if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. What do you want us to do??? Cortez said. Salander concluded that his I.

He said there was nothing to indicate that the murder was other than the impulsive act of a sick human being
He said there was nothing to indicate that the murder was other than the impulsive act of a sick human being. And the paedophile industry. but since I had already filed a report. A dental nurse by the name of Anita Kaspersson left her home by car at 7. ??Jerker asked what he knew about the defection. ??Hello. Gunnar. since Zalachenko had never operated in Sweden and had little knowledge of the country. He would probably sleep through an artillery barrage. Her door had been open all evening and the nurses had been in to check on her every ten minutes. bangs together some sheet-metal cubes for exclusive rental at G?shaga on Liding?. ??The blond man with M?rtensson. Blomkvist looked at him expectantly.T.?? Wadensj?? was almost beside himself.?? ??I don??t think so.m. he had gone back in time and described Zalachenko??s arrival in Sweden.?? Teleborian said.?? ??What I learned at Millennium tells me that I can say without a doubt that this story is a lie. 2.?? he said. It took her 17 steps to reach the room. ??No. There is substantial documentation.?? ??But that??s nothing new. had been shot and killed at Sahlgrenska hospital in G?teborg. and I don??t mean to criticize him. He was given a part-time job managing a cleaning crew at Sahlgrenska hospital.

00. ??Dr Jonasson??? ??Yes??? ??My name is Peter Teleborian. At the same instant Anders Berglund knocked on the door. In this photograph he was still with the Secret State Police. ??I think I??ll doze for a while.S. you??ll not only be fired but you??ll be guilty of gross misconduct.H.39. I took it for granted that S?po knew what they were doing and had the appropriate routines and experience. The first email ?C which was also the most crude and intimidating with its suggestion that she would be fucked with a screwdriver ?C had come on May 16.Q. the author of the report. Blomkvist lit a cigarette and stood by the window looking out towards Djurg?rden. The fourth was a copy of Ekstr?m??s email folder made at 2. I??m going to have to face up to the Borgsj? problem. At 1. It rang three times before Berger answered. I know that you??re not a psychiatrist. even if that. a de facto coup has taken place in Sweden. Finally Berger heard a voice from the left side of the room. Come with me. ??Marcus ?? tell us what really happened at Gosseberga. and what the routines are in that section. What else could he do? She returned to the subject of the front page. a black leather jacket and running shoes.?? ??If anything should happen. She was a problem in the making.

?? ??All food is decent. but it did not look so good now. Prosecutor Ekstr?m had begun. Then a week went by before the emails started coming again.?? ??That??s correct. a psychiatrist. along with information about the C. Olsson had dug up much more on Ghidi than on any other hospital worker. She did not advise S?po of this decision. Espionage in Sweden by Mikael Rosquist (Tempus. It was as though the man thought himself above all normal rules. even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. and spontaneously gave Berger a hug and a kiss on the cheek. it was no longer possible to monitor his mobile.?? ??Since we have now had confirmation that a conspiracy exists within an exceptionally sensitive part of the administration.?? Inspector Erlander saw Giannini through the doorway to Salander??s room. ??I had a 42-year-old patient in Stockholm some years ago who banged his head on a windowsill. And as such you need help. ??Give him a copy. No Jonas. Amateur night. In the middle of bloody chaos. He thanked the nurse and followed the sign to the staircase. After his suicide attempt he sustained such severe brain damage that he is to all intents and purposes a vegetable. Expert in complaining about taxes. of course.?? ??Come on. but they were utterly expressionless as she looked at Jonasson. Blomkvist saw that Edklinth was also smiling to himself.

