an impressive blood alcohol content.?? ??The board approved your measures. and she got it at St Stefan??s. Vinge??s memoirs. He put on his dark glasses and turned up Bergsundsstrand on his way to the tunnelbana.00 Plague pinged Salander. ??Just a moment. we??ll deal with them.

is a wholly owned subsidiary of Svea Construction Inc. SisterJen wrote. Erlander told him that Salander was officially under arrest and that the prosecutor would not allow any visitors.m. Thomasson knew that the money came from criminal activity.M. not news reporting. Herr Zalachenko. there did not seem to be any intelligible basic overview of the activities of the Swedish secret police over the years.?? ??Next question. and among colleagues he would also refer to ??the Company?? or ??the Firm. and we don??t have a single informer who knows him or has any idea where he might be. Then Dr Jonasson and Blomkvist had upset her plans by smuggling in her Palm. Her vision was blurred. ??My family. ??It hurt.?? Jonasson unlocked the door and ushered the visitor in. She showered and towelled herself and went to the bedroom to put on a dressing gown.30. also possibly that she was injured. No. SixOfOne wrote. and then by telephone.

it might be better if we didn??t call. wasn??t established until four months later.?? ??O. The girl they??ve been hunting for the past few weeks. ??That was my first thought too. She took the stairs up to the next floor and stopped at the door to the corridor. Jonasson put his hand on her forehead and felt that it was damp. They found G?ransson and his girlfriend in the basement.?? She walked briskly through the newsroom and was aware of the drop in the noise level. and then sat down with his iBook. She had been at the helm when Svensson was murdered.?? Good Lord.?? Blomkvist said.?? Cortez reported. a white top.?? Figuerola gave him a sceptical look. I managed to persuade Paulsson to let me talk to him for a moment. a matter which was still under investigation. but he could not claim to know the man well. It??s possible that you??ll need another operation ?C on your shoulder ?C if we can??t arrest the infection with antibiotics. cybersex with ??The Sexiest Lolitas on the Net?? for only $4. You can??t be employed by the investigation because that would mean you would be obliged to sign an oath of confidentiality. We know the name of the killer.

30 he was checking into a small hotel about fifteen minutes?? walk from the Hague??s Centraal Station. Zalachenko was used to pain. He saw immediately the need to create a new structure around the defector. Erika Eva. and Zalachenko had avoided paying taxes on them. I??m not allowed to reveal what I know about the Salander story. The copies that Blomkvist and his sister ?C now Salander??s lawyer ?C had in their possession have both disappeared.?? the assistant chief of the Violent Crimes Division concluded.A. weighing her chances. taped her mouth and handcuffed her. She pondered for a moment her suspicion that the person threatening her had something to do with S. You could have switched places at any time. I have to get him to listen to reason. master.V. Dr Jonasson paused for a second. It had always been this way on his other visits to Black/White Publishing. she was not so sure she wanted a stable relationship herself ?C with a partner and a mortgage and kids. where did you spring from? They stopped outside the door to Blomkvist??s building. ??The police didn??t get hold of Bj?rck??s report by themselves ?? they got it from a journalist.?? Nilsson muttered. she drew an age curve and deleted everyone over fifty-five and under twenty-five.

??The staff would like to have a word.?? ??I myself would have checked into a hotel. The connection was radio-controlled and locked into a mobile via Bluetooth. He looked at Giannini.F. The P. S?po was necessary. The list was made up largely of the better-known reporters.?? Silence. Hans von Rottinger. ??Twenty-two minutes. He looked around. I got in at the same time he did. Erlander had been allowed to conduct two brief interviews with Zalachenko. but he had a short fuse and was a dangerous man. I??ll review your situation with my colleagues at Milton. He??s going to get away again. are you going to come quietly or do I have to handcuff you??? The consultant from Milton Security was waiting for Berger when she got home at around 7. exposed Wennerstr?m and eventually got him a life sentence for treason at L?ngholmen prison. ??No. Trinity??s parabolic antenna captured the search for Ekstr?m??s mobile number as it was sent through the ether. Her own job was to keep tabs on the government departments and parliament on behalf of Millennium. ??That was a serious mistake.

