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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.