Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Johansson. Both he and Nieminen acted so threateningly that I had no choice but to resort to my right of self-defence.

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M. And thank God nobody yet knew that he was her brother. when he needed to restructure certain funds connected to a small financial firm that he owned in Liechtenstein. ??I tried to reach you earlier this week. Figuerola nodded and thought for a few seconds. a 26-year-old temp on the culture pages.?? Modig said. For a second he held his breath when the pilot seemed to have difficulty controlling the aircraft.?? ??Could he have recognized you from the papers? You??ve had a lot of publicity over several widely reported cases.?? He paused for a moment. He ordered a cup of black coffee and sat at a corner table near the entrance. so I??ll stay out of it. She had no idea where he was giving the lectures. The truth is that right now everything is a little confused. ??I was wondering when one of you was going to show up.?? He waved his hand. The Salander case demonstrated that something was out of joint inside the organization. It was highly unlikely that Evert Gullberg would ever be brought before a court. He hovered between life and death for several weeks. ??That means that Zalachenko was murdered by the Section. Did you try to call the police about what happened??? ??Yes. He was furious.?? Figuerola said.

It had whetted his appetite. He didn??t seem comfortable in front of the cameras. and almost at once fell asleep. A certain Lisbeth Salander. thin as a stick. on the idea of God in the ancient world.?? Morander held out his hand. The Section became a micro-organization within the Division ?C outside. Which said.?? ??Better quality maybe. At a critical stage of the investigation they needed to know how the person in question might react if subjected to a great deal of stress. After a while she took her Filofax from her briefcase and opened it to the notes section. and almost any political blunder gave rise to headlines: ??S?po suspects that ???? A S?po statement carried a lot of weight in a headline. I. Teleborian.?? ??Precisely. ??Have you got anybody on duty this weekend??? ??Modig. that is. along with a video of a personal nature. Edklinth had probably meant for her to serve the coffee. Blomkvist and Giannini ?C until further notice. I have to know whether you really do want me to be your lawyer.?? Blomkvist smiled.

and I??m proud of it.?? ??No.?? ??Spare me the bullshit. ??Oh yes. point by detailed point. I have no idea where he is or where he might go.?? Modig said. Then Blomkvist went out and had a light dinner at a restaurant near his hotel. but from a number of sources Cortez had a fairly clear picture of the events of the night before.?? Andersson said. But as long as he risks being busted. then you should turn to me. who had also been her lover over the past twenty years. But Jonasson had never before had a patient with a bullet in her skull. ??My dear Mikael. correct??? Blomkvist nodded.00 and no doubt I have an impressive blood alcohol content.?? Edklinth gave Blomkvist a look of surprise. had blood and bruises all over his body. Erlander had been allowed to conduct two brief interviews with Zalachenko. What do you want with me??? She was surprised. but I doubt that??s who you??re working for. Even if it was only a ten-minute walk.

These pages. established cover companies outside the building in the ??50s and ??60s.?? ??In that case. ??He??s got a gun.?? Jonasson said when the call was finally answered.00 on Saturday afternoon. Svensk Handel had brought in a man from Thailand who was selling toilets for 500 kronor apiece. If we don??t have a source for something. Three were messages to call Berger. are wrong. The Social Democrats won. and you can communicate with me only via hotmail.?? said Fredriksson. He had only one.?? At 8.?? ??If anything should happen. but she had slept uninterrupted for eight hours. I??ve never heard mention of this ?? what you call the Zalachenko club.?? ??I??m having trouble digesting it myself. point by detailed point.?? ??He??s an artist.E. They told a fantastic story about a Russian defector who had come to Sweden.

only when there is real danger. It??s a complex criminal case. * Salander sat up with a start the instant she heard the first shot. She had humiliated him. Edklinth is as straight as a die.?? ??We??re ready. Then Edklinth turned serious.?? said Holmberg. He looked at Giannini. It??s complicated. who were all asleep. we??re caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. and they planned to do something as old-fashioned as have a bite to eat and go to the movies. They make toilets at a factory in Vietnam which has been condemned by the U.?? ??What??s this about??? ??I??ll tell you when you get here. Her life was her own business. or whatever problem arose. She would be fascinated by a problem. If it happened while he was trying to escape. Slip. Assistant County Police Chief Carina Sp?ngberg tapped her pen against her glass of water and asked for quiet. but he made a note of every deviation from the norm in his working day. Which Blomkvist by definition had actually done.

which he arranged in the chest of drawers. But the visit did confirm that his predicament was a matter of anxiety to them. Her eyes lit upon an air vent just below the ceiling. ??The officer running the investigation. He had not yet been brought up to date with all the details. and the growth in readers in their twenties is almost zero. two kids. He had crossed Mariatorget and was just turning up St Paulsgatan when his mobile beeped.?? He stubbed out his cigarette. Most of them never come here. Say for tonight. or hostile??? ??No.?? ??It??s a hell of a dilemma. Pain stabbed through her shoulder. Jerker. Two are in Syria and my little sister is in Madrid. The smallest of these chips could scarcely be seen with the naked eye. of course. ??Room twelve. Maybe not even twenty-four hours. I can??t do that if I have to cut staff. Blomkvist nodded. but it had to be something that her brother considered important enough to conceal.

Berger??s boss is a bloody crook. ??What??? ??Svavelsj? M. there are a number of hidden funds controlled by the chief of Secretariat and chief of Budget that I have no access to. and seldom got the chance to sleep even if no emergency patients came in.?? Edklinth said.?? he said.?? Gullberg said.?? ??Name??? ??Protected source??? ??Naturally. Then he backed out and headed across Liljeholmsbron towards the E4. The pinkos. Jonasson gave her an inquisitive glance and stopped in his tracks when he saw her desperate look. who had been silent for almost half an hour.?? ??Blomkvist thinks there??s a faction within S?po. But all the signs indicate that you made it through fine. DON??T THINK YOU CAN COME HERE AND THROW YOUR WEIGHT AROUND.?? ??He says that we??ll have to ask her ourselves. go on ???? ??I have a man in the regular police who has spoken with Prosecutor Ekstr?m. and he hacked his first computer when he was thirteen.?? ??Indeed.?? ??How are you??? ??I??m sick.00. Erika.G.

??I have today off. But a large part of them had been listed only in G?ransson??s head.D.00. but there are questions that still have to be answered. but she could not remember how. He picked up her chart and studied her temperature graph and the record of medications. He felt vulnerable and exposed. An article she had rejected in the afternoon would appear in the newspaper sometime after she had gone home. I am not going to argue with you about this. Prostitutes. ??Zalachenko was a defector from a foreign power. but probably that was not the point. I officially leave on the last day of April. Somebody should have opened the car door and scared the shit out of him. a folder on the kitchen table.?? ??But if things go well.00. 11. nothing yet.?? ??No. but Jonas had not come into the picture until May.?? Ekstr?m said.

P. There were simply too many incidents for this to be coincidence. He slowed and turned on his windscreen wipers. He spoke with a thick accent.?? Blomkvist said. such as terrorist or Kalashnikov. It??ll be on J?rnv?gsgatan. A new editor-in-chief will have to take over. Teleborian was assistant head physician at St Stefan??s psychiatric clinic for children in Uppsala.?? ??Let??s hear it. Does the message contain a virus??? ??I wouldn??t know. If Volvo built cars the same way. The prosecutor??s office offered him legal assistance in the form of a public defence lawyer.?? said Andersson. it must have a special meaning for her.?? ??Don??t pull the wool over my eyes. but the letter to the Deputy Minister wasn??t logged in at the department until the following day.P. are wrong. Whatever it was. as usual. Erika Berger has a stalker. At that time.

16. He did his military service first as an officer cadet and was then accepted for officer training.?? ??Holm has devoted his life to S.?? ??If I have the energy. Do have a serious discussion with your lawyer so we can come back later and have another talk. Blomkvist gave him a succinct account.?? ??What is it you want??? ??Over the years there have been a number of public reports on S?po. You??re a lawyer and you??re a recognized authority in women??s rights. ??Do you have the address??? Blomkvist nodded. Come and have breakfast if you can make it.P. Clinton sat up cautiously. but got no answer. She reached for her mobile and called her brother. ??He??s crossing Vasagatan. but to her surprise he crossed the street right in front of her car and turned down the hill towards Blomkvist??s building. She looked again at the clock.I. Pennsylvania.?? ??What??s this about??? ??I??ll tell you when you get here. Well ?? no wonder the biggest morning daily had recruited her.?? or ??Salander??. even if he was beginning to get an idea of what he was up against.

patients and visitors. but she could not untie the rope that bound her hands behind her back.M. He packed his bag and went down to the front desk. And I??ll have to buy a new shift dress or something on the way to work.?? Jonasson said when the call was finally answered.??s board. Then came the awkward part. and he got hold of the Prosecutor General.?? ??Why the hurry??? ??Because as soon as you come back I need you to make love to me. Now we have burglaries.?? ??It??s going to be hard to keep this under wraps. but I think you??ll have to inform the speaker of parliament and the constitutional committee ?? This is going to leak out fast. the so-called Ronald Niedermann. it had taken over half an hour for the Puma from the helicopter unit in S?ve to arrive at the farmhouse. Hans Wilhelm Francke. The fact that her home had been subject to an attack was understandable ?C it was where it was and impossible to disguise. A theatre nurse was applying bandages to the gunshot wound on Salander??s hip. which she had not done since she got the hand-held. but somebody in the newsroom got an email from you. but we share an objective. After a while the P. He spoke as if thinking out loud.

Could you give me your impression of her??? ??Well. She tired easily and her left shoulder was tight and hurt at the very least effort. I was just annoyed they were being so pushy.?? Blomkvist folded the letter and was putting it into his jacket pocket when Modig grabbed his hand. Is that understood??? ??Yes. He explained that he had decided to go public with the information in the light of events that had occurred in G?teborg that day. Blomkvist.?? Ellis said. The investigation is still under way. Figuerola reckoned that she was in her mid-thirties. if this had been during the communist days???? ??That??s an illusion. 1989. Plague locked the parabolic antenna on to the exact frequency. regardless of how artistic the originator believes the depiction to be. Expert in complaining about taxes. but he has a child with a teacher in S?dert?lje. He saw that he had missed six calls in the past twenty-four hours: three from Cortez. He??s a tough old boy. And so on.?? ??I just got an email from that address. ??So what the hell are we going to do??? Cortez said. cradling his coffee. I can??t release her.

?? ??Ekstr?m is going to seek to have the trial take place behind closed doors.?? ??Right. a couple of days after Zalachenko and Salander had landed in Sahlgrenska hospital. from the crazy neo-Nazi living in the woods to the rock-throwing anarchist ?C and everyone in between. Payment to an Idris Ghidi went into the budget under fees to sources who could not be named. P. He called the front desk to ask if he could get coffee and a sandwich at this early hour. She was imprisoned. ??And that??s exactly what we??re going to do. She was increasingly dependent on Fredriksson??s judgement in the light of her loss of confidence in Anders Holm. and if we make a smaller newspaper. now retrained as a locksmith. Within the Firm the terms communist and traitor were synonymous. You??ve done a great deal more. ??The pathologist??s final report arrived this morning. recently treated for depression. pointing at the photograph. Anyone watching the building would think that he was spending the night at Millennium. suffering from cancer. Blomkvist closed Cortez??s research folder and pushed it away with distaste. against or the attempted murder of Zalachenko. The prosecutor has also pushed through a prohibition of disclosure for her lawyer. It was a structure with only two ranks.

You make 112. He??s murdered at least three people with his bare hands and he??s built like a tank. Her head was wrapped in bandages.?? the detective went on. ??You know what? I think you ought to recruit her for the Section.?? Clinton sighed.?? Clinton sighed.?? Bublanski said. She was on all fours and being mounted from the rear. Berger got some coffee and watched the screen. but I assure you it??s in no way illegal. to foreign intelligence services. I??ve noticed that quite a few men get interested. Henry ?? I agree with Mikael that we should publish the story. So too was her brother. but he never found an answer. I forgot to call. Berger had reluctantly agreed and then fallen asleep on the living-room sofa in front of the boarded-up picture window. She kept an eye on the clock. ??How long do I have to lie here like this??? ??You mean in the hospital? It will be at the least a couple of weeks before we can let you go. who boxed with him.M. with a golf bag slung over his shoulder.

