stood up and shouted at Paulsson to keep the bloody hell out of his way. He went out in grand style.

This was a threat that made an impression on F?lldin
This was a threat that made an impression on F?lldin. It??s also possible that knowledge of Zalachenko was confined to so small a circle that Prime Minister F?lldin had no real oversight. I??m old and handicapped. Don??t ever forget that.?? ??It??s all hypothetical. and this would be the perfect. did he arrest Mikael Blomkvist last night??? ??He wrote a report citing offensive behaviour. ??I have to call for support.?? ??Thank you.?? ??The news editor is going to have something to say???? ??Don??t worry about Holm. According to the green numerals on the digital clock on her bedside cabinet. with an address near Norrtull in Stockholm. ??And where the devil did you get hold of this??? Edklinth said.M.?? ??So there??s no actual substance to this story at all. ??Where is he now??? Blomkvist said as they turned on to Kungsgatan. Blomkvist was not answering his telephone.D. and she felt no desire at all to engage with it.?? ??I mean it. Jonas crossed Olof Palmes Gata and turned up towards Sveav?gen. He really doesn??t like Salander and seems to regard her existence as a personal insult. Salander summed up her situation in five lines. But I can see to it that you get a nicotine patch or some gum. I was never privy to the details. Amateur night. She went upstairs. He worked with you for ten years. where she could still see the back of the man in the blue overalls.

Take a break. There are two sides to it. They were tiny children savaged by dogs on Vasaplatsen. cut more than 180 jobs since 1980. It did not bode well. Only then did she begin to think rationally again. If it happened while he was trying to escape. what would have happened if you??d been run over by a bus? Then they would have been without an editor-in-chief with only a moment??s notice. and then he went to a pharmacy to buy a toothbrush and other toiletries.?? ??I see. She clicked hesitantly on Answer. not even in posthumous memoirs. took it into their hearts that parliamentary government had outlived its role and that parliament should be replaced by a dictatorship. and since she was feeling irritated in general she decided not to take it out on him. He was actually off that day.?? ??Yes.A. who. I already know that.iv ?C Tuesday.?? Andersson said.D. So he filled out a ??no visitors?? form that had no connection whatsoever to the one that was set in place by the prosecutor. how are you all doing??? ??Sandberg is brighter than we thought. I want to be able to go on any talk show on T. where place settings were already laid out. Zalachenko is an ordinary gangster who??s probably mixed up in several murders and other criminal activities.M.?? ??Quite so.

deep inside she was pleased with Salander??s silence. No Teleborian. Ronald Niedermann was without doubt a very talented person who had physical attributes to make him a formidable and feared individual. To Modig??s great frustration the meeting in Ekstr?m??s office was lasting a long time.Saturday. We can put it inside a wardrobe or a cabinet so that it isn??t in full view. But unlike the McDonald??s example. Two of the people living in the building have police records. but I think he went to the reception desk too. upgrades. don??t you think??? ??Well. Blomkvist was working with Eriksson and Cortez. or skinhead. Are you awake??? ??No.U. retired S?po hand. or at least parts of it.m.?? ??Andersson is a tough customer.?? ??And??? ??I can??t tell you anything about that. In 2000 she applied to the Security Police in Uppsala.?? A ripple of groans greeted this response.000 kronor. ??What do you suggest??? ??If we??re going to run Millennium effectively during the autumn. ??You should have the answer to that question quite soon. ??I??ve decided that Salander should be moved to a different room. ??And what do I get in return ?C if I do co-operate??? ??Nothing. I??d like to leave these flowers for Karl Axel Bodin. which supplies the only reliable statistics on political crime.

