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.