??I assume that we??re going to tell him in a subtle way what he has to do to avoid an abrupt end to his career. The important thing right now was to consolidate their forces.?? ??Who should I say is here??? ??An old colleague. after all. It was highly unlikely that Evert Gullberg would ever be brought before a court. All of a sudden she did not have the slightest desire to meet Blomkvist??s sister and regretted that she had accepted this woman as her lawyer. she armed herself with the canister of Mace.?? Figuerola had been right. If you find evidence of criminal activity.?? ??It??s a small monitor. What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles. assigned to prosecute crimes against F. took a long run along Norr M?larstrand. She tired easily and her left shoulder was tight and hurt at the very least effort.?? Edklinth said. S. First of all: I won??t abandon Millennium. into the living room. ??That??s from a source I have to protect. but their conversations should not deal with Salander??s problems or impending legal battles. It would have been a fine ending to her years at Millennium. deep inside she was pleased with Salander??s silence. The hottest thing we??ve got is that the timber industry in Dalarna is reporting a boom.

but Thomasson??s skill had been exceptional. I don??t know if it contains anything compromising. Tell him that I have copies of ?? everything. When he had five separate examples of a word. who was engaged. I??ll have a car in place in five minutes. But this injury happened long after the time of death. It corresponds to about fifty pages of book text. He had established that pattern as early as April. To the bathroom with you. When he started. then Salander??s lawyer could instantly charge the Swedish government with violation of her constitutional rights. who had obviously not paid attention to a word he had said.M.?? ??A little. even to one who knew more of the story than she did. Trinity had no trouble locating the cable to Prosecutor Ekstr?m??s home telephone. itself be implemented? The Wennerstr?m debacle had given rise to an avalanche of dilemmas within the Security Police. Carl Lidbom did one. She saw a reporter and a photographer heading for the lift. It also laid down that information about Zalachenko would not leave the Prime Minister??s office. We have no authority to travel to Holland to interview the ambassador.?? Berger??s life had been filled with meetings and work around the clock the minute she had stepped into Morander??s shoes.

Twice convicted for beating his ex-wife. can you handle this??? ??Yes. the porch on the upper floor.?? ??Why did you pick me up??? ??I give in to impulses.B. we won??t be finished with the installations here for a couple of days. why it??s being spread. including members of the prominent Baksi family. But I get a tip from the police investigation and go over and have a coffee with Faste and he tells me this. agent who defected from the Soviet Union seems impossible to verify. The only thing that had gone right was that he had persuaded them to send a helicopter to take the girl to Sahlgrenska hospital. It looks like the original. She looked as if she had been beaten to death. Salander held the tablets under her tongue and spat them out as soon as she was alone. Set up a meeting with legal at 3. How? She walked all the way round.T. Holger Palmgren.?? Just before noon there was a knock on the door and a uniformed officer delivered a document to Sp?ngberg.S.?? he said. ??Hi. She was given crutches and took a taxi home.

Mikael. the attack on Annika. And we can go out to a bar later if we feel like it.7 million kronor for a staff of ninety-six people.?? Jonasson looked at Blomkvist in astonishment. That is serious. Next to arrive was Inspector Paulsson. ??The only option is cutbacks. S.?? ??And you don??t want to be dependent on anything. He was an older man. possibly three. This situation makes the Prime Minister both angry and uneasy. Instead of investing in something as fundamental as a new colour laser printer for 45.?? ??So he??s ill??? ??It??s nothing serious. She had not booked a hotel room. What mattered was her head. And this has nothing to do with damage control. direct crimes against the Swedish constitution. The difficulty is that this report does not correspond with other reports that we have in our archives.?? ??No. His voice took on a confidential tone.?? ??That??s a comfort.

?? ??And he knows you??re twenty-seven and a temp and that you??re useful when he wants to plant information that the prosecutor wants put out. with the fact that Blomkvist was his wife??s lover. I can??t give you her name. I??m a survivor.?? ??Can you prove that??? ??I can. I have been the victim of attempted murder by my daughter. and of course the whole force is keeping their eyes peeled. ??How??s the old bastard doing??? ??Who? You mean???? ??The one who came in the same time as I did. he does wear a size XXL. Someone decides that a certain person should be given a particular level of clearance.??s hierarchy. ??Excuse me. Ms Salander has already received a good deal of negative publicity ?? Let me deal with the situation. ??You??re here on a temporary basis.00 in the evening and Rosin showed her around the house. She found correspondence between Teleborian and a person with a hotmail address who sent encrypted mail. And then the key witness. That address doesn??t exist. dealer. as he often did. Did you talk??? ??No. my name is Marianne. he might have only himself to rely on.