She estimated the length of a step at 60 centimetres.?? Her husband sighed. Then she jumped up and dug into her jacket pocket.S. where he turned up the Klaraberg viaduct and across Vasagatan. but she was not sure whether that was a good thing or bad. will Millennium??s publication clash with our investigation. ??The rules of the game.?? ??And since she went into your building I assume that Milton has put in some sort of hidden surveillance of your flat. Then I??ll get started by giving you a message from Mikael. it is. we won??t be able to draw any conclusions. So she had decided to go along with Blomkvist??s plan.000 instead. ??It was an operational decision.K. ??Thanks for the coffee.?? ??Try. Erlander had been allowed to conduct two brief interviews with Zalachenko. Finally he shut down the computer and went to bed. ??The police didn??t get hold of Bj?rck??s report by themselves ?? they got it from a journalist. but her head was immobilized by the brace. He was better off not asking any questions.?? ??Such as who??? ??The Minister of Justice. pointing at the photograph. For fun. The United Nations keeps an eye on child labour.?? ??I don??t think so. The helicopter crew and two paramedics had proceeded in a routine and professional manner.

B.?? he said. before then. I want to know the whole layout of the corridor. Blomkvist made a pretty acute observation. Do you feel like an afternoon on the town??? ??Not particularly. They parted company at the grey Volvo. yes. The discussion had gone back and forth.?? ??I??m not sure exactly what I think.?? ??Where did you find that out??? ??I had a word with my old chief in Uppsala.22.?? Gullberg took a deep breath. ??I just spoke to a nurse at Sahlgrenska. It??s complicated. since 1970. So let??s move on. Salander logged off by writing a brief message: Everyone sent her hugs and kisses and admonished her to keep the hole in her head warm. Francke??? Figuerola said. It was not a skilled collage. studied law and eventually became a tax adviser.?? the Minister of Justice said. Damn it. People greeted her as she limped past the central desk. And she was exceptionally fit.?? ??If I??ve understood the matter correctly. That??s your protection against intruders in the event that you and your husband are away. But you have already been placed under arrest on a charge of grievous bodily harm. wondering what else could go wrong that night.

which were greeted by a worried muttering. It must have been done with the consent of the authorities. Say for tonight. He worked with you for ten years. whom he had known for many years and had dealings with at numerous departmental meetings. Is that accurate??? ??Yes.. could present a more forceful strategy. Bates had taken more than 200 photographs of the community and created a gallery of small thumbnails.?? No such agents existed. And I??m going to write a full account in time for Lisbeth??s trial. Niedermann could have taken the ferry the next morning. had to be added to the list: Peter Teleborian. When we recruit somebody. This is about people who spied formerly within the Soviet Union ?C no regime in the world would stand for that. and he had saved the life of a four-year-old boy who arrived at the hospital with respiratory failure after swallowing the wheel of a toy car. but the events surrounding last night??s killing took precedence. then Salander??s lawyer could instantly charge the Swedish government with violation of her constitutional rights. or where. but he says you??ll know what he means. That was unusual. Dr Teleborian. When the X-rays came through he studied them intently. Her heart sank again. This is about a small group of conspirators. It almost certainly won??t be published before the trial. It??s relatively isolated. he graduated as an engineer and had been part of the ??great economic leap forward?? in the ??70s.?? ??And??? ??When we were discussing this yesterday.

The plane landed at Schiphol airport at 4.G. went to Salander??s office and picked up the telephone from the desk. She had?? He could not remember a thing when he came to. Just in case anyone was still following him. and her group was now down from forty-eight to eighteen since her latest cut. failing to understand. Trinity wrote. I don??t know how much was true. He was also about to go on holiday.?? ??I must not have realized that it would centre on Salander. Blomkvist always expected him to behave just like Gunnar Frisk.M.?? Edklinth gave Blomkvist a look of surprise. bodyguard protection.M. When she came back to Sweden. But we can??t clear this matter up all by ourselves.I. ??I??m going to???? ??You??re not going to do anything at all. then I??ll say so. And for it to be worth the cost. Nieminen called him twice on his mobile.?? ??If I??ve understood the matter correctly. You must be a raving masochist. and there must be hundreds of articles you don??t know about. and defected to Sweden on Election Day in 1976. But we have no trace of the car he took. He was gasping as if he had just run a marathon.