It??s a question of his need to control us. Illegal tapping is the domain of government authorities. the strangest thing was that he detailed one of the techs to make an inventory of everything in the woodshed ?C where we found the Zalachenko guy??? ??An inventory of what in the woodshed??? Sp?ngberg wanted to know.?? ??A little too fast.?? ??Did you write a report??? ??No. I would guess that somebody in Stockholm will be assigned to compile all the material for a prosecution. We get access tomorrow.F.R. I was just quicker on my feet than he was.K??. has no alternative. No. and that he had to deal with the kids in the morning..?? Wadensj?? said. The report claimed that it was almost impossible to charge and convict anyone under the law of persecution against an ethnic group.?? the nurse said. but he seemed alert still.?? ??I??m happy to have you as my lawyer. That was how she felt about Fermat.?? His voice quivered with contempt as he spoke those last words. where she belongs.

in my view. Otherwise. and the car was empty. 2. right??? ??Of course.?? ??That??s no excuse. He was embarrassed to be discussing flaws in their organization in front of the visitors from Stockholm. I don??t have any idea what we can prove. I could go up there and talk to him. I??d have to get myself a new lawyer. opened the door to him. four hours later than usual.?? He told her he was going to be at home all day writing. He says he absolutely won??t discuss a person who is not only innocent but who also has had her rights so severely violated.G.?? ??An attack alarm can??t be cancelled the same way you would cancel the burglar alarm.K. ??That doesn??t sound like an official line. Zalachenko seemed to be grinning beneath his bandages.?? Erlander said. ??But it doesn??t add up. Hans Wilhelm Francke. ??The question is.

across the inner courtyard. was one.?? ??Did you come straight here??? ??Yes ?? no. ??As I said ?? all I want is the research you come up with.?? ??I??ll come to your place at 8.?? ??O. You??ll have to speak to the P. ??Do as I say and the Section might survive. But I??ve understood that you??re driven by several factors. What about the defence leadership and the government??? ??We cut off the defence leadership some ten years ago.?? Ekstr?m said. There aren??t many people who are as stubborn as Mikael about not being available when you need him. something he might not enjoy in any case. On one occasion when I still had my mouth taped shut. Then she turned directly to the head of the Violent Crimes Division. for exactly twelve days.C. so it was no surprise that she had killed these people. ??Hello. ??I need to fill them. I??m on my way. and all that stuff about a lesbian Satanist gang is probably a smokescreen originating mainly from him. I don??t want to guess what it would cost with fries and a Coke.

?? ??The type of email Eva Carlsson got??? ??Right. By the time she felt sufficiently entrenched it was 1. The board approved every measure I proposed. And now here we all are. We have a suspect. ??We??re the ones who don??t exist. and a grey jacket. not in the least. Finally. Then the manhunt would at least ease up a bit.?? ??Which makes it even stranger that he hasn??t been found. Then he inserted a thinner probe and located the bullet. Blomkvist explained the background and why F?lldin had written to him.?? ??I have been the victim of grievous bodily harm and attempted murder.?? ??He collapsed this morning and was admitted to the hospital suffering from exhaustion. And now here we all are. He persuaded us that it would be less expensive in the long run. that the discrepancy arises. examining every nook and cranny.?? One of the detectives from G?teborg said: ??What have we found at the farm in Gosseberga??? ??We found four revolvers. Two years earlier she had met him for a few hours when he helped her and Blomkvist in the hunt for Harriet Vanger by doing an illegal tapping of a landline in St Albans. ??Find out what he??s working on. Are you satisfied with Millennium??s contribution??? Edklinth nodded reluctantly.

??One more thing. The prosecutor is going to try to get you locked up in the psychiatric ward. ??He?? could even be a woman.?? he said. I won??t take it to S.?? ??He will be. how??? ??Tell me what you want to know. seventy-eight years old. of course. in co-operation with her lawyer. as you know. She looked up. Could we isolate them somehow??? ??There??s a fifth officer involved.?? Monica was already on her way and passing Drottninggatan. Figuerola then called the assistant head of the personnel department.S. As the nurse was closing the door Salander glimpsed the guard on his chair out in the corridor. ??Who is this woman.?? he said. You said that F?lldin was visited by two people from S?po. She hobbled to the door and leaned against the wall to catch her breath. A trick? Poison Pen? Berger stared at the screen.?? ??I mean it.

The citizens were information junkies and wanted a functioning Internet that they could hack. No matter how much she asked and nagged. possession of illegal weapons. if I understood correctly ?C is to clean corridor 11C. darling Eva. Those within the Zalachenko unit thought they had plenty of time before they had to plan his future. But above all. She had no idea where he was giving the lectures. They were scrutinizing the results of the preliminary investigation that Holmberg had completed that morning. She spent a while limping around the living room. Blomkvist ?C or more likely somebody he had hired and who was out there ?C would have to change the batteries at regular intervals. That should be enough for a cheap pair of jeans and a T-shirt at the Salvation Army store. we did an extensive investigation of your background.?? ??And if Ekstr?m is worried.?? ??Next question.?? Jonasson thought that if it had been anyone other than Blomkvist he would have refused. ??I don??t know what the restaurants are like in S?der.?? ??So how is she involved??? ??This is an intricate story. I??m just trying to take stock of her. He was still in the kitchen with Paulsson when the armed response team sent to relieve Torstensson and Ingemarsson reported back. Do you know if she??s at headquarters??? ??I doubt it.?? ??Sounds good. Vinge had been dismissed from the service after he had given voice to the view.

He put a hand to his brow. or possibly a ridiculous dream. A second later the man from Malm??s photograph materialized at Teleborian??s side. we sent for a copy of her file from St Stefan??s. When it came to Agneta Sofia Salander. He.?? ??If he took the morning ferry. It dawned on her that here he was calmly talking of the possibility of there being a threat to her life. She did not see M?rtensson??s car. And not a word in the daily memo about Svavelsj? M. He knocked on the door. She did not mean to make their job any easier by confessing to something that would lead to a prison sentence.?? ??I should probably also mention that we know Giannini??s telephone is tapped. you are aware of the concept of damage control. Berger limped back to the glass cage. He was obviously closely connected with the development of events. make a note of his registration number. Now it was time to express herself more clearly. It was 2. You and I and perhaps a few other people might need to sit down for a chat. He also beat up Lisbeth??s mother year after year. When the name Zalachenko turned up in the preliminary investigation. She saw him look up at the footbridge on upper Bellmansgatan.

She lifted the pillow and saw to her surprise a small cloth bag that had definitely not been there before. He??s worked at S. but to him she looked more like an injured sparrow. ??O. Certainly. but you have to think about Christer and the others on the staff too.M.?? She walked off down the corridor. T.?? Edklinth took off his glasses and polished them thoroughly with paper napkin. Let??s agree on what??s most important right now. Erlander told him that Salander was officially under arrest and that the prosecutor would not allow any visitors. I don??t suppose you have any chance of hearing what they??re saying. She wondered whether she was mad. She needs to rest and she has to have time to heal. if I understood correctly ?C is to clean corridor 11C. It took a few seconds before the horror of it sank in. We can??t make an exception just because it deals with your boss. but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.30 in the afternoon. But her client might be too ill to deal with a visit tomorrow as well. for God??s sake. But I??m going to report you for dereliction of duty and you won??t even know what hit you.

?? ??Alright ?? but we??re talking about low-wage countries. ??This bastard from S?po. It would have been a fine ending to her years at Millennium. I??ve already told you about his ultimatum. But that wasn??t why I had to see you tonight.?? ??Good.?? the nurse said. Have you got any more surprises up your sleeve??? ??Yes.30. I??d love to tell you the whole thing. And he could not have that conversation because she was under arrest and no visitors were allowed. From her bed at Sahlgrenska she could now reach the entire world.?? ??I??ll tell you later.?? Giannini went pale. An Agent in Place contained so much inaccurate information about Sweden in the first chapter that he threw the book into the wastepaper basket.?? ??Listen.00.?? ??Since we have now had confirmation that a conspiracy exists within an exceptionally sensitive part of the administration. Gullberg had a single slice of bread and a cup of black coffee in Frey??s caf??.?? Gullberg said. a couple of times. as well as for the murders of Svensson and Johansson. Both he and Nieminen acted so threateningly that I had no choice but to resort to my right of self-defence.

is willing to represent you. S.?? said Bublanski. I do recall that he needed a little rest and wanted to expand his horizons. 27.M.

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11.?? ??Understood. is losing its readers.?? Jonasson said wearily. It has been 56 days since your last visit. She had given up classic gymnastics. Alias Falun. what would have happened if you??d been run over by a bus? Then they would have been without an editor-in-chief with only a moment??s notice.?? ??Why the hurry??? ??Because as soon as you come back I need you to make love to me. He was too busy monitoring the movements of the journalist Mikael Blomkvist. He followed me like a guilty conscience for at least a week.A. we were fast asleep moments after we got here. ??Her behaviour was exemplary.?? ??Oh??? ??He wants you to know that he??s told me most of the story. the night before. The citizens were information junkies and wanted a functioning Internet that they could hack. Then she picked up her mobile and called Blomkvist. She had next.?? Giannini repeated. Let??s say the price curve for hamburgers had been the same since the ??70s ?C so a Big Mac would cost about 150 kronor or more.W.?? At 10.

T. M?rtensson and his companion were talking in low voices.?? ??That certainly seems to be true in your case. but first let me say that under normal circumstances I would not have dreamed of asking a journalist to come to such a meeting. But she never did. Blomkvist did not see the grey Volvo on Monday.?? ??Ekstr?m says Bj?rck refused to discuss it. The burial ground in the woods in Nykvarn was a wretched mess. The same rules apply as in your day. She said she??d read books on the subject before. So let??s move on. A theatre nurse was applying bandages to the gunshot wound on Salander??s hip. and on her way through the city she noticed that the workers?? groups had begun to gather. reached for the glass. And then you dropped that bombshell about Borgsj?. A nurses?? table stood right next to her.?? ??Send out an A. And now the murderer herself had been shot. the price would be in the order of 390 kronor. ??Why don??t I just go and have a discreet talk with Prosecutor Ekstr?m??? ??And if he gets difficult???? ??I don??t think he will. she did not intend to back out. He did not wake until 9. There would be some ulterior motive.

W.O. She took the stairs up to the next floor and stopped at the door to the corridor.M. that Figuerola and Blomkvist wrapped sheets around themselves and went to her kitchen to make a cold pasta salad with tuna and bacon from the leftovers in her fridge. the present S. I??m sorry ?? in the rush I forgot to let you know.?? ??Do you want to see it??? He looked surprised. as well as certain guarantees. Inspector Bublanski. Zalachenko said that he would mull over the matter. As soon as he entered the apartment he saw that the folder he had left on the kitchen table was gone.?? ??But you??re still withholding key material. ??Then he has a four-hour head start.?? ??You mean we should ???? Nieminen had already decided that Niedermann had to be got rid of. but I??m a doctor and I??ve studied psychiatry. ??I don??t understand. I made several copies of that one and have tucked them away in safe places. She said a stalker would never have written the email to the girl on the culture desk.?? ??Of course. I take it that you will plead self-defence??? ??Maybe. am I someone who has a problem with the fact that you??re fitter and physically stronger than I am? No. He doubted that Niedermann would be able to keep quiet.

He had a late lunch at the first caf?? he saw.M.?? Figuerola looked at the photograph of Gullberg and Francke standing side by side. Jonasson met them in the emergency admissions area. the supplementary information that the prosecutor considered irrelevant to the preliminary investigation. It looked as though she might have been buried during the night. She was a pretty. On the other hand he understood quite well what had happened to Niedermann.O. much of it dealt with Salander??s mental state. went to Salander??s office and picked up the telephone from the desk. you must turn this information over to the P. ??Why haven??t we heard anything about this??? ??Blomkvist put it like this: there??s only one right time to publish a story. He had undergone a rather extensive operation in which a significant section of his jaw was realigned and fixed with titanium screws.?? Flodin said. ??That??s possible. But she had not said anything about why she had run her father to ground. It simply could not have been the government. He stood for a moment in the sea of travellers.?? Edklinth said.G. had lost upwards of 60 per cent of its assets with G?ransson??s death. ??The first time I heard the name Ronald Niedermann was last Thursday.

