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In his free time he was a member of an organization called the Democratic Alliance. you have to trust me. taped her mouth and handcuffed her. the police will be alerted automatically. frankly.m. unusually early. He reached into the pocket of his smock and took out the Sony Ericsson Z600 mobile. And Paulsson arrested Blomkvist when he was trying to hand in the weapon to the police. but use your good judgement. He met Angleton. The secret was known also to a thirteenth person. and nobody else at S. please.?? ??The newspaper business is in a vulnerable position???? ??The reality is that S.?? Blomkvist??s heart began to pound. He was careful to annihilate both Teleborian and the now dead Bj?rck.

the lawyer Annika Giannini. and as discreetly as possible. demanding her attention and vexing her intellect. Edklinth had worked as a prosecutor and then twenty-one years ago joined the Security Police. From now on Blomkvist would be allowed only into the temporary office at Fridhemsplan. ??On your way home??? ??You too.?? ??Forget I asked. then three murders in Stockholm. Who??s that over there? God. Salander has also been declared legally incompetent. Protest meetings were held and petitions were sent to Minister of Immigration Birgit Friggebo. it??s Blomkvist again.30 on Thursday. She tore electrodes and I. That was when she felt that there was something hard beneath her head. She did survive and her prognosis has been exceedingly satisfactory ?? so much so that my colleagues and I were getting ready to discharge her. That time the Volvo was parked on a side street near the Millennium offices.

reached out and grabbed the pencil. inevitably. and urged him to send a platoon armed with automatic weapons to pick him up.?? ??Yes.?? he said. or something else to drink??? Blomkvist looked around. That??s a very large firm. First.?? ??It??s the least I could do.?? ??Yes. ??You know as well as I do that a loosely formulated document that was written in the mid-??60s isn??t worth a damn today. private clients ?? whoever they might have been.?? ??Until then I??d rather you didn??t stay here. Edklinth and Figuerola looked at the picture.?? ??Good. It rang four times before Waltari picked up. The first is the office of the Prosecutor General.

He had established that pattern as early as April.?? ??Well. At any rate Holmberg thought so. Her only problem was that she had an arrow through her skull. On one occasion when I still had my mouth taped shut. during which they copulated with randomly selected males from nearby towns. I??d also like to know if you want Giannini to come here to G?teborg. That the Salander girl would go so far as to make a Molotov cocktail Gullberg had not foreseen.K.M. Gullberg had approved the operation. I??m a workout fanatic. If the government was not informed. I can??t release her.?? ??I understand. Gullberg thought.?? Rosin??s seriousness was having an effect.

??Assault with a deadly weapon. The best thing would be if he was found with a bullet in his head. and what vehicles drop anyone off at that address. Response time would be about thirty minutes. May 20. before then. They rejected marriage as subjugation. not at all.. but he did not know the daughter??s name. He seems to be pleasant enough. You??re going to look like a paranoid.Sunday.M. She may be as sane as you and me.?? ??Is it really something to be proud of??? said Blomkvist.?? ??Good enough.

In that respect.M. and had become one of its trusted veterans.?? ??Oh. According to the owner of the house. Who on earth do you think can resist that??? ??You??re very kind. ??He?? could even be a woman. and what the routines are in that section. You come back and say that you??ve checked and didn??t find anything. when he moved back to Sweden.?? ??Hello. given that she??s still alive with a slug in her brain. am I someone who has a problem with the fact that you??re fitter and physically stronger than I am? No. Clinton would take care of Giannini. Nieminen went up the stairs and out of the front door. The head of Secretariat sat on the news for several days before he explained to Gullberg that the defection was so big that the chief of S. In September 1964.

S. He knocked on the door. took a deep breath.?? He smiled at her. ??Find out which room she??s in. deceased ?C a suicide. And at the same time.P. ??I??ve extended your assignment by three months. which corresponded to the word P-I-P-P-I ?C Pippi Bloody Longstocking.?? Blomkvist kissed his sister on the cheek and immediately asked: ??Are you going to be representing Lisbeth Salander??? ??I??m going to have to say no.?? ??So you don??t think she??s crazy.?? ??That is unforgivably incompetent. If you remember my name then you must have been more alert than I thought. And never to repeat claims uncritically. Salander opened her eyes and saw a light in the ceiling.?? ??Why is that??? ??You??re proposing that the newspaper should not be profitable.

??I suggest you consider very carefully what we??ve talked about today. Zalachenko isn??t budging one millimetre.?? Viktor G?ransson was the club??s treasurer and financial expert. but Paulsson ?C whose opinion had little influence on Erlander ?C had warned him that Blomkvist had been babbling on about Russian agents and German hit men ?C hardly routine elements in Swedish police work.?? ??I see. ??The district court is going to appoint him to do a forensic psychiatric assessment of you. YOU WHORE! YOU THINK YOU??RE SOMETHING YOU FUCKING CUNT. police work was largely uncomplicated when it came to looking for one specific individual. said. With text on the back. But I see no evidence whatsoever that she is schizophrenic or suffering from paranoid delusions. It??s an invitation to abuse of power. He looked at her for a while from the doorway before he went in and sat down on the edge of the sofa and woke her. nigger. it??s not my problem. we no longer have access to the report.?? ??I don??t understand.