He used the probe cautiously to prise at the edge of the bullet.?? she said. And as for their own complicated relationship. Finally in desperation she rang for the nurse. ??My name is Annika Giannini. DON??T THINK YOU CAN COME HERE AND THROW YOUR WEIGHT AROUND. he did a brief examination of her.?? ??If someone attacks me then the chances are that I do intend to bash in that person??s skull.?? She told Blomkvist to fasten his seat belt and drove over Slussen to ?stermalm and parked on a side street off Artillerigatan.?? Ekstr?m looked as if he had just swallowed something very sour. and who at that moment was sitting in a ditch on the road to Nossebro tied to a traffic sign. How did this get here??? one of them said. Armansky had contributed this information.?? Blomkvist said.?? Holmberg said.?? Only three people knew where Svavelsj? M. Accordingly. bad cop.?? She thought for a moment before she looked at him again. Instead she took out her Palm again and went on the Net.?? Modig said. highly paid employees retired at the beginning of the year.?? ??There is nothing illegal in what I am going to ask you to do. from the passport photograph Karim had located. She was famished. All that is nonsense. Her gaze fell on Holm. He spent several nights a week at the apartment. Thomasson could provide him with all that.

??That blond monster you and Magge hang out with. The head of Secretariat sat on the news for several days before he explained to Gullberg that the defection was so big that the chief of S. ??Dr Jonasson??? he said. it would mean that the district court finds you not only not guilty.M. Teleborian did a routine psychiatric examination of Salander and concluded that she was mentally unbalanced. and when I wake up. After the meeting at Milton Security the previous evening. of course. It was an almost shocking feeling when the hand-held suddenly showed that it had established a connection. A Sig Sauer that had been dismantled and was being oiled on the kitchen table.?? They brought the conference to a close by deciding that Modig and Erlander would together interrogate Zalachenko. What worried him in the short term was that he could never predict when Niedermann might be struck by his mental paralysis.?? the nurse said. a father. They??re always sent to your computer. Mikael.?? ??No. but not one of us was satisfied with that assessment. but I could see that something happened just now that got you more agitated than I??ve seen you in all the time you??ve been in my care. But now they want me to start asap. codes that she glanced at. ??No.?? ??What do you mean??? ??I sent Andersson to bring in Bj?rck for a formal interrogation. My task here is to rejuvenate the newspaper. You can move in on Monday morning. You??re going to look like a paranoid. What are their working conditions like? What do they actually do? That sort of stuff. We have a suspect.

She had several run-ins with people from the social welfare agency. The trade in building materials goes through wholesalers who set their own prices. ??Hello. no girlfriend. But this is going to take some legwork.?? ??Am I to conclude that you??re running some sort of surveillance on Teleborian??? Figuerola shook her head. ??Who??s keeping an eye on the property??? ??Benny stayed at the clubhouse to hold the fort. ??The subject fascinates me. ??Well. they??ll say it??s confidential or that it has something to do with terrorism. He was beyond all help. He quoted the newspaper headlines about lesbian Satanists and the media??s apparent hope that the murders might have involved S.?? Holm said. nobody??s perfect. it??ll be sheer hell.?? Inspector Modig woke with a start when her mobile rang at the other end of the bedroom. ??Thorbj?rn F?lldin. He was shown to Zalachenko??s room. She recognized him as the other man Malm had photographed outside the Copacabana on May Day. and he began to make a list of headings on Armansky??s whiteboard. Tell him that I have copies of ?? everything.D. Some of the reporters out there are seriously good.?? ??Armansky.?? ??That helps a bit. & E. This morning she had not had a single visitor.?? ??Thanks. when some operation went into a critical phase and they had to work around the clock.

we have to be decisive and resort to tough measures. Cortez.?? ??Nor do I. this would have been hard to avoid. ??But none of this solves the basic problem. immigrant. bought the evening papers and two bananas at Pressbyr?n. or hostile??? ??No.?? ??The appalling thing is that Bj?rck has hanged himself. in the late ??60s. The first had been extraordinary ?C Counter-Espionage had identified a Russian informer inside the Swedish telecom industry. ??There are a few holes in your account.I. ??I just wanted to check on you. in spite of her unusual name. If so. But the surgeon says he has high hopes that she??ll survive. for the sake of fairness.?? Berger nodded and turned on a light.?? Berger said with a smile.?? Blomkvist took the tunnelbana to Medborgarplatsen and walked to Allhelgonagatan. He hoped it had not penetrated her lung. ??How interesting. He swabbed floors six days a week including.C. even for other employees at S. If Borgsj? was smart. In some sections she was particularly reticent about details and went to a lot of trouble not to supply any evidence that could back up in any way the many claims she was making. she tried to avoid padding her bill with expensive hotel charges.

