you feel it??s going??? I have to discuss Vitavara with him.?? Giannini went pale. He opened a new Word document.

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?? ??I won??t tell him. when relations would once again worsen ?C which according to Gullberg was inevitable ?C absurd demands would be made on the Security Police and the military intelligence service; they would be expected to wave their magic wand and summon up well-placed agents out of a bottle. then pulled the forceps straight out.?? Holm said. Going back down the corridor. At first he had travelled frequently to Stockholm. She knew that on Walpurgis Night she had had her twenty-seventh birthday. the media??s interest in continuing to dig around in the ??Salander affair?? will die away.. The victim of the incident was a middle-aged man. Inspector Bublanski.C. between the two of us. ??This bastard from S?po. She had several messages.00??? ??One more thing ?? I??m seeing my sister.Q. She heaved a sigh of relief when Berger closed her bedroom door. reunited with her husband.

?? ??In Stockholm we have a photograph of him that??s about twenty years old. With an effort she stood up and swayed unsteadily. to leave. They had crossed six national borders but they had not been stopped once. ??Why didn??t she tell anyone before??? he said at last. The picture was from her old byline at Millennium and could be downloaded off the Net. Which meant that they all had to carry two mobiles with them. ??When Lisbeth was twelve. and it??s important that we see to it at once that this is the image presented to the press. Or. about two hours later than usual. I was told that we would have to wait until after the next election. or whatever problem arose. Blomkvist realized at once that he was in a position of some strength. have been devoting themselves to criminal activity for a long time.?? Figuerola held up a diplomatic finger. Figuerola then called the assistant head of the personnel department. ??So the Zalachenko club is somewhere in this building. Sometime during that week.

000 kronor. who is being held for the attempted murder of her father. as listlessly she watched the stream of people walking down below on G?tgatan.S. she had stabbed Zalachenko. We??ll work out the final contract later ?C it depends what services we agree on ?C but this is an agreement saying that you??ve commissioned Milton Security to install the alarm we put in today. As long as he had a licence. he regained his strength and was eventually able to walk again with crutches. and for possession of an illegal weapon. They sat in the car and waited. His good leg kicked four.?? ??I can see this is a difficult situation.?? Blomkvist sighed. He contributed to our investigation by profiling Lisbeth Salander. but my boss. But he??s greedy. Who on earth do you think can resist that??? ??You??re very kind. By then Gullberg had worked at the Security Police for fourteen years. Instead he called me and said that he had spoken with the Prosecutor General and there was a problem.

you are aware of the concept of damage control. and we don??t know yet whether it is connected to any known crime in Sweden.O.??s now not-so-secret mistress and pictures from a party in Hollywood in which he could be seen snorting cocaine.R.?? The fourth visitor of the day arrived at 11. He felt that the situation was chaotic and ominous. until the immigration authorities decided that Ghidi did not have sufficient grounds for a residency permit. I can??t afford to keep him on as a dead weight all that time.?? Malm was serving up freshly made waffles with cloudberry jam and coffee. ??Do you mind if I check??? He made his usual examination. In some mysterious way the ceiling lamp had been taken down and placed on the coffee table. She was ice-cold and stiff.?? ??Hmm. he could move around his room.?? He turned on his heel and left the glass cage. ??So where do you come from??? ??Most recently from G?teborg. He was standing about ten metres behind her. Transfers of that kind had to be approved by the chief of Secretariat.

And if need be you can always come to me or Christer. that is. She would be fascinated by a problem.?? Annika Giannini woke with a start. it would make sense to continue promoting that story.Monday. Thomasson could provide him with all that. ??Coffee. H?kan Morander. and those responsible must be held accountable. He did not need a psychiatrist to tell him that she was not normal. ??What I want to know is: how certain are you that Niedermann really is involved in the murders in Stockholm??? ??My gut feeling? I??m 100 per cent convinced.M.?? ??No indeed.?? ??I mean ?? they called you. ??Has anything else of interest happened??? he said. Since R.?? ??I know that. Gullberg.

??I??ll find out if he has time. Berger did not arrive in the newsroom until lunchtime. You came from Borl?nge and you??ve worked with the Uppsala police.Friday. Then he hung his overcoat and jacket in the wardrobe behind the door.?? ??Yes. but the principle is this: if we cut personnel. and right now I??m caught between two loyalties.S.v ?C Saturday. I??m thinking of moving you to the Constitutional Protection operations unit. as compensation for the injury Ghidi had caused the Iraqi state. ??He played a key role in the Zalachenko affair.?? ??Magnusson can take over for the time being. but he was so exhausted that he did not have the strength or the means to get out there to fetch it. regardless of how artistic the originator believes the depiction to be. the investigation carried out in 1991 that led to Lisbeth Salander being locked away was illegal. But what was going to happen now? Erika had always been a crucial part of Millennium. I don??t think so.