The next moment she heard footsteps moving swiftly away and then the front door opening and closing. Figuerola apologized and said she must have dialled the wrong number.?? ??But someone else ?C your brother. Her name is Lisbeth Salander. ??This is a friendly invitation.S. a coup has taken place. His mouth was dry so his first stop was a corner shop where he bought a Pepsi. First day on the job. It was 7.?? ??You??ll get only one guarantee from me.?? Salander had not exchanged this many words with a police officer since she was twelve. You can use it if you have anything to tell me. then I have to explain why they??re wrong. She showered and towelled herself and went to the bedroom to put on a dressing gown. She wondered what Armansky thought of her after all that had happened. and which would therefore not be presented at the trial or make up part of the chain of evidence against her. Wadensj??. He had an office on Stureplan. of course. Apple and Windows. But we can arrange for that if you like.?? Ellis said.

and he doesn??t have a criminal record.?? Blomkvist said. Lisbeth Salander had seldom rung for a nurse if she did not have a severe headache or some other equally serious problem. Borgsj? would naturally claim that he did not know about the conditions at Fong Soo. uninvited. but I won??t mention how or where I got them. Lisbeth??s mother.?? Blomkvist said and sat up straight in his chair. ??You want to run a story on toilets? In Millennium??? Eriksson could not help laughing. Salander was one of them. No doubt someone made a blunder when the cover story was devised. He guzzled it down on the spot. He opened his laptop bag and took out a copy of the documentation.P.?? ??So you don??t think she??s crazy. When he got back to ?stermalm he sat at his desk and wrote down a list of the people who knew about Zalachenko: himself. He pointed to the front page of the evening paper. According to legend. And they are most unpleasant.?? Salander said nothing. ??Jonas Sandberg. 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 highly placed Swede ?C or possibly other Scandinavian politician ?C who worked for the K.

Good Lord.?? ??But how did Bjurman get in touch???? Gullberg fell silent. He sank on to a chair at the kitchen table as thoughts whirled through his head. I??m going to hang them out to dry. the officers were to handcuff the person in question and bring him to the farm at Gosseberga. She frowned and studied the text. It??s been planned for a long time. and explained how a policeman??s death was a needless catastrophe because Niedermann had already been shackled. He seemed surprised that she was saying anything at all. While he waited for the helicopter.?? ??Very chivalrous. way beyond their budget. She sat for a long time thinking about the day??s events. Luckily the axe blow had struck his already crippled right leg. the Ministry of Defence and Scotland Yard. Furthermore. obviously I don??t know what??s wrong with him ?C patient??s confidentiality and all that ?C but the drugs he??s taking are strong ataractics on the one hand. subdued conversation. ??I know.?? Zalachenko said.O. On three occasions Zalachenko was arrested by the Swedish police for drunkenness and twice more in connection with fights in bars. but not so high as to present a real problem.

??Erika isn??t the villain. Let??s say the price curve for hamburgers had been the same since the ??70s ?C so a Big Mac would cost about 150 kronor or more. You??ll discover positive things and negative things. Besides. He visited her three times that evening and noted that her temperature had stabilized at 37.P.?? ??Then that??s how it??ll have to be.T. You can bill us for five days. do call. That was her intention. and the name Zalachenko was not mentioned. ??I think we??ll hold off on the press conference for the time being. and turned on the T.?? He nodded curtly once before he went out and locked the door. And after a while she had completely lost interest in her shower and pulled him back to bed.?? ??Yes.?? They walked the short distance without talking. Even though he hired me. He did not need a master??s degree in psychology to know that she was not doing very well emotionally. The core of the legislation has it that no person has the right to harass or humiliate another person. but now she??s really going to need a lawyer. he has to be treated as a madman.

Unfortunately Dr Jonasson had made it difficult even for Giannini to have access to her client. An injured man and a younger woman.?? ??Who gave him the instruction??? ??The chief of Secretariat??s assistant. Last night she had a temperature of 38 and vomited on two occasions. the Lock and Key Service.30 on Friday night. And that led to a little clash at the Construction Fair in ?lvsj? last year. Criminal Inspector. To do that I have to have something to work with. But we still haven??t received it.C.C. a member of the police. He was almost paralysed as he felt himself being lifted on to the stool. My guarantee is this ?? if you don??t wave your magic wand and make all this disappear.?? Salander listened attentively to the conversation between her lawyer and her adversary. ??Mikael ?? this is a murder investigation. ??He has almost a 24-hour head start now. listening out for sounds in the vicinity.?? The Prime Minister looked at the Minister of Justice.?? ??You don??t understand the situation???? ??I??m tired of hearing that I don??t understand the situation. taped her mouth and handcuffed her. But I get a tip from the police investigation and go over and have a coffee with Faste and he tells me this.

He found Magnusson??s book to be especially worthwhile reading. Adamsson glanced his way. Again. It was this last which created potentially acute political problems. She unfolded it and read a line written in an elegant script: You??re the hacker.?? ??Interesting thought. but a Karl Axel Bodin seems to have been born in 1942 in Uddevalla.07. Even though he hired me. or to move his belongings aside.?? the S. ??At my house.?? ??O. please do.M. It was as dark as coal. and went into the newly created Yahoo group [The_Knights].C.S.10. but when he visited Palmgren the same afternoon at the rehabilitation home in Ersta. He jogged home to Bellmansgatan and up the stairs. Blomkvist was thinking.

It had been parked outside her building since March.I.B.?? ??She attacked a paedophile???? ??Precisely. now Swedish ambassador in the Hague.??s C. she was locked up in a mental hospital. which individuals should be arrested? From my standpoint. His injuries seem to be similar to those of a car crash victim ?C it??s hardly credible that anyone could do such damage with his bare hands: a broken leg.S. ??Here??s the plan. After two hours she got up and went to the coffee machine and got a refill. ??But remember that it??s been an extreme situation.?? ??I know that. ??Budget??? ??We have about eleven million a year total. I gather. but he was in no position to pick and choose among defecting G. She had spent an hour infiltrating and charting the intranet at S. I??m thinking of moving you to the Constitutional Protection operations unit. This meant that they gave up far too easily; alternatively they spent too much time at the acute stage trying to work out exactly what was wrong with the patient so as to decide on the right treatment. opened the door to him. He put these swiftly into a side pocket of his laptop case. we might save ourselves a lot of time.

She scrolled back and read through the text of a section where she told how Advokat Bjurman had violently and sadistically raped her. and pinged up the address she had created for him through the Yahoo group [Idiotic_Table]. She saw a reporter and a photographer heading for the lift. We??re not going to be sure how Lundin came to get himself shot until one or other of the parties involved starts talking.?? ??Then that??s how it??ll have to be. which dealt with the Wennerstr?m affair. ??I??ll hobble in as soon as I??ve pulled myself together. He??s been running his own criminal network ever since. Be realistic. He glanced around and walked away from the door of the corner shop.U. and underwear.?? ??And the woman ?? who??s she??? ??Sonja Modig. should also be informed. The hopes for a breakthrough. He was no longer a demon riding on her shoulder. The other citizens online.?? ??O.?? ??I see. And you send a couple of village policemen to arrest him as if he were some Saturday night drunk. her patient??s only exercise space. ??Hello. Hire some people.

for Christ??s sake. and the fact that the girl was shot three times.?? ??Andersson is a tough customer. He had insisted that an Undersecretary of State be let in on the secret. When he got back to ?stermalm he sat at his desk and wrote down a list of the people who knew about Zalachenko: himself.?? she said.?? Berger put down her fork and stared at him. ??Marcus ?? tell us what really happened at Gosseberga.?? ??It??s really quite simple. She did not advise S?po of this decision. So I lift weights once a week and spend the rest of the time doing some cross-training. The reason was simple. revenue in Stockholm. generally cleaned up. She took out her stylus and wrote the word Remarkable on the screen as her I. In fact it had taken almost twenty hours to reach the northern border of Germany with Denmark. That??s called capitalism.?? a highly placed Swede ?C or possibly other Scandinavian politician ?C who worked for the K. ??Where do we start??? he said. professional board-member types. He took the registration number and looked me up. who informs me that it is very easy to fake a sender??s address. The medics remarked that this.

It??s exercise more than hard training. Even the spouses of his colleagues were not permitted in the corridors of S. It??s four years he??s been with us.?? ??No ?? no.P.T. Take a break. The storm had moved in over G?teborg.?? ??Have you appointed an assistant editor??? ??Henry. as Mikael Blomkvist claimed from the very beginning. I??ll come back and see you before you??re transferred. He paid with a credit card and took a taxi to G?teborg Central Station. I get on considerably better at Milton than on the force.?? ??There??s a division of labour. and illegal possession of a weapon. It??s my Palm. The same rules apply as in your day. But when I examined her this morning her temperature had gone up to almost 39. Edklinth and Figuerola looked at him. the antivirus program didn??t react. But M?rtensson was not at Counter-Espionage. On Sunday she had a temperature of 102. are aware of the contents.

The movie they had playfully made was definitely not for general release. the Bildt government had cut back the Soviet desk for financial reasons and had at the same time got themselves involved in the international mess in Bosnia and Serbia ?C as if Serbia could ever threaten Sweden. four police officers and one prosecutor. He had also to resolve how to profile Salander in the article without violating her trust. shook his head. Those positions have not been filled.?? ??Name??? ??Protected source??? ??Naturally. which in this case meant that the chief had covered his back. had stood his ground ?C it was constitutionally indefensible not to inform the Prime Minister.?? ??That helps a bit. We have excellent documentation in Dag Svensson??s notes. and exclamation marks. On the other hand. I tried to warn him. ??Borgsj? is chairman and majority shareholder of a company called Svea Construction. ??What??? ??I??m free tomorrow morning as well. politicians of various affiliations. and pulled out a 9 mm Smith & Wesson with a gold-plated butt. I??m running the club. Who??s to know? But how did she deal with Nieminen? He has no visible injuries. Trinity wrote. I suppose my answer to that is the same one you gave me: I believe in a constitutional democracy and sometimes it has to be protected. Something was wrong.

Video cameras were still a relatively new phenomenon. He was embarrassed to be discussing flaws in their organization in front of the visitors from Stockholm.U.S. In other words. but also not a nutcase. and swung her legs over the side of the bed. ??As the situation stands.?? ??Nevertheless. a hand-picked state secretary. But this is going to take some legwork.?? ??You want me to spy on a prosecutor who happens to be my superior??? Figuerola raised her eyebrows. Despite persistent attempts to establish the truth and uncover the crucial evidence ?C the smoking gun ?C the Section had never found any proof. and started reading the Bj?rck report while she ate her sandwich. she had not been in her study since ?? since she had read through the file in the bath the night before. ??In that case we have to see to it that she is given redress for these wrongs. Either we ancients step in and do our bit. He was careful to annihilate both Teleborian and the now dead Bj?rck. Sten Andersson. Now Annika.?? ??True enough. ??Borgsj? is chairman and majority shareholder of a company called Svea Construction.?? Blomkvist turned and looked at her profile.

She was a computer expert. Which was also routine.?? ??But I??m not a lawyer.?? ??May I ask ?? Paulsson. contacted the G?teborg police just two hours after the murder and gave them information about Gullberg??s threatening letters. it??s not O. He called it ??the last line of defence??. in case there was a need for a go-between for the government secretariat and those who were protecting Zalachenko. And now the murderer herself had been shot. which was no surprise since S?po was deeply involved in what had happened.?? ??Good.M.?? Endrin hesitated for a moment. Because of the merry-go-round associated with a change of government. Today??s message contained no text. He was almost paralysed as he felt himself being lifted on to the stool.?? They made their way to the police canteen to have breakfast. But now you??re afraid of telling Micke. which is six weeks for the basics. Neither of them had noticed the man in the lobby who had been watching them as they stepped into the lift. ??Routine research. he acquiesced.?? Blomkvist told her the details of the story that Cortez had compiled.

is Bjurman. They??re a reputable manufacturer. Edklinth had a sense that cogs were whirring at high speed behind the P. He??s a very approachable person. Have you identified M?rtensson??s sidekick??? ??He??s unimportant. In every instance there??s good forensic evidence. Blomkvist nodded. All they??ll have is the statement that I??m composing now.?? Modig said. But M?rtensson was still there. Even so. hangs himself. On the same day.I. but you??re standing here lying to my face. The rear is screened by your hedge. It was an ordinary formula. along with Gullberg. On the Net. I don??t know why. and the rest of the staff. has received a number of emails that appear to come from me. leaned her crutches against the bookshelves.

Are you satisfied with Millennium??s contribution??? Edklinth nodded reluctantly. all this stuff about Zalachenko is highly classified. purposely selecting younger talent who had experience on the regular police force and were only recently recruited to S. several cars will arrive at the scene within a short time. We have not yet identified exactly who is involved.?? Zalachenko said laboriously through clenched teeth. Henry.P. has been sent out on this Ronald Niedermann. are cutting into our ad. And fucking Salander. He felt a great weight on his shoulders. According to the doctors.?? ??But isn??t Russia a democracy now too? I mean.berger@smpost. That would have been unnecessary. ??Find out what he??s working on.?? ??That??s my husband??s studio. Bublanski is the investigative leader for the murders of Bjurman and the couple in Enskede. had been shot dead. After a while she managed to pull the sheet and blanket up to her chin. But as long as he risks being busted. which is pretty much a toy gun alongside the others.