One evening paper reported that.?? The first person Blomkvist saw was Torsten Edklinth. That meant they had been dead maybe twenty-four hours.?? ??Did you make eye contact??? ??No. ??Guess where Vitavara Inc. but ???? ??Yes??? ??This young prostitute who was murdered in S?dert?lje ?? her name is Irina Petrova. Those were the words she had said to him when he moved to Hedeby.K. and exactly what it is you intend to publish.?? ??Why didn??t you say anything??? Blomkvist said. and then in the ??50s he vanished into thin air. She kicked him twice. and be the news editor??? ??I wouldn??t do it for anything. Jesus ?? it??s wonderful that she got the job.K.G.. department store. As I understood it. Malm could see for himself that Blomkvist was indeed being tailed. I was told that we would have to wait until after the next election.?? ??I??ll have a taxi waiting outside by the time you get down to the lobby. south of Bor?s.

?? ??The trial has been set for July. that is. The editor-in-chief has to be the one who takes the initiative. ??Bjurman subjected his ward to some sort of sexual assault ???? Blomkvist shrugged and said nothing.C.?? She sat utterly still. Clinton had succeeded Gullberg and was the chief of the Section until 2002.?? ??Bjurman was an idiot. ??I can see that. He took a screwdriver from his pocket. Plague was an intelligent and socially gifted citizen. Third. For a second he seemed a stranger. He had spent most of the night worrying about how he was going to deal with the information Armansky had given him. It??s a public document. And as you know. and then he went to a pharmacy to buy a toothbrush and other toiletries. He pressed his stethoscope against his wrist for a moment to warm it. loaded them.?? ??I see.?? ??Not a problem. a folder on the kitchen table. That was all she could manage.

Q.?? ??What do you have in mind??? Wadensj?? said. Outside the Section the information was known by the chief of S. Jonas.?? ??O. I simply have no energy.M. Giannini hesitated a moment. it was that she was certainly not manipulative. you??re asking us to run an operation against an influential magazine and the editor-in-chief of S.00 and then she turned off her computer and put it to recharge in the recess at the back of her bedside table. Blomkvist had objected at once. If anything happens you should quickly seek shelter and lock the door while you wait for assistance. Dakota wrote. ??Are you ready to come back to work??? Clinton looked up. And not quite right in the head.?? he said. and since he did not see any blood in the woman??s mouth he concluded that probably it had not. even for other employees at S. took a folder from her desk and handed it to Giannini. This would be her last Saturday lunch at Sahlgrenska. As she opened the folder she realized that her procrastination had also to do with the fact that she did not really want to face up to the problem. Some of the reporters out there are seriously good.

??I??m in. It was beautiful and well done. but he seemed alert still. ??What kind of car does G?ransson have??? Nieminen said. But what is worse ?? Because the prosecutor has isolated Lisbeth. ??Can??t someone give that man early retirement? He??s a walking catastrophe. Actually it was Malm who had the night shift.C.?? ??I??m not afraid of the dark. The personnel department had no information about what Bj?rck had been working on in 1991. feel that something had changed at Millennium. one had been with the financial police. Plus. he??s turned up Drottninggatan heading north. But I??m beginning to suspect that this Zalachenko club is out of house.?? ??Take us to a restaurant where we can get some decent food. She was ice-cold and stiff. She looked about her in astonishment. She felt as if she were the last person on earth. a former accountant and sometime business consultant and tax lawyer.?? ??Does he have any connection to Lisbeth Salander??? ??No. I want you to go to the hospital and observe the work in the emergency ward and the intensive care unit for a couple of days. Clinton had succeeded Gullberg and was the chief of the Section until 2002.

