?? ??Why is that??? ??You??re proposing that the newspaper should not be profitable
?? ??Why is that??? ??You??re proposing that the newspaper should not be profitable. I can??t believe she??s gone already. but that was words.00 and gathered the employees for a brief memorial to Morander. except???? ??Except what??? ??Except for one or two surprising details.m. All this nonsense about security classification was little more than words anyway.Friday.?? she said. and throw a brick through the window. It??s on my desk. ??You don??t understand.?? ??It??s still not my problem. made it impossible for her to relax. a man she knew and had worked for during her short time in that department. the U. A real breakthrough.00. That was a shattering misfortune. She had spent thirty minutes trying to do arm lifts.?? Figuerola said. ??Mmm. There are a few minor things that need fixing. except possibly M?rtensson.
then Sweden was not one iota better than any dictatorship in the entire world. talk to the press??? Wadensj?? said. Hire some people. who lived just outside J?rna. the kidnapping of Miriam Wu. the night nurse looked in. The noose was so thin that it pinched deep and stopped the blood flow. She wondered what she thought of herself. she easily decoded the correspondence. Dr Peter Teleborian was mentioned to me.?? ??But F?lldin is alive and willing to talk about the matter. ?C and he did not have the requisite experience or skills. Then I got an article late in the evening. Let me look at the documentation you have.?? ??And Zalachenko is dead.I. He was only sixty-eight. She called the vehicle recovery service. alone and invisible. If Borgsj? was smart. But I need your help for an introduction ?C so that Idris will listen to me.?? Nurse Agneta said gently. which builds houses less expensively than anyone else by buying the materials themselves. Prosecutor Ekstr?m had begun.
I understand all that. Blomkvist assumed it was Figuerola herself.?? ??What about the reports that Bodin tried to murder his daughter??? ??That is under investigation. My prognosis is that the third quarter will produce a significant loss.?? ??But that is the point. Would Milton Security be willing to contribute??? ??That girl is going to need a damned good criminal lawyer. He was an older man. on the contrary and to put it mildly.M. That was why she was still alive.?? Edklinth nodded. ??Indeed. The police had locked her in her hospital room. ??I was just thinking ???? Andersson stopped. Why has one of our reporters spent the day working on Salander without anybody telling me??? Frisk squirmed. She also read the appendix with the correspondence between Bj?rck and Dr Teleborian. Which was not very likely. Here we are. The Ministry of Justice also called. Waltari! They??re looking for him all over the country!?? ??Yeah ?? that??s why he needed somewhere to hide. It was a code that Kalle Bloody Blomkvist had been forced to work out when he got into her apartment on Fiskargatan uninvited and tripped the burglar alarm. Whatever happened.?? ??If that was all there was to it.M.
And then he remembered that she had left Millennium.00 in the morning. This was where the cleaning supplies were kept.?? ??As I understand it. In 2000 she applied to the Security Police in Uppsala.?? ??I get it. With a defector of such provenance the order must have come from the highest level. He looked back at her for a moment. Nilsson was pissed off.?? ??So you??re suggesting in all seriousness that the board should decide to abolish dividends and bonuses. Zalachenko laboriously got up and fumbled for his crutches.?? ??Something along those lines. Jonasson sat for a while. calmly nursing his coffee. and it can be postponed for longer if you need more time. Blomkvist??s sister. The reports at the time of going to press were somewhat confused. He felt groggy although he had slept for only half an hour. You were shot in the head. because you guaranteed a dividend each year. ??Second.?? ??Then I have something to tell you too. The Zalachenko story was beginning to get tremendously complicated. Even though he had lived there for large parts of his working life.
But he was bothered by the fact that they had to dress like that in the middle of Stockholm. At last they exchanged glances and then looked at Blomkvist.30 on Sunday evening as he and Bob the Dog were approaching Stockholm.v Blomkvist put his laptop case on the desk. This defines four restrictions on democracy.S. Jonasson had no idea whether she was guilty or innocent. In 1996 he became assistant chief of the Immigration Division and ended up in a stressful position. The other doctor on duty.?? ??It??s still not my problem. regarded as a rising star. They had had a long. But first he had to get a grip on the chaos that Svavelsj? M. He had two operations and could now walk without crutches. Millennium did not have the resources to keep any employee on an open-ended budget with all sorts of expenses in the form of rental cars. ??Can you explain what prompted her to do that??? ??You would have to ask my daughter.?? ??So ?? what else? Illegal tapping or something??? Edklinth said. However. ??I??ve read Dag Svensson??s manuscript. Annika Giannini.I. He was not surprised that she had called to wake him early that morning and put him and Lottie Karim to work. Three others were members of the Democratic Alliance too. practically speaking.
K. I thought we might be able to cut through all the red tape in this case. I know so. She left a putter in the hall and an 8-iron in the kitchen. A bit old school and yet at the same time a bit of a reformer.M. so that you can decide whether you can or you can??t. about half a mile further down the road. On Monday he had begun his research by sending Cortez to the second-hand bookshops on S?dermalm.M. His other two reports had involved less significant evaluations: one was of an employee inside S. but after everything that was in the media about her it seems a bit hard to swallow that Salander could be completely innocent. Then she turned icy with rage. He has been retired for fifteen years. regardless of how artistic the originator believes the depiction to be. field. and Zalachenko had given his promise. She had decided to stay in G?teborg at 4. Dr Endrin could tell that there was infection in her body. the chief of Secretariat is the only one who has insight into our activities.?? ??There is no need to be afraid. But first he had to get a grip on the chaos that Svavelsj? M.?? ??O. Prosecution of Gullberg and several other employees of the Section would inevitably follow.
I have. He pointed to the front page of the evening paper.?? She poked him in the stomach. ??Should I call her??? ??No. Someone had been in his apartment. Her vision was blurred.S. he??s a threat to us. That??s my part of the operation. A locksmith with a criminal record who??s probably being paid to open your door. The face was grotesquely swollen. and thereby indirectly the entire police investigation. Mandrake wrote. Her mother was a whore. ??Hello.?? ??But I am. even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. The storm had moved in over G?teborg. evacuation and break-in protection.B. he appreciated flattery. ??The pathologist??s final report arrived this morning. The book Secret Forces was fascinating but largely dealt with the time before and during the Second World War. if I understood correctly.
S?po people conspired with a psychiatrist to lock Salander up in an asylum. My name is Jerker Holmberg. were located.N. Inspector Holmberg returned to Stockholm at lunchtime on Sunday. had blood and bruises all over his body. No doubt someone made a blunder when the cover story was devised.?? said Andersson.?? Giannini repeated. In any event she has to have a lawyer. Control was everything. ??Congrats. She reported in a matter-of-fact manner how he had hit her.?? Ghidi was to do this every day until Blomkvist told him it was no longer necessary. who??s somewhat renowned in my profession. Ekstr?m wanted an extensive psychiatric examination and had sent a lot of messages with the object of getting her transferred to Kronoberg prison as a matter of urgency. That had to be the most idiotic intelligence operation in the history of the world. ??Idris lives in Angered. One of the first things he did was to have Blomkvist released from his handcuffs. but that he was not expected back before late that night. She was being stalked. which she had not done since she got the hand-held. We have no idea what went wrong. The tape kept bacteria out and the blood in.
His name was Jonas. Millennium??s financial situation had been healthy at the last annual general meeting. well someone did.?? Figuerola looked at the photograph of Gullberg and Francke standing side by side. She sounded surprised.?? She smiled sweetly.?? ??How do you know that??? ??Gullberg met Prime Minister F?lldin six weeks after Zalachenko??s defection. She sounded surprised. I don??t. which Blomkvist studied. made a late snack. I asked Erlander to send his clothes to forensics and have them examined for traces of gunpowder. The core of the legislation has it that no person has the right to harass or humiliate another person. Niedermann is known to have a habit of burying people. Henry shoots from the hip a little too often. but you??re an intelligent and sensible person. Please come to the point. It??s complicated. of course. She was barefoot and suffering from severe hypothermia. ??That??s a guess. naturally enough. He was drenched in sweat when he finally slipped under the covers. Teleborian.
at 8. She felt sick. there??s good reason for you to be worried.00 in the morning. The difficulty is that this report does not correspond with other reports that we have in our archives. The apartment isn??t a good place right now.?? Clinton propped his elbow on the arm of the sofa and rested his head on his hand. The glazier offered to board up the window with plywood for the time being. which was what he was famous for doing. When they finally broke up. In Sweden the task is that of the Prosecutor General or the Parliamentary Ombudsman. a man very aware of his value to Gullberg. On Sunday morning they said a hasty goodbye before Berger drove home to her husband.?? ??It sounds like the bedroom won??t be such a romantic place in the future.G. It was entitled [Read this first]. Their successes were never reported. ??I understand that your daughter threw a Molotov cocktail into your car in the early ??90s. Just ??aha??. He stopped in surprise. but he could get out of his bed and begin to make himself mobile. He walked to Dressman on Kungsgatan and bought a shirt and a change of underwear. What??s the problem??? ??To tell you the truth ?? I think I??m calling to check how much credibility I have with you. We rather think that it was the weapon used to shoot Salander.
?? ??Fine. and what we believe to have happened.P. If she had a car parked down on Pryssgr?nd. The cost of all that work would be almost 50. Since he had come on duty at 6. ??Sonja ?? I think you understand how things stand.?? she said. with a broad experience. ??What are you working on at the moment.V. at the same time as we install the movement detectors outside the house. and deepened the crisis we now find ourselves in. injure any vital areas.B. then that??s speculation. of the server where he kept Teleborian??s hard drive. we??ve landed in a constitutional crisis.S. If she won??t trust me. But it??s like this: not everyone who works there is your enemy. ??The chief of Secretariat and the chief of Budget belong to us. ??Should we conclude that the Zalachenko club was an association formed in 1964? That would be some time before Zalachenko even came to Sweden. My name is Marcus Erlander.
Someone had taken the trouble to find out where she lived. In fact he had not planned to visit the capital ever again. Someone had taken the trouble to find out where she lived. but all this is beside the point. ??I thought you were starting Monday. was involved in tax fraud ?C were gleefully posted on the Net. and pinged up the address she had created for him through the Yahoo group [Idiotic_Table]. ??Right.?? He pointed at the screen. On four separate occasions Gullberg tried to have Bergling removed. The court could then order all the documents on the table and summon anyone it pleased. He felt dejected. on the other hand. County Criminal Police. The only thing that had gone right was that he had persuaded them to send a helicopter to take the girl to Sahlgrenska hospital. He had not gone back to the woodshed to tend to Zalachenko. Figuerola suddenly had the feeling that she was a policewoman. The only thing that doesn??t quite fit is that he seems to be an evangelical and was a member of the Word of Life in the ??90s.?? ??We want the legal process to take its course even though this is a difficult situation. She complained of severe headaches and developed a fever that has been fluctuating up and down. If there??s a crisis and you need help.?? Jonasson frowned. Blomkvist lit a cigarette and stood by the window looking out towards Djurg?rden.S.
I have to have you. But I understand making newspapers. I have a lot of international trade stuff to check out. She herself had accepted Rosin??s proposal for several new doors. I went to the reception desk and showed my I. introduced himself. Thank you. and her group was now down from forty-eight to eighteen since her latest cut. Unfortunately Holm is a walking disaster. to buy every book which in any way dealt with the Security Police. At the age of seventy-nine. and that if he discussed it with his government colleagues then S?po would wash their hands of it. when S.?? Blomkvist entered police headquarters on Kungsholmen through the entrance on Polhemsgatan. And Jonas has his car keys on the table in front of him. Not to mention the burglary at Blomkvist??s apartment. S. She jumped out of bed so fast that she felt a pain in her injured hip. he could forget about Zalachenko. but the dramatic events at Sahlgrenska had meant that she still had not had a real conversation with Salander.?? Everyone around the table had heard of the Wennerstr?m affair and knew the name.?? ??I won??t comment on that. He felt a great weight on his shoulders.?? ??It??s a family-owned business.
He turned on his mobile and saw that the battery was low. ??We made it through the first quarter of this year thanks to a marginal rise in advertising sales and the fact that two senior. What an excellent tool the Internet was for freaks. but from even the little I managed to know of him.R.. Salander was twelve years old and had tried to kill her father ?C it would have been very strange if that shocking event had not resulted in a psychiatric report. ??Good morning. who was murdered in your hospital ?C was a Soviet defector. manslaughter and drug crime. and asked him to brief the assembled company.?? Figuerola nodded. but Palmgren himself had insisted. no matter how improbable it might seem. We??ll take care of Giannini??s and the Millennium office telephones today. Erlander said he would call if her condition took a turn for the worse. And I??ll see to it that a guard is stationed outside her door round the clock. Why do you ask? Has something happened??? ??No. Her heart sank like a stone. which in this case meant that the chief had covered his back. I have already established an elite body called The Knights of the Idiotic Table. fucking airhead or fucking cunt. The editor-in-chief has to be the one who takes the initiative. He doesn??t know who they are.
His job was to decide what to do.06 in the evening.?? she said. Gullberg pushed open the door to room fourteen and stepped quickly inside. ??What would you like to know??? Bublanski said at last. but your decisions are the ones that count. Bj?rck messed around with teenage prostitutes and Millennium were going to expose him. But from a purely political standpoint.?? Figuerola said. he called Figuerola into his office. She saw the glass doors of the editor-in-chief??s office. If I run into him sometime. Ask if I can visit him at home. we??ll talk it through. Just tell us. He was running out of time. She created a new folder called [MediaFool] and saved both messages. He was a hit man for Russian military intelligence.?? the P. She decided that she did not feel like seeing anyone that evening. the media??s interest in continuing to dig around in the ??Salander affair?? will die away. On principle. He swabbed floors six days a week including.?? ??I talked with Dragan today.
Yet it was not a particularly good place because any alert observer would see her in her car. you listen here???? ??Imbecile.30 Linder managed to talk Berger into getting into bed to rest. HOW DOES YOUR FOOT FEEL? She raised her eyes involuntarily and looked out across the newsroom.?? Nystr?m said. said. In such serious instances the investigation was also assumed to come under the authority of the Prosecutor General. Someone would have called in a favour and got someone to talk.?? Zalachenko said.?? ??I didn??t give anyone permission to arrest Bj?rck. I??m ready to offer all the help I can. But it ended. Gradually she succeeded in sitting up. Jonasson had no idea whether she was guilty or innocent. In fact he had not planned to visit the capital ever again. plus being hung out to dry in the media. the garage. Press freedom has also been enshrined by parliament and is based on the socially and democratically acceptable restrictions of society. Things might be a bit rocky at first. ??Giannini. I??m going to have to face up to the Borgsj? problem.?? ??Thanks for being honest. darling. He rested on one leg as he pushed open the door a crack and peered out into the corridor.
no-one ever told me that the warehouse was doubling up as a woodland cemetery.00 in the afternoon he turned on his iBook and took up the thread of the text he had begun writing at the hotel in G?teborg. listening out for sounds in the vicinity. They were victims of accidents at work or of violent abuse at home. She herself had accepted Rosin??s proposal for several new doors.?? * Berger was slightly annoyed when she walked into Samir??s Cauldron. and a number of individuals were acting outside of. No matter what.?? he said. But what did she have to lose? Berger followed the instruction. where Figuerola had parked. He woke at 10. when. but we??re unable to verify our suspicions just yet. ??We need to talk to you. he already had enough material to set off a landslide of headlines. Mercifully someone had left a full bottle of mineral water on the conference table. we??re going to have to send them the camera-ready copy by the end of this month ?C at the latest. or could he be borrowed for an investigation in Constitutional Protection? The assistant chief of Counter-Espionage was puzzled. I??m thinking of the ferry to the east. Berger got some coffee and watched the screen. But a large part of them had been listed only in G?ransson??s head. She heard voices and all of a sudden her courage deserted her. shifted his gaze to Figuerola.
. But I can hire you as an external consultant. Your client says that she doesn??t know where he??s hiding. Then she saw Cortez putting on his corduroy jacket. Everyone was paranoid.?? Sandberg said suddenly. a matter which was still under investigation. You??ve been damned good as assistant editor. Monica pondered this turn of events for a few seconds.5 hours when the house was empty. he opened the door to the room next to Salander??s. not exactly. She had fourteen stitches in her face and would need two new front teeth. I have to see you.. and almost at once fell asleep. the officer who had worked with the financial police.m.?? Blomkvist raised a finger and pointed as Jonas flashed past them on Vasagatan. At 2. but the Member of Parliament was given protection during the course of her official appearances. He doubted that Niedermann would be able to keep quiet. He had assumed that she would survive. he has integrity.
to help disseminate. just set up your own temporary hotmail account. had been stolen from a chest of drawers in her bedroom. It was Millennium??s scoop. and was then on the books of S?po until the collapse of the Soviet Union. As she opened the folder she realized that her procrastination had also to do with the fact that she did not really want to face up to the problem.?? ??And she??s alive??? ??Weak but regular pulse. And then Dr Teleborian.?? ??So somebody here at S. ??The four of us are just dumb police officers. That left a period of c.?? ??We??ll have to ask the head of the legal department to take a look at this and determine exactly what is formally correct. we won??t be finished with the installations here for a couple of days. She frowned and studied the text. and I??ll try to work out what??s going on. And the person who would decide when it was time for that was Dr Jonasson. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Svea Construction Inc.?? He felt oddly exhilarated as he left by the main entrance of Sahlgrenska. she would call an emergency board meeting. account pinged. We??ll deal with any problems as and when they crop up. ??Borgsj? is chairman and majority shareholder of a company called Svea Construction. If you feel threatened in any way.I.
and in 1987 he started his own company.?? ??O. What time??? ??2. ??Simply stated. Blomkvist was the only one absent from the meeting. then it was the Constitutional Protection Unit??s duty to react. out of shape as he was. ??O. She had no clue as to what had happened after she had swung the axe at Zalachenko??s head. There were whores. whatever. ??What I have here is the report that Gunnar Bj?rck actually wrote in 1991. naturally curly hair. but this question does not. The only spot from which the entrance door to the building could be observed directly was from the promenade and footbridge on upper Bellmansgatan near the Maria lift and the Laurinska building. but the surplus in the budget was primarily made up of the profits from Blomkvist??s book about the Wennerstr?m affair. She had no clue as to what had happened after she had swung the axe at Zalachenko??s head. as a result of which Wu was rescued from certain death. You don??t have to stress out about it. where everyone was surprised to see him up so early. alone and invisible.?? Nystr?m said. It was 9. S?po people conspired with a psychiatrist to lock Salander up in an asylum.
I have to tell you. Inspector Erlander woke at 7. She stretched and went on a 45-minute run out past R?lambshov hospital and around Fredh?ll and back via Smedsudden. He pushed away the sheet of paper with the nine succinct points that Berger had presented at the weekly meeting of the budget committee.?? Blomkvist said. What??s happened??? ??News.50. The whole point of the socialized human being was to not give in to that sort of impulse. She obviously wanted to tell you first. What I wanted to say was that you??ll probably have to give Holm some concessions. if the entire underworld is looking for him. citizen Wasp. But after a few months he was always back with the Salander woman.?? ??Which means that ???? He let the question hang in the air between them. Jonasson made two deep incisions all the way down to the cranium and peeled back the skin round the entry wound. We have not yet identified exactly who is involved. that I won??t take the job if it??s illegal.?? ??Precisely. on Tuesday. I wasn??t listening. Your sister might not be the best choice. He??s been dying for several months. She had a black eye and a gash above her eyebrow that was still bleeding. All the owners live abroad.
failing to understand. He seemed to find it amusing to beat her just to provoke his minders in the Zalachenko group. . That??s why we want you to stay still. Let me explain why I gave orders that everything to do with Salander has to cross my desk. She was going to need it.?? Blomkvist told her the details of the story that Cortez had compiled. that the police existed to prevent crimes like that. ??So what did you do with him??? ??Benny??s taking care of him. Hire a bunch of skinheads from the Yugo mafia who can whack Blomkvist over the head if necessary. V. were falsifications. that there was no-one with much experience in government. She had no doubt that this particular address was the reason for M?rtensson??s being there. It took him an hour to make up his mind. But that??s the angle the police are taking. ??You know who I am ?C so you don??t have to be afraid of me.M. but Paulsson presumably thought it was Blomkvist??s own. which meant that Stockholm would have the last word. Between the time when she had stepped on the shard of glass and Rosin??s arrival that morning. It would be outside all our formal agreements. She was walking to the university when someone shot her with a crossbow. And you can still spend nine hours every other day on dialysis.
I have reason to believe that you know his story. and he had been on the staff of the Section for ten years.iv ?C Saturday. She heaved a sigh of relief when Berger closed her bedroom door. He took his breakfast back to his room and read the paper. Then she looked up at him and answered every question in a perfectly matter-of-fact way. ??These are interesting times we??re living in. Blomkvist took a chance. if the need arose. I have to draw the conclusion that some sick individual is doing this. I have a list of articles here that you.?? ??Calculating what??? ??I mean. Your client says that she doesn??t know where he??s hiding.?? They paid a short visit to Salander??s sickbed. starting with one lasting fifteen minutes in which Assistant Editor Fredriksson presented the guidelines for the day??s work. She happened to identify him and track him down to Gosseberga. and the rest of them were somehow excluded. And to prove anything they??d have to get hold of our archives. Palme was defeated. That was why she had written the plain. Nothing to indicate anything but suicide by hanging. He very seldom called in sick. Most of all she wanted to crawl back into bed and take a month??s holiday.?? She walked off down the corridor.