you can write an article on the subject if you want and we??ll publish it. But I actually have some news. to listen to the news. ??A source within the investigation claims that Lisbeth is non compos mentis. Everything was running as usual in her head. but he??s bound to say that he was doing target practice two days ago. The most important characteristic was one that Clinton did not mention. In the long term there was another worry. finally. And her hips. He simply concluded that Salander was suffering from stress.?? ??But we may have a problem. There was only a jpeg that she opened in Photoshop. milk and cheese at the mini supermarket next to the County Council building and he put the groceries straight into the fridge. which she unpacked in Berger??s spare room. he would have known how to tie proper knots. where he was searching for information about Zalachenko??s murderer with Cortez and Eriksson.?? ??But now we??re getting a little too close to poaching on S?po??s preserves. Modig shrugged. I??ll explain the situation. She had almost reached Pustegr?nd when the woman appeared. if the entire underworld is looking for him. That was not a good sign. Berger turned and looked out over the landscape of the newsroom.?? * Figuerola spent her lunch hour pumping iron in the police gym. He called it ??the last line of defence??.?? ??Did he call you or did you call him??? ??He called me. ??You don??t like the Security Police. Here??s a sample of them.

?? ??I don??t know anything about that.C. Niedermann is a murderer who has no grain of conscience. and he had never supposed that she would be able to call him from her isolation. I have no idea what these particular grey cells are for. The Section was not a criminal enterprise. some ambitious scribbler would float the theory that the Section was behind the assassination of Palme. And I may not be looking for a steady girlfriend.?? Berger was at home. She could not call Blomkvist because he had not given her the number of his Ericsson T10. Bublanski explained why he was calling. Now.?? he said. Why don??t we concentrate on what we??ve discovered??? ??I don??t like loose ends. Blomkvist calls them ??the Zalachenko club??.?? ??But don??t you understand what a scandal this could turn into? Are you just as barmy as Gullberg??? Clinton got to his feet laboriously. He is to gather information that can be turned over to the Prosecutor General. with Gunnar Ingemarsson dead in Gosseberga. As soon as he entered the apartment he saw that the folder he had left on the kitchen table was gone.?? ??I would urge you to wait and see. and he was taken aback by the sarcastic tone combined with razor-sharp observations. The tide of this crap never receded.. where he was received by Birger Wadensj??. but the percentage was negligible. He did not need a psychiatrist to tell him that she was not normal.?? ??Yes. but the preliminary investigation against Salander for the murder of your friends seems to have been shelved. He and the whole of Sweden had seen her passport photograph on billboards outside every newspaper kiosk for weeks.

?? ??Sure. Sonja. The state subsidizes the cost with taxpayers?? money just so that the prices aren??t prohibitive. Blomkvist studied her carefully as she came back from the ladies??.?? ??Well.?? Clinton gave him a feeble smile. ??And how did you find out about the meeting??? ??Tipped off by a source. which has Bj?rck instructing Teleborian to falsify a mental examination. The girl on the gurney could live with a piece of lead in her hip and a piece of lead in her shoulder. the same in every A. The Salander investigation is fake.?? ??I don??t know anything about that. We have more serious issues to discuss. Nilsson frowned. but with no other visible damage.S. from the crazy neo-Nazi living in the woods to the rock-throwing anarchist ?C and everyone in between. Instead he booted up his iBook and plugged the cable into the broadband jack. and there is no satisfactory forensic evidence. He started up the hill straight towards her. On the other hand. particularly after Robert H?rdh. the reporter.?? ??Good. ??Teleborian has a link to a person I know only as Jonas.iv ?C Saturday. According to the headers the sender was erika.??s assets were in the form of bonds that he could access. a relic from the Cold War.

And for it to be worth the cost.?? ??I want copies of the letters. Then her daughter was locked up in a mental hospital on the basis of a fabricated diagnosis. a psychiatrist. right above a stool that was usually in the kitchen. That was unusual. and then he paused for a moment. Thomasson knew that the money came from criminal activity. There were easier ways of getting from London to Stockholm. Teleborian. How the hell did they think I would?? Then she looked in the cloth bag and found at the bottom a scrap of folded paper. I don??t want you underfoot if there??s any trouble. shook his head. let alone leave the room. She had tested herself by going on the Net and picking out random H.?? he introduced himself.G. Having my afternoon beer. She went to her study and turned on the light. Your turn. And a murderer who called himself Ronald Niedermann. why had she telephoned Milton Security in the first place and asked them to install an alarm? ??O. Edklinth had great respect for Armansky. Two had a background in the Fraud Division.?? ??If you??re a good leader then you??ll discuss any concerns with the others. We have more serious issues to discuss. She was given a local anaesthetic and afterwards the wound was sewn up with three stitches. but he had been told to go to the passport police and immediately to ask for political asylum. but he had finally realized that there was so much material that not even an issue devoted entirely to the topic would be sufficient.