S?po was necessary. Lisbeth had aroused attention in other quarters as well.?? He turned on his heel and left the glass cage.?? ??There. Just after 6. no ???? ??Teleborian wrote this in a report that he sent to Bj?rck. He looked up. At 7. including bow and arrow. with Nilsson as the only available reporter. but it turned into a wearisome sort of arm-wrestling contest. But there was one policeman dead and another severely wounded on the road to Nossebro. The moderate government had come to power when the Soviet Union was collapsing.m. He pushed the telephone as far into the vent as he could. ??So what happens now??? Blomkvist said. to drive over to the Nossebro road. making the Section responsible for Zalachenko??s safety and debriefing. This request was turned down in a firm but friendly tone. The exact same. & E.00. of course.

the names of today??s participants must not be mentioned in your articles. It was not always a bad choice.?? Blomkvist gave in. But this time it??s not a matter of them sacrificing a pawn ?C it??ll be a matter of them actively needing to limit the damage to themselves personally. Finally he had a hole big enough to give access to Salander??s brain. I can??t recall having any discussion about it at the two o??clock meeting.?? ??O. She did not make him any promises.VI The historian Diodorus from Sicily. Blomkvist then made two mistakes. To put it simply. he took a zigzag route through the narrow streets of the old city until he reached the right address and knocked at the door of Black/White Publishing. and vigorous. The murderer had been identified as Evert Gullberg. with his unfinished editorial to the left and a frieze of photographs along the bottom edge.?? he said.?? ??I??ll get back to you. They were dealing with at least three murders with the bodies found buried on the property. However. It was not on the windowsill. had written letters to companies that had placed orders with Fong Soo. He was asleep by 11.?? ??Was there a name??? ??Yes.

??That??s right. but we don??t have time to go into them all today. the computer automatically sent an alarm. Furthermore.?? ??Who should I say is here??? ??An old colleague. Lisbeth ?C seriously ?C this battle is going to be decided in the mass media and not in the courtroom. But there??s something else I need to tell you. It was as dark as coal.?? ??You say you??re rejecting my article because you know that it isn??t true. He opened the evening papers and read everything that had been written that day about the search for Ronald Niedermann and the case of Lisbeth Salander. He had leaked information that would have backed him up in an upcoming trial. Thank you. but it??s the research we??re after. but otherwise the room looked almost exactly as when he had left. and then stopped about four centimetres into the brain. He pulled out a Palm Tungsten T3. Modig and Andersson walked together down to the garage.?? ??If you want to keep working at S. But she never did. Janeryd looked surprised.?? Modig said.?? Modig said. the assistant editor.

I take it that you will plead self-defence??? ??Maybe.??s hardly dry behind the ears. what have you got??? Blomkvist said. But exactly how it was done I don??t know. the government cannot do a thing. He fumbled to turn on the bedside lamp and looked at the clock. I??m probably not looking for a steady boyfriend either. He spent two hours trying to locate the Swedish ambassador and made contact by telephone at around 9. She started by ordering passport photographs of Faulsson. Cursing. & M. I blockaded the door and locked us in the bathroom. muggings and telephone tapping. That folder is your most important evidence. The Security Police was an institution in Sweden that all parties (well. ??And how did you find out about the meeting??? ??Tipped off by a source. He called Karim in. she didn??t turn it in until 7.?? ??That shouldn??t be such a big problem. he had done his military service with the coast guard. Where did he get the weapon??? ??Blomkvist won??t discuss it without his lawyer being there. The media and the public assumed for the most part that the main function of the Constitutional Protection Unit was to keep track of Nazis and militant vegans.?? ??Drottninggatan heading north.

Millennium??s staff sat in silence.?? They made their way to the police canteen to have breakfast. ??Thank you for being willing to host this informal meeting. he summed up the d??nouement in Gosseberga which led to Salander being shot and buried alive. A dental nurse by the name of Anita Kaspersson left her home by car at 7. SixOfOne. P. I??m going to bulldoze anyone who is obstructive or who tries to damage S. Malm??s boyfriend. Finally Berger heard a voice from the left side of the room. Everything could have gone fine. born 1971. He used the probe cautiously to prise at the edge of the bullet. Often she did not reply at all. Berger waited until he had finished thinking. Sweden had voted for a conservative government. There were two kinds of injury that he hated. I want you to lock yourself in your bedroom and let me handle the situation. She opened the email: YOU THINK THAT BORGSJ? CAN SAVE YOU. also in some quarters known as the Salander case.S. but that was exactly why you hired me. which meant he was thin and wiry.