The problem was that Ekstr?m seldom or never used it for work-related calls.?? ??What sort of odd??? ??I??m afraid some idiot is sending really vile emails and he seems to have targeted me. 2. I??m sorry ?? in the rush I forgot to let you know. trying to get down every word that was said from the podium at the police press office at Kungsholmen. she lost interest. Second. It was short. so finally he called Inspector Erlander. The prosecutor is going to go on about this being the second time you have tried to kill him. I??m still on the Salander story. if that happened. The man is a tragic figure who evidently acted alone. She spent about two seconds on each message. He did not wake until 9. Why is that??? Salander??s eyes darkened. My assignment is to be your guide in this labyrinth. said.?? ??It??s a small monitor.

It was 7. The bullet emerged with almost no resistance. But he was absolutely not a friend. ??Because the median age of our readers is fifty-plus. at the same time as we install the movement detectors outside the house. we have to play it safe. Given a few years she would probably be able to make a good anarchist out of Dr Anders Jonasson. or something else to drink??? Blomkvist looked around. Erlander cleared his throat. She pulled open a drawer in the hall where she kept scarves.?? ??Thirty-one employees. They have their own club that you can??t join. From her bed at Sahlgrenska she could now reach the entire world. But somehow. were particularly diligent in condemning exposed S?po agents if they had spied on Swedish citizens. A whole lot of stuff.?? ??That??s also true. Blomkvist was not answering his telephone. She heard voices and all of a sudden her courage deserted her.

?? When Blomkvist reached home at 5. The deceased lawyer Nils Bjurman had worked in the Immigration Division at the same time as the deceased Bj?rck. but what the hell are we going to do??? ??Malin??s going to be acting editor-in-chief starting with the next issue. But he did not have access to her room and had never even seen her. This was all conceivable in practice. She created a new folder called [MediaFool] and saved both messages. but she quickly regained her composure. They will do everything they can to reduce the damage to themselves and their group. ??It sounds to me as though your suspicions are for the most part based on assumptions and circumstantial evidence. In her rear-view mirror she saw the man in the blue overalls turn into Br?nnkyrkagatan..?? She nodded. Is that alright with you two??? ??That??s fine. and put on long black trousers. I had no idea that he worked for S?po. He could not move it even a millimetre. She took a chance and hurried to the corner of Sveav?gen. Edklinth explained what Figuerola and her team had unearthed. 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.

?? ??Blomkvist thinks there??s a faction within S?po. Take the documentation and go home and think it over. It took him several minutes. which he arranged in the chest of drawers. G?ransson. it must have a special meaning for her. There were about ten meetings during the time F?lldin was Prime Minister. He took a chance and hurried across the hall and out through the doors on to Vasagatan. Herr Blomkvist.?? ??My colleague is Jerker Holmberg.?? he said. Modig and Andersson walked together down to the garage. What??s happened to him since I retired??? ??Bj?rck is probably one of the very few internal colleagues who left the Section and went back to external operations. Dakota wrote. Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R. interview with Prosecutor Martina Fransson.?? she said. the logical thing for Ekstr?m to do would have been to contact the general director of the Security Police to determine who Zalachenko actually was. They drove to Nieminen??s place.

so far as they could tell. Gullberg thought. Then Figuerola called the assistant chief of Counter-Espionage.?? which Paulsson had also missed. Never Mikael. But we have no trace of the car he took. The reason why Ghidi had appeared so frequently in the press archives was that at the eleventh hour he came by a new lawyer who went directly to the press. Source protection. Magnusson had put together a four-column article about Morander??s life and career. And Skanska calculates it and comes back and says it??ll cost around 500 million kronor. but Asperger??s patients do not generally set fire to their parents. not exactly. Mandrake. Blomkvist was the only one absent from the meeting. Then the assassin??s shots rang out on Sveav?gen and the matter became irrelevant. She waited while he read her four pages. Besides. but he looked much older. There are 11 citizens online.

??Maybe one of Teleborian??s colleagues in Uppsala. She felt unreasoning panic mixed with disbelief. Then he shook his head.?? ??This will be our only meeting here. and most crucially: what was the truth surrounding Bj?rck??s report from 1991? ??That is a serious matter. She started by going on to a website that advertised rather uninteresting pictures by an unknown and not especially skilled amateur photographer called Gil Bates in Jobsville.?? ??What are you suggesting??? ??I??m only asking you to let me know if you discover that Salander is being subjected to another miscarriage of justice.??s administration. Understood??? Holm threw up his hands in a gesture that indicated he considered Berger??s accusations to be absurd. Blomkvist??s own three long interviews in April had set them on the trail of this evidence. it??s you. We suggest that you share your knowledge. I regard the information that I receive here as source-protected. ??Goddamnit. There was an envelope with photographs that had been cool at the time. but that was his problem.?? ??The most serious problem is going to be the third part.?? ??That was fast. and part-time student.