P.?? ??I was afraid of that.Sunday. I wonder which scared him more.M.?? Edklinth said. I??m so sorry. had about 800. She switched to the other channel. but there was never very much to report.?? Figuerola said. She had a heavy. but I have a big problem. Then she checked the hard drives of Ekstr?m (some routine correspondence about the trial) and Teleborian. They were officers used to investigating real crimes. and I??ve checked out this company. Berger??s muscles ached as though she had just run the Stockholm marathon. He had tried to get into her room. and clocked out. Please come to the point. Plague had obviously made it simple for himself by copying over Ekstr?m??s entire hard drive. The two men discovered that they liked each other a good deal.?? ??You started it. he sat on the floor next to the bench and kept a watchful eye on Salander.00 in the evening. She felt a small twinge of fear. that extreme variant of bodily glorification. the record corresponded with the report??s contents. but we??re going to have to act fast so that we don??t squander the opportunity.

?? Wadensj?? said. but stopped short. Blomkvist told Paulsson exactly where Niedermann was to be found. Sometimes three. In the end the medic stood up and shouted at Paulsson to keep the bloody hell out of his way. against or the attempted murder of Zalachenko. She ordered a beer and a small plate of calamari with Greek potatoes.?? Bublanski leaned forward. Part-time guard. but they were as well trained and probably better equipped too. box on Fleminggatan in Kungsholmen. But if her car had been damaged on some random street in S?dermalm. It was Blomkvist??s front door. somebody had gone into her bathroom and taken Millennium??s material about Vitavara Inc. She arrived home late one evening to discover that someone had broken in.00 in the morning.?? ??I can tell you in general terms what it??s about and you can come to your own conclusions. For that to happen. in particular for playing the irascible but honest Inspector Frisk in a wildly popular T. Entry wound just above the left ear. And who knows? Maybe he??ll catch Niedermann.s that are five or six years old ???? ??It??s simply out of the question that we invest in new computers in the coming year. I cannot help you. we might save ourselves a lot of time. I??d like to have a word in private with you if you have a moment. It was Friday. Modig wondered how much she should say to a reporter. He knew one.?? Blomkvist held up a week-old evening newspaper.

?? Berger??s life had been filled with meetings and work around the clock the minute she had stepped into Morander??s shoes.O. and he has backing from higher up in the bureaucracy. Zealous. Nothing made any difference.?? ??There??s no misunderstanding. It would be a newspaper billboard sensation and there would be volcanic eruptions high up in the government bureaucracy. to Zalachenko??s farm. and the like. and with that role came responsibility for the budget.P.?? Bublanski added the suggestion of a press conference out of sheer cussedness. the porch on the upper floor. In my considered view you??re precisely the lawyer she needs. They were victims of accidents at work or of violent abuse at home. such as ??O. She saw the face of a complete stranger and memorized every detail.?? ??He tried to kill me.?? She laughed. Then he called Cortez..?? ??Am I to conclude that you??re running some sort of surveillance on Teleborian??? Figuerola shook her head. T. She did not have much time. Even small movements of his facial muscles caused sharp pains in his jaw and cheekbone. And Paulsson arrested Blomkvist when he was trying to hand in the weapon to the police. From the X-ray he could see that the bullet had turned and was lying at an angle of forty-five degrees to the entry channel. this is a little embarrassing. In that respect.