It was dark. Figuerola most definitely had no right to invite him here on her own authority. which was noted on her chart.?? said Holmberg. He opened the brown briefcase and unpacked two shirts. who did the actual eavesdropping. She looked up.S. In the drama that followed. She paused at the front door to think. in which it was clear that Bublanski was uncomfortable in the extreme and obviously annoyed at Ekstr?m??s rapid conclusions. She may be as sane as you and me. but he thought he had been tailed by a red Audi that day. Then came the election in 1985. This caused the activists in Hacker Republic to devote a startling amount of energy for six months to hacking and destroying every computer owned by that company.?? ??I see. I assume you will ignore it. We??re going to be talking to each other quite a lot. ??The chief of Secretariat and the chief of Budget belong to us. and left them at the table. that would be fun. Thanks for warning me. What is it I have to do??? ??One of your jobs at Sahlgrenska hospital ?C six days a week. and I can??t tell the others before I tell him.
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made any difference. the human resources were available. She did not need anyone to tell her that.
Nilsson was not unhappy that she had been passed over
Nilsson was not unhappy that she had been passed over. or hostile??? ??No. But he never regained consciousness and died after nine days in intensive care. as you know. I need you to confirm that this would be your intention.I. at any rate. Cortez left the Academy bookshop running like a madman. which corresponded to the letters K-A-L-L-E. ??Do you mind if I check??? He made his usual examination. before then. I don??t want to get flabby. Annika. 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.?? ??But you are competent to say whether or not she was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. By lunchtime she had such a headache that the nurse called Dr Endrin. Just let??s see if you understand this message. living on Pontonj?rgatan on Kungsholmen.?? Blomkvist said. Entry wound just above the left ear. but if he uses an account that he set up at hotmail. Gullberg had never used the designation ??S?po?? for S?kerhetspolisen. It has come to my attention that an employee of S. Blomkvist emerged at 9.
and any drivel can be posted on a billboard. but let??s assume. ??How are you doing??? ??I??m fine. In addition. eventually gave up trying to have a conversation with her. there did not seem to be any intelligible basic overview of the activities of the Swedish secret police over the years. ??Toilets.M. But this injury happened long after the time of death. something he might not enjoy in any case. she thought. They could forget about finding a car to take them to Gosseberga. Berger stared at the screen as she tried to work out what Salander was getting at. Salander glanced at the digital clock on her bedside table. there is a risk that her condition may continue to deteriorate. and acting very quickly and efficiently. In Sweden the task is that of the Prosecutor General or the Parliamentary Ombudsman. which she was immediately given.?? Armansky told her. and when the man known as Trinity found himself on Sunday in the middle of the ?resundsbron. There are two sides to it. please speak up.30 he was checking into a small hotel about fifteen minutes?? walk from the Hague??s Centraal Station. I can see at least a dozen that are a couple of millimetres long.
As long as you live.?? ??I understand. You have no idea. not for a moment. He thought of them as the Inner Circle. The P. but now it was time to take care of the matter. ??And Zalachenko? Have you questioned him??? ??Yes. This Amazon reign was a gynaecocracy.?? ??Congrats.?? ??What do we know??? Blomkvist shouted after him. but when she got to the corner.?? ??But isn??t that supposed to be done by her lawyer??? ??As you must have gathered by now. I got in at the same time he did. who did not have the authority to walk into the Security Police and start demanding documents and other evidence.?? ??I need you. Bj?rck had surreptitiously engaged Teleborian as an outside consultant to the Section. ??Rapes should always be reported to the police. in the form of convicts.?? ??I??ll do my best. and I come into the picture before a crime is committed. As always. researchers.?? ??This doesn??t mean that I distrust you.
Why don??t you reply? Don??t be afraid of me. The drawer was empty. She took out her stylus and wrote the word Remarkable on the screen as her I. the patient might die or perhaps wake up disabled for life. of course ?C that was among the most secret to be found in Sweden. ??Oh. ??I can suggest a few names. ??I never thought I??d see you again. Zalachenko himself would have to spend the rest of his life in prison. ??Very satisfied. Sometime after midnight she decided that. V.00.?? He stubbed out his cigarette. and we??re in the middle of an investigation in which I??m involved ???? ??You mean it was unprofessional of me.?? Blomkvist said. and had more knowledge and skills. ??It might be as early as this weekend. however. But in the half-staffed Saturday newsroom everything was normal. There??s a new realpolitik in Europe since the Soviet Union collapsed. He had heard fragments of ongoing investigations. and since he did not see any blood in the woman??s mouth he concluded that probably it had not. He took the tunnelbana to City Hall.
?? Blomkvist said. Jonasson seemed distracted and bent over to arrange her pillow. and he was about as much help as he was when he was on holiday. the answer was not so simple. but he made these journeys less and less often. ??A better question would be why did I become a police officer in the first place. He was about to call Cortez when the T10 rang in his hand. He asked Blomkvist to take a seat at the table next to a dresser on which were a dozen framed photographs.?? Blomkvist said to remind them that he was there in the room.?? Andersson said.?? ??We don??t have a monopoly on the truth. She simply called Milton Security and explained that she was looking for a female employee she had met a while ago and whose name she had forgotten.?? Erlander made notes between taking sips of his coffee. ??And Zalachenko? Have you questioned him??? ??Yes.?? ??But she needs ammunition. now at intervals of about twenty-four hours. You will have to be something of a mentor to me for the time being. Then she was allowed to go back to sleep.?? ??Exactly. The driver will know where to drop you.?? ??Margareta called me with the proposal at 11.00. albeit under guardianship. it??s his knife.
and we??re going to go through a period of adjustment. wobbly steps. a policeman. he sat on the floor next to the bench and kept a watchful eye on Salander.00 in the morning and reported Berger??s discovery that diaries. No-one can go into her room without permission except for doctors or nurses who work here at Sahlgrenska. An Internet search showed that there was hardly any current literature on the subject. It sounds a little cryptic. but there are strong indications that he did indeed attempt to kill her. it was out of the question. since her assignments were largely to act as a counter-force to raging lunatics.?? He looked Holmberg steadily in the eye. But Dragan ?? we??re talking about the Swedish Security Police.?? he said. But M?rtensson was still there.?? ??Why was that??? ??He was sweet. for the sake of fairness.?? she said. The notion of secrecy took on a whole new dimension. She had been at Constitutional Protection for less than three years. so I can??t even see his lips move. ??She??s mid-twenties. she easily decoded the correspondence. And her stomach.
the Russians will swiftly identify our informants and sources in Russia.?? Jonasson sat for a while. ??Do you think it??s such a good idea for me to be hanging around at police H. he must have chosen a simple password. Micke.?? ??There is nothing illegal in what I am going to ask you to do. She rasped out a single word: ??Giannini. ??I want Paulsson in here for a chat. Her anxiety lay like a heavy fog over the house. They were as astonished as he was. Exactly what??s causing it I can??t say. ??So what the hell are we going to do??? Cortez said. She should have dealt with Teleborian years ago. Sometimes she thought that there was nothing going on in there at all.?? ??That doesn??t sound so good. The doctors had decided that his life was no longer at risk but that he was severely injured. But M?rtensson was not at Counter-Espionage. E. ??Twenty Questions??? What are you after??? Her voice sounded like sandpaper. We??ll come back next week and do the proper installation with alarms on every window on the ground floor and in the basement. I want you to lock yourself in your bedroom and let me handle the situation.?? ??Many suicides don??t.P. Who on earth do you think can resist that??? ??You??re very kind.
?? ??I want copies of the letters.?? ??Tell me about our relationship to S. and crawled into bed. This included almost everything that had to do with Zalachenko??s background. She estimated the length of a step at 60 centimetres.?? ??He is forbidden to talk about it. hardly anyone socialized with each other in their free time. has a huge amount of dead meat in the newsroom.?? Berger almost blushed. now retrained as a locksmith. I don??t think so. Now it??s this German who??s being sought in connection with the murders.C. It turned out that whoever had installed the alarm several years before had neglected to connect the leads from the windows in the living room.5 steps. Some of the reporters are prize primadonnas.?? Blomkvist said. Moved back to his home town of Laholm in 1994.P. Five minutes later she propped herself up on her right elbow. According to our documents.?? ??And you think that Millennium will be publishing something noteworthy about Salander??? ??I don??t think so. In practice it was a ridiculous situation ?C Millennium was making a profit. So you have to pay the going rate.
He spent a chapter debunking first what the press had written about Salander. or the advertising manager Magnusson.?? ??Thank you. Who??s to know? But how did she deal with Nieminen? He has no visible injuries.D. Eventually he put the folder aside. when the trial starts. I don??t have to use their technical terms. and those responsible must be held accountable. He??s calculating.G.?? ??I can do complicated.D. He was pleased with what he had written. they??re given a leave of absence for a time to go to our school. And then M?rtensson went to the toilet. She sat on the edge of her bed. He found a dark-blue 1991 Renault. Then she remembered it all.?? ??This means that if you have questions about something. These activities must be stopped. That might cause a bit of turbulence. and she had not used the program since starting at S.?? He paused.
?? ??Yes. So we??ve cut back. Can I buy you a cup of coffee??? ??Tell me what it??s about.?? Erlander had no more questions.E. Borgsj? is going to be persona non grata. so she reinforced it with another improvised bandage. ??And how are you doing this evening??? ??I have a splitting headache and I feel feverish. But she was astonished at how imperturbable Salander was. stopped at the desk of the new assistant chief of Secretariat. They had kept in touch and had gone on fishing trips to Norway and elsewhere.30 in the afternoon. My assignment is to be your guide in this labyrinth.?? ??That sounds good.?? When she hung up she called the office and left a message for Fredriksson. ??The killing of the police officer is the main thing right now. briskly. ??It??s a new era. was an interesting one. Alexander Zalachenko ?C otherwise known as Karl Axel Bodin.?? ??Holm is not best pleased???? ??I??m not best pleased with Holm. and at no time during either had he been swayed by the man??s protest ations of innocence. So I lift weights once a week and spend the rest of the time doing some cross-training. right??? He turned and smiled at her in surprise.
??And here we are at our first stumbling block.?? ??So ?? what else? Illegal tapping or something??? Edklinth said.?? Jonasson sat speechless for a moment. we will. Cortez exhaled in relief. he had probably succeeded. Then she opened a notebook and took a pen from her jacket pocket.?? Clinton shook his head. arson.K.K. and if he made mistakes he would end up in prison. He sat down and looked at Figuerola.?? He got up and walked once around the table before stopping in front of Edklinth. The Section was faced with its worst crisis since the day he had created it. He was about ten minutes late for their meeting. He paid with a credit card and took a taxi to G?teborg Central Station. They relied heavily on computers connected to the incident reporting network of the regular police. didn??t you??? ??Yes. He got out at Birger Jarlsgatan at 10. She had brought a green military bag containing her laptop. ??I tried to reach you earlier this week.?? ??I don??t think I??m going to like this. there was no reason to delay publication.
Perhaps the murder of Zalachenko is a part of it too. ??But I haven??t been run over by a bus. Mikael.?? ??Good.?? ??Understand this: you have no choice. He undertook never to discuss the matter with anyone. ??How do I get out of here??? he asked.?? ??Berger. as Olsson??s ferreting had revealed. I??ll review your situation with my colleagues at Milton. It almost seems to be an academic study of a patient who refuses to speak. He had at first worked in the field in the Personal Protection Unit. Karim and Malm (against his will) had thus become temporary assistant editors at Millennium. Blomkvist printed out the 220 pages of the manuscript that were finished. ??but he vehemently denies being involved in any crime. She bought a tin of Catch Dry snuff and went back out on to S?dermalmstorg and turned right across Katarinav?gen. He deleted all the messages from reporters and called his sister.?? Erlander had no more questions. He had a large sports bag over his shoulder and was just finishing a call on his mobile. ??Have we got a plan??? ??We??re going to drive over and have a talk with Niedermann. I was pretty busy. who then provided him with a steady stream of assignments to keep him busy. You can??t discuss this with anyone except me. the ball??s in your court.
But as things look now.I. and after two years in the job had undertaken his first tentative field work in 1952 and 1953 as an Air Force attach?? with the rank of captain at the embassy in Moscow.?? Wadensj?? said. She was locked up inside her shell and kept her distance from those around her. He booked in for the night for 800 kronor and went straight to his room and undressed. There is a nationwide A. This request was turned down in a firm but friendly tone. May I offer you some coffee. She had a cyber-stalker on her hands.?? Blomkvist said. And the person who would decide when it was time for that was Dr Jonasson. 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. If Armansky??s account was true. and Nystr?m is turning sixty.?? The discussion went on until lunchtime. which doesn??t bother to turn up at all. The Zalachenko folder. The telephone tapping was a more difficult task than the computer monitoring.?? ??So all the rumours about you two are nonsense. he had become involved.?? ??What??s your impression of her??? ??What do you mean??? ??Martina. But this will be O. of course.
?? ??Exactly. That did not help either. A third goes to salaries.?? ??He??s dying.?? Silence fell over the group. If you work out you can eat whatever you want. ??I??m going to Kungsholmen now.?? ??What do you mean??? ??It??s Lisbeth Salander. ??I can see as much.C.?? Berger said. According to Giannini. Was he exaggerating? Should she dismiss his professional caution? In that case. Trinity wrote. A theatre nurse inserted a suction tube to remove any blood. with whom?; three. and then stood up. Bj?rck messed around with teenage prostitutes and Millennium were going to expose him. It??s my Palm.N. and right now I??m caught between two loyalties.m.?? ??How old are you??? ??Twenty-seven. Nor did she have reason to think that anyone on the editorial staff wished her ill.
semidetached house.?? Salander was studying the vent window in her room when she heard the key turn in the door. Edklinth. He was twenty-six years old and had been at Millennium for four years. He??s the entire operations department and I don??t think Wadensj?? has the drive to do what needs to be done. I??m still learning this job. At the same instant Anders Berglund knocked on the door. But apparently he had a habit of sending crazy and threatening letters to people in government.?? She smiled thoughtfully. Blomkvist shook his head. She put her hand over the mouthpiece and turned to the others. or something like that. I only knew him by his cover name. And so on.M. It was Giannini. Back in Sweden. If anyone can inject life into that dying body. The body produces a pain-suppressing chemical and you become addicted to it. I was posted to Egypt. It was a consistent silence. She twisted her arms and stretched her left shoulder back and forth. She had instinctively made the right decisions. During surgery the night before.
Armansky had Blomkvist??s copy of Lidbom??s book An Assignment. and most of the decisions were already made by the time she arrived. He was amazed that such a small.?? Erika looked up. or something else to drink??? Blomkvist looked around. He alone controlled Zalachenko. could you smuggle me in a hand-held computer so that I can keep in touch with people online??? ??No.?? ??I consider her to be withdrawn.P. On any number of occasions they cleaned up behind his rampages. He knew that G?ransson was the one who handled the money.I. She had scarcely sent the message before she heard that Berger was up and moving about again. ??Clinton is tired.?? ??Can you tell me what happened this morning??? Giannini related what she had seen and heard and how she had reacted up until the moment she had barricaded herself with Salander in the bathroom. Before he scrubbed up and put on his operating clothes he sent for Nurse Nicander. ??This is probably the craziest thing I??ve ever been involved with. and we don??t want to attract attention until we have more to go on.?? Holmberg said.?? said Andersson.P. Prosecution of Gullberg and several other employees of the Section would inevitably follow. But he does have a problem with me. ??This can all be solved quite simply.
he invited Milton Security??s C.I.?? Cortez put down the telephone and drummed so loudly with his fingertips on the edge of his desk that Nilsson glared at him. Stefan went to chase someone up from the city building office. so that no outsider will have knowledge of or be able to weigh the evidence against Lisbeth.?? ??So how do we counter that??? Borgsj? said. But as things look now.?? ??First of all. Not once had he seen its driver. then G?ransson??s car would have been parked at one of the ports.P.?? When Salander woke up it was 2. which has Bj?rck instructing Teleborian to falsify a mental examination.?? ??What kind of weapon is it??? Jervas said. I am going to propose a co-operation.?? ??You say you??re rejecting my article because you know that it isn??t true. I need to consult a psychiatrist or some other professional who??s approved to handle classified information. So she??s read it too. in your opinion. but when she got no response she continued. there??s going to be a rack of other charges. some ambitious scribbler would float the theory that the Section was behind the assassination of Palme. Zalachenko is an ordinary gangster who??s probably mixed up in several murders and other criminal activities. But you??re going to be digging into the background.
??You spend a couple of hours a week at the gym.?? ??Alright. Shit. My two uncles were murdered by Saddam in the ??90s. Let me look at the documentation you have. Ghidi never discovered. ??I was wondering when one of you was going to show up. She felt unreasoning panic mixed with disbelief.?? Gullberg said. At 7. And Jonas has his car keys on the table in front of him. and drag yourself over here with him. He??s not married. Giannini had supposed it must be some phase. You can only do your best.?? ??I??m interested in a lot of things.?? Blomkvist said and sat up straight in his chair. She called the vehicle recovery service. We??re interested in hearing what he has to say about the murders in Stockholm. The arrest of Lisbeth Salander was front-page news. It took ten minutes for the cleaner to work his way over to Adamsson??s spot at the end of the corridor. I??ll get the spare room ready. She was going to need it.?? Baksi gave Blomkvist a searching look.
It was an almost shocking feeling when the hand-held suddenly showed that it had established a connection. with capital letters. She had thought that she was beginning to get to grips with the actual process of producing a newspaper and had planned to reward herself with a weekend off ?C the first since she started at S. ??Are you going to do anything??? ??I??m not going to discuss that with you. but unacceptable for a newly appointed editor-in-chief. He did not even bother to look for it. ??He gives Teleborian instructions. ??Assault with a deadly weapon. Then Edklinth turned serious. and whom he came to know personally.S. Mercifully someone had left a full bottle of mineral water on the conference table. Agneta Sofia Salander.X. They take care of the finances. Mandrake wrote. but she??s unsure of herself. but in reality he had scarcely been seen in the department before the ??90s.F. but it had been a long day and a long journey. but she already knew it would be impossible to explain this away.?? Finally Giannini nodded. Discussions are ongoing as to whether to combine all the charges against your client under the jurisdiction of a prosecutor in Stockholm and tie them in with what happened here. She instantly got a pop-up dialog box that asked for her I.
at which time the Soviet Union was heading for collapse and Zalachenko had ceased to be a priority. ??Hi. Luckily she does accept information. Henry. switched on the night light and looked around the room. No Teleborian.?? ??So I do need to visit her to do a first-hand evaluation of her condition. Salander concluded that his I. both of them had said they would be in her corner. Henry.?? Berger suddenly felt an enormous wave of relief. but he was right out of his depth when it came to planning a magazine. you control the operation.?? ??Where are you now??? ??At the Academy bookshop. He did not know where he was. to determine whether Gullberg. ??We made it through the first quarter of this year thanks to a marginal rise in advertising sales and the fact that two senior. tubes loose as she carried her to the bathroom and set her on the toilet seat. And you??re better than I am at what you do. These linguistic skills were one of the reasons he was recruited by the Security Police in 1950. But Trinity and Bob the Dog devoted the best part of a week to identifying and separating out Ekstr?m??s mobile from the background noise of about 200. I need to know now. The most sensitive of all issues. I??m just so swamped here.
?? ??He says he??s never been to the Nykvarn warehouse and that he just happened to be out with Lundin on a motorcycle ride. except???? ??Except what??? ??Except for one or two surprising details. I just wanted to hear how you??re doing and if everything is going well. ??I mean I??ve glanced at it.A. took out a notebook. it can??t have been her intention to kill him. I beg you to reciprocate my feelings. You??ll have to think about this possibility when you plan your strategy.?? ??What about the reports that Bodin tried to murder his daughter??? ??That is under investigation. would you??? she said.?? he said. Palmgren stood up for Salander. ??A mutual friend spoke with you. I??ve reminded you about this at least half a dozen times.00 p. He had managed to create a quarantine.P. She got back into her car and wrote down both the registration and telephone numbers for Lars Faulsson. Slip wrote. the realm was ruled by a Queen Myrina. trying to find out what??s happening there. Nieminen took the two remaining Polish guns. at least.
cut more than 180 jobs since 1980. or whether the sender was in the building. They were not dramatic sums. just ring for us. was everything quiet again in her room. We won??t see you for three months while you hop from one T. He opened his eyes in bewilderment. He carried a shoulder bag and he walked with a long. It??s up to you. even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. if anyone starts talking.K. None of them actually had a hope of helping her with the problems she had with the Swedish state. ??There was one thing that struck me. Email number two had arrived two days later. Who was the other??? ??F?lldin met him only on that one occasion and couldn??t remember his name.?? ??Again. Jan.?? ??Annika. She picked up the telephone and called Holm.. Then he gently raised her shoulder and located the entry wound in her back. He??s the fixer.?? She sat down.
In any event she has to have a lawyer. He??s the fixer. to be exact. he??s going to survive and he??s been up walking around on crutches.?? Jonasson looked over his shoulder at the door. ??So what the hell are we going to do??? Cortez said.A. she knew. Constitutional Protection is a small and more or less self-sufficient unit. you can. First he handed over to Ola Ullsten.M. Teleborian. ??Benny K. who did the investigation in G?teborg.Q.?? Beckman was completely O. Salander needs a totally different kind of legal support. Sonja. but the news sort of got drowned out by all the turmoil surrounding Dag and Mia. Behind Wennerstr?m you can see three people.?? She picked up his article and read it one more time.?? Cortez put down the telephone and drummed so loudly with his fingertips on the edge of his desk that Nilsson glared at him. of course.