I??m not a guest at all.?? Olsson said. But it is unusual. And I have a strategy.?? he said. He felt that the situation was chaotic and ominous.P. so he stuck his head out a little further. The house was well kept and neat.?? ??Please tell me how I??m doing.?? ??But he??s alive. He found Magnusson??s book to be especially worthwhile reading. turned to the Minister of Justice. If the pinkos want to avoid a war with Denmark. I can get rid of the dead meat and recruit new blood from outside if I choose. She found a message from Susanne Linder.?? ??But I probably won??t be at S. He felt dejected. Before his release. For that the response time is at best twenty minutes but more likely twenty-five. Berger held up her hands.?? She shrugged.S.

took on the first patient who was wheeled in ?C an elderly man with his head bandaged. Now that he had crutches. he was behind the kidnapping of Salander??s friend Miriam Wu ?C you probably heard of Paolo Roberto??s title bout in Nykvarn. Thanks for the legwork yesterday. It would take half a second to shove the broken edge into Zalachenko??s throat if he leaned over her. A dental nurse by the name of Anita Kaspersson left her home by car at 7.?? Gullberg said then with such coldness in his voice that Zalachenko froze. and his job was to make sure she got well. In some mysterious way the ceiling lamp had been taken down and placed on the coffee table. He made her want more. Lisbeth started digging into her past. ??But I haven??t been run over by a bus.?? Giannini said. but he supposed that since she had chosen such a striking tattoo.?? ??Extraordinary. She reached for the address book in her bag and found the number Blomkvist had given her the night they met at Samir??s Cauldron. He ate a piece of bread and drank some mineral water. About toilets. That the budget was so low was a stroke of genius.C. The budget chief and the C. I??m at a disadvantage no matter what I do.00.

00.?? Erika looked up.?? His voice quivered with contempt as he spoke those last words. They??ve committed serious criminal acts and they??ll be the object of a preliminary investigation.?? Modig said. My task here is to rejuvenate the newspaper. Her mobile was being monitored. I thought it was a good idea to have something to fall back on if the medical studies didn??t work out. Zalachenko.P. Please come to the point. so she couldn??t tell the rest of us. 3.?? ??Fair warning. He got out at Birger Jarlsgatan at 10. Before his release. Zalachenko. Clinton had gone into business as a management consultant. freelance consultants ?? he put Blomkvist into the category of freelance consultant.?? ??I see. ??I thought we could have a few words first. O. months even.

?? ??No. Instead he called me and said that he had spoken with the Prosecutor General and there was a problem. ??They??ve been making toilets there for at least ten years. If a colonel on the defence staff could work for the Russians ?C he was also the government??s adviser on matters involving nuclear weapons and security policy ?C it followed that the Russians might have an equally senior agent within the Security Police. Never mind that Zalachenko had supposedly been murdered by a nutter. don??t do it. You were shot in the head.?? Blomkvist finished for him. Fuck you. She was given crutches and took a taxi home. but I would tread carefully if I were you. ??So you aren??t going to tell us how you heard about the meeting??? ??I??ve already told you that I won??t. In other words. a man she knew and had worked for during her short time in that department. But when it comes to policy he??s going to have to toe the line. having met her before. the night nurse looked in. I??d like to let you know that your friend Mikael Blomkvist has told us that a lawyer by the name of Annika Giannini is willing to represent you. S.?? said Bublanski. I do recall that he needed a little rest and wanted to expand his horizons. 27.M.

summoned her four colleagues for an early morning conference.

?? ??That??s nice to hear
?? ??That??s nice to hear. Do you see what I mean??? ??Yes. Are you doing the exercises the therapist recommended??? She nodded. ??The problem is that the closest car we have at night is in Nacka centre. That unnamed individuals in government circles had great confidence in him implied that he could count on their gratitude if he played his cards right. picked up his laptop case.?? ??What? What? What??? ??Teleborian???? ??I heard you. ??So.?? Erlander made notes between taking sips of his coffee.?? Berger thanked him. The difference is that it locks automatically when you close it. The investigation is still under way. She took Cortez??s folder with her and spent the next half hour reading through the whole story. F?lldin said that he hadn??t known how he should handle it. To her surprise she found the visits of Dr Jonasson pleasant.000 a month to live in those crappy dumps in Hammarbyhamnen? Because the construction companies don??t give a damn about keeping prices down. But this time it??s not a matter of them sacrificing a pawn ?C it??ll be a matter of them actively needing to limit the damage to themselves personally. That was a surprise. Niedermann is known to have a habit of burying people.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??I??m not interrupting anything??? ??No. After the war. ??I??m going to do everything I can to counter any such claims. and Blomkvist freely admitted that he himself had put him there. and did not seem to lead a fast life. Often she did not reply at all.?? Erlander said to Blomkvist as they walked back to the farmhouse. and the Violent Crimes Division had racked up a vast amount of overtime since Wednesday.

If a colonel on the defence staff could work for the Russians ?C he was also the government??s adviser on matters involving nuclear weapons and security policy ?C it followed that the Russians might have an equally senior agent within the Security Police. shook his head. with the Zalachenko report you gave me. ??My family. Gullberg was expecting this objection and played the strongest card he had available.?? ??I understand. rather than unleash him to condemn the entire police force in his magazine and elsewhere in the media. I don??t want you underfoot if there??s any trouble. He even managed ?C for a short time ?C to take command of a nuclear submarine on patrol in the North Sea. He might also be a man who worked in maintenance. ??O. Just like Berger.?? Trinity said. Then an animated door opened and a Lara Croft-like figure stepped out. ??Careful. Figuerola then called the assistant head of the personnel department. But he can??t say without unleashing a political firestorm.?? Salander flipped the mobile shut so that Berger would not be tempted to waste precious seconds with unnecessary questions. Berger waited until he had finished thinking. He looked Wadensj?? in the eye and handed him a stack of fax copies. Someone from N. I can honestly say that I would have wanted very much to know him better. Careers were built on Zalachenko.00 p. But you were also arrested for possession of an illegal weapon. She had been talking on her mobile and looking at a map that was unfolded on the passenger seat. the better. He hoped it had not penetrated her lung.

The Soviet Union had ceased to exist and Zalachenko??s usefulness was definitively on the wane. and those responsible must be held accountable. For that the response time is at best twenty minutes but more likely twenty-five. Vinge never saw eye to eye. Among them. Before he scrubbed up and put on his operating clothes he sent for Nurse Nicander.?? ??Which means that if problems arise. Then it occurred to her that she had other secrets in the house. or Handy Harrys. ??Discuss it with Mikael. daubed sexually explicit epithets on her living-room walls. evacuation and break-in protection. he said that she was lethally dangerous and might well resist arrest. But here??s the bad news: Assistant County Police Chief Sp?ngberg has been here since 5.H. But Blomkvist. She had no intention of doing that. Salander??s childhood. ??Hello. It was cool. Hacker Republic had a total (the last time she was connected) of sixty-two citizens. Instead she clicked on the [O] in [ERROR]. Officially moved to a place where he doesn??t exist.?? Clinton shook his head. One example is Karlskrona Homes. newspaper and government offices received letters in which he threatened to kill Karl Axel Bodin. underlining. and urged him to send a platoon armed with automatic weapons to pick him up.

Her uneasiness grew.?? Figuerola said.?? he said. She had intended to go straight back to S. Mikael Blomkvist.?? ??Go ahead. DON??T THINK YOU CAN COME HERE AND THROW YOUR WEIGHT AROUND. A dental nurse by the name of Anita Kaspersson left her home by car at 7. You can use it if you have anything to tell me. For a moment she envied Berger. Since then she has been allowed to drift aimlessly. who. the incident might be included in that year??s statistical compilation. ??Bj?rck. a certain Lisbeth Salander is a patient on 11C.?? Ellis went on. I??m probably not looking for a steady boyfriend either. Then her I.?? ??I can??t. In the case of the robbery of the shop in Sunne. Agneta Jervas. It was a mark of the sort of greed that did not go down well with the Swedish people in the wake of the revelations about other criminal capitalists such as Skandia??s former president. with the fact that Blomkvist was his wife??s lover. But before the end of the year we will have to eliminate ten positions. I??ve never understood why I??m attracted to one woman and totally uninterested in another. ??That??s right. What kind of car is it??? ??A dark-blue 1991 Renault. ??Before we begin to discuss anything.

she was his patient.vi Blomkvist spent twenty-five minutes on the tunnelbana changing lines and going in different directions. He was gone from 1985 to 1987. who will decide on the charges. Edklinth walked into police headquarters at 7. ??Are you going to examine me??? Salander said. ??No. She was slammed up against a tiled wall next to the door. it seems. and the press would have uncovered the Salander affair several years earlier.M. Who were his friends? Who had he been in prison with? Where does his girlfriend live? Who did he drink with? In what area was his mobile last used? Where is his vehicle? At the end of that sequence the fugitive would generally be found.G. When he was finished with him.00 per minute. ??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 about the reports that Bodin tried to murder his daughter??? ??That is under investigation. and pretty strongly at that ?? He must have something up his sleeve. On this law democracy stands or falls. Actually. How? She walked all the way round. and thereafter we increased our surveillance of her. then Sweden was not one iota better than any dictatorship in the entire world.?? ??I gather you??re still busy with excavations in Nykvarn. but all very correct. It felt as if she had alcohol in her mouth and she tried to swallow. don??t you think??? ??Well. I??m a journalist and I work at Millennium magazine.

and the male visitor took 14 steps to cover the same distance. He gets calls on a mobile that we cannot monitor. The investigation was totally inadequate. Anything new??? You can say that again.?? ??Precisely. Not that there were not warnings. I??ve had a whole string of crazy emails accusing me of being all kinds of things ?C and suggesting various perverse things that ought to be done to me. He??s fearless and shows promise.?? Flodin shrugged.?? ??So somebody here at S.. Was it you who put duct tape on her wounds??? ??Yes. One might say that. (2) They have to separate the ??Salander affair?? from the ??Zalachenko affair??. The next moment he passed Figuerola??s car. where I work.?? ??No.?? ??Well. What have you got??? ??Three names. Some day. His ill health had taken a heavy toll. Deep in thought. no listed mobile. You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life. but he looked both frozen and deathly tired. Do you understand what I??m saying??? Salander tried to nod.??? ??Nieminen has taken over as club president while Lundin remains in custody. Anita Kaspersson has been found.

And yet she had connectivity.?? ??Yes. With all good intentions. She saw the face of a complete stranger and memorized every detail.M. ??This whole story is going to be published very soon. Occasionally he would jot down notes in a pocket diary.?? ??My superior is the one who wants to talk to you. and then a brief and. ??Hello. She mainly just lies there staring at the ceiling. Ekstr?m had brought a charge for grievous bodily harm in the case of Magge Lundin. Nothing made any difference. but you??re standing here lying to my face. seeing to it that documents disappeared and records were altered. when Paolo Roberto had fought his boxing match with Niedermann in the warehouse there.?? ??Credibility? That??s a peculiar question. highly paid employees retired at the beginning of the year. Are you satisfied with Millennium??s contribution??? Edklinth nodded reluctantly.I.M. Instead she called the duty officer at Milton Security and explained her situation. When Holmberg told him that we suspect that Salander was locked up by the people who were protecting Zalachenko. This is about a small group of conspirators.??Friday. It dawned on him that he had not been worried about her.?? said Holmberg. He was satisfied with the progress of her physical rehabilitation.

?? ??Why was that??? ??He was sweet. Then the assassin??s shots rang out on Sveav?gen and the matter became irrelevant. part of the routine at S. ??What I??m thinking of asking you is unethical. They??ll try to create a situation where they can say that ??certainly Zalachenko was a fiend. I??m on my way to Kungsholmen right now.?? ??I can assure you that it??s quite true.?? ??Why did you pick me up??? ??I give in to impulses.I. It contained no lies that could entangle her. But you think we should publish a story that might be a lie just because we have no proof that it??s a lie.M. The arrow went straight through her brain. but he??ll try to get out of the country as soon as he can. So I want to know what you think of him. a matter of minutes. If a storm was brewing.?? ??Why would he flee abroad??? Salander thought about it. feeling stressed. semidetached house. ??That was a serious mistake. Isn??t there a friend you could stay with??? Berger thought for a moment about Blomkvist??s apartment but remembered that just now it was not such a good idea. wrapped her arms around her client and lifted her up.S. The other citizens online.?? ??If that was all there was to it.00 she had her foot wrapped in a thick bandage.P.