Gullberg was suddenly a big player: he was welcomed with respect in the exclusive club of selected warriors. He corresponded with Teleborian ?C but the correspondence in the form we??ve seen it is apparently a forgery. Maybe Figuerola had a point. She asks questions non-stop. If Sweden had a constitutional court.?? ??Good luck. so that you??ll be able to see what??s going on in the garden and on the ground floor when you??re in the bedroom. And he gave the contract to Svavelsj? M.?? ??Exactly. Her stay at Sahlgrenska was in any case going to come to an end in a few more weeks. But those two copies have to be recovered.A. He had seen me and pointed his pistol at me.?? ??Alright. Berger had reluctantly agreed and then fallen asleep on the living-room sofa in front of the boarded-up picture window. Someone decides that a certain person should be given a particular level of clearance.I.M. but I??ve been up to my eyes in A. ??I??m really sorry that somebody decided to target you for this ugly campaign. We have no idea what went wrong.?? As she lay in bed Berger thought about what Linder had said. Most likely he would need a brain surgeon. and I??ll tell you when and what I plan to publish. Figuerola then called the assistant head of the personnel department. You will have to be something of a mentor to me for the time being. She was taken completely by surprise when the door opened and Faste came out. 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.S.

??Maybe I should get some training in some other field. was born in Dalarna to a family that had lived in Sweden at least since the time of Gustavus Vasa in the sixteenth century. Are you doing the exercises the therapist recommended??? She nodded.Q. a mass murderer. That would be placing myself in the same relation to you as the Minister of Justice??s predecessor once stood to the journalist Ebbe Carlsson. but I??m responsible for her. But even Lidbom??s book brought Blomkvist no closer to an answer to his questions. ?C the major increase in personnel began. events. and a number of others. He met Angleton. a pervert and a rapist. The government collapsed again when the moderates jumped ship. Dag Svensson and Mia Johansson. And since I??m co-operating with your Stasi-style bureaucracy. And that??s how we??ve arrived at this point today. The bleeding was so minor and located in an area that shouldn??t have affected anything else at all. Marita Ulfskog. ??I can see that.P. and therefore the investigation of Salander. or that the interview would be focused on Magge Lundin and Stallarholmen. But what??s the rush??? ??I have to get a handle on the situation. She bent down and bit him on the ear. the police have been looking for Salander since Easter. That will be Nystr?m??s task. 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. has received a number of emails that appear to come from me.

And then she lay back and stared up at the ceiling. He was one of the elite. If so. Back in Sweden.00. ??My role is to expose shit like the Zalachenko club. so she followed him. but also not a nutcase. S. Your sister might not be the best choice. Impossible.?? ??It??s hard when you??re locked up like this. But from a purely political standpoint. The designation S. The budget chief and the C.?? ??O. Lillian had cleaned it with alcohol and put a bandage on it.?? They walked the short distance without talking. without back-up. only when there is real danger. Let??s agree on what??s most important right now. ??Have you got a couple of minutes??? she said. The document must not state that you are conducting a preliminary investigation ?C I may be wrong. In addition.?? ??What did he do??? ??He realized that he had no choice but to do what the gentlemen from S?po were proposing. after I??ve had a chance to calm down. and I can??t tell the others before I tell him. ??We??ve got a deadline now.iv Modig and Holmberg arrived at G?teborg Central Station just after 8.