maybe even two million kronor.?? ??What are you suggesting??? ??I??m only asking you to let me know if you discover that Salander is being subjected to another miscarriage of justice. Have you got any more surprises up your sleeve??? ??Yes. ??What in God??s name are you doing up??? the night nurse said. but I have a big problem.?? ??That ?? wasn??t so good. Which meant that his was being monitored too. Then she opened a notebook and took a pen from her jacket pocket. She knew that Blomkvist??s apartment was on the top floor. ??I see that you milksops are too sensitive to kill her.?? ??That??s pretty vague.. Can you open your eyes again??? She opened her eyes to narrow slits. one.?? ??No indeed.?? Armansky said.?? ??What do you think they did in the stairwell??? ??I don??t know. I??m not going to steal your story. so she couldn??t tell the rest of us.

which corresponded to the word P-I-P-P-I ?C Pippi Bloody Longstocking. ??My name is Jonas Sandberg.?? Blomkvist shut his eyes. ??Hans von Rottinger and Fredrik Clinton. but he??s usable. of course.?? ??Yes. Before he turned up out of the blue at a meeting with Gullberg. between the two of us.?? There was impatient muttering around the table. Her neck had been broken when her head was turned 180 degrees. If it happens again I??m going to relieve you of your job as news editor.?? Clinton shook his head again. for which you bear the primary responsibility. Someone wanted to sell her Viagra. despite the fact that I work here. and I assume that Palme appointed somebody to take over from me. You can give him what you??ve found. but I do not have any details to pass on to you.

You said it yourself: we have to trust each other. Not everyone can afford security. And we did a thorough investigation of Bj?rck??s place. where she had written: She had spent several weeks in the Caribbean last winter working herself into a frenzy over Fermat??s theorem. and we??re in the middle of an investigation in which I??m involved ???? ??You mean it was unprofessional of me.?? ??Who got in first??? ??We got in more or less at the same time.?? ??Yes.?? ??Could I read the original??? ??Certainly you can.?? He looked at the silent girl.. I would never. The conclusion was just as unpleasant as it was obvious. Millennium was the kind of small office where co-workers were close.?? the Minister of Justice said. She had instinctively made the right decisions.?? ??Do you want to take the chance? Let??s say Zalachenko talks. I was given a dressing down because I jumped the gun and brought him in.?? ??Where did you find that out??? ??I had a word with my old chief in Uppsala. ??Based on current information.

for some unknown reason. Finally. whore. if a group of police officers decided to stretch the laws so that an individual??s constitutionally guaranteed rights were infringed. but she did not sense the same condescension from him.?? ??You started it. and two officers whose job it was to compile and analyse any intelligence information that Zalachenko might contribute.?? Bublanski said.15 in the morning. Bloody Blomkvist.?? Salander looked at him with sudden alertness as soon as he mentioned the word ??psychiatrist??. and started reading the Bj?rck report while she ate her sandwich. One was from another member. and one or other of us has to be here alone from time to time. There??s a new realpolitik in Europe since the Soviet Union collapsed. He had a serious talk with Giannini and explained that she could have access to Salander for one hour a day.?? Nystr?m said. the computer automatically sent an alarm.?? ??That sounds fishy.

But it??s the market decides whether you make a profit or take a loss. The next moment she heard quick heels clacking in the corridor.?? ??Unless I??m mistaken. a hand-picked state secretary. ??Turn the print over. If you have to work.?? the P. but that did not mean that he might not be living with someone. there was only one way out of the dead end ?C up to Br?nnkyrkagatan via Pustegr?nd and towards Slussen. The sports desk has six and a half jobs at the moment. And Edklinth is on a very thin ice if he does so. you??ve refused to respond when any psychiatrist has tried to talk to you. The text was written in pencil. That meant that Blomkvist had about a month to finish writing and patching up all the holes in his text. Are you with me? All of this she had already worked out for herself. He knocked on the door.?? Figuerola went to the gym at St Eriksplan. S. His fascination was extinguished the moment he had cracked a computer.

??One of my colleagues recently went to see former Prime Minister F?lldin. she had spent her time trying to work out how to escape from this locked room at Sahlgrenska.?? Blomkvist said. I know so. And she was exceptionally fit.. He reminded Edklinth vaguely of the writer Dashiell Hammett. Johanna Karolina Oskarsson. She called home first and then rang Lillian Josefsson.P.I.?? ??And then what happened??? ??We kept an eye on her. Even so. at any rate. and living in Sk?vde. with the Zalachenko report you gave me. And I don??t have sex quite that often either. In any case. my briefcase was stolen.

He was arrested with Lundin at Stallarholmen. and clamps which he attached to her nipples. She left a putter in the hall and an 8-iron in the kitchen. ??He recognized me and knew my name. fair enough. ??The chief of Secretariat and the chief of Budget belong to us. There were four others there: his sister. Angleton??s gang were as fanatical as they were paranoid ?C they suspected everyone in the C. But this was nothing new. Blomkvist was irresponsible and kept vanishing on another of his mysterious trips. I??m looking for Fredrik Clinton. and almost at once fell asleep. He was advised that he alone had to make the decisions.?? ??No. He went to the bathroom to shower and brush his teeth. Zalachenko had been referred to Thomasson through a business associate five years earlier. How do you feel it??s going??? I have to discuss Vitavara with him.?? Giannini went pale. He opened a new Word document.