If we don??t lift all the copies simultaneously.S. After an hour of searching.?? ??I see. It was not the first time she had received a threatening email or a message from a crackpot. and in 1987 he started his own company. I??m running the club. The story was beginning at last to take shape.?? ??Which part was truth and which part was fantasy.?? ??But she needs ammunition. a work of art. no-one ever told me that the warehouse was doubling up as a woodland cemetery.00. Gunnar Bj?rck.?? Olsson said. but I was waylaid by you. You will be paid by me. so he stuck his head out a little further. she has been throughout a victim in the whole affair. Then he cut away the bandage that the emergency team had wrapped round her skull.?? she said. a passport. stark raving mad. That??s all. ??Niedermann is the scapegoat and I guarantee that no-one will ever find him. Malin Eriksson. ??My office. and then you??ll find yourself editing the family page or the comics page or something like that.

He looked back at her for a moment.?? ??There are also a number of different ways to get into the house. Some time after 4. Odd. But it??s a shame von Rottinger isn??t still with us. all sorts of complaints. He spoke of how Morander had dedicated the past fifteen years of his life to the newspaper.?? ??Take your time. Was G?ran M?rtensson working on anything important. held it to his temple. She thought for a moment and then went into Armansky??s hard drive. In my considered view you??re precisely the lawyer she needs.?? Edklinth said.30. Not identified.?? Figuerola said: ??What do we do about Blomkvist??? ??In what sense??? ??We promised to give him feedback if we uncovered anything about Clinton and von Rottinger. She realized that once again she was confined to an institutional bed.?? ??That??s me. stretches and sit-ups on the recommendation of her physiotherapist. married to Hans Wilhelm Francke. He was known as Ruben.?? ??And how many hours a week do you do it??? ??Two hours a day. re: narcotics bust in S?dert?lje. This too touched on the core of the responsibility delegated to the Constitutional Protection Unit. She was going to have to have a talk with him. ??I had to ?? go ?? to the toilet.?? She expected him to get up and say he would come back in a few days. Which means that the price per square metre will be X kronor and it would cost 10.

engineers. I work for Armansky.?? ??I assume it came up during the interview???? ??Anders. but he walked briskly from the Academic bookshop to the side entrance of N.?? ??And you reckon that he??s S?po. For a second he held his breath when the pilot seemed to have difficulty controlling the aircraft. if she surfed it hard. I want to know who goes in and who comes out. Clinton sat up cautiously. would have to be informed. She had to find a hiding place. Finally Prosecutor Ekstr?m. But I really don??t want you to stay here alone. In terms of espionage it was a sad chapter in their history. as you know.??s now not-so-secret mistress and pictures from a party in Hollywood in which he could be seen snorting cocaine. She had several run-ins with people from the social welfare agency.K. and as a doctor he was not the least bit interested in the answer to that question. SixOfOne wrote. feeling stressed.I. Annoyed. I??m not going to try to convince you one way or the other. The software scanned every report and reacted to 310 keywords. It??s something that you all on the staff will have to talk through.?? ??The chief of Secretariat is the only person who could make this sort of arrangement. which indicated that the document was Top Secret.

.U. she won??t be able to do the research she needs to do to prepare her defence. But he??s tricky to deal with. It was a job she enjoyed. had never set foot in the office in London where he supposedly worked.?? Faste said. Wrong. He defected and was granted asylum by S?po. The patrol car that Niedermann is thought to have driven away was found in Alings?s this morning. Under Berger??s leadership the magazine had always been a collective.C. he flipped open his mobile and saw that he had twenty unread messages.?? Berger studied the chairman of the board. She also knew that he could accept any number of idiocies from his friends. So far. He left her standing by her car in astonishment. He pushed the thought away. most of the books published about the Security Police were from the late ??80s. Do you want me to be your lawyer? Armansky and Mikael are paying my fee and???? ??No. shave a job here and a job there. ??So you??re completely innocent??? ??Of course I am.?? ??Media??? Modig asked. listening to her breathing.00 yesterday morning. welcome to S.?? ??A whole bunch of crimes. The older man got in.

but it??s possible. Then he looked up and got a split second??s glimpse of Teleborian??s dishevelled profile and goatee as he came out of Pressbyr?n on the other side of the ticket hall.I. He pushed away the sheet of paper with the nine succinct points that Berger had presented at the weekly meeting of the budget committee. two titanium screws had been fixed into his jawbone.?? ??This sounds fun. The person responsible in such a case is the criminal civil servant ?C or civil servants ?C who overstepped his authority.?? ??But in this case you already have. ??What did you say??? he asked in a low voice.?? Gullberg raised a hand to forestall Wadensj????s objections. you??re not going to do anything for the moment. which individuals should be arrested? From my standpoint. ??Who is this woman. She saw no-one who showed any interest in her.?? ??What??s that??? ??Two of the letters were sent to the justice department ?C to the Minister of Justice and to the Deputy Minister. but situations do crop up.?? ??She reads them with obvious interest. I have to tell you. It??s a big. Somehow he had to establish contact with her. but soon gave up. Then her I. so we have to solve the problem of who??s going to be in charge of the editorial section.?? ??Which of course you are not. ??What in the world ???? Wadensj?? said. He stood for a moment in the sea of travellers. He took her left elbow and raised the arm.?? ??And what did they do there??? ??It couldn??t have been to plant bugs.

so she could not see the front door itself. accompanied by his personal nurse. Blomkvist frowned.?? ??But the present situation has arisen because you have been subject to a direct threat from a specific individual. The investigation is still under way. listened in vain to a vast number of calls to and from police headquarters and the surrounding buildings.?? Sandberg looked around the room.A. who took charge immediately. and pinged up the address she had created for him through the Yahoo group [Idiotic_Table]. I don??t want to say anything more about that until I talk to my lawyer. Policemen possibly excepted. I??m asking you to be my adviser. Do you think it??s a turn-off.?? ??Did he look confused or???? ??I couldn??t say one way or the other. he had a theoretical knowledge of electronics and computer science that allowed him to knock spots off any professor in the field. Did you hear what happened at Sahlgrenska??? ??You could say so. But count on two weeks before we can start you on some sort of physical therapy. with you??? ??It??s completely O. I too think Blomkvist is a man we could work with. Hans Wilhelm Francke.?? They walked the short distance without talking. ??Should we conclude that the Zalachenko club was an association formed in 1964? That would be some time before Zalachenko even came to Sweden. She had scarcely sent the message before she heard that Berger was up and moving about again.?? ??Oh. Acquitted of all charges. We??ll arrange for Faste to be assigned to investigate Salander. Blomkvist remembered having seen a pack of Pall Malls on the kitchen counter in Zalachenko??s house.

the Bildt government had cut back the Soviet desk for financial reasons and had at the same time got themselves involved in the international mess in Bosnia and Serbia ?C as if Serbia could ever threaten Sweden. we have to be able to offer him something substantial. Thorbj?rn. She took a hammer from the tool box in the basement and put that in the master bathroom too. ??This is a complete mess. which was now hers. Palmgren stood up for Salander. Niedermann and Zalachenko. no need for the Foreign Minister.?? Blomkvist leaned forward and explained his plan. Contact with the Net. we have a journalistic responsibility. Vinge had been dismissed from the service after he had given voice to the view. There had been no doubt in his mind that Salander was guilty of three murders. V.P. and the Prime Minister has no jurisdiction to determine whether or not she is sane. Blomkvist??s taxi got to Central Station at 3. who??s somewhat renowned in my profession. You shouldn??t worry your pretty head over complex matters. have a seat. told the whole truth. At the same time he was supposed to keep his eyes peeled for anyone who might follow Blomkvist. Berger waited until he had finished thinking. it was tiresome. layout artists. your only task. Then Gullberg turned to Sandberg.

I have ordered an investigation. She was surprised to be alive. When at long last Edklinth concluded that he had to act on Armansky??s information. He??s asleep and has turned off his mobile.?? Gullberg said. and that over the years this conspiracy has committed what could be categorized as serious criminal acts.?? Blomkvist said.U. You??ll see what I mean when we talk.?? he said. 11. Then identify the other person in the pictures taken by Blomkvist??s photographer. I gave her Dexofen. ??So what??s this all about??? he said when they had got their coffee. obviously I don??t know what??s wrong with him ?C patient??s confidentiality and all that ?C but the drugs he??s taking are strong ataractics on the one hand. and he perfectly understood that this was. as I said. Then everything had gone haywire. One was the chief of S?po. and the name Zalachenko was not mentioned. Nothing to indicate anything but suicide by hanging.?? ??That petty thief you identified ???? ??Kenneth Gustafsson. I??m at home.G. She would hardly notice the difference. You??ll be asleep before I??m done. ever since a woman Member of Parliament had received death threats. But every time she had decided to sleep at Blomkvist??s.

then I??m sure she will. about half a mile further down the road. putting on a jacket as he switched off the lights and locked the door to his office.?? The first person Blomkvist saw was Torsten Edklinth. Modig held up her mobile to the gap in the curtains and took two low-res photographs of the group outside Ekstr?m??s door. Jonas heading north. Salander was locked up at Sahlgrenska. as well as to the murder of Bjurman. She had nothing specific to work on. Naturally he has stayed in contact with the Section throughout. It was when Paulsson arrived that things really started to go awry. Exactly how high up the conspiracy went he had no idea.P. ??Thank you. I spy on them. no matter how noble the intentions. It was the most horrendous thing I??ve ever experienced. Zalachenko said that he would mull over the matter. She had worked an average of five hours each day. and she liked him. I can??t believe Salander knows anything about it. Right now it??s some seriously unpleasant individual???? ??Who??s got a hang-up about you in particular. She felt fettered to her bed.?? Gullberg said. Events had been rapid and unpredictable. ??Thanks. Since it was a woman in the car. why it??s being spread.

Gullberg was transported at top speed to the hospital??s trauma unit. and handed one to Waltari. a former accountant and sometime business consultant and tax lawyer. He had reserved the room the day before and presented himself as Evert Gullberg.?? Figuerola said. Then her I. ??O. I shouldn??t have picked that spot. He watched the flow of people on G?tgatan.?? ??That sounds fishy.?? ??Try out the idea that she??s innocent of these accusations. although the pain drilled into his jaw. but her breathing was not quite normal. But we think that the so-called Section for Special Analysis set up shop somewhere outside.?? ??I can assure you that it??s quite true.?? ??And when would you like me to publish? After the next election. it does.??Friday. What he was expected to confess. And he??s fifty-eight with six years to go before retirement. I??m the one you hired to run the paper. for example.?? Blomkvist headed for the bathroom.?? ??That ?? wasn??t so good. but there was nothing much new.M. And as far as I??m concerned this conversation never took place. Luckily she does accept information.

?? ??Why was that??? ??He was sweet. In his old age he became a gangster. but it was completely off the record.I. very close to Sand?bron. She tried 52553. And Skanska calculates it and comes back and says it??ll cost around 500 million kronor. subcontracts the work to an outfit called Fong Soo Industries. Then Falun waited on the landing as Sandberg went in. They??re on the U. schedules and other uninteresting stuff. but Palmgren himself had insisted. One source did tell me that he swallowed most of what Teleborian fed him about Salander at a presentation of reports when the hunt for her was still on.?? Giannini looked sceptical.?? Berger said. She was content to confine her dealings with him to the Net. The trade in building materials goes through wholesalers who set their own prices. We??re not going to be sure how Lundin came to get himself shot until one or other of the parties involved starts talking.M. of course. since experience from far too many countries has shown that a political police department could easily transform itself into the principal threat to democracy. ??Not much. We don??t know what number it is. He is a 78-year-old man who has been undergoing treatment for a terminal illness and the psychiatric problems associated with it. He did not know where he was. If we??re going to have the slightest chance. She ran. He leaned back and looked ridiculously pleased with himself.

why would Faste want to leak this information??? Frisk shrugged. the exhaustion of the day made him reckless. The other doctor on duty. At that moment she heard the rattle of the guard??s key ring. On one occasion when I still had my mouth taped shut. and I can do that only if I have a management that functions and colleagues who enjoy their work. No date had yet been set. He walked slowly through the station. you??re released from all other duties. or various volunteer tasks for Amnesty International and the like. Hardly an apprentice any longer. and take the day off sick. and that this had then been the subject of magazine articles. but also not a nutcase. ??Was it S?po that called you??? ??That??s what I told you. He??s probably riding around in G?ransson??s Saab. In 1973 the office building where he had claimed to be working was in fact torn down and replaced by an extension to King??s Cross Station. in corridor 11C. ??Within these four walls. you??re going to have to fight. however. I thought he could protect me ?? but he has actually taken over my life.?? ??Shall we take it from the top??? Berger said. As soon as Ekstr?m left police headquarters. But this trial is going to be about entirely different things. They must have been there for a couple of hours already. but she could not.?? ??A graze over three centimetres long on the outside of his left knee.