The question was how to travel there without being observed or leaving a trail. We haven??t found hide nor hair of her since. got a good hold on it. ??And how did you find out about the meeting??? ??Tipped off by a source. ??It was someone in Personal Protection who faxed them through. She felt a niggling irritation that she could not identify.?? ??It??s a family-owned business. There was steel in the sick man??s eyes. A trick? Poison Pen? Berger stared at the screen.C. What??s going on??? ??He??s working in G?teborg. He wondered what had got into S?po to make them. First of all.?? ??Why do you think that is??? ??Sorry.v ?C Saturday. When their love was not reciprocated ?C as why would it be? ?C it could quickly turn to violent hatred. the porch on the upper floor.?? Gullberg said. We??re looking at the blueprints for all the relevant offices and apartments.?? Figuerola said.?? Ekstr?m said. But to be honest.I. ??Hello. Who??s going to talk next? What do we do if Bj?rck signs an affidavit confirming his story? And Clinton. Berger sat at her desk in the glass cage. but she felt lazy to the core. if he walked into the corner of a table or a bench. ??What I??m thinking of asking you is unethical.

K. On the way he passed Zalachenko??s door. took a double room.?? ??As things now stand. She had instinctively made the right decisions. Eriksson and Blomkvist looked up from the typescript of the book about the Zalachenko case.?? ??So ?? what else? Illegal tapping or something??? Edklinth said. ??This bastard from S?po. After a while he said to Blomkvist: ??When do you want to meet him??? ??Friday afternoon. He was completely exhausted and realized that he had eaten only two slices of bread all day. He suffers from a disease called congenital analgesia. If he could have kicked Figuerola in the shin he would have done so. ??The last thing we want to do is to interfere with the press. But Ekstr?m??s the boss.?? F?lldin regarded Holmberg attentively. If the newspaper were stable and bringing in a tremendous profit. one from her accountant who wanted a meeting to check on the implications of her move from Millennium to S. Next week I??ll be on a trip. A trick? Poison Pen? Berger stared at the screen. I don??t want a single ?re from Armansky or Kalle Blomkvist. ??And there??s going to be war when we publish it. You??re a man who gets more than his fair share of action. ??It would be terrible if she really has been subjected to the injustices that Millennium claims. but we don??t yet know how. ??I come from a working-class family.P.?? ??So I do need to visit her to do a first-hand evaluation of her condition. Gullberg had worked in Counter-Espionage. Bj?rck had hired Teleborian effectively to lock Salander up in a psychiatric hospital for children on the ?C false ?C pretext that she was mentally deranged.

Salander laughed aloud for the first time in weeks. Some are embedded in the brain tissue. Jervas raised her hand. She was about one metre seventy and looked to be in pretty good shape. in 1976 when Zalachenko defected. and I don??t think there is any other doctor in Sweden with the same insight into her clinical condition. limped back to the bed. but he could not work out what it was. purposely selecting younger talent who had experience on the regular police force and were only recently recruited to S. They sat in the living room for a private conversation. bodyguard protection. Jonas??? Sandberg glanced at Wadensj??. which showed a man that both of them immediately recognized.00 the next morning. They went from room to room. and when the man known as Trinity found himself on Sunday in the middle of the ?resundsbron. ??Get on to the Undersecretary of State and the head of the legal department. The image was pornographic: a naked woman with exceptionally large breasts. her I. The situation is as follows: The police haven??t found your apartment and don??t have access to the D. They spoke in low voices for a few minutes before Gullberg stood up. and what we believe to have happened. including an AK5. but Blomkvist got lucky and caught Karim. or maybe even Stockholm. He waited until she nodded. But she was an oddly resourceful young woman. The problem in this case is that Blomkvist knows only a fraction of the truth about Zalachenko. She knew that Blomkvist??s apartment was on the top floor.

Christer Sellberg. but ???? ??You think it??s excessive. Set up a meeting with legal at 3. very recently. ??The X2000 at 5.00 she had her foot wrapped in a thick bandage. He specified a dozen commonly occurring words. he opened the door to the room next to Salander??s. Promise me. Bj?rck had been accompanied at Zalachenko??s original reception by a lawyer. Are you O. We??ll try to isolate them in a lengthy investigation. but the number of his assignments decreased.?? He stood up and gave her a kiss on the cheek. She was the most unlikely person Berger could turn to with any hope of getting help.C.P. The wounds in her shoulder and hip could wait until later with a compress on each. assistant editor of the front page who had worked on the paper for thirty-five years.?? ??So somebody here at S. Lisbeth. Or. So that they might have children they were granted a leave of absence. Three others were members of the Democratic Alliance too. Trinity had no trouble locating the cable to Prosecutor Ekstr?m??s home telephone. who normally wore a jacket and tie. and she discovered that some S?po activists are running illegal telephone taps and breaking into my apartment and stealing things.VI The historian Diodorus from Sicily.I.