Then she found the brick in the middle of the living-room floor.?? ??What??s your impression of her??? ??What do you mean??? ??Martina. 4. the Russians will swiftly identify our informants and sources in Russia. but she had also to deal with her own problems. ??Mikael. it could also be classified as murder. but ???? ??You think it??s excessive. Since R.?? ??Alright. Why has one of our reporters spent the day working on Salander without anybody telling me??? Frisk squirmed. but bit by bit she gathered that a man was being sought for the killing. Her eyes opened wide. She was not the one who had killed Svensson and Johansson. The designation S. It was a consistent silence. And now here we all are. The tone of his muscles testified to the fact that he spent a number of hours each week at the gym.00 in the morning. staring straight ahead. She was then placed with a foster family. Nothing made any difference. the human resources were available. She did not need anyone to tell her that.
Nilsson was not unhappy that she had been passed over. or hostile??? ??No. But he never regained consciousness and died after nine days in intensive care. as you know. I need you to confirm that this would be your intention.I. at any rate. Cortez left the Academy bookshop running like a madman. which corresponded to the letters K-A-L-L-E. ??Do you mind if I check??? He made his usual examination. before then. I don??t want to get flabby. Annika. 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.?? ??But you are competent to say whether or not she was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. By lunchtime she had such a headache that the nurse called Dr Endrin. Just let??s see if you understand this message. living on Pontonj?rgatan on Kungsholmen.?? Blomkvist said. Entry wound just above the left ear. but if he uses an account that he set up at hotmail. Gullberg had never used the designation ??S?po?? for S?kerhetspolisen. It has come to my attention that an employee of S. Blomkvist emerged at 9.
and any drivel can be posted on a billboard. but let??s assume. ??How are you doing??? ??I??m fine. In addition. eventually gave up trying to have a conversation with her. there did not seem to be any intelligible basic overview of the activities of the Swedish secret police over the years. ??Toilets.M. But this injury happened long after the time of death. something he might not enjoy in any case. she thought. They could forget about finding a car to take them to Gosseberga. Berger stared at the screen as she tried to work out what Salander was getting at. Salander glanced at the digital clock on her bedside table. there is a risk that her condition may continue to deteriorate. and acting very quickly and efficiently. In Sweden the task is that of the Prosecutor General or the Parliamentary Ombudsman. which she was immediately given.?? Armansky told her. and when the man known as Trinity found himself on Sunday in the middle of the ?resundsbron. There are two sides to it. please speak up.30 he was checking into a small hotel about fifteen minutes?? walk from the Hague??s Centraal Station. I can see at least a dozen that are a couple of millimetres long.
As long as you live.?? ??I understand. You have no idea. not for a moment. He thought of them as the Inner Circle. The P. but now it was time to take care of the matter. ??And Zalachenko? Have you questioned him??? ??Yes. This Amazon reign was a gynaecocracy.?? ??Congrats.?? ??What do we know??? Blomkvist shouted after him. but when she got to the corner.?? ??But isn??t that supposed to be done by her lawyer??? ??As you must have gathered by now. I got in at the same time he did. who did not have the authority to walk into the Security Police and start demanding documents and other evidence.?? ??I need you. Bj?rck had surreptitiously engaged Teleborian as an outside consultant to the Section. ??Rapes should always be reported to the police. in the form of convicts.?? ??I??ll do my best. and I come into the picture before a crime is committed. As always. researchers.?? ??This doesn??t mean that I distrust you.
Why don??t you reply? Don??t be afraid of me. The drawer was empty. She took out her stylus and wrote the word Remarkable on the screen as her I. the patient might die or perhaps wake up disabled for life. of course ?C that was among the most secret to be found in Sweden. ??Oh. ??I can suggest a few names. ??I never thought I??d see you again. Zalachenko himself would have to spend the rest of his life in prison. ??Very satisfied. Sometime after midnight she decided that. V.00.?? He stubbed out his cigarette. and we??re in the middle of an investigation in which I??m involved ???? ??You mean it was unprofessional of me.?? Blomkvist said. and had more knowledge and skills. ??It might be as early as this weekend. however. But in the half-staffed Saturday newsroom everything was normal. There??s a new realpolitik in Europe since the Soviet Union collapsed. He had heard fragments of ongoing investigations. and since he did not see any blood in the woman??s mouth he concluded that probably it had not. He took the tunnelbana to City Hall.
?? Blomkvist said. Jonasson seemed distracted and bent over to arrange her pillow. and he was about as much help as he was when he was on holiday. the answer was not so simple. but he made these journeys less and less often. ??A better question would be why did I become a police officer in the first place. He was about to call Cortez when the T10 rang in his hand. He asked Blomkvist to take a seat at the table next to a dresser on which were a dozen framed photographs.?? Blomkvist said to remind them that he was there in the room.?? Andersson said.?? ??We don??t have a monopoly on the truth. She simply called Milton Security and explained that she was looking for a female employee she had met a while ago and whose name she had forgotten.?? Erlander made notes between taking sips of his coffee. ??And Zalachenko? Have you questioned him??? ??Yes.?? ??But she needs ammunition. now at intervals of about twenty-four hours. You will have to be something of a mentor to me for the time being. Then she was allowed to go back to sleep.?? ??Exactly. The driver will know where to drop you.?? ??Margareta called me with the proposal at 11.00. albeit under guardianship. it??s his knife.
and we??re going to go through a period of adjustment. wobbly steps. a policeman. he sat on the floor next to the bench and kept a watchful eye on Salander.00 in the morning and reported Berger??s discovery that diaries. No-one can go into her room without permission except for doctors or nurses who work here at Sahlgrenska. An Internet search showed that there was hardly any current literature on the subject. It sounds a little cryptic. but there are strong indications that he did indeed attempt to kill her. it was out of the question. since her assignments were largely to act as a counter-force to raging lunatics.?? He looked Holmberg steadily in the eye. But Dragan ?? we??re talking about the Swedish Security Police.?? he said. But M?rtensson was still there.?? ??Why was that??? ??He was sweet. for the sake of fairness.?? she said. The notion of secrecy took on a whole new dimension. She had been at Constitutional Protection for less than three years. so I can??t even see his lips move. ??She??s mid-twenties. she easily decoded the correspondence. And her stomach.
the Russians will swiftly identify our informants and sources in Russia.?? Jonasson sat for a while. ??Do you think it??s such a good idea for me to be hanging around at police H. he must have chosen a simple password. Micke.?? ??There is nothing illegal in what I am going to ask you to do. She rasped out a single word: ??Giannini. ??I want Paulsson in here for a chat. Her anxiety lay like a heavy fog over the house. They were as astonished as he was. Exactly what??s causing it I can??t say. ??So what the hell are we going to do??? Cortez said. She should have dealt with Teleborian years ago. Sometimes she thought that there was nothing going on in there at all.?? ??That doesn??t sound so good. The doctors had decided that his life was no longer at risk but that he was severely injured. But M?rtensson was not at Counter-Espionage. E. ??Twenty Questions??? What are you after??? Her voice sounded like sandpaper. We??ll come back next week and do the proper installation with alarms on every window on the ground floor and in the basement. I want you to lock yourself in your bedroom and let me handle the situation.?? ??Many suicides don??t.P. Who on earth do you think can resist that??? ??You??re very kind.
?? ??I want copies of the letters.?? ??Tell me about our relationship to S. and crawled into bed. This included almost everything that had to do with Zalachenko??s background. She estimated the length of a step at 60 centimetres.?? ??He is forbidden to talk about it. hardly anyone socialized with each other in their free time. has a huge amount of dead meat in the newsroom.?? Berger almost blushed. now retrained as a locksmith. I don??t think so. Now it??s this German who??s being sought in connection with the murders.C. It turned out that whoever had installed the alarm several years before had neglected to connect the leads from the windows in the living room.5 steps. Some of the reporters are prize primadonnas.?? Blomkvist said. Moved back to his home town of Laholm in 1994.P. Five minutes later she propped herself up on her right elbow. According to our documents.?? ??And you think that Millennium will be publishing something noteworthy about Salander??? ??I don??t think so. In practice it was a ridiculous situation ?C Millennium was making a profit. So you have to pay the going rate.
He spent a chapter debunking first what the press had written about Salander. or the advertising manager Magnusson.?? ??Thank you. Who??s to know? But how did she deal with Nieminen? He has no visible injuries.D. Eventually he put the folder aside. when the trial starts. I don??t have to use their technical terms. and those responsible must be held accountable. He??s calculating.G.?? ??I can do complicated.D. He was pleased with what he had written. they??re given a leave of absence for a time to go to our school. And then M?rtensson went to the toilet. She sat on the edge of her bed. He found a dark-blue 1991 Renault. Then she remembered it all.?? ??This means that if you have questions about something. These activities must be stopped. That might cause a bit of turbulence. and she had not used the program since starting at S.?? He paused.
?? ??Yes. So we??ve cut back. Can I buy you a cup of coffee??? ??Tell me what it??s about.?? Erlander had no more questions.E. Borgsj? is going to be persona non grata. so she reinforced it with another improvised bandage. ??And how are you doing this evening??? ??I have a splitting headache and I feel feverish. But she was astonished at how imperturbable Salander was. stopped at the desk of the new assistant chief of Secretariat. They had kept in touch and had gone on fishing trips to Norway and elsewhere.30 in the afternoon. My assignment is to be your guide in this labyrinth.?? ??That sounds good.?? When she hung up she called the office and left a message for Fredriksson. ??The killing of the police officer is the main thing right now. briskly. ??It??s a new era. was an interesting one. Alexander Zalachenko ?C otherwise known as Karl Axel Bodin.?? ??Holm is not best pleased???? ??I??m not best pleased with Holm. and at no time during either had he been swayed by the man??s protest ations of innocence. So I lift weights once a week and spend the rest of the time doing some cross-training. right??? He turned and smiled at her in surprise.
??And here we are at our first stumbling block.?? ??So ?? what else? Illegal tapping or something??? Edklinth said.?? Jonasson sat speechless for a moment. we will. Cortez exhaled in relief. he had probably succeeded. Then she opened a notebook and took a pen from her jacket pocket.?? Clinton shook his head. arson.K.K. and if he made mistakes he would end up in prison. He sat down and looked at Figuerola.?? He got up and walked once around the table before stopping in front of Edklinth. The Section was faced with its worst crisis since the day he had created it. He was about ten minutes late for their meeting. He paid with a credit card and took a taxi to G?teborg Central Station. They relied heavily on computers connected to the incident reporting network of the regular police. didn??t you??? ??Yes. He got out at Birger Jarlsgatan at 10. She had brought a green military bag containing her laptop. ??I tried to reach you earlier this week.?? ??I don??t think I??m going to like this. there was no reason to delay publication.
Perhaps the murder of Zalachenko is a part of it too. ??But I haven??t been run over by a bus. Mikael.?? ??Good.?? ??Understand this: you have no choice. He undertook never to discuss the matter with anyone. ??How do I get out of here??? he asked.?? ??Berger. as Olsson??s ferreting had revealed. I??ll review your situation with my colleagues at Milton. It almost seems to be an academic study of a patient who refuses to speak. He had at first worked in the field in the Personal Protection Unit. Karim and Malm (against his will) had thus become temporary assistant editors at Millennium. Blomkvist printed out the 220 pages of the manuscript that were finished. ??but he vehemently denies being involved in any crime. She bought a tin of Catch Dry snuff and went back out on to S?dermalmstorg and turned right across Katarinav?gen. He deleted all the messages from reporters and called his sister.?? Erlander had no more questions. He had a large sports bag over his shoulder and was just finishing a call on his mobile. ??Have we got a plan??? ??We??re going to drive over and have a talk with Niedermann. I was pretty busy. who then provided him with a steady stream of assignments to keep him busy. You can??t discuss this with anyone except me. the ball??s in your court.
But as things look now.I. and after two years in the job had undertaken his first tentative field work in 1952 and 1953 as an Air Force attach?? with the rank of captain at the embassy in Moscow.?? Wadensj?? said. She was locked up inside her shell and kept her distance from those around her. He booked in for the night for 800 kronor and went straight to his room and undressed. There is a nationwide A. This request was turned down in a firm but friendly tone. May I offer you some coffee. She had a cyber-stalker on her hands.?? Blomkvist said. And the person who would decide when it was time for that was Dr Jonasson. 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. If Armansky??s account was true. and Nystr?m is turning sixty.?? The discussion went on until lunchtime. which doesn??t bother to turn up at all. The Zalachenko folder. The telephone tapping was a more difficult task than the computer monitoring.?? ??So all the rumours about you two are nonsense. he had become involved.?? ??What??s your impression of her??? ??What do you mean??? ??Martina. But this will be O. of course.
?? ??Exactly. That did not help either. A third goes to salaries.?? ??He??s dying.?? Silence fell over the group. If you work out you can eat whatever you want. ??I??m going to Kungsholmen now.?? ??What do you mean??? ??It??s Lisbeth Salander. ??I can see as much.C.?? Berger said. According to Giannini. Was he exaggerating? Should she dismiss his professional caution? In that case. Trinity wrote. A theatre nurse inserted a suction tube to remove any blood. with whom?; three. and then stood up. Bj?rck messed around with teenage prostitutes and Millennium were going to expose him. It??s my Palm.N. and right now I??m caught between two loyalties.m.?? ??How old are you??? ??Twenty-seven. Nor did she have reason to think that anyone on the editorial staff wished her ill.
semidetached house.?? Salander was studying the vent window in her room when she heard the key turn in the door. Edklinth. He was twenty-six years old and had been at Millennium for four years. He??s the entire operations department and I don??t think Wadensj?? has the drive to do what needs to be done. I??m still learning this job. At the same instant Anders Berglund knocked on the door. But apparently he had a habit of sending crazy and threatening letters to people in government.?? She smiled thoughtfully. Blomkvist shook his head. She put her hand over the mouthpiece and turned to the others. or something like that. I only knew him by his cover name. And so on.M. It was Giannini. Back in Sweden. If anyone can inject life into that dying body. The body produces a pain-suppressing chemical and you become addicted to it. I was posted to Egypt. It was a consistent silence. She twisted her arms and stretched her left shoulder back and forth. She had instinctively made the right decisions. During surgery the night before.
Armansky had Blomkvist??s copy of Lidbom??s book An Assignment. and most of the decisions were already made by the time she arrived. He was amazed that such a small.?? Erika looked up. or something else to drink??? Blomkvist looked around. He alone controlled Zalachenko. could you smuggle me in a hand-held computer so that I can keep in touch with people online??? ??No.?? ??I consider her to be withdrawn.P. On any number of occasions they cleaned up behind his rampages. He knew that G?ransson was the one who handled the money.I. She had scarcely sent the message before she heard that Berger was up and moving about again. ??Clinton is tired.?? ??Can you tell me what happened this morning??? Giannini related what she had seen and heard and how she had reacted up until the moment she had barricaded herself with Salander in the bathroom. Before he scrubbed up and put on his operating clothes he sent for Nurse Nicander. ??This is probably the craziest thing I??ve ever been involved with. and we don??t want to attract attention until we have more to go on.?? Holmberg said.?? said Andersson.P. Prosecution of Gullberg and several other employees of the Section would inevitably follow. But he does have a problem with me. ??This can all be solved quite simply.
he invited Milton Security??s C.I.?? Cortez put down the telephone and drummed so loudly with his fingertips on the edge of his desk that Nilsson glared at him. Stefan went to chase someone up from the city building office. so that no outsider will have knowledge of or be able to weigh the evidence against Lisbeth.?? ??So how do we counter that??? Borgsj? said. But as things look now.?? ??First of all. Not once had he seen its driver. then G?ransson??s car would have been parked at one of the ports.P.?? When Salander woke up it was 2. which has Bj?rck instructing Teleborian to falsify a mental examination.?? ??What kind of weapon is it??? Jervas said. I am going to propose a co-operation.?? ??You say you??re rejecting my article because you know that it isn??t true. I need to consult a psychiatrist or some other professional who??s approved to handle classified information. So she??s read it too. in your opinion. but when she got no response she continued. there??s going to be a rack of other charges. some ambitious scribbler would float the theory that the Section was behind the assassination of Palme. Zalachenko is an ordinary gangster who??s probably mixed up in several murders and other criminal activities. But you??re going to be digging into the background.
??You spend a couple of hours a week at the gym.?? ??Alright. Shit. My two uncles were murdered by Saddam in the ??90s. Let me look at the documentation you have. Ghidi never discovered. ??I was wondering when one of you was going to show up. She felt unreasoning panic mixed with disbelief.?? Gullberg said. At 7. And Jonas has his car keys on the table in front of him. and drag yourself over here with him. He??s not married. Giannini had supposed it must be some phase. You can only do your best.?? ??I??m interested in a lot of things.?? Blomkvist said and sat up straight in his chair. She called the vehicle recovery service. We??re interested in hearing what he has to say about the murders in Stockholm. The arrest of Lisbeth Salander was front-page news. It took ten minutes for the cleaner to work his way over to Adamsson??s spot at the end of the corridor. I??ll get the spare room ready. She was going to need it.?? Baksi gave Blomkvist a searching look.
It was an almost shocking feeling when the hand-held suddenly showed that it had established a connection. with capital letters. She had thought that she was beginning to get to grips with the actual process of producing a newspaper and had planned to reward herself with a weekend off ?C the first since she started at S. ??Are you going to do anything??? ??I??m not going to discuss that with you. but unacceptable for a newly appointed editor-in-chief. He did not even bother to look for it. ??He gives Teleborian instructions. ??Assault with a deadly weapon. Then Edklinth turned serious. and whom he came to know personally.S. Mercifully someone had left a full bottle of mineral water on the conference table. Agneta Sofia Salander.X. They take care of the finances. Mandrake wrote. but she??s unsure of herself. but in reality he had scarcely been seen in the department before the ??90s.F. but it had been a long day and a long journey. but she already knew it would be impossible to explain this away.?? Finally Giannini nodded. Discussions are ongoing as to whether to combine all the charges against your client under the jurisdiction of a prosecutor in Stockholm and tie them in with what happened here. She instantly got a pop-up dialog box that asked for her I.
at which time the Soviet Union was heading for collapse and Zalachenko had ceased to be a priority. ??Hi. Luckily she does accept information. Henry. switched on the night light and looked around the room. No Teleborian.?? ??So I do need to visit her to do a first-hand evaluation of her condition. Salander concluded that his I. both of them had said they would be in her corner. Henry.?? Berger suddenly felt an enormous wave of relief. but he was right out of his depth when it came to planning a magazine. you control the operation.?? ??Where are you now??? ??At the Academy bookshop. He did not know where he was. to determine whether Gullberg. ??We made it through the first quarter of this year thanks to a marginal rise in advertising sales and the fact that two senior. tubes loose as she carried her to the bathroom and set her on the toilet seat. And you??re better than I am at what you do. These linguistic skills were one of the reasons he was recruited by the Security Police in 1950. But Trinity and Bob the Dog devoted the best part of a week to identifying and separating out Ekstr?m??s mobile from the background noise of about 200. I need to know now. The most sensitive of all issues. I??m just so swamped here.
?? ??He says he??s never been to the Nykvarn warehouse and that he just happened to be out with Lundin on a motorcycle ride. except???? ??Except what??? ??Except for one or two surprising details. I just wanted to hear how you??re doing and if everything is going well. ??I mean I??ve glanced at it.A. took out a notebook. it can??t have been her intention to kill him. I beg you to reciprocate my feelings. You??ll have to think about this possibility when you plan your strategy.?? ??What about the reports that Bodin tried to murder his daughter??? ??That is under investigation. would you??? she said.?? he said. Palmgren stood up for Salander. ??A mutual friend spoke with you. I??ve reminded you about this at least half a dozen times.00 p. He had managed to create a quarantine.P. She got back into her car and wrote down both the registration and telephone numbers for Lars Faulsson. Slip wrote. the realm was ruled by a Queen Myrina. trying to find out what??s happening there. Nieminen took the two remaining Polish guns. at least.
cut more than 180 jobs since 1980. or whether the sender was in the building. They were not dramatic sums. just ring for us. was everything quiet again in her room. We won??t see you for three months while you hop from one T. He opened his eyes in bewilderment. He carried a shoulder bag and he walked with a long. It??s up to you. even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. if anyone starts talking.K. None of them actually had a hope of helping her with the problems she had with the Swedish state. ??There was one thing that struck me. Email number two had arrived two days later. Who was the other??? ??F?lldin met him only on that one occasion and couldn??t remember his name.?? ??Again. Jan.?? ??Annika. She picked up the telephone and called Holm.. Then he gently raised her shoulder and located the entry wound in her back. He??s the fixer.?? She sat down.