Edklinth did not believe in coincidence on such a grand scale. She??s the real victim here. ??How long can the paper continue to bleed? How big a deficit can we take before we hit the limit??? Borgsj? pursed his lips. Erika. That??s why Clinton has returned to duty. He has a three-year-old daughter. ??Mikael ?? this is a murder investigation. Even though he had lived there for large parts of his working life. He defected in the ??70s. She walked out of the front door just as the taxi drew up. ??But I haven??t been run over by a bus. And now we come to another stumbling block.?? ??I??ll give him one month to sort out his attitude. but he did not by any means consider himself a brain surgeon. Her bare feet were bleeding. have you? Lisbeth Salander is in fact innocent and the police have violated her and destroyed her reputation in ways that beggar belief. The legal department has been informed that I possess this knowledge but cannot discuss it with them. and she limped into the kitchen and sank on to the nearest chair.I. next to the lift doors.?? she said. If it??s a matter of a forensic psychiatric report. It was a more complex problem to identify a specific mobile telephone. The story was beginning at last to take shape. Berger pulled over to the curb. He defected in the ??70s.35 when she heard the key in the lock and Nurse Agneta looked in on her. After a while she pinged Blomkvist on I. of course not.

and I went to visit my client.?? ??That simple ???? ??And why did you become a S?po activist??? he said. The text was sent at 7. and I come into the picture before a crime is committed. Then he went to the hotel lobby and called Clinton??s mobile from the public telephone.?? she said. Magnus. We all know that when you??re in the throes of a story.?? Berger looked at the clock and sighed. That the Salander girl would go so far as to make a Molotov cocktail Gullberg had not foreseen. The story was under control. She thought for a few seconds. to help disseminate. He passed it without slowing down. You will choose the assistants you require. But you didn??t see that??? ??No. V. you have to trust me.?? ??If he took the morning ferry. If these very unpleasant pranks continue we will have to consider reporting them to the police. She twisted her arms and stretched her left shoulder back and forth. She??s the one who makes the decisions on these things. ??He?? could even be a woman.?? he said. this is Malin Eriksson. How? She walked all the way round. He took the lift up to the reception on the fourth floor and was immediately shown into a conference room.?? a list which towards the end of the ??60s amounted to around 300. still relatively unsure in his role.

The organization in London had been very willing to supply the evidence. Two years ago he was on sick leave for four months. How do the pieces fit together??? They talked for more than two hours. It was clear to Gullberg that the Section for Special Analysis could become a politically sensitive unit and the job description was expressly vague. although the pain drilled into his jaw.m. namely the head of Secretariat. In his editorials he came across as boring and conservative. Back in Sweden. She had been dozing only a few minutes when she was aware of movement and opened her eyelids to a narrow slit. I??m not above the law.?? He looked almost apologetic. ??Why should that be a problem??? Eriksson said. the balcony at the back. Psychiatry. I suppose my answer to that is the same one you gave me: I believe in a constitutional democracy and sometimes it has to be protected. but Ekstr?m could not know that. who did not have the authority to walk into the Security Police and start demanding documents and other evidence. I??m going to have to face up to the Borgsj? problem. All the time she expected someone to call and tell her that pictures of her were posted on some website. I??d also like to know if you want Giannini to come here to G?teborg. After stonewalling his way through five police interrogations. You??re very sexy. Within the Section this was no obstacle. He??s under pressure from every direction.?? ??Unhappily. and on top of it all. after the male soldiers were all slaughtered in a far-reaching genocide. and that won??t be until August.

His other two reports had involved less significant evaluations: one was of an employee inside S.?? he said and shook hands. Mandrake wrote.?? ??Yes. The police wanted to question him also in connection with the murders in Stockholm. Despite persistent attempts to establish the truth and uncover the crucial evidence ?C the smoking gun ?C the Section had never found any proof. We cut off the arrow shaft and put her head in a C. I??m a cynic. These doors are so thin that the bullets would have gone clean through them if he had fired. It??s about Lisbeth Salander. the woman who had been shot. In addition. To put it simply. He closed his eyes for a moment. I considered her request for cigarettes more of a joke than a serious need. are simply practical extensions of the Right to Free Speech. she easily decoded the correspondence.?? ??But Blomkvist has already been warned ?? they stole Bj?rck??s report from there. by turns as researcher.?? ??If Salander hit her father in the head with an axe she isn??t exactly innocent. pushed open the door. She had gathered that Salander could be moody and withdrawn. She did notice improvements. Fredriksson was the acting news editor. which she had always considered a curse. It was possible that he had established some sort of rapport. nor could she see him in the newsroom. ??That??s from a source I have to protect.?? She lay quiet for a moment.

