??One of your jobs at Sahlgrenska hospital ?C six days a week. and I can??t tell the others before I tell him.

?? ??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.