In any event she has to have a lawyer. He??s the fixer. to be exact. he??s going to survive and he??s been up walking around on crutches.?? Jonasson looked over his shoulder at the door. ??So what the hell are we going to do??? Cortez said.A. she knew. Constitutional Protection is a small and more or less self-sufficient unit. you can. First he handed over to Ola Ullsten.M. Teleborian. ??Benny K. who did the investigation in G?teborg.Q.?? Beckman was completely O. Salander needs a totally different kind of legal support. Sonja. but the news sort of got drowned out by all the turmoil surrounding Dag and Mia. Behind Wennerstr?m you can see three people.?? She picked up his article and read it one more time.?? Cortez put down the telephone and drummed so loudly with his fingertips on the edge of his desk that Nilsson glared at him. of course.
Then she found the brick in the middle of the living-room floor.?? ??What??s your impression of her??? ??What do you mean??? ??Martina. 4. the Russians will swiftly identify our informants and sources in Russia. but she had also to deal with her own problems. ??Mikael. it could also be classified as murder. but ???? ??You think it??s excessive. Since R.?? ??Alright. Why has one of our reporters spent the day working on Salander without anybody telling me??? Frisk squirmed. but bit by bit she gathered that a man was being sought for the killing. Her eyes opened wide. She was not the one who had killed Svensson and Johansson. The designation S. It was a consistent silence. And now here we all are. The tone of his muscles testified to the fact that he spent a number of hours each week at the gym.00 in the morning. staring straight ahead. She was then placed with a foster family. Nothing made any difference. the human resources were available. She did not need anyone to tell her that.
thanking you for coming to me with this matter as soon as you did. and his job is on the line now too.?? ??Speaking of which.
Could you possibly write it??? Magnusson hesitated a moment but then said
Could you possibly write it??? Magnusson hesitated a moment but then said. V.?? ??Alright. There were stalkers who travelled from Germany or Italy to follow a 21-year-old lead singer in a pop band from gig to gig.?? ??He??s going to publish the information.?? Modig and Holmberg then described in detail the investigation as it had developed. He had done something that Salander knew about.?? Blomkvist said. Whatever happened. He knew that his guesswork was on the mark when Edklinth??s eyes widened. That goddamn fucking Blomkvist.?? ??So how do we counter that??? Borgsj? said. His number??s on my mobile in my breast pocket. and nigger. Of course I haven??t done a psychiatric evaluation of her. it??s the truth. ??No again. I??m clearing my desk tonight. My task here is to rejuvenate the newspaper. consultant at the Trades Union Federation ?C his only venture into the I.?? ??Partly right. ??I doubt that.I. He had Salander??s keys to her burgundy Honda.
was Zalachenko. Then he put on some jeans and the maroon sweatshirt that needed washing. Which was also routine. You??ll discover positive things and negative things. He was living on a disability pension. Don??t ever forget that. Shit. When Linder answered the telephone. Since Prosecutor Ekstr?m had tentatively referred to a trial in July. As far as we can determine at the moment. It was absurd.?? ??I??m jumping ahead and anticipating the final assessment. Then we??ll need to hire a new employee. he could never rid himself of the feeling that he was looking at an advertisement for something. The first half is basically what??s in the magazine. sat up. but he had established that it occurred on the afternoon of April 12. ??It??ll pass. This is about a small group of conspirators. An ultra-secret unit that was given strategic positions within the Firm. series. 18. My name is Anders Jonasson. None of them actually had a hope of helping her with the problems she had with the Swedish state.
Besides ???? ??Besides what??? ??It??s nothing. claimed that he sexually harassed her. Ultimately Zalachenko decided to restructure his entire operation in a new corporation that would be owned by Niedermann and himself. Who did you hand everything over to??? ??How do you mean??? ??When F?lldin??s term came to an end.?? ??Did you come straight here??? ??Yes ?? no. Nieminen called him twice on his mobile.?? ??O. when Gullberg was nineteen years old. V.W. He bought a pack of Lucky Strike and a tin of G?teborg??s Rap?? snuff. Entry wound just above the left ear. I don??t know exactly what happened here tonight. Malin Eriksson. Her client was in much worse shape than she had been led to believe. He was biding his time and letting the other participants at the meeting say their piece.I. and the growth in readers in their twenties is almost zero. only to me.m.P.?? Bublanski shrugged. I have not killed any policeman. As I understood it.
She had tried friendly reasoning and direct orders.nu. that her hair was one big lump of dried clay. In Personal Protection they believed that M?rtensson had been loaned out to Counter-Espionage. was born in Hamburg. You??ll have to prepare him for the fact that probably I won??t be in a position to make a decision in the coming week. She was told that there was no car available to come and take her statement. author of the report.?? They exchanged hotmail addresses. Advokat Palmgren. For the Section. No energy at all. but you??ve given your word not to take any initiatives that could interfere with the investigation. a red jumper and a dark jacket.?? Salander still said nothing. she should be on her feet well before then. The unknown quantity. before she got mixed up in the hunt for Zalachenko. seventy-eight years old. ??How??s the headache??? ??I feel it now and then. ??Perhaps we haven??t found the car because Niedermann drove out of the country to the north via Haparanda? A big detour around the Gulf of Bothnia. in co-operation with her lawyer.?? she said. ??Monday.
but he had a short fuse and was a dangerous man. and I??m proud of it. stood a dark-haired woman with a digital camera filming M?rtensson and his companion. but they had neither the resources nor the expertise to run this sort of operational activity.I. The nurse had asked him to wait while she went to see whether Herr Bodin was awake. and so a potential criminal in Saddam Hussein??s Iraq. erupted. he??s a threat to us. She stopped outside Ekstr?m??s closed door. Figuerola sat motionless for thirty seconds. She might develop epilepsy. He visited her three times that evening and noted that her temperature had stabilized at 37. or that the interview would be focused on Magge Lundin and Stallarholmen. She then saw that the woman with the camera had stopped filming and was heading past the Laurinska building in her direction. Then came the awkward part.?? ??He was her guardian.?? ??I get it. Which is why she??s chatting with the editor-in-chief of one of the biggest newspapers in Sweden. are set by the Freedom of the Press regulation (F. or want to take a break to think for a while. as it turned out.?? Gullberg said slowly. But it??s not an arrest.
are cutting into our ad. A man with a moustache. 3.?? Rosin thought for a moment.?? ??I can live with that attitude. ??Let her sleep a while. It was a plain wooden pencil. Nilsson was not unhappy that she had been passed over. She says that the murderer was a man in his seventies. 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. In such serious instances the investigation was also assumed to come under the authority of the Prosecutor General. It will be my final issue. that she had been shot three times. and he??s afraid to get the Section involved in the necessary field work. I understand Mikael??s plan.?? ??Sounds good.?? ??Can you tell me what happened this morning??? Giannini related what she had seen and heard and how she had reacted up until the moment she had barricaded herself with Salander in the bathroom. what do you say then??? ??I can??t prove otherwise. He??s been running his own criminal network ever since. Hire some people. a car from Milton will come down from Nacka. It was the seventh time he had seen the same car in four days.?? ??What do we do now??? ??I have no idea. took out a notebook.
And yet Bj?rck was the primary source of Blomkvist??s information. And in corridor 11C the staff were security-conscious after the killing of Zalachenko; they were familiar with her situation. listening. ??And what sort of excuse would I have to barge in on Ekstr?m??? Modig asked. not the source.M. So ?? two emails with the word ??whore?? and a phoney sender from the world of mass media. She had not lost her photographic memory. Her eyes lit upon an air vent just below the ceiling. Instead she called the duty officer at Milton Security and explained her situation. There??s also a possibility that you??ll develop scar tissue in your brain.?? ??I know. She could see nothing that would serve her purpose. Nor had Berger any thought of taking the story with her.?? ??I understand. Have you eaten??? ??It??s 8. and to have the strength to get up and finish the job once and for all.?? ??Sure. including members of the prominent Baksi family. Zalachenko doesn??t make empty threats. The story had Millennium??s stamp on it from beginning to end. We don??t know what number it is. are laws. so I??m going to see who owns Vitavara Inc.
She has been badly treated and is under a lot of pressure. I can??t poke around in her skull and extract bullets. ??This is what I want you to do. I mean. Holmberg had been tasked to work out how Bj?rck had died. to assume control of the Zalachenko affair.M.??? ??Is Dr Jonasson on duty??? ??Aren??t you feeling well??? ??I feel fine. but asked questions until he was satisfied. Stefan went to chase someone up from the city building office. ??And what are you going to do with that? Shoot me? You??ll spend the rest of your miserable life in prison. Blomkvist went with Inspector Erlander. 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. ??The man who at 1. He wrote a carefully worded and noncommittal comment on her chart: Radiological examination gives a basis for definitive conclusions but the condition of the patient has deteriorated steadily during the day. All except for one thing. I believe that Salander is as sane as you or I. She considered calling Daniel Mogren. ??The X2000 at 5. She consulted the vehicle register and found that G?ran M?rtensson was the owner of a grey Volvo with the registration number legible in the photographs. His parents were Marianne and Georg Bodin. except for 1991 when he deliberately voted against the moderates because he believed that Carl Bildt was a realpolitik catastrophe. Opposite Ekstr?m??s office was a conference room big enough for ten people. ??Welcome.
Hallberg is retiring this year. ??I don??t understand.?? ??Palmgren??? ??Yes. ??You??re telling me that the Security Police is involved in flagrant criminal activity. Mikael picked up his mobile and made another call to Inspector Erlander in G?teborg. She could not sit up even. ??I need to know what you and Blomkvist have cooked up to help her. has been to see me twice in the past few days. with which the company had a contract. and a dozen other markers.?? the assistant chief of the Violent Crimes Division concluded. Three times Paulsson had asked the urgently occupied medical orderly whether the girl could be arrested on the spot.iv Blomkvist had spent Saturday night with Berger. Was he alive or dead? She could not clearly remember what had happened with Niedermann. and I won??t report it to the tax authorities. We had experience with her pathology compiled over many years. She requisitioned the report. Edklinth explained what Figuerola and her team had unearthed. and she directed the investigation with a force that matched her physical appearance. Forty-seven. ??Yes ?? well ?? he said he needed to know exactly how many pieces of wood were in there. a lieutenant in the Swedish army who later turned out to be a colonel in the Soviet military intelligence service. She started with Ernst Teodor Billing. a man who well-trained men would avoid getting into a fight with.
Vinge??s view was not even controversial in the climate prevailing inside the Firm. He was actually off that day. Time is running out.?? ??But if you get difficult about the fact that I??m going to use unethical methods. while she and Karim were expected to do all the spadework for the next issue of a magazine that had not had any real leadership since Berger left. And now the murderer herself had been shot. He had undergone a rather extensive operation in which a significant section of his jaw was realigned and fixed with titanium screws. Figuerola waited for forty-nine minutes before M?rtensson and his companion in overalls came out of Bellmansgatan 1. Thanks. I??m furious at the state and the government and S?po and all these fucking bastards who for no reason at all locked up a twelve-year-old girl in a mental hospital until she could be declared incompetent. ??Maybe I should get some training in some other field. scanner that the hospital had lately acquired. The connection was radio-controlled and locked into a mobile via Bluetooth. The doctors think she??ll make a full recovery. Accordingly. as if brushing off a mosquito. ??No. Prosecutor Ekstr?m took stock of his visitor. S. ??Because while Niedermann was out digging a grave for me. But as long as he risks being busted. I??m furious at the state and the government and S?po and all these fucking bastards who for no reason at all locked up a twelve-year-old girl in a mental hospital until she could be declared incompetent. She did not want to draw attention to herself by leaving so soon after his unidentified companion. Like the American president.
but she knew that calm discussions and friendly reprimands did not work. He had leaked information that would have backed him up in an upcoming trial. said. She had received nine emails. and I went to visit my client. ??Annika. SixOfOne wrote. It showed the church in Jobsville. ??I??ll make sure you get some painkillers in a minute. She downloaded a list of everyone who worked at S. There was no denying the disaster that had occurred. Someone cut off about two metres of rope. I would have gone for the Silbersky type or another of the heavy-duty criminal lawyers. You have an infection in your body. Then he opened his own shop. please. ??Lisbeth. This too touched on the core of the responsibility delegated to the Constitutional Protection Unit. She was afraid that it was a moral issue. Berger had already decided that she would be able to depend on Fredriksson??s insights when she took command of the ship. I explained that I wanted information in advance on all proposed articles. but she had not even reflected on the fact at the time. the renowned children??s psychiatrist would be one of the most detested men in Sweden. what??? ??Holm and the head of the legal section are on the warpath.
?? ??It??s a question of saving money we??re not going to have. ??That??s correct.?? ??Can he handle it??? ??He??s no idiot.?? ??Revelations that are largely lies and distortions. Transfers of that kind had to be approved by the chief of Secretariat.?? ??He tried to kill me. I take it??? ??That??s right. ??Nobody will hear of our meeting from me. From the government. Maybe it was a planned operation that was shelved. but here the task was simplified by the fact that the letters he was writing would be signed by himself. ??And??? ??You??ll have to find out for yourselves where it is.?? Figuerola said.?? Eriksson did not answer the telephone. ??Mikael Blomkvist. I said asap. He saw a lined face framed by short grey hair. and for several reasons. ??We can??t go into the archives without authorization from the chief of Secretariat. Could we leave that question for later??? Salander said.?? ??I??ve been in touch with the Prosecutor General. Giannini decided. she knew. There was only a jpeg that she opened in Photoshop.
He reminded Edklinth vaguely of the writer Dashiell Hammett.W. ??You sent Figuerola to find out what was going on. ??Dag??s book went to the printer yesterday. and we??re in the middle of an investigation in which I??m involved ???? ??You mean it was unprofessional of me. There were still some holes that he would have to fill. I was told that we would have to wait until after the next election. silent partner to handle the financial side of the business. Instead. To Modig??s great frustration the meeting in Ekstr?m??s office was lasting a long time. How in God??s name could he have been so bloody stupid? She wondered whether there might be an alternative explanation or some mitigating circumstances.00 on a Saturday afternoon??? Figuerola and Blomkvist exchanged a sceptical look. Zalachenko is dead.K. Then everything would work out. Blomkvist has put the pieces of this puzzle together all by himself; he??s way ahead of us on the police force.?? ??What about it??? ??Couldn??t you get me a pizza??? ??Sorry. ??She feels sick and she has a strong headache.?? ??How are you feeling??? ??I??m not finished yet. Flodin looked similarly concerned. Tell us what you know.?? ??But I don??t think???? ??Shut the door. no matter how many times she tried to block it. Jan.
The only spot from which the entrance door to the building could be observed directly was from the promenade and footbridge on upper Bellmansgatan near the Maria lift and the Laurinska building. If you work out you can eat whatever you want.I. where Bj?rck draws conclusions and makes recommendations.?? Blomkvist nodded. Which is why she??s still alive. He had written about the murders of Svensson and Johansson and described how he happened to be the one who came upon the scene. a father. You??re going to be charged with G.?? ??All I ask is that you hear me out. and apart from a couple of hour-long stops along the way. It could be if someone is trying to break in or turns up in the garden or something like that. Outgoing calls were particularly hard to identify. Ever since he had heard the news at the Kaffebar he had had his heart in his throat and a panicky feeling that Salander might have been the killer.iv Blomkvist had spent Saturday night with Berger.?? he said heartily. Trinity wrote.?? Nilsson said. At 2.P.00 Jonasson discovered that Salander had developed a temperature of 37. She asks questions non-stop. It was late afternoon by the time Figuerola was able to convey to Edklinth with some certainty the discovery that Clinton??s and von Rottinger??s careers after they left S. Then we??ll have to sign a contract.
She was a pretty.?? ??I didn??t give anyone permission to arrest Bj?rck. and a typical libertarian when it came to freedom of the press. He chose the only clean shirt he had left in the brown briefcase and put on a brown-patterned tie.?? Clinton said. Then I risk proceeding on faulty or misunderstood information.Monday. Someone who was trying to cover Zalachenko??s tracks. I made several copies of that one and have tucked them away in safe places. Or did he? Blomkvist got up and went to the telephone. He had been chief of Secretariat for a decade. and there was nothing new in Aftonbladet online. and that if he discussed it with his government colleagues then S?po would wash their hands of it. 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. forty-seven years old and known by the nickname Falun.?? ??You??ve got to let things settle down. He had kept his mouth shut through the entire series of police interrogations. but it??s been three years since the last time.?? ??Quite right. Surely? Edklinth felt cold shivers of apprehension. ??Once again we have to haul you out of the furnace. It might sound stupid to say that. He reminded Edklinth vaguely of the writer Dashiell Hammett. He knows what he??s doing.
P. Ulla something.30 on Monday morning.?? ??O. He issued instructions that required even the chief of S.?? ??This means that if you have questions about something. Trinity was born in Bradford. which reported to the police commission or the justice department. He simply concluded that Salander was suffering from stress. But you could do it. jumped on the Katarina lift up to Mosebacke and took a circuitous route to Fiskargatan 9.?? Wadensj?? said. M?rtensson reports that Blomkvist is still at the office.?? Giannini thought for a moment. There was no need to follow the van. What matters to them is their own survival. They went from room to room. shit. But there was as yet no sign of it. But she had not done that since she was fourteen. I??m worried there might be swelling or bleeding in the brain. This recurred at around 3. It has come to my attention that an employee of S. He turned to Wadensj??.
It had been a quiet evening and they arrived within twenty minutes.?? ??M?rtensson. rather than unleash him to condemn the entire police force in his magazine and elsewhere in the media.M. The screen went blank. Magge Lundin got off his motorbike and declared. ??He started at S?po in the ??50s. sat up. in 1976 when Zalachenko defected. I wrote it all by myself and sent it to everyone in the company. and then you??ll find yourself editing the family page or the comics page or something like that. he could do the same. ??Tell me what you know about Salander. was going to spy on the spies? In August 1964 Gullberg was summoned to an afternoon meeting with the assistant chief of the Security Police. as a psychiatric consultant on specific cases in the late ??80s and early ??90s ?C on three occasions. ??No. In short. I??m sorry. Someone had to take responsibility for seeing to it that national-Bolshevist crackpots ?C who had read too much Bakunin or whoever the hell these neo-Nazis read ?C did not patch together a bomb made of fertilizer and oil and park it in a van outside Rosenbad. the court will appoint a defence lawyer on your behalf. She consulted the vehicle register and found that G?ran M?rtensson was the owner of a grey Volvo with the registration number legible in the photographs. In the end she had to admit that the folder was gone. He visited her room.?? He pulled down the powerful magnifying glass hanging overhead and focused on the exposed area.
But that sort of temporary reassignment was not unusual ?C covering a shortage of personnel here or there in an emergency situation. A brilliant administrator who balanced the budget. You know you have to call and tell me if you??re not coming home. it could be a major step forward in your career. and handed one to Waltari.?? ??The second thing is that you have a large property here with a living area of approximately 250 square metres. Then Giannini crossed the room and pulled open the door. He withdrew cash from an A. She limped over to the balcony door and went out to the garden. He shrugged just as Beatrice the receptionist came in with coffee and milk. please do. National Democrat. Even so. and clamps which he attached to her nipples. born in 1969. almost all of it above the fold. She??s Blomkvist??s sister. ??Perhaps we haven??t found the car because Niedermann drove out of the country to the north via Haparanda? A big detour around the Gulf of Bothnia.30 in the afternoon. I get on considerably better at Milton than on the force. Figuerola spent the afternoon gathering information. We think it??s an organization inside the organization. In the organization. who??s leading the investigation into Zalachenko??s murder.
Most of all she wanted to take him to a hole in the ground in Gosseberga and bury him. Blomkvist briefly explained what had happened and asked Cortez to pass the information to Millennium??s editor-in-chief. Impossible. We put out the paper. The operations unit of Constitutional Protection spent Friday trying to get a handle on the information they had received from Blomkvist. Nor did Giannini tell him anything of what she and her client discussed. He hoped it had not penetrated her lung. ??The people who were looking after Zalachenko went far beyond their jurisdiction.?? The Security Police did not normally spend time investigating robberies of groceries. By 12.?? ??Henry.. which consisted solely of numbers.P. defeating a number of male armies along the way. testing his sense of balance. ??What were you told about that group??? ??Nothing. There were no signs on my door of a break-in. But he was absolutely not a friend. and time kept slipping by ?? And then she found herself with an unbearably guilty conscience and was feeling terrible. ??A likely story. and which he wants S. Besides. You and Magge take off on some fucking job we know nothing about.
?? ??Great. ??The situation is complicated by the fact that we in Constitutional Protection are being forced to conduct an operation which is itself against regulations in order to investigate this matter.?? ??There??s forensic evidence that???? ??Fuck the forensic evidence.?? ??And the third name??? Edklinth said. ??I think she??s coming round. and the press would have uncovered the Salander affair several years earlier. He was fully aware that everything had gone about as badly as it could have.I. that will put the matter in a rather different light. They searched the place the day you were arrested.?? ??Foreign policy??? the Minister of Justice said. How should I deal with it??? ??I don??t have the energy to think that through right now. that??s not how a magazine is supposed to look. Zalachenko??s activities since then have nothing whatsoever to do with national security. And don??t rock the boat.?? she said. You have the option to remove me as leader of the investigation ?? but if you did that I would be forced to write a harsh memo about the matter. You feel an enormous sense of wellbeing when you give something your all. but Paulsson presumably thought it was Blomkvist??s own. He was hungry and exhausted. but use your good judgement. That was when he started making calls and decided it was time to go to Stockholm. Cortez had the weekend shift and Blomkvist found him again in the office in the evening. ??Hello.
is he out of the country? What do we think??? ??We have nothing to tell us that he has left the country. hardly anyone socialized with each other in their free time. It has been 56 days since your last visit. You will choose the assistants you require. Almost every democratic country maintains an independent constitutional court in some form.?? ??I must not have realized that it would centre on Salander. did he not??? Prosecutor Jervas said. which she had not done since she got the hand-held.00. Henry. I??ve visited her three times and offered to talk with her. work it out! / Kalle B. she flipped open her mobile and pressed a speed-dial number. and there was a robbery in Norrk?ping in which one person was injured. but rather indicated that the conspiracy that had tried to eliminate Salander fifteen years earlier was not a thing of the past. He spent three hours reading through Ekstr?m??s preliminary investigation and strategy for the trial.?? Erlander rubbed the back of his neck. You??ll report directly to me. Only one thing is important right now. And if they want to convict me. ??I??ve kicked myself a hundred times about it. which was a factor since he was paying for the journey himself. I made several copies of that one and have tucked them away in safe places. Erika shrugged.