He had made coffee and he poured her some.?? ??Barring the unforeseen. ??When the city edition of the paper landed in my letterbox this morning we had a three-column story about Salander and the developments in the Stallarholmen incident in our best news spot. Salander was locked up at Sahlgrenska. And since I??m co-operating with your Stasi-style bureaucracy. This arrangement involves cooperation. and throw a brick through the window. If you find evidence of criminal activity. But I know how to handle those two. He??s keeping track of what goes on around him. ??Forceps. and second.?? Salander said without enthusiasm. And you??re better than I am at what you do. the most highly classified in this country. who already had an overview of the activities of the Section. shoulder patch.?? Blomkvist nodded.C. One last operation. ??You don??t think that her actions could have anything to do with the fact that you had beaten her mother so badly that she suffered permanent brain damage??? Zalachenko turned his head towards Modig. Which. He was gasping as if he had just run a marathon.??s office in Vienna. But that??s now your third lie in about the same number of minutes. Jesus Christ?? She looked into the living room and saw that the picture window was shattered and the floor was covered in shattered glass. At 2.?? he said. He pushed up his glasses and scratched the back of his neck.

Figuerola giggled. He found a dark-blue 1991 Renault. He??s probably riding around in G?ransson??s Saab.A. and the future of the Zalachenko unit ?C of the whole Section even ?C had hung by a thread. Someone would have called in a favour and got someone to talk.?? ??This doesn??t mean that I distrust you. But she had not said anything about why she had run her father to ground. We get access tomorrow. If I take on her defence. ??Yes.?? she said in a cheerful voice. Eleven rooms and apparently a bit of a snazzy joint. He knows he??s being watched. ??Hello. As far as I??m concerned you have absolute credibility. Even a falling-down drunk Professor Ellis is several classes better than I could ever be when it comes to assessing brain damage. Gullberg chose from the beginning to inform only one person in S. She free-associated. The problem was that the patient was in danger of dying while the doctor was still doing his thinking.?? ??There is no need to be afraid. possibly for the end of this week. Mikael Blomkvist. ??Forgive me for pointing this out. I became a police officer because I thought. Security Police matters were going to have to wait until the next day. but I??ve got a feeling that Micke and Christer Malm and the others will be able to work things out. You were the one who called the paramedics. He approached Thomasson and proposed that the lawyer come in as a third.

so Salander is in intensive care. but rather indicated that the conspiracy that had tried to eliminate Salander fifteen years earlier was not a thing of the past. ??Thanks. All the company??s secrets and emails ?C along with some fake documents that might lead people to think that its C. I can??t determine what it is. It was obviously premeditated ?C the attacker had brought his can of spray paint. but it wouldn??t take much for us to be regarded as a second-class paper. (2) They have to separate the ??Salander affair?? from the ??Zalachenko affair??. Berger jumped as though someone had fired a shot in her living room. should also be informed. Salander is a devil with computers. the operations chief of the Section Hans von Rottinger. ??I think we??re done.M. Say for tonight. She went back to the front door and put on the outdoor shoes she had kicked off as she came home. Giannini had supposed it must be some phase. ??Focus on the information. and we don??t want to attract attention until we have more to go on. ??Granny knots. But Ekstr?m??s the boss. That goddamn fucking Blomkvist. We had a hole we needed to fill so I had to put in something. ??The day after we publish this. I??m just bringing him in for questioning.?? Modig said. Blomkvist had given him no good reason for insisting that he patrol the neighbourhood near the Copacabana on Sunday afternoon looking for a grey Volvo with a registration beginning KAB. They take care of the finances. and pretty strongly at that ?? He must have something up his sleeve.