so it was no surprise that she had killed these people. but it passes. terribly sorry. I??ve read Bj?rck??s report. I do not mean for this to continue on my watch. were filled every day with the correct text. cutting prices is the constant challenge.Thursday. A fanatic. ??Why should that be a problem??? Eriksson said. He stopped short when he saw a woman with short. And. The tape kept bacteria out and the blood in. So Jerker went to see him and asked about Zalachenko. Johannes. Trinity wrote. I just want to leave the flowers.nu. the police have been looking for Salander since Easter. An Internet search showed that there was hardly any current literature on the subject. But he had no idea how to go about identifying these people. deep inside she was pleased with Salander??s silence. Especially if they discover I??m a policewoman. ??Yes. ??Twenty-two. And don??t rock the boat.?? ??I asked if you understood. even though in reality he was not her problem. but I??ve been worried sick all night.

He was still at Millennium.5 told her that Zalachenko was in a room about 930 centimetres down the corridor to the left. superficial. She clicked on New Document. An agent already connected to the most secret of the secret.. The first email ?C which was also the most crude and intimidating with its suggestion that she would be fucked with a screwdriver ?C had come on May 16. It was an indication that Niedermann was functioning. with the fact that Blomkvist was his wife??s lover. frankly. Between the time when she had stepped on the shard of glass and Rosin??s arrival that morning. I might be able to postpone the move for another week. but he did not by any means consider himself a brain surgeon.I.?? ??Do you want to take the chance? Let??s say Zalachenko talks. They followed the red Audi via Hamngatan to Strandv?gen and then straight up to Artillerigatan. I check out every car that catches my attention.?? ??And in this instance Blomkvist is quite correct. A man carrying a brown briefcase stepped carefully down from the 7. ??Hello.D. She cast an irritated glance at the display.?? ??There??s quite a bit of budget work to check up on.?? Holmberg said. ??I??ve never heard of anything like this. She saw to her dismay that it was just after 4. That was the natural order of things. but she was not sure whether that was a good thing or bad. even if she had no say over the magazine??s contents.

Dr Endrin wanted me to look in on her. When he passed ?rstabron he took out a ballpoint pen and a plain paper pad. He and the whole of Sweden had seen her passport photograph on billboards outside every newspaper kiosk for weeks.30 in the afternoon. I??m a friend.?? Blomkvist smiled. was to be that of Olof Palme. was to be that of Olof Palme. And third. He was drenched in sweat when he finally slipped under the covers.?? ??Name??? ??Protected source??? ??Naturally. Blomkvist could tell that Ekstr?m??s search for Niedermann was making no headway. but there are questions that still have to be answered. which showed a man that both of them immediately recognized. congratulations seem to be in order rather than any weeping or gnashing of teeth. Bj?rck had reported that she was vicious and aggressive towards her father and that she seemed to be not in the least afraid of him. you??re worryingly habit-forming. You have only to do the first check. ??It??s not important. She took another pace forward. and the limits to the R.?? Blomkvist said. and on the left is an elderly couple who go to bed quite early. Let me put it on record that you do not have to say anything at all. ??Are you livid??? ??Insanely. I don??t think that. assistant chief of Immigration Division. ??What kind of car does G?ransson have??? Nieminen said.?? Clinton sighed.

would have to be informed.?? ??Could I read the original??? ??Certainly you can. Was he exaggerating? Should she dismiss his professional caution? In that case. She felt tears in her eyes. and I can??t direct what prosecutors and the courts decide.30. awaiting trial for the kidnapping of Miriam Wu.?? As she waved him out of the glass cage she saw Holm watching her from the other side of the news desk. Time and again he urged the man to cut his ties and disappear from their lives. the Security Police. The rear is screened by your hedge. this is Malin Eriksson. V. Lottie is going to join you in a few minutes as back-up. You??ll have to fight hard to hold your own. and rejected various options. Plague. It was undeniable.?? he said. looking around in desperation. I want to caress you and kiss your breasts. No doubt someone made a blunder when the cover story was devised. Gullberg. Cortez exhaled in relief.??? Blomkvist said. Use your famous good judgement. and that was annoying. ??I read Bj?rck??s S?po report this evening. but I think only the Prosecutor General could appoint a preliminary investigation leader in this situation.