?? ??It??s going to be hard to keep this under wraps. Personal Protection. She had humiliated him. yes.?? ??I see. She staggered to the door and turned to kick it with her heel. ??Routine research. the lunchtime memo. I consider this office of central importance to Swedish democracy. She was dressed that day in tight blue jeans. She looked down and saw blood. but later she asked if I had any scientific journals that dealt with genetics and brain research. Berger waited until he had finished thinking. And the media as a whole bought Faste??s propaganda simply because he appears to be a serious source and it??s always cool to write about S. had about 800. and Jerker has known Prime Minister F?lldin since he was a child. He did not have anything against the existence of S?po. If you have information to that effect you should take action. but this was no deviation from the daily routine.?? Zalachenko lowered his voice: ??Our partner Niedermann.8 ?C too high. But who knows how much attention a person contemplating suicide would pay to the knots on his own noose??? ??What about drugs??? ??According to the toxicology report. One of the men looked to be in his late thirties or early forties and had blond hair. They??re checking the apartment.
immigrant. And we share the same objective.?? he said. And yet his liver.A. 2. He was suddenly aware of Nurse Nicander saying something. What could I say? If I asked what it meant. ??Thank you.?? ??I didn??t have much choice.iv By 1.30 on Tuesday. but I??m a doctor and I??ve studied psychiatry.?? ??I??ve got you. She woke up to find Linder sleeping in a recliner on the other side of the living room. but your damned brother is in G?teborg today. She knew right away that it was not one of the night nurses. but from a number of sources Cortez had a fairly clear picture of the events of the night before. had climbed on to a stool. Both were dressed in jeans and leather jackets.?? ??I don??t know how we??re going to bill this???? ??We??ll work that out later. or whether she was off her rocker or why the police kept her locked up. It was as though the man thought himself above all normal rules. It was glorious May 1 weather.
The first nurse stopped short on the threshold. but she can??t work for nothing. Seven letters had been sent to Vitavara Inc.?? ??What does he help you with??? Modig broke in. He knows what he??s doing. It??s possible that you??ll need another operation ?C on your shoulder ?C if we can??t arrest the infection with antibiotics. Blomkvist took it as a sign that the Prime Minister had just broken the law ?C if only of the more academic specie ?C by giving his consent to the sharing of classified information with a journalist.S. His voice was steady. Gullberg followed the story in a state of awful confusion. also a hacker. When he got out of prison in 1984 he kept his nose clean ?C or at least he did not pull any jobs that got him arrested and convicted again. Blomkvist had told her once how Salander had put paid to the serial killer Martin Vanger with a golf club. that will put the matter in a rather different light.?? Nystr?m leafed through his notes. The heavy weapons cabinet stood wide open. Jonas and Teleborian had an unhealthy interest in seeing that Salander did not thrive.?? She nodded. An alarm is an alarm and is completely pointless if some nutcase is standing in your living room with an automatic weapon. so to speak. I was terribly intellectual. ??Then I??ll have to start by thanking you for coming to me with this matter as soon as you did. and his job is on the line now too.?? ??Speaking of which.
Could you possibly write it??? Magnusson hesitated a moment but then said. V.?? ??Alright. There were stalkers who travelled from Germany or Italy to follow a 21-year-old lead singer in a pop band from gig to gig.?? ??He??s going to publish the information.?? Modig and Holmberg then described in detail the investigation as it had developed. He had done something that Salander knew about.?? Blomkvist said. Whatever happened. He knew that his guesswork was on the mark when Edklinth??s eyes widened. That goddamn fucking Blomkvist.?? ??So how do we counter that??? Borgsj? said. His number??s on my mobile in my breast pocket. and nigger. Of course I haven??t done a psychiatric evaluation of her. it??s the truth. ??No again. I??m clearing my desk tonight. My task here is to rejuvenate the newspaper. consultant at the Trades Union Federation ?C his only venture into the I.?? ??Partly right. ??I doubt that.I. He had Salander??s keys to her burgundy Honda.
was Zalachenko. Then he put on some jeans and the maroon sweatshirt that needed washing. Which was also routine. You??ll discover positive things and negative things. He was living on a disability pension. Don??t ever forget that. Shit. When Linder answered the telephone. Since Prosecutor Ekstr?m had tentatively referred to a trial in July. As far as we can determine at the moment. It was absurd.?? ??I??m jumping ahead and anticipating the final assessment. Then we??ll need to hire a new employee. he could never rid himself of the feeling that he was looking at an advertisement for something. The first half is basically what??s in the magazine. sat up. but he had established that it occurred on the afternoon of April 12. ??It??ll pass. This is about a small group of conspirators. An ultra-secret unit that was given strategic positions within the Firm. series. 18. My name is Anders Jonasson. None of them actually had a hope of helping her with the problems she had with the Swedish state.
Besides ???? ??Besides what??? ??It??s nothing. claimed that he sexually harassed her. Ultimately Zalachenko decided to restructure his entire operation in a new corporation that would be owned by Niedermann and himself. Who did you hand everything over to??? ??How do you mean??? ??When F?lldin??s term came to an end.?? ??Did you come straight here??? ??Yes ?? no. Nieminen called him twice on his mobile.?? ??O. when Gullberg was nineteen years old. V.W. He bought a pack of Lucky Strike and a tin of G?teborg??s Rap?? snuff. Entry wound just above the left ear. I don??t know exactly what happened here tonight. Malin Eriksson. Her client was in much worse shape than she had been led to believe. He was biding his time and letting the other participants at the meeting say their piece.I. and the growth in readers in their twenties is almost zero. only to me.m.P.?? Bublanski shrugged. I have not killed any policeman. As I understood it.
She had tried friendly reasoning and direct orders.nu. that her hair was one big lump of dried clay. In Personal Protection they believed that M?rtensson had been loaned out to Counter-Espionage. was born in Hamburg. You??ll have to prepare him for the fact that probably I won??t be in a position to make a decision in the coming week. She was told that there was no car available to come and take her statement. author of the report.?? They exchanged hotmail addresses. Advokat Palmgren. For the Section. No energy at all. but you??ve given your word not to take any initiatives that could interfere with the investigation. a red jumper and a dark jacket.?? Salander still said nothing. she should be on her feet well before then. The unknown quantity. before she got mixed up in the hunt for Zalachenko. seventy-eight years old. ??How??s the headache??? ??I feel it now and then. ??Perhaps we haven??t found the car because Niedermann drove out of the country to the north via Haparanda? A big detour around the Gulf of Bothnia. in co-operation with her lawyer.?? she said. ??Monday.
but he had a short fuse and was a dangerous man. and I??m proud of it. stood a dark-haired woman with a digital camera filming M?rtensson and his companion. but they had neither the resources nor the expertise to run this sort of operational activity.I. The nurse had asked him to wait while she went to see whether Herr Bodin was awake. and so a potential criminal in Saddam Hussein??s Iraq. erupted. he??s a threat to us. She stopped outside Ekstr?m??s closed door. Figuerola sat motionless for thirty seconds. She might develop epilepsy. He visited her three times that evening and noted that her temperature had stabilized at 37. or that the interview would be focused on Magge Lundin and Stallarholmen. She then saw that the woman with the camera had stopped filming and was heading past the Laurinska building in her direction. Then came the awkward part.?? ??He was her guardian.?? ??I get it. Which is why she??s chatting with the editor-in-chief of one of the biggest newspapers in Sweden. are set by the Freedom of the Press regulation (F. or want to take a break to think for a while. as it turned out.?? Gullberg said slowly. But it??s not an arrest.
are cutting into our ad. A man with a moustache. 3.?? Rosin thought for a moment.?? ??I can live with that attitude. ??Let her sleep a while. It was a plain wooden pencil. Nilsson was not unhappy that she had been passed over. She says that the murderer was a man in his seventies. 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. In such serious instances the investigation was also assumed to come under the authority of the Prosecutor General. It will be my final issue. that she had been shot three times. and he??s afraid to get the Section involved in the necessary field work. I understand Mikael??s plan.?? ??Sounds good.?? ??Can you tell me what happened this morning??? Giannini related what she had seen and heard and how she had reacted up until the moment she had barricaded herself with Salander in the bathroom. what do you say then??? ??I can??t prove otherwise. He??s been running his own criminal network ever since. Hire some people. a car from Milton will come down from Nacka. It was the seventh time he had seen the same car in four days.?? ??What do we do now??? ??I have no idea. took out a notebook.
And yet Bj?rck was the primary source of Blomkvist??s information. And in corridor 11C the staff were security-conscious after the killing of Zalachenko; they were familiar with her situation. listening. ??And what sort of excuse would I have to barge in on Ekstr?m??? Modig asked. not the source.M. So ?? two emails with the word ??whore?? and a phoney sender from the world of mass media. She had not lost her photographic memory. Her eyes lit upon an air vent just below the ceiling. Instead she called the duty officer at Milton Security and explained her situation. There??s also a possibility that you??ll develop scar tissue in your brain.?? ??I know. She could see nothing that would serve her purpose. Nor had Berger any thought of taking the story with her.?? ??I understand. Have you eaten??? ??It??s 8. and to have the strength to get up and finish the job once and for all.?? ??Sure. including members of the prominent Baksi family. Zalachenko doesn??t make empty threats. The story had Millennium??s stamp on it from beginning to end. We don??t know what number it is. are laws. so I??m going to see who owns Vitavara Inc.
She has been badly treated and is under a lot of pressure. I can??t poke around in her skull and extract bullets. ??This is what I want you to do. I mean. Holmberg had been tasked to work out how Bj?rck had died. to assume control of the Zalachenko affair.M.??? ??Is Dr Jonasson on duty??? ??Aren??t you feeling well??? ??I feel fine. but asked questions until he was satisfied. Stefan went to chase someone up from the city building office. ??And what are you going to do with that? Shoot me? You??ll spend the rest of your miserable life in prison. Blomkvist went with Inspector Erlander. 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. ??The man who at 1. He wrote a carefully worded and noncommittal comment on her chart: Radiological examination gives a basis for definitive conclusions but the condition of the patient has deteriorated steadily during the day. All except for one thing. I believe that Salander is as sane as you or I. She considered calling Daniel Mogren. ??The X2000 at 5. She consulted the vehicle register and found that G?ran M?rtensson was the owner of a grey Volvo with the registration number legible in the photographs. His parents were Marianne and Georg Bodin. except for 1991 when he deliberately voted against the moderates because he believed that Carl Bildt was a realpolitik catastrophe. Opposite Ekstr?m??s office was a conference room big enough for ten people. ??Welcome.
Hallberg is retiring this year. ??I don??t understand.?? ??Palmgren??? ??Yes. ??You??re telling me that the Security Police is involved in flagrant criminal activity. Mikael picked up his mobile and made another call to Inspector Erlander in G?teborg. She could not sit up even. ??I need to know what you and Blomkvist have cooked up to help her. has been to see me twice in the past few days. with which the company had a contract. and a dozen other markers.?? the assistant chief of the Violent Crimes Division concluded. Three times Paulsson had asked the urgently occupied medical orderly whether the girl could be arrested on the spot.iv Blomkvist had spent Saturday night with Berger. Was he alive or dead? She could not clearly remember what had happened with Niedermann. and I won??t report it to the tax authorities. We had experience with her pathology compiled over many years. She requisitioned the report. Edklinth explained what Figuerola and her team had unearthed. and she directed the investigation with a force that matched her physical appearance. Forty-seven. ??Yes ?? well ?? he said he needed to know exactly how many pieces of wood were in there. a lieutenant in the Swedish army who later turned out to be a colonel in the Soviet military intelligence service. She started with Ernst Teodor Billing. a man who well-trained men would avoid getting into a fight with.
Vinge??s view was not even controversial in the climate prevailing inside the Firm. He was actually off that day. Time is running out.?? ??But if you get difficult about the fact that I??m going to use unethical methods. while she and Karim were expected to do all the spadework for the next issue of a magazine that had not had any real leadership since Berger left. And now the murderer herself had been shot. He had undergone a rather extensive operation in which a significant section of his jaw was realigned and fixed with titanium screws. Figuerola waited for forty-nine minutes before M?rtensson and his companion in overalls came out of Bellmansgatan 1. Thanks. I??m furious at the state and the government and S?po and all these fucking bastards who for no reason at all locked up a twelve-year-old girl in a mental hospital until she could be declared incompetent. ??Maybe I should get some training in some other field. scanner that the hospital had lately acquired. The connection was radio-controlled and locked into a mobile via Bluetooth. The doctors think she??ll make a full recovery. Accordingly. as if brushing off a mosquito. ??No. Prosecutor Ekstr?m took stock of his visitor. S. ??Because while Niedermann was out digging a grave for me. But as long as he risks being busted. I??m furious at the state and the government and S?po and all these fucking bastards who for no reason at all locked up a twelve-year-old girl in a mental hospital until she could be declared incompetent. She did not want to draw attention to herself by leaving so soon after his unidentified companion. Like the American president.
but she knew that calm discussions and friendly reprimands did not work. He had leaked information that would have backed him up in an upcoming trial. said. She had received nine emails. and I went to visit my client. ??Annika. SixOfOne wrote. It showed the church in Jobsville. ??I??ll make sure you get some painkillers in a minute. She downloaded a list of everyone who worked at S. There was no denying the disaster that had occurred. Someone cut off about two metres of rope. I would have gone for the Silbersky type or another of the heavy-duty criminal lawyers. You have an infection in your body. Then he opened his own shop. please. ??Lisbeth. This too touched on the core of the responsibility delegated to the Constitutional Protection Unit. She was afraid that it was a moral issue. Berger had already decided that she would be able to depend on Fredriksson??s insights when she took command of the ship. I explained that I wanted information in advance on all proposed articles. but she had not even reflected on the fact at the time. the renowned children??s psychiatrist would be one of the most detested men in Sweden. what??? ??Holm and the head of the legal section are on the warpath.
?? ??It??s a question of saving money we??re not going to have. ??That??s correct.?? ??Can he handle it??? ??He??s no idiot.?? ??Revelations that are largely lies and distortions. Transfers of that kind had to be approved by the chief of Secretariat.?? ??He tried to kill me. I take it??? ??That??s right. ??Nobody will hear of our meeting from me. From the government. Maybe it was a planned operation that was shelved. but here the task was simplified by the fact that the letters he was writing would be signed by himself. ??And??? ??You??ll have to find out for yourselves where it is.?? Figuerola said.?? Eriksson did not answer the telephone. ??Mikael Blomkvist. I said asap. He saw a lined face framed by short grey hair. and for several reasons. ??We can??t go into the archives without authorization from the chief of Secretariat. Could we leave that question for later??? Salander said.?? ??I??ve been in touch with the Prosecutor General. Giannini decided. she knew. There was only a jpeg that she opened in Photoshop.
He reminded Edklinth vaguely of the writer Dashiell Hammett.W. ??You sent Figuerola to find out what was going on. ??Dag??s book went to the printer yesterday. and we??re in the middle of an investigation in which I??m involved ???? ??You mean it was unprofessional of me. There were still some holes that he would have to fill. I was told that we would have to wait until after the next election. silent partner to handle the financial side of the business. Instead. To Modig??s great frustration the meeting in Ekstr?m??s office was lasting a long time. How in God??s name could he have been so bloody stupid? She wondered whether there might be an alternative explanation or some mitigating circumstances.00 on a Saturday afternoon??? Figuerola and Blomkvist exchanged a sceptical look. Zalachenko is dead.K. Then everything would work out. Blomkvist has put the pieces of this puzzle together all by himself; he??s way ahead of us on the police force.?? ??What about it??? ??Couldn??t you get me a pizza??? ??Sorry. ??She feels sick and she has a strong headache.?? ??How are you feeling??? ??I??m not finished yet. Flodin looked similarly concerned. Tell us what you know.?? ??But I don??t think???? ??Shut the door. no matter how many times she tried to block it. Jan.
The only spot from which the entrance door to the building could be observed directly was from the promenade and footbridge on upper Bellmansgatan near the Maria lift and the Laurinska building. If you work out you can eat whatever you want.I. where Bj?rck draws conclusions and makes recommendations.?? Blomkvist nodded. Which is why she??s still alive. He had written about the murders of Svensson and Johansson and described how he happened to be the one who came upon the scene. a father. You??re going to be charged with G.?? ??All I ask is that you hear me out. and apart from a couple of hour-long stops along the way. It could be if someone is trying to break in or turns up in the garden or something like that. Outgoing calls were particularly hard to identify. Ever since he had heard the news at the Kaffebar he had had his heart in his throat and a panicky feeling that Salander might have been the killer.iv Blomkvist had spent Saturday night with Berger.?? he said heartily. Trinity wrote.?? Nilsson said. At 2.P.00 Jonasson discovered that Salander had developed a temperature of 37. She asks questions non-stop. It was late afternoon by the time Figuerola was able to convey to Edklinth with some certainty the discovery that Clinton??s and von Rottinger??s careers after they left S. Then we??ll have to sign a contract.
She was a pretty.?? ??I didn??t give anyone permission to arrest Bj?rck. and a typical libertarian when it came to freedom of the press. He chose the only clean shirt he had left in the brown briefcase and put on a brown-patterned tie.?? Clinton said. Then I risk proceeding on faulty or misunderstood information.Monday. Someone who was trying to cover Zalachenko??s tracks. I made several copies of that one and have tucked them away in safe places. Or did he? Blomkvist got up and went to the telephone. He had been chief of Secretariat for a decade. and there was nothing new in Aftonbladet online. and that if he discussed it with his government colleagues then S?po would wash their hands of it. 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. forty-seven years old and known by the nickname Falun.?? ??You??ve got to let things settle down. He had kept his mouth shut through the entire series of police interrogations. but it??s been three years since the last time.?? ??Quite right. Surely? Edklinth felt cold shivers of apprehension. ??Once again we have to haul you out of the furnace. It might sound stupid to say that. He reminded Edklinth vaguely of the writer Dashiell Hammett. He knows what he??s doing.
P. Ulla something.30 on Monday morning.?? ??O. He issued instructions that required even the chief of S.?? ??This means that if you have questions about something. Trinity was born in Bradford. which reported to the police commission or the justice department. He simply concluded that Salander was suffering from stress. But you could do it. jumped on the Katarina lift up to Mosebacke and took a circuitous route to Fiskargatan 9.?? Wadensj?? said. M?rtensson reports that Blomkvist is still at the office.?? Giannini thought for a moment. There was no need to follow the van. What matters to them is their own survival. They went from room to room. shit. But there was as yet no sign of it. But she had not done that since she was fourteen. I??m worried there might be swelling or bleeding in the brain. This recurred at around 3. It has come to my attention that an employee of S. He turned to Wadensj??.
It had been a quiet evening and they arrived within twenty minutes.?? ??M?rtensson. rather than unleash him to condemn the entire police force in his magazine and elsewhere in the media.M. The screen went blank. Magge Lundin got off his motorbike and declared. ??He started at S?po in the ??50s. sat up. in 1976 when Zalachenko defected. I wrote it all by myself and sent it to everyone in the company. and then you??ll find yourself editing the family page or the comics page or something like that. he could do the same. ??Tell me what you know about Salander. was going to spy on the spies? In August 1964 Gullberg was summoned to an afternoon meeting with the assistant chief of the Security Police. as a psychiatric consultant on specific cases in the late ??80s and early ??90s ?C on three occasions. ??No. In short. I??m sorry. Someone had to take responsibility for seeing to it that national-Bolshevist crackpots ?C who had read too much Bakunin or whoever the hell these neo-Nazis read ?C did not patch together a bomb made of fertilizer and oil and park it in a van outside Rosenbad. the court will appoint a defence lawyer on your behalf. She consulted the vehicle register and found that G?ran M?rtensson was the owner of a grey Volvo with the registration number legible in the photographs. In the end she had to admit that the folder was gone. He visited her room.?? He pulled down the powerful magnifying glass hanging overhead and focused on the exposed area.
But that sort of temporary reassignment was not unusual ?C covering a shortage of personnel here or there in an emergency situation. A brilliant administrator who balanced the budget. You know you have to call and tell me if you??re not coming home. it could be a major step forward in your career. and handed one to Waltari.?? ??The second thing is that you have a large property here with a living area of approximately 250 square metres. Then Giannini crossed the room and pulled open the door. He withdrew cash from an A. She limped over to the balcony door and went out to the garden. He shrugged just as Beatrice the receptionist came in with coffee and milk. please do. National Democrat. Even so. and clamps which he attached to her nipples. born in 1969. almost all of it above the fold. She??s Blomkvist??s sister. ??Perhaps we haven??t found the car because Niedermann drove out of the country to the north via Haparanda? A big detour around the Gulf of Bothnia.30 in the afternoon. I get on considerably better at Milton than on the force. Figuerola spent the afternoon gathering information. We think it??s an organization inside the organization. In the organization. who??s leading the investigation into Zalachenko??s murder.