??I??m O. He had already bought coffee and sandwiches for her. ??This can all be solved quite simply. just set up your own temporary hotmail account. Ever since the girls were nine or ten. Annika Giannini. So. I don??t think any one of us could even imagine what would happen if Zalachenko talked. The next day it would take less. Why am I not surprised? Berger hesitated for ten seconds. She could not sit up even. a long time and he??s been news chief for fifteen years. Ekstr?m is going to commission one more thorough evaluation of Salander. he could get himself into trouble if he closes the preliminary investigation. We have to find allies within the bureaucracy if this is not going to end in calamity. How else can we explain the report from 1991 ending up in the hands of Advokat Bjurman??? ??Another man who spends his time with prostitutes??? Gullberg said. Dragan Armansky. On the other hand. I regard the information that I receive here as source-protected.00. but the events surrounding last night??s killing took precedence. Can I trust you??? ??Of course you can. ??Can I ask you what you think of Wadensj??.?? ??He??s so upset that he??s complained to the board.?? ??Tell me.?? Ellis had raven-black hair with a touch of grey. and then a brief and. was in and delighted to see him.

He had a large sports bag over his shoulder and was just finishing a call on his mobile. So let??s move on. I??m also going to charge him with probable involvement in arson. ??First-class research. It would have been a fine ending to her years at Millennium. By any interpretation that would be attempted murder. Everything points towards a suicide. and not his formal boss in the Immigration Division. ??There??s always a choice. The difficulty is that this report does not correspond with other reports that we have in our archives.K. ??Died in the early ??90s. ??She owns 30 per cent of Millennium and sits on our board. and Figuerola was the head of a department of five officers working on political crimes. After a minute she turned her head and became aware that she had a neck brace.?? ??And you??re saying that it??s an invention. nor will it cause any problems for you or for Ghidi. and that I wanted to look at and approve everything that was to be published. Carl-Magnus Lundin of the Svavelsj? Motorcycle Club was a key player in the whole thing. One advantage of working at Constitutional Protection was that she had authority to access almost any police report in Sweden that might have any connection to racially or politically motivated crimes. C. he acquiesced. ??Good morning. A . I was thinking of Peter Althin or someone like that. Three names.N. The activity may for all I know be legitimate and sanctioned by the government.

??My office. And I don??t have sex quite that often either.50. But I??m only talking about a couple of days until we have all the installations ready. Cortez had spent the morning making calls. whether I could bring her books of any sort. and if I were you I wouldn??t voice that theory in public. but that he was not expected back before late that night. from the crazy neo-Nazi living in the woods to the rock-throwing anarchist ?C and everyone in between.I. He honestly did not give a damn about the man.?? the assistant chief of the Violent Crimes Division concluded.P. ??Think of it as compensation for the way you were treated last night.?? Berger looked at the clock and sighed. She should be able to send a text message to Blomkvist??s mobile ?? but it was tapped. It is almost entirely fabricated. She obviously wanted to tell you first. Berger made coffee. The case is now at the prosecutor??s office.?? ??You require things of me??? ??Yes.?? ??That??s insane. and was then on the books of S?po until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Figuerola was out of luck. even though he is a journalist. but Paulsson presumably thought it was Blomkvist??s own.?? Sandberg said. ??I??ve just changed into jogging things to work off a little of my surplus energy.

Eriksson shook her head. had enormous resources and used a vast network in order to capture a large number of mobile conversations in a certain region simultaneously. studied to become a police officer at twenty.P. so he waited for her to finish her call. a small group of dormant Cold-Warmongers who hide out in some dark corridor at S?po. Start by reading the Bj?rck report. on the horns of a constitutional dilemma: he did not have the authority to conduct secret investigations. Among them. Shit. 11.I. Where was the boundary? And was Ekstr?m aware that there was a boundary? Could it be that someone was deliberately supplying Ekstr?m with believable but misleading information? Finally Blomkvist logged into hotmail and spent ten minutes checking the half-dozen anonymous email accounts he had created.?? Bublanski said.?? she said. He met Angleton.I. She remembered the nights when. And you send a couple of village policemen to arrest him as if he were some Saturday night drunk. How??s Mikael doing??? ??He??s dead to the world. and it??s urgent. On four separate occasions Gullberg tried to have Bergling removed.?? he said.

Edklinth had probably meant for her to serve the coffee. ??We??re going down the perfect-bound trade paperback route. and for the past week she had not taken any headache tablets. ??We believe that Salander is in some way the link between all of them. She had no criminal record.?? ??That??s good.?? ??He??s older and has an exceptional record.?? Ekstr?m looked as if he had just swallowed something very sour. It had also contributed a small part of its funding.?? the Minister of Justice said. she could get fired by S. ??That??s right. I didn??t know that. At first he had travelled frequently to Stockholm. He was dead tired but running on adrenaline. importantly.. Sonny Nieminen. ??When this is all over I??m going to found an association called ??The Knights of the Idiotic Table?? and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. Third. She wondered whether he was an ostentatious nouveau riche. ??You wanted to know if Ekstr?m had a meeting. Then he hung his overcoat and jacket in the wardrobe behind the door.

and he??s dead. was founded. If you want to publish tomorrow morning. He had also to resolve how to profile Salander in the article without violating her trust.?? ??What about her??? ??She has to disappear. ??Then I??ll have to start by thanking you for coming to me with this matter as soon as you did.?? ??Go on. Lisbeth had aroused attention in other quarters as well. The K.T.?? he introduced himself. What are their working conditions like? What do they actually do? That sort of stuff. I??ve got the story. After stonewalling his way through five police interrogations. it??s time.??s C. thrown her on to her stomach on the bed. ??Hi.?? Blomkvist said. And then M?rtensson went to the toilet. The section took up nineteen lines in her account. The body had been discovered on April 19 by none other than Inspector Andersson. while Berger and assistant editor Peter Fredriksson met the sports editors so that she could get to know her colleagues and find out how they worked.

And there??s a connection to Niedermann there too. He looked at her arms and then at her legs and saw that she was much more muscular than he was. Don??t misunderstand me. Zalachenko. how are you all doing??? ??Sandberg is brighter than we thought. we won??t know anything until she wakes up. of course not. a passport. After a while she managed to pull the sheet and blanket up to her chin.?? Ekstr?m flinched at the mention of the name Blomkvist. First he called Cortez who was in a caf?? in Vasastad and had a few details to discuss. but you sat in your office for a while and didn??t know in which direction to go. The smoking ban at Millennium had soon been relaxed after Berger left. It was entirely up to him to decide whether he would talk to her or not. If we can verify all the claims Blomkvist is making. But it??s very simple to fake an apparently legitimate address. letters and photographs. Baksi had been caught in the act by Per-Erik ?str?m ?C the same man who went on to be the paedophile hunter at Save the Children ?C who in the ??80s was the research secretary at the Trades Union Federation.?? ??I see. ??Me too. But she waited for him to speak. He gave the driver an address in the suburb of Bromma. slowly twirled his glass of red wine and listened attentively to the C.

It had whetted his appetite. Then Gullberg turned to Sandberg. Cortez sat on the sofa in Eriksson??s office looking guilty.?? Berger studied the chairman of the board. That was when she felt that there was something hard beneath her head. because that takes only a minute or so. ??So.D. Lars Faulsson. ??You know F?lldin??? Bublanski said dubiously.?? ??Nevertheless. Salander never talked to the authorities. That was ominous. punched to the ground in G?teborg. He was bound to take Nystr?m at his word.?? ??And??? Figuerola said. ??I??d never even heard that Sweden had taken in and protected a Russian defector of such importance. Over the next ten years it grew to include no more than eleven people.?? Berger said. He himself had proclaimed her far and wide to be mentally imbalanced. Someone would have called in a favour and got someone to talk.?? ??That??s nice to hear. Figuerola walked to Bergsgatan and summoned her four colleagues for an early morning conference.

which he did not have. wait ?? he got out of the lift first. Full stop.?? ??Correct.

He had assumed that she would survive
He had assumed that she would survive. With text on the back. and grumbling. which he had read four times. ??I thought you??d be dead by now. this is not a joke. But you??re going to be digging into the background. She could see the building on the other side of the car park. Robbery. As soon as the doctors discharged her. You see. and then a brief and. I won??t get involved in any horse-trading that might be constitutionally dubious. the government cannot do a thing. a change of clothes. She saw that this was nothing unusual.?? She took Salander??s hand and helped her into the bed. Yes or no??? ??Do you really think you can get away with this? This paper comes out because I and the other cogs in the machinery work our backsides off.P. and appropriated its secrets. can you help me out??? ??I spent the evening in the company of good friends. She was the most unlikely person Berger could turn to with any hope of getting help. a number of practices would be revealed that were not always consistent with the dictates of the constitution. and nobody became a member of this exclusive club without very strong recommendations.?? She pointed. both as a kid and as an adult. from which several weapons had already been confiscated. she looked to see whether there was a film on T.

After she was gone Blomkvist called the hospital in Sahlgrenska and tried to get some information about Salander??s condition. then we??ll decide what to do. or something like that. You??ll discover positive things and negative things. but Asperger??s patients do not generally set fire to their parents. ??Does it feel tight??? ??A little. This thought upset Zalachenko. On one occasion when I still had my mouth taped shut.?? ??How are you??? ??I??m sick. she did not intend to back out. She sat for a long time thinking about the day??s events.?? ??Stuff and nonsense. You have to concentrate on getting well. she had kept on playing with the equations. And I won??t write a word of what you tell me.?? Figuerola said. even if that. Nilsson was pissed off.P. But their proposal to shut down the Swedish government was not an idle threat. the total budget of the secret police was 2. He thought about calling reception and ordering coffee. one more time ?? what part of my instructions did you not understand??? Holm sighed and adopted an exasperated expression. and called a taxi to pick him up outside S?dra theatre. Bublanski had to stop himself from smiling.?? Sandberg said. Not identified. but of gross falsifications.

?? ??No. We??ve come across a story that will sink your chairman. Katarina Holm. We have blueprints of the building.?? ??Have you appointed an assistant editor??? ??Henry. but that too would leave a trace. When they were settled in her new Saab 9-5. she was suffering from massive cyber-abstinence. So too was her brother. He was sick.?? She told him that a nationwide manhunt was under way for Ronald Niedermann. Erika Berger finally rolled over on to her stomach and rested her head on her fists. but there was never very much to report. Instead she clicked on the [O] in [ERROR].m.V. She could have told anyone at all. She was calm. Frank. in the form of convicts. He had been brought up in a Muslim family and he felt foolish wearing it. Blomkvist looked at him expectantly. It??s possible that when this conversation is over.?? ??I understand. Sorry. I do recall that he needed a little rest and wanted to expand his horizons. None of it is directed at you.S.

The doctors think she??ll make a full recovery. and in the end the price burden falls on the renters or the taxpayers. He was without doubt a most competent news editor. It was his last editorial and it would be a crying shame not to print it. There are 11 citizens online. but I know an excellent Bosnian place at Fridhemsplan. In any case. ??Find out which room she??s in. ??Probably not. I usually draw a blank.?? ??No. ??It??s not a question of what we can or can??t do. I forgot to call. (2) To wage a media war I must be able to appear in public to discuss things that you may consider your private business. worked primarily on incoming calls to Ekstr?m. Dr Jonasson paused for a second. The face was grotesquely swollen. We??ll be going in as soon as it can be done. I shouldn??t have picked that spot. did not have any teenagers on its staff. Falun did not know exactly what interests Clinton represented. let alone that he was the focus of intense speculation both at S?po and Millennium. she had joined him at his table. the police. At around 11. He took the tunnelbana to City Hall. And one thing you really don??t want to do is drill into her skull and then operate a year from now when the wound itself has healed. but it was mild and it was distant.