Slowly she sat down on the staircase.H. As soon as Ekstr?m left police headquarters. She walked briskly to a gym at St Eriksplan and spent the next hour doing some easy strength training. I think the dyke needs some cock. The problem was that Ekstr?m seldom or never used it for work-related calls.?? Blomkvist nodded.?? Berger sighed. as a psychiatric consultant on specific cases in the late ??80s and early ??90s ?C on three occasions.?? ??Order everything you can find from parliament: budgets. 12. Nothing new. He glanced at his watch.?? ??Exactly. He had not even thought about Zalachenko for months until the morning he discovered the daughter on every newspaper billboard.?? ??Yes. She??s the real victim here. But I??ve understood that you??re driven by several factors. And ?C most disastrous of all ?C there was a video taken on holiday in the early ??90s when she and Greger had been guests of the glass artist Torkel Bollinger at his villa on the Costa del Sol. Hans von Rottinger was always a pleasant chap. other people can. And I don??t have sex quite that often either. and when the man known as Trinity found himself on Sunday in the middle of the ?resundsbron. We??ll see what he has in mind.?? Blomkvist told him. ??Erika hasn??t altogether left here. We??ll arrange for Faste to be assigned to investigate Salander. Mikael. Plague decided to make an exceptional effort and washed the dishes.

in 1968 whom he had personally evaluated as unsuitable. He seems to be responsible for much of the mess tonight. The K. But that??s the angle the police are taking.S. He opened them again and gave the policeman an angry glare.?? Blomkvist said. she looked to see whether there was a film on T.?? Figuerola said.?? ??The way you did with Hans-Erik Wennerstr?m??? ??Something like that. He had reserved the room the day before and presented himself as Evert Gullberg.. There??s bleeding there. Gullberg had a bunch of flowers in his hand when he got into the lift at Sahlgrenska hospital at the same time as a short-haired woman in a dark jacket. Only then did she begin to think rationally again.?? Nystr?m said. It was about initiating a logical sequence of inquiries.00 and called Eriksson at Millennium. Ekstr?m had remarkably little on the record about Zalachenko. In his editorials he came across as boring and conservative. ??Hurry up ?C go and wash and brush your teeth. ??I was thinking of going home tonight. You were the one who exposed Wennerstr?m last year. and would value the chance to gauge how much deterioration has occurred over the past ten years. but Jesus.?? Blomkvist referred to M?rtensson??s C.?? ??So we have to ask ourselves. since they were the closest things to God??s representatives here on earth. ??Stay there with Berger.

VI Blomkvist had no warning that someone was in the stairwell when he reached the landing outside his top-floor apartment at Bellmansgatan 1. So. Jonas. He followed me like a guilty conscience for at least a week.000 a month to live in those crappy dumps in Hammarbyhamnen? Because the construction companies don??t give a damn about keeping prices down. But the offer came like a bolt from the blue. As recently as this morning. There??s nothing in her file that says why. ??I talked with Bublanski half an hour ago.iv ?C Saturday. Johanna Karolina Oskarsson. She felt a niggling irritation that she could not identify. ??And between us. Is he out of his mind??? ??You mean he??s alive??? ??For the time being. In fact he did not have the slightest idea how Berger came to call him out of the blue to tell him of the meeting. at Sahlgrenska hospital in G?teborg.?? ??Alright. no??? ??I??ll pay your fee myself.?? ??Calculating what??? ??I mean. there are a number of hidden funds controlled by the chief of Secretariat and chief of Budget that I have no access to.?? ??But we could ask the boss. I can??t handle it right now. She felt an intense desire to move. while the Security Police took care of the criminal investigation and paid the bill. She remembered the terrible hatred she had felt. It was doable. You know how the paper is made and I have a while to go on the school bench. an antibiotic.?? ??That??s my husband??s studio.

But it is unusual. it??s because he knows or suspects that you??ve got something brewing. the A. But it??s been utter chaos here. and then to India. But since we don??t know who the enemy is. ??O. Within a few hours the Section had taken on tangible form. In due course the matter came to the attention of the Security Police. It must be done each day.?? ??Those were necessary cuts.?? ??I see. SixOfOne wrote.?? ??That??s good. or maybe even Stockholm. I mean. We??ll deal with any problems as and when they crop up. The night nurses were at their station about twenty metres down on the other side of the corridor.I.?? ??There. ??And the story of why one of our colleagues was murdered because the government didn??t do its job fifteen years ago. ??You know how it goes. ??Anders ?C I need a mobile.I. That??s why we want you to stay still. Martin Thomasson was therefore the third guest of the day at Zalachenko??s sickbed. Which indeed you quite often did. Just as I??m persuaded that you haven??t given me carte blanche to look at everything you have here at S?po.?? Ghidi poured Turkish coffee.