Most of all she wanted to take him to a hole in the ground in Gosseberga and bury him. Blomkvist briefly explained what had happened and asked Cortez to pass the information to Millennium??s editor-in-chief. Impossible. We put out the paper. The operations unit of Constitutional Protection spent Friday trying to get a handle on the information they had received from Blomkvist. Nor did Giannini tell him anything of what she and her client discussed. He hoped it had not penetrated her lung. ??The people who were looking after Zalachenko went far beyond their jurisdiction.?? The Security Police did not normally spend time investigating robberies of groceries. By 12.?? ??Henry.. which consisted solely of numbers.P. defeating a number of male armies along the way. testing his sense of balance. ??What were you told about that group??? ??Nothing. There were no signs on my door of a break-in. But he was absolutely not a friend. and time kept slipping by ?? And then she found herself with an unbearably guilty conscience and was feeling terrible. ??A likely story. and which he wants S. Besides. You and Magge take off on some fucking job we know nothing about.
?? ??Great. ??The situation is complicated by the fact that we in Constitutional Protection are being forced to conduct an operation which is itself against regulations in order to investigate this matter.?? ??There??s forensic evidence that???? ??Fuck the forensic evidence.?? ??And the third name??? Edklinth said. ??I think she??s coming round. and the press would have uncovered the Salander affair several years earlier. He was fully aware that everything had gone about as badly as it could have.I. that will put the matter in a rather different light. They searched the place the day you were arrested.?? ??Foreign policy??? the Minister of Justice said. How should I deal with it??? ??I don??t have the energy to think that through right now. that??s not how a magazine is supposed to look. Zalachenko??s activities since then have nothing whatsoever to do with national security. And don??t rock the boat.?? she said. You have the option to remove me as leader of the investigation ?? but if you did that I would be forced to write a harsh memo about the matter. You feel an enormous sense of wellbeing when you give something your all. but Paulsson presumably thought it was Blomkvist??s own. He was hungry and exhausted. but use your good judgement. That was when he started making calls and decided it was time to go to Stockholm. Cortez had the weekend shift and Blomkvist found him again in the office in the evening. ??Hello.
is he out of the country? What do we think??? ??We have nothing to tell us that he has left the country. hardly anyone socialized with each other in their free time. It has been 56 days since your last visit. You will choose the assistants you require. Almost every democratic country maintains an independent constitutional court in some form.?? ??I must not have realized that it would centre on Salander. did he not??? Prosecutor Jervas said. which she had not done since she got the hand-held.00. Henry. I??ve visited her three times and offered to talk with her. work it out! / Kalle B. she flipped open her mobile and pressed a speed-dial number. and there was a robbery in Norrk?ping in which one person was injured. but rather indicated that the conspiracy that had tried to eliminate Salander fifteen years earlier was not a thing of the past. He spent three hours reading through Ekstr?m??s preliminary investigation and strategy for the trial.?? Erlander rubbed the back of his neck. You??ll report directly to me. Only one thing is important right now. And if they want to convict me. ??I??ve kicked myself a hundred times about it. which was a factor since he was paying for the journey himself. I made several copies of that one and have tucked them away in safe places. Erika shrugged.
?? ??It??s going to be hard to keep this under wraps. Personal Protection. She had humiliated him. yes.?? ??I see. She staggered to the door and turned to kick it with her heel. ??Routine research. the lunchtime memo. I consider this office of central importance to Swedish democracy. She was dressed that day in tight blue jeans. She looked down and saw blood. but later she asked if I had any scientific journals that dealt with genetics and brain research. Berger waited until he had finished thinking. And the media as a whole bought Faste??s propaganda simply because he appears to be a serious source and it??s always cool to write about S. had about 800. and Jerker has known Prime Minister F?lldin since he was a child. He did not have anything against the existence of S?po. If you have information to that effect you should take action. but this was no deviation from the daily routine.?? Zalachenko lowered his voice: ??Our partner Niedermann.8 ?C too high. But who knows how much attention a person contemplating suicide would pay to the knots on his own noose??? ??What about drugs??? ??According to the toxicology report. One of the men looked to be in his late thirties or early forties and had blond hair. They??re checking the apartment.
immigrant. And we share the same objective.?? he said. And yet his liver.A. 2. He was suddenly aware of Nurse Nicander saying something. What could I say? If I asked what it meant. ??Thank you.?? ??I didn??t have much choice.iv By 1.30 on Tuesday. but I??m a doctor and I??ve studied psychiatry.?? ??I??ve got you. She woke up to find Linder sleeping in a recliner on the other side of the living room. but your damned brother is in G?teborg today. She knew right away that it was not one of the night nurses. but from a number of sources Cortez had a fairly clear picture of the events of the night before. had climbed on to a stool. Both were dressed in jeans and leather jackets.?? ??I don??t know how we??re going to bill this???? ??We??ll work that out later. or whether she was off her rocker or why the police kept her locked up. It was as though the man thought himself above all normal rules. It was glorious May 1 weather.
The first nurse stopped short on the threshold. but she can??t work for nothing. Seven letters had been sent to Vitavara Inc.?? ??What does he help you with??? Modig broke in. He knows what he??s doing. It??s possible that you??ll need another operation ?C on your shoulder ?C if we can??t arrest the infection with antibiotics. Blomkvist took it as a sign that the Prime Minister had just broken the law ?C if only of the more academic specie ?C by giving his consent to the sharing of classified information with a journalist.S. His voice was steady. Gullberg followed the story in a state of awful confusion. also a hacker. When he got out of prison in 1984 he kept his nose clean ?C or at least he did not pull any jobs that got him arrested and convicted again. Blomkvist had told her once how Salander had put paid to the serial killer Martin Vanger with a golf club. that will put the matter in a rather different light.?? Nystr?m leafed through his notes. The heavy weapons cabinet stood wide open. Jonas and Teleborian had an unhealthy interest in seeing that Salander did not thrive.?? She nodded. An alarm is an alarm and is completely pointless if some nutcase is standing in your living room with an automatic weapon. so to speak. I was terribly intellectual. ??Then I??ll have to start by thanking you for coming to me with this matter as soon as you did. and his job is on the line now too.?? ??Speaking of which.
and experienced construction engineer counted for nothing.
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??First-class research.?? ??North on Kungsgatan.?? She put the address into the inside pocket of her jacket. Not one of them had heard of Hans von Rottinger. She knew.000 other mobile telephones within a kilometre of police headquarters. ??I can understand why you??d want to quit this madhouse ?? but to be the head of Sweden??s most turgid old-boy newspaper ?? that??s going to take some time to sink in. Ghidi soon discovered that being a well-educated and experienced construction engineer counted for nothing. There was no exit wound: the round was still inside her shoulder. 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. 1989. come to that. and generally she had done everything she could think of to make him understand how she wanted the newspaper to be shaped.I. and Lisbeth Salander was unlucky enough to have him as her father. a murderer. I want you to focus on the follow-up care given to severely injured patients in corridor 11C.?? he said. We??ll try to isolate them in a lengthy investigation. Everything else is unimportant. I??m still on the Salander story. She felt depressed.00 he had a brief visit from a representative of the prosecutor??s office. The house itself is spartan. I think you??re an excellent reporter.. The other citizens online.?? Salander frowned.P.
He said that he couldn??t know who would be going to the Hague. Which will be in about an hour. And you send a couple of village policemen to arrest him as if he were some Saturday night drunk.M.M. He started by walking to Park Avenue Hotel. ??For those of you who haven??t met her before. She came back with four mugs and the coffee pot. I know. Daniel. Her neck had been broken when her head was turned 180 degrees. Say for tonight. or to interviews with some old.F. had been suffering chronic pain for a long time ?? I don??t know. Zalachenko said that he would mull over the matter. agent who had apparently turned up in Sweden on Election Day in 1976. Palme was defeated. What I wanted to say was that you??ll probably have to give Holm some concessions. Vinge never saw eye to eye. It had been a quiet evening and they arrived within twenty minutes. ??I??d never even heard that Sweden had taken in and protected a Russian defector of such importance. blood pressure is 100/70. She then glanced at the bedside table and saw the water glass. Finally he inserted narrow forceps with serrated jaws.?? ??Next.?? ??How are you feeling??? ??I??m not finished yet. If they don??t have the copies. He did not think that Advokat Thomasson??s visit earlier in the day had been particularly reassuring.
On Friday morning Jonasson was faced with an obviously irritated Inspector Faste on the other side of his desk. I told you that you would have to handle him like a live grenade. ??But none of this solves the basic problem. to foreign intelligence services. you??ve been here a month and I want us to have a chance to catch up. the houses are positioned with their gables facing each other. He turned on his mobile and saw that the battery was low. ??I am sorry for coming to see you without warning. It??s more serious than that. Three women and six men: the head of the Violent Crimes Division and his assistant head; three criminal inspectors including Erlander and the G?teborg police press officers; preliminary investigation leader Agneta Jervas from the prosecutor??s office.00.?? No such agents existed. calamity would be inevitable.I. has a huge amount of dead meat in the newsroom. The apartment isn??t a good place right now. He called Figuerola. I??m sorry I??ve not come to see you the past few days.I. he did what he could for Salander. It had never come up. T. I??m beginning to think that I made a colossal mistake taking on the job. replaced by new technology ?? but the number of reporters contributing to copy was reduced by 48 during that period. She had spent an hour infiltrating and charting the intranet at S. What??s going on??? ??A psychiatrist called Teleborian is having a beer with an undercover agent ?C code name Jonas ?C down on Vasagatan. He had not.?? Nystr?m said. and he got hold of the Prosecutor General.
. the decision would have to have been made at senior government level. and he got to drink whisky at a discreet club in London with the chief of M. you??ll not only be fired but you??ll be guilty of gross misconduct. Blomkvist had been one of the people who gave Baksi practical help when he started the magazine Black/White with an issue that he produced secretly at night at the Trades Union Federation offices. If she won??t trust me. Eriksson had only called. She felt as if she had a stupendous hangover and the bed seemed to keep tilting backwards. Hans Wilhelm Francke. She did.P.?? ??Many suicides don??t. It doesn??t matter so much. It was dark and she had no sense of how long she had been aimlessly walking. She recognized Modig as one of the officers in Bublanski??s team. the signature of the Prime Minister meant that he had sanctioned the need for a unit that would be responsible for ??internal personnel control??. aggressive resistance to police officers.?? Endrin hesitated for a moment.?? said the detective responsible for Stallarholmen on behalf of the S?dert?lje police. assign two personal assistants to help him with all the practical matters. Wasp wrote. studied the details of your case. but in fact I forgot to deliver it to his office before I left. he always felt a little out of place in Stockholm. But I may stumble a bit before I really get going. He was out flitting around even in your day. ??Should we conclude that the Zalachenko club was an association formed in 1964? That would be some time before Zalachenko even came to Sweden. And Bj?rck??s report is in it. a white blouse.
K ?? ask her if she wants Giannini.M. Or possibly both of you. And the paedophile industry. which decided that Salander should be cared for at St Stefan??s.?? ??And??? ??I can??t tell you anything about that.S. In the event. She sat paralysed and tried to work out from which direction the sharp reports had come. ??What do you want me to do??? ??Go back to your desk and start working on another story. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Svea Construction Inc. ??It??s a job that could land you in big trouble. Since April he had not even plugged in the broadband cable to his own machine. so that no outsider will have knowledge of or be able to weigh the evidence against Lisbeth. He??s not married. Malin is tough. and she had to hop over to an antique chair to sit down. The two versions do not agree. can??t answer that question. None of them actually had a hope of helping her with the problems she had with the Swedish state.?? ??Damn. He studied his unexpected visitor as she stood up. Actually. first of all. Zalachenko had been shot by a 78-year-old tax specialist. and Zalachenko could not predict how he would react under interrogation. must have been persuasive. Could we isolate them somehow??? ??There??s a fifth officer involved.?? She had not expected Jonasson to make special visits to see her.
He was fully aware that everything had gone about as badly as it could have.?? Cortez came to life and began to clap.?? She glanced at her watch. ??Who??s going to take over the investigation of Salander??? ??I don??t know. And I??m too tired to drive home. But the rest is guesswork. He did not even want to begin to estimate how many counts of illegal activity must have taken place. I believe that Salander is as sane as you or I. We can??t make an exception just because it deals with your boss. he began to recover. The copies that Blomkvist and his sister ?C now Salander??s lawyer ?C had in their possession have both disappeared.??? Blomkvist said. and then follows the hunt for Salander first. ??I??ve spoken with Bublanski. ??Well ?? you could just accept a friendly personal invitation. On Sunday morning they said a hasty goodbye before Berger drove home to her husband. ??Please explain what the government has directed. but she had a body like ?? hmm. could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.?? he said.?? ??So what are you planning. dull headache and acute pain in her left shoulder.?? Olsson said. they knew what had provoked Lisbeth to do what she did. and as discreetly as possible. Gullberg was content to accept this situation.?? she said.?? Modig looked at the time again. In a broader sense.
and they had both ended up in bed with Torkel. But I??m not going to ask. but the events surrounding last night??s killing took precedence. But you have already been placed under arrest on a charge of grievous bodily harm. ??I??m going to Kungsholmen now.?? Edklinth said at last.?? ??You changed the whole door??? ??Yes. ??And how would you rate her mental state??? ??Withdrawn. She had no intention of doing that. But it??s not an arrest. olive skin and black hair going grey at the temples. we changed your bedroom door today. A summer romance? A love affair? Was she in love? She went to the bathroom and washed her face and brushed her teeth. Where is everybody??? Waltari told him where the other five members of Svavelsj? M. Blomkvist??s version is missing the entire investigation conducted by Teleborian. Blomkvist could not help being fascinated. She could just see the back window of M?rtensson??s Volvo. She put the canister of Mace from her shoulder bag on her bedside table. ??Why don??t you ever come and visit me any more??? ??I??m here to see you right now. Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R. just long enough to get an idea of who sent it and what it was about. ??Are you satisfied with the information flow??? Edklinth said at last. ??For those of you who haven??t met her before.?? ??O. from where he took a taxi to Centraal. * Gullberg had begun at the Russia desk of the third division of the state police. You don??t have to say a word or give me any information. He had heart and artery problems. but her intellectual gifts are undeniable.
whatever happened. What??s it about??? ??I just have to talk to him. She had tested herself by going on the Net and picking out random H. He was pleased with what he had written. But she had not done that since she was fourteen. But if her car had been damaged on some random street in S?dermalm. The report was what finally put us on the right track. She clicked hesitantly on Answer. She simply called Milton Security and explained that she was looking for a female employee she had met a while ago and whose name she had forgotten. there??s going to be a rack of other charges. some apples. ??Should I go now or should I wait for you??? ??Would it be O. He??s worked at S. and living on Pontonj?rgatan in Kungsholmen.W. then we can take a taxi. Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. I presume that the report now exists in two places. dark-green English felt hat. and that means you??ll once again be a pawn in their game. ??Dr Jonasson??? He turned towards her.S. is that it??? ??Not exactly ?? I mean ?? geez. but he had failed. I??m still learning this job. Actually I don??t want to talk about it. ??Fru Berger. one. S.
?? ??Alright. The attack alarm consists of two buttons that you press simultaneously and hold down for three seconds. And a murderer who called himself Ronald Niedermann. At first he had been almost hostile. But I need an opportunity to question the girl.P. ??Somebody has to write an obit. Gullberg had objected to telling the government at all. He also had traces of alcohol. Bates had taken more than 200 photographs of the community and created a gallery of small thumbnails. Because of the merry-go-round associated with a change of government.?? ??And you??d never seen him before??? ??I??d seen him in the lift. Someone wanted to sell her Viagra. Your supervisor must approve the consultation and make a formal request for you to be allowed to approach Dr Teleborian. The disk is very strong evidence. She seemed lost in thought.C. And then we??ll track down Niedermann. You know what it??s all about. The same rules apply as in your day. No matter how many questions remained unanswered. Lisbeth. that the police existed to prevent crimes like that.?? ??So how do we counter that??? Borgsj? said.?? ??Let??s see ?? it must be someone with administrative authority. Then came the awkward part. He??s not married.?? ??It??s going to be hard to keep this under wraps.?? ??You still haven??t answered the question.
The trade in building materials goes through wholesalers who set their own prices. ??Do we have the name of the assailant??? Eriksson shook her head as the telephone rang again. forty-seven.?? ??Something along those lines. are simply practical extensions of the Right to Free Speech. he also got voiceprints that Plague could process. Instead she called the duty officer at Milton Security and explained her situation. ??Jerker asked what he knew about the defection.?? ??What about the reports that Bodin tried to murder his daughter??? ??That is under investigation. He adjusted the seat and saw that the petrol tank was half full. If the court determines that you are mentally ill. grey-haired man in a hound??s-tooth jacket walk into the corridor.?? ??Fine.?? ??You mean we should ???? Nieminen had already decided that Niedermann had to be got rid of. Touch??. cares about it. it must have been something that Niedermann decided to do. no ???? ??Teleborian wrote this in a report that he sent to Bj?rck. I should perhaps mention that I opposed that action. had enormous resources and used a vast network in order to capture a large number of mobile conversations in a certain region simultaneously.?? At that moment the officer Blomkvist knew only as Stefan entered the room.?? ??Well. We??ll take him from here. Then the memories came rushing back to her.?? ??Time is more or less all I have.??s hardly dry behind the ears.C. I ?C or rather. she??s chairman of the board until we can elect Harriet Vanger at the next board meeting.
The disk is very strong evidence. Or. She reached out and rang for a nurse.?? ??Is that really so??? ??This story. I have to admit that in all my years on the force I??ve never seen anything like it. ??What do you mean??? ??I have discovered that he can be a violent person ?? I am actually afraid of him. with thinning reddish-blond hair and sunglasses. Good Lord. He enjoys indulging in intrigue and playing people against each other. 2. ??Thanks. Gullberg used all his eloquence to convince the Prime Minister not to allow information about Zalachenko to pass beyond his own office ?C there was. Then a shot was fired accidentally that hit him in the foot. you do what you do because you??re evil and rotten. It did not bode well. Both were dressed in jeans and leather jackets. It made sense. He??ll understand. The house itself is spartan.?? ??Oh. Gullberg took a taxi to Frey??s. And I??m not looking to damage either you or F?lldin. less regular breathing.S. the others were handguns of various types.M. albeit just for a couple of days.?? Nystr?m said with a slight smile.?? Armansky said.
??Mikael. ??Anything new??? ??Nothing special. Paulsson had then turned his attention to the wounded man in the woodshed. You and Magge take off on some fucking job we know nothing about.?? ??Did he look confused or???? ??I couldn??t say one way or the other.L. but she has obvious delusions with distinct paranoid schizophrenic characteristics. ??On second thoughts. three emails from Fredriksson updating her on developments in the day??s lead story. but he had only a vague notion of their family lives. If we had to arrange for bodyguard protection that would be a different matter ?C and it would be rather expensive. ??I spent the whole afternoon going over Henry??s documentation. drive out here. ??My pleasure. there might be a case for that.?? ??Tell me. and all else it takes to publish a newspaper. She did not want to draw attention to herself by leaving so soon after his unidentified companion. ??Forceps. the king or the commander-in-chief would very swiftly come under observation by the Constitutional Protection Unit.?? ??What kind of weapon is it??? Jervas said. Jonasson gave her an inquisitive glance and stopped in his tracks when he saw her desperate look. and those responsible must be held accountable. I met them about twice a year during the time I worked for the government. It did not work. Nils Bjurman. ??So. but they had neither the resources nor the expertise to run this sort of operational activity.A.
??We??ve borrowed the place for tonight??s meeting. I??ve never had a confrontation with a prime minister before. ??Could I borrow your balcony??? ??As long as you brush your teeth afterwards. Second. and a grey jacket. is going to pick this up. agent who had apparently turned up in Sweden on Election Day in 1976.?? ??Many suicides don??t.?? Edklinth said.. 1. The letters landed on his desk in the morning. Niedermann and Zalachenko.?? He tied a sheet around his waist. ??I??m beginning to like my contact with S?po. He specified a dozen commonly occurring words. She??s at the hospital in Bor?s. She decided that she did not feel like seeing anyone that evening. ??Dr Jonasson??? he said. she very steadily raised her Nikon with its 300mm telephoto lens and took two pictures. You??re right. In the ??60s he became chief of some outfit called the Section for Special Analysis. They were to take a taxi to police headquarters on Ernst Fontells Plats.?? ??You??re not married.?? He told her he was going to be at home all day writing. you get withdrawal symptoms after a while. Formally. Right now we??re examining a large number of old personnel files. He asked her to lean forward and placed the stethoscope on her back to listen to her lungs.
she had called her husband to tell him. But I??ve understood that you??re driven by several factors.?? ??If Salander hit her father in the head with an axe she isn??t exactly innocent. He did not wake until 9.?? ??Could I read the original??? ??Certainly you can. I should have published the report the day I got it. She had to put names and social security numbers to these people. That??s why Clinton has returned to duty. And Bj?rck??s report is in it. and Bert Karlsson had formed the New Democracy Party. personnel.?? Blomkvist said. Well ?? no wonder the biggest morning daily had recruited her. That left 103. Hans Wilhelm Francke.K.?? ??I was afraid of that. We can pretty much assume that she took the pistol with her to Gosseberga. And Jonas has his car keys on the table in front of him. Someone cut off about two metres of rope. It was not a perfect plan. That was a surprise. the police have been looking for Salander since Easter.?? ??But the present situation has arisen because you have been subject to a direct threat from a specific individual.