?? ??What ?? huh??? He sat up and looked around in bewilderment. and I can??t direct what prosecutors and the courts decide. She tugged her lip. The woman turned the corner at McDonald??s and Figuerola hurried after her. Berger was aware that her objections were being systematically stonewalled by Flodin and Sellberg. Otherwise there??s one very large room. Five minutes later she propped herself up on her right elbow. Ingela Oscarsson. But that is all. The men had been discovered near a MOOSE CROSSING sign by the side of the road. along with the media..?? The Prime Minister frowned and glanced at Figuerola.?? Gullberg and Wadensj?? glared at each other for a long moment. It was as if everything outside the Section were sacred.?? ??I miss you too. The focus right now is to be on the murder of a police officer. She had a heavy. ??What have you come up with this morning??? ??A nationwide A. The only question is: who??? ??The chief of Secretariat ???? ??Yes.??s administration. and was built into an unknown number of satellites that performed pinpoint monitoring of capitals around the world as well as flashpoints of special interest. Hans Faste ?? do you think he might come back on duty? He sounds like the right man to investigate the allegations against Salander. What would his next step be??? ??He has to get out of Sweden. Nor did she have reason to think that anyone on the editorial staff wished her ill. but Cortez had solid evidence. and transferred by way of the assistant head of Secretariat to the Section. reunited with her husband.

The constitution had nothing to do with it. He had no will to react when calmly they took him in a firm grip under both arms. She got up. by the way??? ??He took some time off. Inspector Paulsson had started out with a relatively manageable situation: now he had a murdered policeman and an armed killer on the run. He undressed. ??There??s always a choice.?? ??Our activity is completely legal ?? we??re actually working under the auspices of the government. This too touched on the core of the responsibility delegated to the Constitutional Protection Unit. He and the whole of Sweden had seen her passport photograph on billboards outside every newspaper kiosk for weeks. Conscientious and a teetotaller. He was soft-spoken.. Salander opened her eyes and saw a light in the ceiling. Then came the election in 1985. She had also given her a lighter. 35-year-old Ronald Niedermann. adjusted his glasses. a summer cabin or???? ??I don??t think it would be a summer cabin. He is a 78-year-old man who has been undergoing treatment for a terminal illness and the psychiatric problems associated with it.?? ??Is that so??? F?lldin said. right next to the gate to the Maria lift. And Micke is hiding something too. Editor-in-Chief Morander died at lunchtime.P. ??But since I knew that??s what you would say. He booked the room for two weeks. where she works ?? and anything else you can find.

The Ring area was almost deserted. the woman who had been shot. in your opinion. But that will be up to all of you. but her tongue felt numb and paralysed. A second later the man from Malm??s photograph materialized at Teleborian??s side. and an older gentleman we didn??t recognize. client confidentiality and so forth. The report claimed that it was almost impossible to charge and convict anyone under the law of persecution against an ethnic group. The answer was obvious. If she continued to heal at the same pace. It??s your job to take care of Lisbeth??s physical and mental health. most often those on the extreme left or the extreme right. ??Excuse us for summoning you to this meeting at such short notice. It??s not a casual question ?C he??s concerned that you??re going to spring something that could result in repercussions ?? in the media. She cleared her throat and without being invited to. ??I??m not competent to judge whether or not Salander is mentally ill. past the parliament building.?? ??Call me Erika.?? ??Peter. We??ll come back next week and do the proper installation with alarms on every window on the ground floor and in the basement. in some other way.?? They were silent for a moment. & E. We hope to be able to do so tomorrow. ran a hand through his thick blond hair. at least three murders in Nykvarn. Fredrik Clinton.

and it was 50/50 whether she would survive. Plague pinged Salander at midnight and interrupted her in the middle of a sentence she was writing about her time with Holger Palmgren as her guardian.?? Seventy-eight. She blinked hard a few times and got up to turn on the coffeemaker before she took her shower. On the other hand. Not being able to remember something was a phenomenon unknown to Salander. She was in luck.00 on Tuesday night. She spent nearly three hours scrutinizing folder after folder on Teleborian??s computer. I never would have dreamed that???? ??Where??s the sister today? Camilla Salander. although he had spent only a few brief months at sea during his military service. ??Go to work. and that something serious must have happened if you wanted to see me outside all normal channels. in the late ??60s. And so is Lottie. No black marks on his record. he could move around his room. But that??s the angle the police are taking. She saw that it was 5.?? ??And in normal circumstances everything would be dismissed as muddled red tape. Mikael picked up his mobile and made another call to Inspector Erlander in G?teborg. I have ordered an investigation. The paper we??re making today is still H?kan Morander??s paper.vi ?C Saturday 4. ??My pleasure.?? ??I??ve also had a conversation with an official who wants me to let Teleborian see you. It took ten minutes for the cleaner to work his way over to Adamsson??s spot at the end of the corridor. Blomkvist logged in to I.

Under Berger??s leadership the magazine had always been a collective. He wore a hound??s-tooth jacket and dark-grey trousers. But he could not get into the room and he did not have the strength to force the door. ??It??s a police killing and the press is out in force. Andersson. She was attractive and dressed in a way that she knew made her more so. he exploited his hold over them to the maximum. There had been wild speculation in the media after it was revealed that Blomkvist was the one who had found Salander. She took a hammer from the tool box in the basement and put that in the master bathroom too. I suppose you??re the one who has to make the decision about charging him ???? She looked at Jervas.N.?? Modig said. and Holmberg wondered who did the sowing and harvesting. One reason for this was the expenses incurred by Blomkvist in connection with the Salander story.P. Sorry. What??s the situation??? ??Our technicians were here and installed a proper alarm. and she has to live with that. He served in G?teborg before he moved to Trollh?ttan. I don??t want to say what it entails right now. I have to make a call. most often those on the extreme left or the extreme right. ??And who do you think is going to investigate Salander??? Bublanski said.?? ??Did you write a report??? ??No. By your reasoning. I won??t. ??You??re missing the point. In that respect he??s predictable.

?? ??What??s this about. Berger thought for while before she replied. We??ll deal with that problem when it arises. Erlander said he would call if her condition took a turn for the worse. so she reinforced it with another improvised bandage. But after what happened today I??m more than ever persuaded that you were the ideal choice. ??Budget??? ??We have about eleven million a year total. and then by telephone. She clicked on image after image of children aged about fifteen or younger. Over the next ten years it grew to include no more than eleven people. in Boston ?C I wrote about the case in the New England Journal of Medicine. and then the clock clicked over to 2. And while I??m on this topic ?? I??ll be writing editorials from time to time. It was always a matter of details. and squeezed the trigger.?? ??But F?lldin is alive and willing to talk about the matter. Then I??ll tell you here and now that until Fr?ken Salander says otherwise. in the hall. I??m only interested in her wellbeing. What worried him in the short term was that he could never predict when Niedermann might be struck by his mental paralysis. ??Excuse me. Berger could not believe she was asking this question.?? Ekstr?m flinched at the mention of the name Blomkvist. I??m asking you to be my adviser. And until we??ve found out what??s wrong.?? ??Listen. My husband will be home in a couple of days. Annoyed.

With a defector of such provenance the order must have come from the highest level. to put it in colloquial terms. but Ekstr?m could not know that. Armansky found this entirely contradictory. who with thirty thousand female soldiers and three thousand female cavalry swept through Egypt and Syria and all the way to the Aegean.?? ??I??m not sure that what you propose is legal. but to him she looked more like an injured sparrow. And at the same time. Armansky studied Malm??s photographs of the men who had followed Blomkvist from the Copacabana.G. and then he went to a pharmacy to buy a toothbrush and other toiletries. Our job is to watch over the security of our country.?? Figuerola parked beside the Nordic Light Hotel next to the Arlanda Express platforms. He himself had grown up in H?lledal outside Ramvik. thought Malm. But you??re Lisbeth??s doctor and you have access to her. ??Hmm. But how?? In amazement she glanced over at the locked door. Probably thanks to Kalle Bastard Blomkvist.?? Blomkvist gave Cortez a sharp look. It??s a long story. ??Since the newspapers have already written about a lesbian gang. but they had no choice.C. almost all of them from journalists. Henry. Von Rottinger. A really good story.

But in the half-staffed Saturday newsroom everything was normal. Then he turned to F?lldin.?? Figuerola said. and he got hold of the Prosecutor General. but he??s bound to say that he was doing target practice two days ago. So. The court could then order all the documents on the table and summon anyone it pleased. ??We??re really putting Erika on the spot. I was never privy to the details. joining Holmberg at the kitchen table. a T-shirt and a grey jacket. He knew one.?? she said. But tell me this: is there anything at all to even suggest that Salander might be involved in some way in the murders? Could she and Niedermann have somehow committed the murders together??? ??I very much doubt it. Threats to National Security.?? Only after she had finished her conversation with Armansky did Berger realize that she had overslept. according to Blomkvist. If possible. A whole bunch of experienced professionals who know how to do their jobs. We still flag Salander for monitoring whenever she turns up in any database. Those were the words she had said to him when he moved to Hedeby. Two important details are still needed: (1) First of all. he would make mistakes. ??We can certainly install an alarm that will work. It??s Mikael. even though he is a journalist. was the first indication that Zalachenko??s predicament had come to the attention of the Section. and we don??t want to attract attention until we have more to go on.

Hmm. during which they copulated with randomly selected males from nearby towns. Berger had not been able to sleep on Thursday night. He had succeeding in gathering some forensic evidence linking Niedermann to the murders of Svensson and Johansson. The K. As Blomkvist tried in frustration to manoeuvre his mobile out of the breast pocket of his jacket ?C it proved to be an impossible task with his hands cuffed behind his back. I can??t do it ?? that would be presumptuous of me. the ball??s in your court. It was past 10. I was about to lock up Bjurman??s cabin outside Stallarholmen when Carl-Magnus Lundin and Sonny Nieminen arrived on motorbikes. ??I doubt that. ??No. calm and collected. That is how the media work.?? ??After that he heard almost nothing more during his two terms in office. even though she may have felt a certain frustration that she was not going to be the editor of that particular issue. It was frustrating. Since she had access to Teleborian??s P. ??I don??t know what this is going to turn into. ??Satisfied??? ??It??s beautiful. You??ll discover positive things and negative things.?? ??I know. She was once more without a weapon.?? She thought about that.C. This led each of them to distrust the group and at the same time concoct imaginative conspiracy theories about it. Neither of them had noticed the man in the lobby who had been watching them as they stepped into the lift. ??And what do I get in return ?C if I do co-operate??? ??Nothing.

??Yes. She saw him in the wing mirror on the passenger side as he went on down towards Hornsgatan. Which meant that they all had to carry two mobiles with them. Ask if I can visit him at home. It was just before 1. sharp training sessions. At the end of upper Bellmansgatan.?? Figuerola said. he could get himself into trouble if he closes the preliminary investigation. it means that someone is acting against us. Four were spam.?? ??Take your time.m. I can??t release her. When they passed Ikea at Kungens Kurva in Sk?rholmen. this is only between you and me. He did not want to use his own telephone. I??m not a guest at all. If he could have kicked Figuerola in the shin he would have done so. Some day. But he never regained consciousness and died after nine days in intensive care. He was pleased with what he had written. and grumbling. ??I agree with Sonja.?? Sandberg said. ??Who is the source of these claims??? Figuerola said when the story was ended. I cannot help it if some idiot in the Security Police fantasizes in his reports. Berger looked at her watch.

??That was a long time ago.P. Take a taxi. we no longer have access to the report.?? ??So I heard. She needed a weapon. This is really great. But if you want to win. ??You still haven??t got it. so I??ll put her on. She worked first in the Violent Crime Division and then in the unit that specialized in financial crime. lifted weights. He would function as a contact person in matters relating to the defector. It was the only possible explanation. In the United States you can cross-examine members of the government in a normal court of law. & E.?? ??I??ll take my chances.?? Holm said.?? ??What about the reports that Bodin tried to murder his daughter??? ??That is under investigation. But you do have to shut your eyes to the fact that I am. She hobbled to the door and leaned against the wall to catch her breath. Someone who was trying to cover Zalachenko??s tracks. If the pinkos want to start a war with Denmark. ??I understand. ??I??ve kicked myself a hundred times about it. Unremarkable. More or less.?? he said.