?? ??I might have to contest the decision in court ?? For the girl??s own sake she has to have a proper defence.. The scandals had undoubtedly been many. ??You certainly have a way with headlines. But he was still alive. walk the fifteen metres to Frisk??s desk. Then she looked at him.P. before then. the answer was not so simple. ??He??s driving me nuts. ??We have to get busy on this. V. So. She put the Palm in the recess behind the bedside table and waited while two Eritrean women vacuumed the room and changed her bedlinen. you should have mentioned them yesterday.?? ??Could I see it??? Bublanski pushed across the desk a folder containing a police report dated 1991.?? ??I get it. Jonasson slowed his pace when he saw a man with a briefcase leaning on the wrought-iron gates outside his housing association apartment on Hagagatan. Greger Beckman. primarily a recapitulation of the night on which he had found Dag Svensson and Mia Johansson and why the police had focused on Salander as the suspected killer.?? ??I??ll tell you later. ??Alright.?? Cortez said. Everything was running as usual in her head. I can??t break the law. regardless of how belligerently an opponent might behave. of course. ??The only option is cutbacks.

?? Only three people knew where Svavelsj? M. ??A source within the investigation claims that Lisbeth is non compos mentis. He stopped in surprise.?? ??O. He should have called Bublanski himself and asked him to intervene. She hasn??t discussed anything of a personal nature with me. ??I think we??ll have to do a quick examination. ??An officer named Faste in the Violent Crimes Division.?? He was already at the door when she spoke. ??Good.?? ??He??s dying. But the headaches were so overpowering that she could not think straight. How? She walked all the way round. There he would spend almost two years. Salander had no idea who the citizens of Hacker Republic were.?? ??O. In this case there are no differences of opinion to divide us. ??When you came to see me the first time. and the Ministry of Justice. Carefully she wrote the password MonkeyBusiness. he charted it with respect to the time it took to speak the word. He also beat up Lisbeth??s mother year after year. but he says you??ll know what he means. He checked that nobody else was in the corridor. He had not managed to catch the registration number. She had not had access to ongoing editorial work at Millennium since early April.K. Quite apart from her injuries.V.

was to be that of Olof Palme. ??I??m sorry for chasing you down. With that an inexorable process would have been set in motion.M. Psychiatry. 3. He was looking straight ahead. First he called Cortez who was in a caf?? in Vasastad and had a few details to discuss. Then a crime would have been committed and led to a prosecution. To raise the matter with the chief of Secretariat might be to chuck a very large stone into a pond. Karl Axel Bodin Inc. as well as for the murders of Svensson and Johansson. They had to decide what to do. Mandrake wrote. She??s the real victim here. but Thomasson??s skill had been exceptional. is Niedermann still hiding out somewhere in Sweden?; two. ??Whole books will probably be written about this first part. It defies all rhyme or reason.15.P. obviously. ??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.?? Nystr?m turned a page his notebook. We have more serious issues to discuss.M. Jervas raised her hand. daubed sexually explicit epithets on her living-room walls. As far as Millennium is concerned.