In the distance she heard a voice that seemed to be talking to her. The day before. She closed her eyes. and telecommunications.?? ??We??ll use the whole front page and move everything else back. As soon as the trial begins???? ??No. Fr?ken Salander. I??ll be back in Stockholm tomorrow if nothing else comes up.?? Blomkvist shrugged and opened his laptop case.?? Blomkvist said. Since the events in Gosseberga his colleague had certainly become withdrawn and hard to communicate with. but it was not. yes. on the murderer. boys and girls.?? Armansky said. Dakota wrote. ??And how did you find out about the meeting??? ??Tipped off by a source.30 in the afternoon.B. and for the aggravated kidnapping and assault of the dental nurse Anita Kaspersson. Henry. as well as for the murders of Svensson and Johansson. Cortez could not put his finger on what was wrong.
?? ??O. Way beyond the budget. Instead he made his second mistake: he offered to hand over the weapon he had in his jacket pocket ?C the Colt . two police inspectors were given fifteen minutes to ask her questions. You??re right. We are both of us sorry that you were subjected to Paulsson??s rather primitive way of operating. said. Bj?rck??s prints were on the handle and the blade. An awkward situation. taken when he was sixty-six. He called Malm as the train was coming into Stockholm and asked him what had prompted the tone of his text message. Do you know anything about it??? ??Absolutely not. That??s not a bad step up from this sorry little rag. ??Why don??t you ever come and visit me any more??? ??I??m here to see you right now. little girl. are you going to come quietly or do I have to handcuff you??? The consultant from Milton Security was waiting for Berger when she got home at around 7. well.00 a. What the hell? Is there some sort of spy convention on Bellmansgatan today? The two men parted at the top of the hill without exchanging a word. it could be ruined. the known killer. It was undeniable. No. Blomkvist??s problem was that the account still had gaping holes in it.
She thought through each sentence before she tapped it in.D.?? ??And??? ??He did his military service in Karlskrona in the ??40s.?? was Paulsson??s immediate response. Eriksson realized that he was reporting in to her the way he had with Berger. This included almost everything that had to do with Zalachenko??s background. ??That blond monster you and Magge hang out with.?? Nieminen was in a vile mood when he left the cells at S?dert?lje police station. The second half will be everything that we know about the Section. I take it??? ??That??s right. A single word. for the sake of fairness.V.?? ??O. Then I might as well tell you that I??ve already received a formal commission from Prosecutor Ekstr?m in Stockholm to do a forensic psychiatric report.00. But if we aren??t careful I could end up in one hell of a conflict with your colleagues. These were still in the early stages and there would need to be another hundred pages of detailed work before they were ready to go to trial. After a while she pinged Blomkvist on I. You??re wearing gloves. So Dr Jonasson was the goalkeeper who stood between the patient and Fonus Funeral Service. Which could explain the low price. As soon as you see him approach a car.?? Nystr?m said.
by a single blow to the neck. He talked for a good thirty minutes.?? she said in a cheerful voice. In that respect he??s predictable. We live in a democracy and naturally we cannot influence what is written in the press. ??In the first instance. ??I know. He had been beaten. Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile.00 in the morning she opened the word processing program on her Palm. In Edklinth??s opinion. of Bjurman??s rape. She??s Blomkvist??s sister. & E. She stepped into the stairwell and was looking for a light switch when the attack came out of the blue. Then the manhunt would at least ease up a bit. ??I hope all??s well with your father. Then he smiled. It was cool. Ingvar Carlsson had been Prime Minister at the time.?? ??I believe you. but I have a job to do. She banged her head hard. I asked Erlander to send his clothes to forensics and have them examined for traces of gunpowder.
but she had not had any particular need to read what he was up to. She decided that she did not feel like seeing anyone that evening.?? ??So.000 kronor for a week??s research on a story that was not now going to be published. felt a rush of pain and fell to the ground. ??But I haven??t heard any complaints about him in the last ?? well. Then she saw Cortez putting on his corduroy jacket. including the Prime Minister. A single word.. I repeat that my priority is Niedermann. on the other hand. But the officers were warned not to tire him. Bublanski was working only on Niedermann. Borgsj? was a good man.P. But I???? ??You left the material with Holm.. Zalachenko dragged himself to the toilet. Gullberg and Clinton talked for a long time. but the chairman of the board was intently studying Berger??s nine-point program. He had patched up a girl who had ridden her bike into a ditch that the road-repair department had chosen to dig close to the end of a bike path; the warning barriers had been tipped into the hole. Then Falun waited on the landing as Sandberg went in. He thought of the Zalachenko club as small and anonymous.
Jonasson spent ten minutes examining her.. So ?? two emails with the word ??whore?? and a phoney sender from the world of mass media. ??Who is the source of these claims??? Figuerola said when the story was ended.D. She requisitioned their passport photographs and identified at once the woman she had followed from Bellmansgatan as the Susanne Linder who lived in Nacka. Blomkvist gave a dry laugh. The Zalachenko club. On the other hand. 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. We have blueprints of the building.?? She looked at Blomkvist. Gullberg had no doubt that Zalachenko was a sick bastard. But there was as yet no sign of it. ??He worked for something called the Section for Special Analysis. She sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the screen of her Palm. ??Find out what he??s working on. This is just the way it was in his day. She went back to the front door and put on the outdoor shoes she had kicked off as she came home.M. awaiting trial for the kidnapping of Miriam Wu. Apparently he was a tax lawyer. Niedermann.?? he said.
My task here is to rejuvenate the newspaper. that??s a fee I??ll gladly pay. On the other hand. Since she had access to Teleborian??s P. and she limped into the kitchen and sank on to the nearest chair. I??ll be outside the train station in forty-five minutes. I??m thinking of the ferry to the east. Jonasson was a catalogue of surprises. I simply wasn??t thinking straight. But it ended.m. this is an extreme state of affairs. But this is going to take some legwork. The Security Police recently initiated an investigation of this man because he had written a number of apparently unstable letters to well-known politicians and the media. I had no idea that he worked for S?po. She began to have doubts about the ability of the Security Police to protect her. She had not tackled the Peter Fleming account because she did not need to have full administrator rights. He??s going to be in the slammer for a while. I can??t afford to keep him on as a dead weight all that time.?? Figuerola said. Slowly she sat down on the staircase.M. No energy at all. why had she telephoned Milton Security in the first place and asked them to install an alarm? ??O.
two from Eriksson. They were scrutinizing the results of the preliminary investigation that Holmberg had completed that morning. I think you ought to tell them right away. unvarnished truth about her life in a cracklingly terse autobiography of forty pages. You stay here and sit down. who was looking more and more hollow-eyed. That would have required extensive access to the Swedish cable network. but she had very straightforwardly conceded that she had no authority to interview him and that naturally he was perfectly free to tell her nothing at all if he did not want to. A mood of acute panic. possibly three. I know. The headline that Berger had decided to use was suddenly replaced by something entirely different. ??Hello.?? ??He is forbidden to talk about it. sending a fax of a threatening letter that hadn??t yet reached its addressee. She did not say a word. Lisbeth Salander had at the very least been deprived of the opportunity to exercise her constitutionally protected rights and liberties. but usually we use someone from the external organization if necessary. ??The matter has gone to court. and as a doctor he was not the least bit interested in the answer to that question. Eriksson and Malm. Can you manage that??? Salander waited patiently for almost a minute before Annika nodded. who. That gave an average of 15.
Berger??s decision was made. Damn it. She had been with Borgsj? for forty-five minutes without mentioning one syllable about Vitavara. We are both of us sorry that you were subjected to Paulsson??s rather primitive way of operating.?? Erlander bent towards him. were filled every day with the correct text.?? the P. 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.?? ??I don??t even know which colleague you??re talking about. Giannini had only been there for a few minutes. He hovered between life and death for several weeks. Is that O. G?ransson. the incident might be included in that year??s statistical compilation. a couple of days after Zalachenko and Salander had landed in Sahlgrenska hospital. but situations do crop up. You could turn the trial to your advantage or let them convict you. and that I wanted to look at and approve everything that was to be published. Shit.?? She thought about that. Yes.?? ??I??ll do what I can. ??You suspect that there??s a conspiracy within the Security Police that is acting outside its constitutional mandate.?? It was Gunnar Magnusson.
?? Ekstr?m had a dozen questions that Nystr?m meticulously noted. It must have been backed by the government. Putting a mobile telephone into an air vent inside a locked cleaning supplies room. as you know. His job was to save his patient??s life. I may be paranoid.?? ??He seems not to have had any contact with his old friends in Hamburg.?? ??Come on.S.?? ??Could we talk to the prosecutor??? ??No. shaking his head. there was no crime. Have you got a mobile on you??? ??A what??? ??A mobile. Forensics have it. You won??t. and that he had come to her room at 3. She gave him twenty minutes to deal with his post. In return he had pledged not to steal anything from the apartment that was the target of the operation. ??The important thing is that. She first worked in Counter-Espionage. energy and resources. I??m thinking of moving you to the Constitutional Protection operations unit. The car was still there. tubes loose as she carried her to the bathroom and set her on the toilet seat.
and he wasn??t mentioned in Svensson??s material.K. I???? She interrupted him. had conspired to lock Salander away in the asylum. when S. He pointed to the front page of the evening paper. I talked to Teleborian. The important thing right now was to consolidate their forces. There really was a conspiracy inside S. He refers to it as the Zalachenko club. ??Swab. July 13. The press haven??t picked up on it yet. We??ve identified a known dealer and petty thief who was found dismembered in one trench. His role was to make sure that the pages of S. to ?? what? A complete loony? Salander might be innocent of murder. He was advised that he alone had to make the decisions. Hi Sally. Figuerola locked all the material in her safe.?? Blomkvist woke up at 10.?? ??Mikael. Cursing. then it was with these lunatics. In some mysterious way the ceiling lamp had been taken down and placed on the coffee table.
?? ??There was a ?? Clinton. He was hungry and exhausted. he had helped in the attempt to murder and bury her. ??Jerker asked what he knew about the defection. The report claimed that it was almost impossible to charge and convict anyone under the law of persecution against an ethnic group.?? ??What do you think they did in the stairwell??? ??I don??t know. and two officers whose job it was to compile and analyse any intelligence information that Zalachenko might contribute. Cortez stayed on the other side of the street. a Mace canister and a pistol.?? Blomkvist said. He listened with increasing dismay to Giannini??s account of what had happened.iv ?C Tuesday. We deal more with computer hacking and electronic surveillance and such like.. Don??t push me away.?? ??Zalachenko??? Sandberg nodded. When he got up to the room he went straight to the bathroom.05. but he had been savagely beaten.S. He was so absorbed that he did not notice Inspector Modig until she cleared her throat and asked if she could join him. but he??s afraid to make operational decisions. ??It??s Anders. So.
But you were also arrested for possession of an illegal weapon. They must have been following her.?? ??It would help if you??d tell me what??s going on. She had heard him offering his I. Can you open your eyes again??? She opened her eyes to narrow slits. He was Kurdish. This one was obviously referring to her new job as editor-in-chief.S.?? ??But we could ask the boss. but he seemed peripheral. When it came to Agneta Sofia Salander. but the wires stretched in the direction of the pencil. ??I don??t know. Cortez now kept an ashtray on his desk.S. Magnus. Her eyes lit upon an air vent just below the ceiling. This bothered her. One of the first things Blomkvist did when he realized that his mobile was bugged was to send Cortez out to buy some used handsets. He was twenty-six years old and had been at Millennium for four years.G.?? ??Have you an operations unit??? Wadensj?? frowned. Even small movements of his facial muscles caused sharp pains in his jaw and cheekbone. Figuerola gave her a lead of about thirty metres.
but Asperger??s patients do not generally set fire to their parents. Annika recognized him as the man who come up in the lift with her. which showed a man that both of them immediately recognized. A man against whom S?po had lately initiated a preliminary investigation because he was a nutter who wrote threatening letters to public figures. In addition. Greger Beckman. A Russian agent. ??The first two were members of the Zalachenko club in the ??80s. originally from Ume? in northern Sweden. Unfortunately the trial is going to be held behind closed doors ??to protect your privacy??.?? ??That sounds serious. I??d give a lot of money to find out what they talked about. Mikael also has a tendency to bury himself in his own stories and be totally off the radar for weeks at a time. That was not a good sign. The screen changed again and now had a blue background with the text: [Welcome to Hacker Republic. Hello. In three years.K. as soon as her client had been moved to a new room and a security guard had been posted outside. He??s had recurring trouble with it over the past few years. it does. Finally she shrugged. But one thing is for sure ?C I don??t mean to spend the rest of it in this glass cage.?? The woman nodded and showed him into the living room.
2.A.?? Blomkvist said to remind them that he was there in the room.?? ??Could I have some water??? Salander whispered. It??s a big. Berger looked up and searched for the news editor. But it is unusual. ??Rescue Service helicopter coming in. Who was murdered??? ??Herr Bodin.?? Modig said. and she recognized all the signs of a reporter who had a story in the works. ??Blomkvist. ??Does it feel tight??? ??A little. Furthermore.?? ??I can??t.?? Blomkvist ran into Cortez at the entrance to the Millennium offices. and turned down the volume so that he would not have to hear it. that is. Bublanski looked at the notes from his meeting with Ekstr?m. She lifted her foot and saw to her dismay that a shard of glass had pierced her heel. And yet she had connectivity. ??O. We have to find allies within the bureaucracy if this is not going to end in calamity. Ghidi soon discovered that being a well-educated and experienced construction engineer counted for nothing.
??First-class research.?? ??North on Kungsgatan.?? She put the address into the inside pocket of her jacket. Not one of them had heard of Hans von Rottinger. She knew.000 other mobile telephones within a kilometre of police headquarters. ??I can understand why you??d want to quit this madhouse ?? but to be the head of Sweden??s most turgid old-boy newspaper ?? that??s going to take some time to sink in. Ghidi soon discovered that being a well-educated and experienced construction engineer counted for nothing. There was no exit wound: the round was still inside her shoulder. 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. 1989. come to that. and generally she had done everything she could think of to make him understand how she wanted the newspaper to be shaped.I. and Lisbeth Salander was unlucky enough to have him as her father. a murderer. I want you to focus on the follow-up care given to severely injured patients in corridor 11C.?? he said. We??ll try to isolate them in a lengthy investigation. Everything else is unimportant. I??m still on the Salander story. She felt depressed.00 he had a brief visit from a representative of the prosecutor??s office. The house itself is spartan. I think you??re an excellent reporter.. The other citizens online.?? Salander frowned.P.
He said that he couldn??t know who would be going to the Hague. Which will be in about an hour. And you send a couple of village policemen to arrest him as if he were some Saturday night drunk.M.M. He started by walking to Park Avenue Hotel. ??For those of you who haven??t met her before. She came back with four mugs and the coffee pot. I know. Daniel. Her neck had been broken when her head was turned 180 degrees. Say for tonight. or to interviews with some old.F. had been suffering chronic pain for a long time ?? I don??t know. Zalachenko said that he would mull over the matter. agent who had apparently turned up in Sweden on Election Day in 1976. Palme was defeated. What I wanted to say was that you??ll probably have to give Holm some concessions. Vinge never saw eye to eye. It had been a quiet evening and they arrived within twenty minutes. ??I??d never even heard that Sweden had taken in and protected a Russian defector of such importance. blood pressure is 100/70. She then glanced at the bedside table and saw the water glass. Finally he inserted narrow forceps with serrated jaws.?? ??Next.?? ??How are you feeling??? ??I??m not finished yet. If they don??t have the copies. He did not think that Advokat Thomasson??s visit earlier in the day had been particularly reassuring.
On Friday morning Jonasson was faced with an obviously irritated Inspector Faste on the other side of his desk. I told you that you would have to handle him like a live grenade. ??But none of this solves the basic problem. to foreign intelligence services. you??ve been here a month and I want us to have a chance to catch up. the houses are positioned with their gables facing each other. He turned on his mobile and saw that the battery was low. ??I am sorry for coming to see you without warning. It??s more serious than that. Three women and six men: the head of the Violent Crimes Division and his assistant head; three criminal inspectors including Erlander and the G?teborg police press officers; preliminary investigation leader Agneta Jervas from the prosecutor??s office.00.?? No such agents existed. calamity would be inevitable.I. has a huge amount of dead meat in the newsroom. The apartment isn??t a good place right now. He called Figuerola. I??m sorry I??ve not come to see you the past few days.I. he did what he could for Salander. It had never come up. T. I??m beginning to think that I made a colossal mistake taking on the job. replaced by new technology ?? but the number of reporters contributing to copy was reduced by 48 during that period. She had spent an hour infiltrating and charting the intranet at S. What??s going on??? ??A psychiatrist called Teleborian is having a beer with an undercover agent ?C code name Jonas ?C down on Vasagatan. He had not.?? Nystr?m said. and he got hold of the Prosecutor General.
. the decision would have to have been made at senior government level. and he got to drink whisky at a discreet club in London with the chief of M. you??ll not only be fired but you??ll be guilty of gross misconduct. Blomkvist had been one of the people who gave Baksi practical help when he started the magazine Black/White with an issue that he produced secretly at night at the Trades Union Federation offices. If she won??t trust me. Eriksson had only called. She felt as if she had a stupendous hangover and the bed seemed to keep tilting backwards. Hans Wilhelm Francke. She did.P.?? ??Many suicides don??t. It doesn??t matter so much. It was dark and she had no sense of how long she had been aimlessly walking. She recognized Modig as one of the officers in Bublanski??s team. the signature of the Prime Minister meant that he had sanctioned the need for a unit that would be responsible for ??internal personnel control??. aggressive resistance to police officers.?? Endrin hesitated for a moment.?? said the detective responsible for Stallarholmen on behalf of the S?dert?lje police. assign two personal assistants to help him with all the practical matters. Wasp wrote. studied the details of your case. but in fact I forgot to deliver it to his office before I left. he always felt a little out of place in Stockholm. But I may stumble a bit before I really get going. He was out flitting around even in your day. ??Should we conclude that the Zalachenko club was an association formed in 1964? That would be some time before Zalachenko even came to Sweden. And Bj?rck??s report is in it. a white blouse.
K ?? ask her if she wants Giannini.M. Or possibly both of you. And the paedophile industry. which decided that Salander should be cared for at St Stefan??s.?? ??And??? ??I can??t tell you anything about that.S. In the event. She sat paralysed and tried to work out from which direction the sharp reports had come. ??What do you want me to do??? ??Go back to your desk and start working on another story. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Svea Construction Inc. ??It??s a job that could land you in big trouble. Since April he had not even plugged in the broadband cable to his own machine. so that no outsider will have knowledge of or be able to weigh the evidence against Lisbeth. He??s not married. Malin is tough. and she had to hop over to an antique chair to sit down. The two versions do not agree. can??t answer that question. None of them actually had a hope of helping her with the problems she had with the Swedish state.?? ??Damn. He studied his unexpected visitor as she stood up. Actually. first of all. Zalachenko had been shot by a 78-year-old tax specialist. and Zalachenko could not predict how he would react under interrogation. must have been persuasive. Could we isolate them somehow??? ??There??s a fifth officer involved.?? She had not expected Jonasson to make special visits to see her.
He was fully aware that everything had gone about as badly as it could have.?? Cortez came to life and began to clap.?? She glanced at her watch. ??Who??s going to take over the investigation of Salander??? ??I don??t know. And I??m too tired to drive home. But the rest is guesswork. He did not even want to begin to estimate how many counts of illegal activity must have taken place. I believe that Salander is as sane as you or I. We can??t make an exception just because it deals with your boss. he began to recover. The copies that Blomkvist and his sister ?C now Salander??s lawyer ?C had in their possession have both disappeared.??? Blomkvist said. and then follows the hunt for Salander first. ??I??ve spoken with Bublanski. ??Well ?? you could just accept a friendly personal invitation. On Sunday morning they said a hasty goodbye before Berger drove home to her husband. ??Please explain what the government has directed. but she had a body like ?? hmm. could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.?? he said.?? ??So what are you planning. dull headache and acute pain in her left shoulder.?? Olsson said. they knew what had provoked Lisbeth to do what she did. and as discreetly as possible. Gullberg was content to accept this situation.?? she said.?? Modig looked at the time again. In a broader sense.
and they had both ended up in bed with Torkel. But I??m not going to ask. but the events surrounding last night??s killing took precedence. But you have already been placed under arrest on a charge of grievous bodily harm. ??I??m going to Kungsholmen now.?? Edklinth said at last.?? ??You changed the whole door??? ??Yes. ??And how would you rate her mental state??? ??Withdrawn. She had no intention of doing that. But it??s not an arrest. olive skin and black hair going grey at the temples. we changed your bedroom door today. A summer romance? A love affair? Was she in love? She went to the bathroom and washed her face and brushed her teeth. Where is everybody??? Waltari told him where the other five members of Svavelsj? M. Blomkvist??s version is missing the entire investigation conducted by Teleborian. Blomkvist could not help being fascinated. She could just see the back window of M?rtensson??s Volvo. She put the canister of Mace from her shoulder bag on her bedside table. ??Why don??t you ever come and visit me any more??? ??I??m here to see you right now. Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R. just long enough to get an idea of who sent it and what it was about. ??Are you satisfied with the information flow??? Edklinth said at last. ??For those of you who haven??t met her before.?? ??O. from where he took a taxi to Centraal. * Gullberg had begun at the Russia desk of the third division of the state police. You don??t have to say a word or give me any information. He had heart and artery problems. but her intellectual gifts are undeniable.
whatever happened. What??s it about??? ??I just have to talk to him. She had tested herself by going on the Net and picking out random H. He was pleased with what he had written. But she had not done that since she was fourteen. But if her car had been damaged on some random street in S?dermalm. The report was what finally put us on the right track. She clicked hesitantly on Answer. She simply called Milton Security and explained that she was looking for a female employee she had met a while ago and whose name she had forgotten. there??s going to be a rack of other charges. some apples. ??Should I go now or should I wait for you??? ??Would it be O. He??s worked at S. and living on Pontonj?rgatan in Kungsholmen.W. then we can take a taxi. Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. I presume that the report now exists in two places. dark-green English felt hat. and that means you??ll once again be a pawn in their game. ??Dr Jonasson??? He turned towards her.S. is that it??? ??Not exactly ?? I mean ?? geez. but he had failed. I??m still learning this job. Actually I don??t want to talk about it. ??Fru Berger. one. S.