the Top Secret classification means that the report may not be disseminated or copied. I know. They bought the apartment from the estate of the former owner. After a few minutes she had worked out what was routine mail in the form of daily memos.?? Gullberg said. Zalachenko was used to pain. I will expose you and do everything I can to ensure that you are never re-elected.?? ??Aha what??? ??Nothing. Millennium will tell the story of how government officials conspired against Salander in order to protect a pathological murderer ?? He wrote steadily for fifty minutes.?? ??I never believed you sent them. First. Only one thing is important right now. but the glass was her only reachable weapon.nu>. It was as if everything outside the Section were sacred. He did not even bother to look for it. You were in pretty bad shape. and check off the allegations one by one. ??I would never have guessed you were such a good poker player. ??Information for information. Malm was never quite sure whether Blomkvist was paranoid by nature or if he had paranormal gifts.?? ??Naturally. but she was completely rational.?? ??Good God. He took the lift to the seventh floor. Lundin has been arrested for kidnapping Miriam. I asked if she wanted something to read. SixOfOne wrote.?? Malm said.

He felt vulnerable and exposed. He studied his unexpected visitor as she stood up. I need his help to do a simple job. or at least parts of it. ??The whole thing stinks. ??Could you manage to tell us the whole story from the beginning??? Holmberg said. With infinite care he inserted a probe into the brain and enlarged the wound channel by a few millimetres. but in a week nobody will even remember the name Zalachenko.I. Gullberg knew the most minute character traits.P. to determine whether Gullberg.?? ??Oh. your lovely breasts. Falun had been hired from time to time until the mid-??90s. the journalist Dag Svensson. It??s your mind I need.?? ??Understood.?? ??And if Ekstr?m is worried.?? ??I??d rather you didn??t. But it was almost impossible for Members of Parliament to have oversight of S?po.P. I work in the Violent Crimes Division here in G?teborg. almost friendly manner.?? ??I don??t think so. One was from another member. she felt a sharp pain in her foot. to gather documentation about its extent. In view of his age.

?? ??With what??? ??Genetics. Today??s message contained no text.?? ??And you??re saying that it??s an invention.S. Illegal weapons are more serious. agents. or possibly a ridiculous dream. ??Blomkvist gave the report to his editor-in-chief. part of the routine at S. I have a list of articles here that you.?? ??And did any of them buy it??? ??Yes. 2. had been suffering chronic pain for a long time ?? I don??t know. She started to scroll past these.?? ??So all the rumours about you two are nonsense. ??If I say that a S?po agent broke into my apartment and I can document it ?C and him ?C with a video. Do you intend to hide things from me too??? ??I don??t know. the lawyer Annika Giannini. the worst possible thing I could do in this situation would be to try to influence the shape or content of your story. I am personally very upset over what happened to her. what do you say then??? ??I can??t prove otherwise.?? Edklinth said. He was still at Millennium. that??s how it is.?? ??It sounds as if there are revolving doors into the place. even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. but Blomkvist somehow got hold of it. and undressed. For fifteen years he was protected.

The second part has to be handled from here.?? ??Today??s task is to write an editorial on the demonstrations. Then he took a taxi to Artillerigatan in ?stermalm.S. A genuine scoop for Millennium. But it was.I. looking at her pupils. ??Tell me. She saw no-one who showed any interest in her.00 in the evening and Rosin showed her around the house. Bjurman was not a real security policeman ?C he was really no more than a trainee at S.?? ??Sounds good. By lunchtime they already had extensive documentation of the fact that both Fredrik Clinton and Hans von Rottinger had been associated with the Security Police in the ??60s and early ??70s. It??s a typical pre-emptive retaliation to undermine potential complaints from Blomkvist.?? ??I should also say that Annika Giannini. you listen here???? ??Imbecile. It depends on her rate of recovery. So. said. It will turn our whole plan upside down. He booked in for the night for 800 kronor and went straight to his room and undressed. He was not going to make it. She could just see the back window of M?rtensson??s Volvo.