Blomkvist leaned towards her. which arranged private dating parties for people who were into leather. not 250 metres from the hotel room where he found himself today. much less drive safely for any distance. But we have no trace of the car he took. she told him. has received a number of emails that appear to come from me. Modig held up her mobile to the gap in the curtains and took two low-res photographs of the group outside Ekstr?m??s door. But no amount of speculating could change the fact that the crime scene investigation offered no grain of support to the theory that a third party had helped Bj?rck on his way.?? ??You said there was no rush. We??ll arrange for Faste to be assigned to investigate Salander. But he says that the last time he saw the gun. makes its toilets to sell at 1700 kronor apiece??? Silence fell over the room. No-one ?C not in the government or in the Security Police or anywhere else ?C can interfere in how you run this investigation.L. I took it for granted that S?po knew what they were doing and had the appropriate routines and experience. Ten minutes later the woman with the camera came out of the building again. come to that. That little fool is not telling me the truth. I hope you??re not thinking of taking the story with you to S. V. He assumed it was Wadensj?? who was responsible for the Chagall and Mondrian reproductions. ??I??m not so sure about that.

??Rescue Service helicopter coming in. But I really don??t want you to stay here alone. There were two kinds of injury that he hated.. It could be if someone is trying to break in or turns up in the garden or something like that. But every time she had decided to sleep at Blomkvist??s.?? Armansky laughed. She wondered what the video ??of a personal nature?? contained. She undressed and crept into bed. He knew. I??m looking for Fredrik Clinton. Figuerola was out of luck. What general impression did you get of her nature. in point of fact.?? Jonasson looked intently at Dr Teleborian for ten seconds before he said: ??I won??t argue a diagnosis with you. ??Gullberg. There??s a room in the connecting corridor to the right of the reception area that would be better from a security point of view. Salander had sat in utter silence. From the moment I sat down in that glass cage. I??ll handle it.??? Blomkvist said. In Blomkvist??s copy. ??One of my colleagues recently went to see former Prime Minister F?lldin.

?? There was a knock at the door. Salander put a lot of effort into establishing a secret address for herself. Ellis shrugged. It was a reasonable decision. and in this case it??s regrettable since it shouldn??t be necessary. That??s eleven rooms on two floors. gloves and hats. Often she did not reply at all.?? ??You require things of me??? ??Yes. Gullberg then made it crystal clear to Zalachenko that he must never have any more dealings with the Salander family. It would make a passable weapon ?C for stabbing a face or an eye. Rationally she understood it. I??m not a criminal defence lawyer. ??about a missing person in Alings?s. ever since Giannini had stormed out and slammed the door behind her. editor-in-chief. * Salander opened her eyes when she heard a scraping sound.?? she said to the P.m. But count on two weeks before we can start you on some sort of physical therapy. ??You wrote down my car registration when I was parked on the hill outside your building. 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. Berger limped back to the glass cage.

30 p. And as far as I??m concerned this conversation never took place. the investigation carried out in 1991 that led to Lisbeth Salander being locked away was illegal. Salander switched on her Palm Tungsten T3. Twice since midnight the duty nurse had put her head around the door. and he began to tell F?lldin about the preliminary investigation in which he had been involved for the past few months. The trial should have been a straightforward matter. were filled every day with the correct text. His sister had almost?? ??How is she??? he said. Ingemarsson had been found dead with a broken neck. What??s your plan??? ??My choice would be for you.D. It was a structure with only two ranks. Berger told him not to bother.10 on Tuesday morning.?? ??Believe it or not.?? ??And in normal circumstances everything would be dismissed as muddled red tape. Nieminen was never very easy to deal with.K. staring at the ceiling above Figuerola??s bed. She could have told anyone at all.?? ??Precisely. ??I made a copy for Curt but I never had a chance to give it to him before the Prosecutor General collected the others.