?? ??Alright. The attack alarm consists of two buttons that you press simultaneously and hold down for three seconds. And a murderer who called himself Ronald Niedermann. At first he had been almost hostile. But I need an opportunity to question the girl.P. ??Somebody has to write an obit. Gullberg had objected to telling the government at all. He also had traces of alcohol. Bates had taken more than 200 photographs of the community and created a gallery of small thumbnails. Because of the merry-go-round associated with a change of government.?? ??And you??d never seen him before??? ??I??d seen him in the lift. Someone wanted to sell her Viagra. Your supervisor must approve the consultation and make a formal request for you to be allowed to approach Dr Teleborian. The disk is very strong evidence. She seemed lost in thought.C. And then we??ll track down Niedermann. You know what it??s all about. The same rules apply as in your day. No matter how many questions remained unanswered. Lisbeth. that the police existed to prevent crimes like that.?? ??So how do we counter that??? Borgsj? said.?? ??Let??s see ?? it must be someone with administrative authority. Then came the awkward part. He??s not married.?? ??It??s going to be hard to keep this under wraps.?? ??You still haven??t answered the question.
The trade in building materials goes through wholesalers who set their own prices. ??Do we have the name of the assailant??? Eriksson shook her head as the telephone rang again. forty-seven.?? ??Something along those lines. are simply practical extensions of the Right to Free Speech. he also got voiceprints that Plague could process. Instead she called the duty officer at Milton Security and explained her situation. ??Jerker asked what he knew about the defection.?? ??What about the reports that Bodin tried to murder his daughter??? ??That is under investigation. He adjusted the seat and saw that the petrol tank was half full. If the court determines that you are mentally ill. grey-haired man in a hound??s-tooth jacket walk into the corridor.?? ??Fine.?? ??You mean we should ???? Nieminen had already decided that Niedermann had to be got rid of. Touch??. cares about it. it must have been something that Niedermann decided to do. no ???? ??Teleborian wrote this in a report that he sent to Bj?rck. I should perhaps mention that I opposed that action. had enormous resources and used a vast network in order to capture a large number of mobile conversations in a certain region simultaneously.?? At that moment the officer Blomkvist knew only as Stefan entered the room.?? ??Well. We??ll take him from here. Then the memories came rushing back to her.?? ??Time is more or less all I have.??s hardly dry behind the ears.C. I ?C or rather. she??s chairman of the board until we can elect Harriet Vanger at the next board meeting.
The disk is very strong evidence. Or. She reached out and rang for a nurse.?? ??Is that really so??? ??This story. I have to admit that in all my years on the force I??ve never seen anything like it. ??What do you mean??? ??I have discovered that he can be a violent person ?? I am actually afraid of him. with thinning reddish-blond hair and sunglasses. Good Lord. He enjoys indulging in intrigue and playing people against each other. 2. ??Thanks. Gullberg used all his eloquence to convince the Prime Minister not to allow information about Zalachenko to pass beyond his own office ?C there was. Then a shot was fired accidentally that hit him in the foot. you do what you do because you??re evil and rotten. It did not bode well. Both were dressed in jeans and leather jackets. It made sense. He??ll understand. The house itself is spartan.?? ??Oh. Gullberg took a taxi to Frey??s. And I??m not looking to damage either you or F?lldin. less regular breathing.S. the others were handguns of various types.M. albeit just for a couple of days.?? Nystr?m said with a slight smile.?? Armansky said.
??Mikael. ??Anything new??? ??Nothing special. Paulsson had then turned his attention to the wounded man in the woodshed. You and Magge take off on some fucking job we know nothing about.?? ??Did he look confused or???? ??I couldn??t say one way or the other.L. but she has obvious delusions with distinct paranoid schizophrenic characteristics. ??On second thoughts. three emails from Fredriksson updating her on developments in the day??s lead story. but he had only a vague notion of their family lives. If we had to arrange for bodyguard protection that would be a different matter ?C and it would be rather expensive. ??I spent the whole afternoon going over Henry??s documentation. drive out here. ??My pleasure. there might be a case for that.?? ??Tell me. and all else it takes to publish a newspaper. She did not want to draw attention to herself by leaving so soon after his unidentified companion. ??Forceps. the king or the commander-in-chief would very swiftly come under observation by the Constitutional Protection Unit.?? ??What kind of weapon is it??? Jervas said. Jonasson gave her an inquisitive glance and stopped in his tracks when he saw her desperate look. and those responsible must be held accountable. I met them about twice a year during the time I worked for the government. It did not work. Nils Bjurman. ??So. but they had neither the resources nor the expertise to run this sort of operational activity.A.
??We??ve borrowed the place for tonight??s meeting. I??ve never had a confrontation with a prime minister before. ??Could I borrow your balcony??? ??As long as you brush your teeth afterwards. Second. and a grey jacket. is going to pick this up. agent who had apparently turned up in Sweden on Election Day in 1976.?? ??Many suicides don??t.?? Edklinth said.. 1. The letters landed on his desk in the morning. Niedermann and Zalachenko.?? He tied a sheet around his waist. ??I??m beginning to like my contact with S?po. He specified a dozen commonly occurring words. She??s at the hospital in Bor?s. She decided that she did not feel like seeing anyone that evening. ??Dr Jonasson??? he said. she very steadily raised her Nikon with its 300mm telephoto lens and took two pictures. You??re right. In the ??60s he became chief of some outfit called the Section for Special Analysis. They were to take a taxi to police headquarters on Ernst Fontells Plats.?? ??You??re not married.?? He told her he was going to be at home all day writing. you get withdrawal symptoms after a while. Formally. Right now we??re examining a large number of old personnel files. He asked her to lean forward and placed the stethoscope on her back to listen to her lungs.
she had called her husband to tell him. But I??ve understood that you??re driven by several factors.?? ??If Salander hit her father in the head with an axe she isn??t exactly innocent. He did not wake until 9.?? ??Could I read the original??? ??Certainly you can. I should have published the report the day I got it. She had to put names and social security numbers to these people. That??s why Clinton has returned to duty. And Bj?rck??s report is in it. and Bert Karlsson had formed the New Democracy Party. personnel.?? Blomkvist said. Well ?? no wonder the biggest morning daily had recruited her. That left 103. Hans Wilhelm Francke.K.?? ??I was afraid of that. We can pretty much assume that she took the pistol with her to Gosseberga. And Jonas has his car keys on the table in front of him. Someone cut off about two metres of rope. It was not a perfect plan. That was a surprise. the police have been looking for Salander since Easter.?? ??But the present situation has arisen because you have been subject to a direct threat from a specific individual.
In the distance she heard a voice that seemed to be talking to her. The day before. She closed her eyes. and telecommunications.?? ??We??ll use the whole front page and move everything else back. As soon as the trial begins???? ??No. Fr?ken Salander. I??ll be back in Stockholm tomorrow if nothing else comes up.?? Blomkvist shrugged and opened his laptop case.?? Blomkvist said. Since the events in Gosseberga his colleague had certainly become withdrawn and hard to communicate with. but it was not. yes. on the murderer. boys and girls.?? Armansky said. Dakota wrote. ??And how did you find out about the meeting??? ??Tipped off by a source.30 in the afternoon.B. and for the aggravated kidnapping and assault of the dental nurse Anita Kaspersson. Henry. as well as for the murders of Svensson and Johansson. Cortez could not put his finger on what was wrong.
?? ??O. Way beyond the budget. Instead he made his second mistake: he offered to hand over the weapon he had in his jacket pocket ?C the Colt . two police inspectors were given fifteen minutes to ask her questions. You??re right. We are both of us sorry that you were subjected to Paulsson??s rather primitive way of operating. said. Bj?rck??s prints were on the handle and the blade. An awkward situation. taken when he was sixty-six. He called Malm as the train was coming into Stockholm and asked him what had prompted the tone of his text message. Do you know anything about it??? ??Absolutely not. That??s not a bad step up from this sorry little rag. ??Why don??t you ever come and visit me any more??? ??I??m here to see you right now. little girl. are you going to come quietly or do I have to handcuff you??? The consultant from Milton Security was waiting for Berger when she got home at around 7. well.00 a. What the hell? Is there some sort of spy convention on Bellmansgatan today? The two men parted at the top of the hill without exchanging a word. it could be ruined. the known killer. It was undeniable. No. Blomkvist??s problem was that the account still had gaping holes in it.
She thought through each sentence before she tapped it in.D.?? ??And??? ??He did his military service in Karlskrona in the ??40s.?? was Paulsson??s immediate response. Eriksson realized that he was reporting in to her the way he had with Berger. This included almost everything that had to do with Zalachenko??s background. ??That blond monster you and Magge hang out with.?? Nieminen was in a vile mood when he left the cells at S?dert?lje police station. The second half will be everything that we know about the Section. I take it??? ??That??s right. A single word. for the sake of fairness.V.?? ??O. Then I might as well tell you that I??ve already received a formal commission from Prosecutor Ekstr?m in Stockholm to do a forensic psychiatric report.00. But if we aren??t careful I could end up in one hell of a conflict with your colleagues. These were still in the early stages and there would need to be another hundred pages of detailed work before they were ready to go to trial. After a while she pinged Blomkvist on I. You??re wearing gloves. So Dr Jonasson was the goalkeeper who stood between the patient and Fonus Funeral Service. Which could explain the low price. As soon as you see him approach a car.?? Nystr?m said.
by a single blow to the neck. He talked for a good thirty minutes.?? she said in a cheerful voice. In that respect he??s predictable. We live in a democracy and naturally we cannot influence what is written in the press. ??In the first instance. ??I know. He had been beaten. Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile.00 in the morning she opened the word processing program on her Palm. In Edklinth??s opinion. of Bjurman??s rape. She??s Blomkvist??s sister. & E. She stepped into the stairwell and was looking for a light switch when the attack came out of the blue. Then the manhunt would at least ease up a bit. ??I hope all??s well with your father. Then he smiled. It was cool. Ingvar Carlsson had been Prime Minister at the time.?? ??I believe you. but I have a job to do. She banged her head hard. I asked Erlander to send his clothes to forensics and have them examined for traces of gunpowder.
but she had not had any particular need to read what he was up to. She decided that she did not feel like seeing anyone that evening.?? ??So.000 kronor for a week??s research on a story that was not now going to be published. felt a rush of pain and fell to the ground. ??But I haven??t heard any complaints about him in the last ?? well. Then she saw Cortez putting on his corduroy jacket. including the Prime Minister. A single word.. I repeat that my priority is Niedermann. on the other hand. But the officers were warned not to tire him. Bublanski was working only on Niedermann. Borgsj? was a good man.P. But I???? ??You left the material with Holm.. Zalachenko dragged himself to the toilet. Gullberg and Clinton talked for a long time. but the chairman of the board was intently studying Berger??s nine-point program. He had patched up a girl who had ridden her bike into a ditch that the road-repair department had chosen to dig close to the end of a bike path; the warning barriers had been tipped into the hole. Then Falun waited on the landing as Sandberg went in. He thought of the Zalachenko club as small and anonymous.
Jonasson spent ten minutes examining her.. So ?? two emails with the word ??whore?? and a phoney sender from the world of mass media. ??Who is the source of these claims??? Figuerola said when the story was ended.D. She requisitioned their passport photographs and identified at once the woman she had followed from Bellmansgatan as the Susanne Linder who lived in Nacka. Blomkvist gave a dry laugh. The Zalachenko club. On the other hand. 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. We have blueprints of the building.?? She looked at Blomkvist. Gullberg had no doubt that Zalachenko was a sick bastard. But there was as yet no sign of it. ??He worked for something called the Section for Special Analysis. She sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the screen of her Palm. ??Find out what he??s working on. This is just the way it was in his day. She went back to the front door and put on the outdoor shoes she had kicked off as she came home.M. awaiting trial for the kidnapping of Miriam Wu. Apparently he was a tax lawyer. Niedermann.?? he said.
My task here is to rejuvenate the newspaper. that??s a fee I??ll gladly pay. On the other hand. Since she had access to Teleborian??s P. and she limped into the kitchen and sank on to the nearest chair. I??ll be outside the train station in forty-five minutes. I??m thinking of the ferry to the east. Jonasson was a catalogue of surprises. I simply wasn??t thinking straight. But it ended.m. this is an extreme state of affairs. But this is going to take some legwork. The Security Police recently initiated an investigation of this man because he had written a number of apparently unstable letters to well-known politicians and the media. I had no idea that he worked for S?po. She began to have doubts about the ability of the Security Police to protect her. She had not tackled the Peter Fleming account because she did not need to have full administrator rights. He??s going to be in the slammer for a while. I can??t afford to keep him on as a dead weight all that time.?? Figuerola said. Slowly she sat down on the staircase.M. No energy at all. why had she telephoned Milton Security in the first place and asked them to install an alarm? ??O.
two from Eriksson. They were scrutinizing the results of the preliminary investigation that Holmberg had completed that morning. I think you ought to tell them right away. unvarnished truth about her life in a cracklingly terse autobiography of forty pages. You stay here and sit down. who was looking more and more hollow-eyed. That would have required extensive access to the Swedish cable network. but she had very straightforwardly conceded that she had no authority to interview him and that naturally he was perfectly free to tell her nothing at all if he did not want to. A mood of acute panic. possibly three. I know. The headline that Berger had decided to use was suddenly replaced by something entirely different. ??Hello.?? ??He is forbidden to talk about it. sending a fax of a threatening letter that hadn??t yet reached its addressee. She did not say a word. Lisbeth Salander had at the very least been deprived of the opportunity to exercise her constitutionally protected rights and liberties. but usually we use someone from the external organization if necessary. ??The matter has gone to court. and as a doctor he was not the least bit interested in the answer to that question. Eriksson and Malm. Can you manage that??? Salander waited patiently for almost a minute before Annika nodded. who. That gave an average of 15.
Berger??s decision was made. Damn it. She had been with Borgsj? for forty-five minutes without mentioning one syllable about Vitavara. We are both of us sorry that you were subjected to Paulsson??s rather primitive way of operating.?? Erlander bent towards him. were filled every day with the correct text.?? the P. 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.?? ??I don??t even know which colleague you??re talking about. Giannini had only been there for a few minutes. He hovered between life and death for several weeks. Is that O. G?ransson. the incident might be included in that year??s statistical compilation. a couple of days after Zalachenko and Salander had landed in Sahlgrenska hospital. but situations do crop up. You could turn the trial to your advantage or let them convict you. and that I wanted to look at and approve everything that was to be published. Shit.?? She thought about that. Yes.?? ??I??ll do what I can. ??You suspect that there??s a conspiracy within the Security Police that is acting outside its constitutional mandate.?? It was Gunnar Magnusson.
?? Ekstr?m had a dozen questions that Nystr?m meticulously noted. It must have been backed by the government. Putting a mobile telephone into an air vent inside a locked cleaning supplies room. as you know. His job was to save his patient??s life. I may be paranoid.?? ??He seems not to have had any contact with his old friends in Hamburg.?? ??Come on.S.?? ??Could we talk to the prosecutor??? ??No. shaking his head. there was no crime. Have you got a mobile on you??? ??A what??? ??A mobile. Forensics have it. You won??t. and that he had come to her room at 3. She gave him twenty minutes to deal with his post. In return he had pledged not to steal anything from the apartment that was the target of the operation. ??The important thing is that. She first worked in Counter-Espionage. energy and resources. I??m thinking of moving you to the Constitutional Protection operations unit. The car was still there. tubes loose as she carried her to the bathroom and set her on the toilet seat.
and he wasn??t mentioned in Svensson??s material.K. I???? She interrupted him. had conspired to lock Salander away in the asylum. when S. He pointed to the front page of the evening paper. I talked to Teleborian. The important thing right now was to consolidate their forces. There really was a conspiracy inside S. He refers to it as the Zalachenko club. ??Swab. July 13. The press haven??t picked up on it yet. We??ve identified a known dealer and petty thief who was found dismembered in one trench. His role was to make sure that the pages of S. to ?? what? A complete loony? Salander might be innocent of murder. He was advised that he alone had to make the decisions. Hi Sally. Figuerola locked all the material in her safe.?? Blomkvist woke up at 10.?? ??Mikael. Cursing. then it was with these lunatics. In some mysterious way the ceiling lamp had been taken down and placed on the coffee table.
?? ??There was a ?? Clinton. He was hungry and exhausted. he had helped in the attempt to murder and bury her. ??Jerker asked what he knew about the defection. The report claimed that it was almost impossible to charge and convict anyone under the law of persecution against an ethnic group.?? ??What do you think they did in the stairwell??? ??I don??t know. and two officers whose job it was to compile and analyse any intelligence information that Zalachenko might contribute. Cortez stayed on the other side of the street. a Mace canister and a pistol.?? Blomkvist said. He listened with increasing dismay to Giannini??s account of what had happened.iv ?C Tuesday. We deal more with computer hacking and electronic surveillance and such like.. Don??t push me away.?? ??Zalachenko??? Sandberg nodded. When he got up to the room he went straight to the bathroom.05. but he had been savagely beaten.S. He was so absorbed that he did not notice Inspector Modig until she cleared her throat and asked if she could join him. but he??s afraid to make operational decisions. ??It??s Anders. So.
But you were also arrested for possession of an illegal weapon. They must have been following her.?? ??It would help if you??d tell me what??s going on. She had heard him offering his I. Can you open your eyes again??? She opened her eyes to narrow slits. He was Kurdish. This one was obviously referring to her new job as editor-in-chief.S.?? ??But we could ask the boss. but he seemed peripheral. When it came to Agneta Sofia Salander. but the wires stretched in the direction of the pencil. ??I don??t know. Cortez now kept an ashtray on his desk.S. Magnus. Her eyes lit upon an air vent just below the ceiling. This bothered her. One of the first things Blomkvist did when he realized that his mobile was bugged was to send Cortez out to buy some used handsets. He was twenty-six years old and had been at Millennium for four years.G.?? ??Have you an operations unit??? Wadensj?? frowned. Even small movements of his facial muscles caused sharp pains in his jaw and cheekbone. Figuerola gave her a lead of about thirty metres.
but Asperger??s patients do not generally set fire to their parents. Annika recognized him as the man who come up in the lift with her. which showed a man that both of them immediately recognized. A man against whom S?po had lately initiated a preliminary investigation because he was a nutter who wrote threatening letters to public figures. In addition. Greger Beckman. A Russian agent. ??The first two were members of the Zalachenko club in the ??80s. originally from Ume? in northern Sweden. Unfortunately the trial is going to be held behind closed doors ??to protect your privacy??.?? ??That sounds serious. I??d give a lot of money to find out what they talked about. Mikael also has a tendency to bury himself in his own stories and be totally off the radar for weeks at a time. That was not a good sign. The screen changed again and now had a blue background with the text: [Welcome to Hacker Republic. Hello. In three years.K. as soon as her client had been moved to a new room and a security guard had been posted outside. He??s had recurring trouble with it over the past few years. it does. Finally she shrugged. But one thing is for sure ?C I don??t mean to spend the rest of it in this glass cage.?? The woman nodded and showed him into the living room.
2.A.?? Blomkvist said to remind them that he was there in the room.?? ??Could I have some water??? Salander whispered. It??s a big. Berger looked up and searched for the news editor. But it is unusual. ??Rescue Service helicopter coming in. Who was murdered??? ??Herr Bodin.?? Modig said. and she recognized all the signs of a reporter who had a story in the works. ??Blomkvist. ??Does it feel tight??? ??A little. Furthermore.?? ??I can??t.?? Blomkvist ran into Cortez at the entrance to the Millennium offices. and turned down the volume so that he would not have to hear it. that is. Bublanski looked at the notes from his meeting with Ekstr?m. She lifted her foot and saw to her dismay that a shard of glass had pierced her heel. And yet she had connectivity. ??O. We have to find allies within the bureaucracy if this is not going to end in calamity. Ghidi soon discovered that being a well-educated and experienced construction engineer counted for nothing.
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