Three of them were called [PrelimInv/Salander]. He needed to talk to Berger.?? Edklinth nodded. . We have Karl Axel Bodin??s own testimony from the officers who interviewed him. Poison. If so.?? ??First of all. ??Think of it as compensation for the way you were treated last night. shut down her computer. There are now nine hours left before we go to press and four before the front page has to be resolved. Blomkvist went into the kitchenette and poured coffee with milk into two mugs marked with the logos of the K.?? ??Therefore an intruder would have a good chance of approaching your house without being observed. He stood for a long time looking at his face in the mirror before he turned off the light and went to get dressed. Our work is less and less about identifying spies. Over the years he had noticed that if he stopped giving instructions or gave Niedermann too much latitude to make his own decisions. and no matter how effective he was in that respect. ??You got that right.?? ??I think it??s probably longer than that.?? He paused.?? ??Better quality maybe. but after going back and forth about this.000 kronor. holding out a hand that Zalachenko ignored. He did not know where he was. ??Hello. He??ll have to be as safety-conscious as you are. and by 6. Incoming calls were simpler because they were preceded by the fingerprint that would enable the telephone in question to receive the signal.

??Hello. Cortez could not put his finger on what was wrong.00 on a Saturday afternoon??? Figuerola and Blomkvist exchanged a sceptical look.?? ??Mostly to do with women who are threatened??? ??I work with all kinds of things.. First. ??It??ll pass. came out to look at the damage. ??There are a few things we have to get straight. I told her to go home. She had next. It??s not something I can influence. But outsiders were allowed into the corridors by special invitation. her voice scored with scepticism. and besides. Alexander.?? She shrugged. It??s possible that when this conversation is over. his late wife??s name. and he had saved the life of a four-year-old boy who arrived at the hospital with respiratory failure after swallowing the wheel of a toy car. and she limped into the kitchen and sank on to the nearest chair.V.?? Holmberg said at last. we have to work faster. then they won??t want to be shareholders any longer. The focus has shifted to Niedermann. It had always been this way on his other visits to Black/White Publishing.?? Erlander said.?? ??Presumably in normal circumstances you would be doing everything you could to keep journalists away from a meeting like this.

That??s where I met him. but my salary at Millennium might not cover it. ??It feels to us as though the score between the private investigators and the police investigators is about 3?C0. but he never found an answer.v Berger took a deep breath as the lift door opened and she walked into the editorial offices of Svenska Morgon-Posten. ??Nothing today. of course not. A third goes to salaries.S. ??I??m beginning to like my contact with S?po. ??He gives Teleborian instructions.?? Blomkvist smiled. but I think you??ll have to inform the speaker of parliament and the constitutional committee ?? This is going to leak out fast. It was his last editorial and it would be a crying shame not to print it. It had been the stupidest moment of her life and she would never again allow herself those sorts of feelings.?? ??Why is that??? ??Because of Frisk.?? ??Unless she was armed. The price per square metre keeps going up. which contradicted all law and justice and which would result in a disastrous scandal if it were ever discovered. And there??s a connection to Niedermann there too.?? Armansky sat down opposite Bublanski. ??And how long have you known about this??? ??Since today. ??I thought Salander had recovered. By any interpretation that would be attempted murder.P. leadership will have an unpleasant surprise.?? ??And in what context did the name Jonas crop up??? Salander hacked Teleborian??s computer. Tell him that I have copies of ?? everything. Sorry.

I??m happy to listen. ??Hello. It was highly unlikely that Evert Gullberg would ever be brought before a court. according to a witness. ??My name is Jonas Sandberg. I was rather young ?? I didn??t know how I should deal with these people. He took a clean sheet from a linen cupboard and cut it up to make bandages.??Friday. An injured man and a younger woman. Armansky had Blomkvist??s copy of Lidbom??s book An Assignment. He was being led through a doorway by two broad-shouldered plain-clothes police officers. of course. It is almost entirely fabricated.?? she called.?? Figuerola said.?? Figuerola said. I have to look presentable.?? ??I??ll tell you later. He packed clothes. but rather indicated that the conspiracy that had tried to eliminate Salander fifteen years earlier was not a thing of the past.?? ??And since she went into your building I assume that Milton has put in some sort of hidden surveillance of your flat. But there are three problems. but she was completely rational. which she had hardly even thought about for fifteen years. He tried to reconcile the picture that Teleborian was painting with his own image of Salander. ??Yes??? ??You are requested to accompany me to Kungsholmen to assist the police in their investigations into the case involving Lisbeth Salander. even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. What do you want us to do??? Cortez said. Salander concluded that his I.