Zalachenko was Salander??s father and her worst enemy. He wondered vaguely what new nightmare was in the offing. Say for tonight. ??I haven??t got my bearings yet. ??Hello.00 p. He called it ??the last line of defence??. ??Now we just have to decide how we??re going to handle it. All of a sudden she did not have the slightest desire to meet Blomkvist??s sister and regretted that she had accepted this woman as her lawyer. she would simply have to plan her escape from St Stefan??s or whichever other nuthouse. ??Maybe we???? ??What if we???? Edklinth and Figuerola had started talking at the same time before falling silent.S. Sandberg and Nystr?m will do the legwork. like twisted tree limbs. and Millennium are not competitors. ??Mumbo jumbo.?? ??For several years I was Lisbeth Salander??s psychiatrist when she was institutionalized at St Stefan??s. from right under the noses of the policemen circling around him. and they lack credibility. ??Good morning. She put down the report and focused her attention on other aspects of the information that Edklinth had given her. He was reserving judgement until he knew what this was all about. That??s what this button is for.?? ??Is it really something to be proud of??? said Blomkvist.P. That means there??s something in the story that all the other reporters have missed. he would have regained his strength. ??If he??s out of the country.

but they were as well trained and probably better equipped too. and a typical libertarian when it came to freedom of the press. and her desire to run after them and hurt Berger. ??I was wondering when one of you was going to show up. She has hit the nail on the head. I??ll ask your advice and I??ll depend on your skill and experience.?? * The distance by land from London to Stockholm is roughly 1900 kilometres. They think that the price of construction materials is absurd.00 on a Saturday afternoon??? Figuerola and Blomkvist exchanged a sceptical look.?? ??Sounds like blackmail. he again denied all knowledge of any such thing. Seconds later they had set off down the corridor. During the past ten years. How do you know about that??? ??Stop arguing and make it snappy. dull headache and acute pain in her left shoulder.T. and he reckoned that the final book would run to 320 or 336 pages. She was very badly wounded. Whore. assault. I??ll be O. Then there were a hundred other details. Nieminen was never very easy to deal with. Jonasson picked up the telephone. Something was eluding him. ??Hello. and then he paused for a moment.?? Edklinth said.

?? ??Calculating what??? ??I mean.?? The fourth visitor of the day arrived at 11. and several years later some members of the ??people??s militia?? in Hacker Republic. If you can??t rejuvenate this paper. If these very unpleasant pranks continue we will have to consider reporting them to the police. ??So.?? ??I can??t move anywhere else. We have an excellent film of how they break in and go through my papers.?? Salander said breathlessly. and underwear. Pain stabbed through her shoulder. We have a younger talent who does some field work. a psychiatrist. and undoubtedly some of these convicts were political prisoners. It was highly unlikely that Evert Gullberg would ever be brought before a court. Berger realized that several of her new colleagues were looking at her. She fervently wished that Blomkvist had been kind enough to smuggle in her PowerBook with a real keyboard and a 17?? screen instead of only the hand-held. and asked how she was doing and whether she needed anything. we??re sure that Niedermann switched vehicles. The next moment she saw a thin. Zalachenko has been given crutches. Edklinth was holding his breath. Wasp had met two face to face.v Blomkvist put his laptop case on the desk. with a few exceptions. We??re the ones who have to make the decisions that nobody else wants to make.?? ??I can see that they might be. it must have a special meaning for her.

T.. I was supposed to take over from him in two months. nothing more. ran the bath. shaking his head.?? ??Thanks for everything.?? ??North on Kungsgatan. but that was because Berger had always managed to balance an extremely tight budget. ??I think he knows that already. who had been silent for almost half an hour. conducted a normal investigation. They removed a bullet from her head. established cover companies outside the building in the ??50s and ??60s. They could forget about finding a car to take them to Gosseberga.??Wednesday. ??Take your time.00. You??ve got to decide for yourself. indicated that the secret state police had been transformed into what was described in the memos from the justice department as a modern police organization. Then he fixed his eyes on Wadensj??. ??You??re missing the point.?? Blomkvist said. Salander swore in frustration and pinged Plague. A nationwide alert had gone out for a man in his mid-thirties.?? she said. There are now nine hours left before we go to press and four before the front page has to be resolved. but which was invisible.

At 6. Then the efficient chaos.?? Nystr?m said..?? ??And??? ??I don??t like the man. My father??s a member of the Centre Party and knows F?lldin well. Mikael also has a tendency to bury himself in his own stories and be totally off the radar for weeks at a time. He seems ready to let bygones be bygones. ??Everyone??s here. ??It was someone in Personal Protection who faxed them through. ??I??m cutting back on the training now. Eriksson and Blomkvist looked up from the typescript of the book about the Zalachenko case. The burial ground in the woods in Nykvarn was a wretched mess. She thought of Holm.?? ??O. As it says in the report. she thought it odd that a man would consistently address his girlfriend with the words fucking fatty. ??At my house. ??Thorbj?rn F?lldin. In my considered view you??re precisely the lawyer she needs. after careful consideration. The trick was to make him feel that he had been specially chosen. Giannini hesitated a moment. and most of the decisions were already made by the time she arrived. What makes you think the shareholders would agree to that??? ??I??m proposing a zero-profit operating budget this year. She only got his voicemail. She did not like asking for help or showing any sign of weakness. Gullberg was expecting this objection and played the strongest card he had available.

?? Blomkvist woke up at 10. after all. they ask 10?C 12. so we have to solve the problem of who??s going to be in charge of the editorial section. You??ll have your share of clashes with him. and I watch only the news on T. She had several run-ins with people from the social welfare agency. Over the next ten years it grew to include no more than eleven people. to think things over. gathering up Blomkvist??s documentation. or that Bj?rck was not alone at the time. who had a minority government in 1979. He would need a hideout. You approved it and gave her the assignment at 11. Jonasson had also sewn part of a thumb back on to an enthusiastic carpenter who had managed to slice it off. They??re not supposed to interfere with the content. ??You were reading a book about it on my staircase.?? he said.?? ??I??ve been running. ??Erika hasn??t altogether left here. When he returned she had just finished her call. Torsten Edklinth. She turned to the first page.m. The patient should be confined to bedrest and kept under strict observation until further notice. but somebody in the newsroom got an email from you. I can??t tell you how glad I am that you??re taking over. who nodded.

who nodded. I know what you want and you know what I want. and was actually located within the Str?ngn?s police district in S?dermanland county. The man would always nod politely but never laughed if he said anything humorous.?? he said.K.?? ??O.?? ??And??? ??I can??t tell you anything about that. and masturbated in her bed.00 yesterday morning. If you give me information. That was one of the things he liked best about his office. You??ll have to send the material to a hotmail address.?? ??I??m on her side. she had stabbed Zalachenko. The other doctor on duty. You must be a raving masochist. but a Karl Axel Bodin seems to have been born in 1942 in Uddevalla. If she won??t trust me. no question.?? Cortez came to life and began to clap. But someone else has. They were victims of accidents at work or of violent abuse at home.B.?? ??That??s what I wanted to discuss with you. and you took charge in a very difficult situation. He got up from the kitchen table. 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.

Is making coffee part of Milton??s service agreement??? He gave her a polite smile. and second. We are both of us sorry that you were subjected to Paulsson??s rather primitive way of operating. he already had enough material to set off a landslide of headlines. which indicated that the document was Top Secret. ??When this is all over I??m going to found an association called ??The Knights of the Idiotic Table?? and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. But I understand making newspapers. The most worrying aspect of all this was that the command of the Security Police had changed so much that not even the overall chief of S. orange marmalade and a sliced avocado. Over the next forty-five minutes Jonasson picked out no fewer than thirty-two tiny bone chips from round the entry wound. Plague had obviously made it simple for himself by copying over Ekstr?m??s entire hard drive.?? ??It wasn??t exactly an invitation.?? ??Stuff and nonsense. I??m hot with excitement and can??t control myself. She had spent an hour infiltrating and charting the intranet at S.?? ??I see. Prosecutor Fransson in S?dert?lje had finished her deliberations. You can start as acting editor-in-chief as from today. she would like a cup of tea.?? ??I??m driving.?? ??But in this case you already have. Which do you prefer??? Salander considered the choice. ??M?rtensson works for S?po. for the triple murder in Stockholm. I??m still on the Salander story.?? ??It sounds far-fetched. Then she opened a notebook and took a pen from her jacket pocket.?? Berger said with a smile.

U. What an excellent tool the Internet was for freaks.?? her senior officer said without bothering to greet her or apologize. It was just some demented pensioner who fired the shots. Berger was determined to retain her shareholding in Millennium and to remain on the board.?? Nilsson said. But both he and I travel fairly often.?? He pulled down the powerful magnifying glass hanging overhead and focused on the exposed area.?? ??Thirty-one employees. however.S. and then Carl Bildt.m. It will be to our advantage to stay on good terms with him and ensure his co-operation. Zalachenko stood in the doorway for two minutes without moving. You were shot in the head. and we??re in the middle of an investigation in which I??m involved ???? ??You mean it was unprofessional of me. You wanted a message from the Section. The fact is. ??The biggest industry in Sweden by far is construction. He was supposed to start work again at new year. A real breakthrough. Fredriksson was definitely a candidate. and illegal possession of a weapon. And yet his liver. The fact is.S. He saw me in my car on Bellmansgatan.

to push through their own headlines and angles. would burn out its batteries in much less time. ??I know that. Then she lowered her eyes.?? ??It??s going to be hard to keep this under wraps.00 in the morning and reported Berger??s discovery that diaries. Not one of them had heard of Hans von Rottinger. This is probably the first and only time in my professional career that I will reveal the contents of an unpublished story to a police officer.?? ??Did he say how much he knew??? ??F?lldin told him that the chief of S?po at the time and a colleague came to visit him very soon after he became Prime Minister. a change of clothes. But not one of us wants to hurt you. She started by ordering passport photographs of Faulsson. She was feeling guilty because she had not contacted Blomkvist even once since the day she had walked into S. He issued a directive putting S?po in sole charge of the defector. He was Inspector Bergling. He had offered credentials to indicate that he worked for S. She discovered that they got along famously. His colleagues all frowned. and he had already written that section. One might say that. She raised her right hand and felt her head.?? Fransson said.?? he said.?? ??So. But right now she had to make decisions on several matters.?? Erlander and Modig both looked at their wristwatches.?? ??I think it??s probably longer than that. the wrath of the Prime Minister was not going to come down on him.

?? Clinton said in surprise. but first let me say that under normal circumstances I would not have dreamed of asking a journalist to come to such a meeting. whom he did not know. Berger pulled over to the curb. then dialled the number of Hans-?ke Waltari. Which means that the price per square metre will be X kronor and it would cost 10.?? ??A little. The government collapsed again when the moderates jumped ship. They agreed that the situation might be more serious than S?po had at first assumed. ??I know a good therapist. She had failed. She had almost reached Pustegr?nd when the woman appeared. but in fact I forgot to deliver it to his office before I left. and gave them one last instruction. He had other whores. Our former I. It almost seems to be an academic study of a patient who refuses to speak. He would scorch us out of sheer malice. That was the custom in the village. Edklinth thought him taciturn. I don??t really know. It must have been done with the consent of the authorities. Having my afternoon beer. so that you??ll be able to see what??s going on in the garden and on the ground floor when you??re in the bedroom.?? Edklinth frowned. Blomkvist suspected that he would not pass the language test recommended by the People??s Party of Sweden. ??Do you have anything against a Milton employee staying here? I could call and find out if my colleague Susanne Linder is free tonight.V.

but we??ve had no report of a car being stolen thereabouts. As a prosecutor I would be uneasy about the lack of unassailable evidence. on the dot.M. On the other hand.I. Wasp had met two face to face. ??Blomkvist and Millennium are going to publish it. My assignment is to be your guide in this labyrinth. as you can see right next to her gunshot wound. ??I??ll show him out. I looked up the tenants. said they would fix it first thing in the morning. I was rather young ?? I didn??t know how I should deal with these people. who was murdered in your hospital ?C was a Soviet defector. ??A nasty attack in G?teborg and a break-in here in Stockholm. Eriksson was Blomkvist??s principal assistant for the Salander book. with the Zalachenko report you gave me.?? Blomkvist nodded. I assure you that I will exercise the utmost discretion. in 2001 and 2004. The outgoing Prime Minister was certainly not to be informed. and pulled out a 9 mm Smith & Wesson with a gold-plated butt. ??I was hired to turn this downward trend around. I have to go.T. politicians of various affiliations. of course.

With all good intentions. The sky was filled with leaden thunderclouds. On principle.?? ??Margareta called me with the proposal at 11. The file was stamped Top Secret. Are you doing the exercises the therapist recommended??? She nodded. This defines four restrictions on democracy. You??re very sexy. and while he??s gone.?? ??We don??t know how this story??s going to turn out. Let me give you an example. and handed one to Waltari. They??ll try to create a situation where they can say that ??certainly Zalachenko was a fiend. He had insisted that an Undersecretary of State be let in on the secret.F. All the owners live abroad. a T-shirt and a grey jacket. ??It??s a job that could land you in big trouble. It was as though the man thought himself above all normal rules. since this afternoon. Mogren was a carpenter and bodybuilder and had been her training partner off and on for three years. ??I come from a working-class family. You know what it??s all about. One result of this increased workload was that Eriksson had had to contract several freelancers to produce articles for future issues. which he did not have. wait ?? he got out of the lift first. Full stop.?? ??Correct.