We also have a contract which explicitly gives me free rein to make the editorial changes I deem necessary. If such a word occurred. That??s why Clinton has returned to duty. Then she lay quite still in bed and stared at the ceiling. ??Believe it or not. But this is going to take some legwork. But if her car had been damaged on some random street in S?dermalm.?? ??Did you make eye contact??? ??No. Not for my brother or for Armansky.?? Gullberg said. Karl Axel Bodin would disappear into rehabilitative custody. on the murderer. ??Maybe I should get some training in some other field. Blomkvist had got two cars out of the barn. but a combination of torn sheets and a ten-foot extension cord from a floor lamp would dispose of that problem. And who knows? Maybe he??ll catch Niedermann. but she read through it again anyway.?? Edklinth said. Murder suspect or not.R.?? ??That??s exactly what I don??t understand. He had taken off her shoes and her trousers so that he could bandage the wound to her hip. ??When you came to see me the first time. My name is Anders Jonasson.

She realized that she was sufficiently recovered now that she could have walked out of the hospital. ??Dag??s book went to the printer yesterday.?? ??Could we talk to the prosecutor??? ??No.S.P. this is a fine mess we??ve landed in.M. if you??ll forgive me for saying so. Modig seemed to be weighing her words. ??Yes.S. wondering what else could go wrong that night.?? The next morning Edklinth was in his office at police headquarters. yes. He had also run into him once at the Opera. including bow and arrow. is mixed up in several kinds of criminal activity. and he??s one of the chief reasons why it??s almost impossible to get the staff to work as a team. But that??s only if we can control Ekstr?m. ??How am I doing??? ??You??re on the road to recovery. The Prime Minister gave him a sharp look.U. Figuerola suddenly had the feeling that she was a policewoman. That was a shattering misfortune.

He hadn??t been able to pull his gun. It??s four years he??s been with us.?? ??What about the reports that Bodin tried to murder his daughter??? ??That is under investigation. I don??t know who??s going to be in charge of this case or if it??ll be transferred to Ekstr?m in Stockholm.?? ??And??? ??I asked what sort of medical expertise he thought he had to assess your condition and then I told him to go to hell. nor did he have the feeling that he was being watched or followed. ??The government cannot interfere in an ongoing prosecution case. and we have extensive forensic evidence against her.?? Janeryd had by this time been talking about it for several minutes. ??Not a thing. ??So that??s our strategy??? ??Herr Zalachenko. ??His behaviour was a bit odd and a little too eager.?? Cortez scratched his ear. but I??m a doctor and I??ve studied psychiatry. What did you say? Helsing?rsgatan. F?lldin had in practice demonstrated that he had been informed. she looked to see whether there was a film on T. It was obviously premeditated ?C the attacker had brought his can of spray paint. The notion of secrecy took on a whole new dimension. we??re going to have a discussion about the state of your health tomorrow???? ??Understood. He hovered between life and death for several days. I??m on my way. So how do you intend to proceed??? ??I can??t publish a name without proof. It was always a matter of details.

And then he was taken ill again in August last year. ??I agree with Sonja. Much more blood had obviously been shed in and around the trench.M. Not tonight. With which esoteric thought she closed her eyes and fell asleep again.??Friday. ??Dragan ?? this isn??t a practical joke??? ??I wish it were. when Zalachenko arrived in Sweden ?C it had to be organized and sanctioned from the top. I??m also going to charge him with probable involvement in arson. ??If all this about Gunnar Bj?rck is true and it comes out.?? ??I said that we probably didn??t have any more advanced books in the patient library ?C we have more Philip Marlowe than scientific literature ?C but that I??d see what I could dig up. He went back to the cabin as fast as his aching back would permit. They were to find out if there was any truth to Blomkvist??s story that a man was sitting in a ditch there. ??But a logical step would be to interrogate Zalachenko. He chose his words with care.I. She??s hiding something. Each individual call was separated and processed digitally by computers programmed to react to certain words. By that time you had retired. and several years later some members of the ??people??s militia?? in Hacker Republic. he also got voiceprints that Plague could process. In the end the medic stood up and shouted at Paulsson to keep the bloody hell out of his way. He went out in grand style.