?? He sat down on the sofa in the living room with his iBook on his lap and worked without any breaks all day.?? ??I read the article. Her hands are tied. Some day. After lunch she would not. Or both. ??Ekstr?m??s holding a press conference at 3. and a dozen other markers. That report alleges that the Security Police and the psychiatrist Peter Teleborian co-operated to place Lisbeth Salander in psychiatric care. He??s the one you take your orders from. Then yesterday she had a setback. And finally a . The hottest thing we??ve got is that the timber industry in Dalarna is reporting a boom. An Agent in Place contained so much inaccurate information about Sweden in the first chapter that he threw the book into the wastepaper basket.?? He put his arms around her. and he was in fact a naval officer.I.

She went back to the front door and put on the outdoor shoes she had kicked off as she came home.06 in the evening. where he turned up the Klaraberg viaduct and across Vasagatan. Criminal Inspector Jan Bublanski of the Violent Crimes Division in Stockholm. ??She was operated on during the night. the logical thing for Ekstr?m to do would have been to contact the general director of the Security Police to determine who Zalachenko actually was. he could forget about Zalachenko.?? ??Who could blame them. She was slammed up against a tiled wall next to the door. Fredriksson was definitely a candidate.?? Salander had in the end described to her lawyer almost everything that had happened at Stallarholmen.?? Erlander had no more questions.?? ??O. No-one voiced any objections. Last time he turned up on the ward unannounced and tried to persuade a nurse to let him in. the king or the commander-in-chief would very swiftly come under observation by the Constitutional Protection Unit. It had sounded logical at the time.

but did not doubt the truth of it. She had measured the window and discovered that her head would fit through it and that she would not have much problem squeezing the rest of her body through. In the late morning it dawned on Blomkvist that his rental car was still at the Gosseberga farm. It defies all rhyme or reason.R.V. Erlander did not like the situation. Then Gullberg??s expression darkened.m. Whore. We can??t just dump it on Erika??s desk as a newspaper billboard. who for some reason wanted to involve Teleborian in a scandal. Sometime during that week. inevitably. Both the battery charger and the Palm could fit in there.?? 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. Then she made some coffee and called Armansky.

??And to be able to persuade him to keep his mouth shut. on the grounds that it was Top Secret. In his day plans of Kronan and Wasa had hung on the walls.?? ??I understand. to be exact. Who was the other??? ??F?lldin met him only on that one occasion and couldn??t remember his name. and then you??ll find yourself editing the family page or the comics page or something like that. at the request of Helena Endrin.. ??Let??s get the meeting moving again. The prosecutor is going to try to get you locked up in the psychiatric ward. I have never been charged. but rather his faith in human nature. but instead of going out on to the street he turned left and went through the basement. I am here to ask you a favour. your sister. including the Prime Minister.

When he returned she had just finished her call. ??When you came to see me the first time. could you smuggle me in a hand-held computer so that I can keep in touch with people online??? ??No. Start by reading the Bj?rck report. but she had very straightforwardly conceded that she had no authority to interview him and that naturally he was perfectly free to tell her nothing at all if he did not want to. She had never heard those footsteps before. ??This morning S?po got calls from several newspapers who had received letters from Gullberg. Cortez wrote feverishly. but it had been a long day and a long journey. Zalachenko??s room was sealed off. Someone.?? ??Who got in first??? ??We got in more or less at the same time. and G.?? He grunted some more and promised to scold her when she got home. He had slept most of the day and then drove back to the hospital at around 7. Two masked men had robbed at gunpoint a shop owned by an immigrant. And then she almost hoped that the moron who had called her a whore and destroyed her window would be stupid enough to come back that night.

?? ??So the sister was your informant??? ??Camilla was mortally afraid of her sister.?? ??I made the mistake of trying to hand over a weapon to him. ??Welcome.?? Gullberg said. a new generation of civil servants had come through. She heard the nurse go down the corridor to the left. The Security Police had been modernized and the Constitutional Protection Unit in particular had taken on a new. The entire legal system would come crashing down on our heads. He was advised that he alone had to make the decisions. out every day.?? he said.?? ??No. And he was inflexible. must have been persuasive. and above all that she is not subjected to new injustices. He??s never referred to in any newspaper or trade journal.?? ??Are any of them politically active??? ??No.

Jerker. If this were the United States a dozen or so senior S?po hands would have been arrested for obstruction of justice and forced to appear before a public committee in Congress. It was the third time he had met Superintendent Nystr?m.?? ??I hope she will.I. 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. there is no ??we?? about it.?? ??But I probably won??t be at S. ??Teleborian is a really. By the time the train went through Nyk?ping he had already discarded a number of drafts. She had been dozing only a few minutes when she was aware of movement and opened her eyelids to a narrow slit. and import everything from Thailand.?? Clinton said into his earpiece. which was even now disappearing over the treetops in the direction of G?teborg. Blomkvist shook his head. They??ll try to stretch the boundaries.

. he??s at the embassy in Madrid. I won??t make any record of your answer and I won??t discuss it with anyone else. Then a crooked grin spread across her face. All they??ll have is the statement that I??m composing now.?? ??How do you know it was his room??? ??Well. as well as certain guarantees. The night porter at the Radisson was very reluctant to wake a guest at that time of night and Jonasson had to come up with a few choice phrases about the critical nature of the situation before his call was put through. Or both. and in daily parlance ??the Section. He was meticulously cleaning his glasses.?? he said in a gloomy voice. One of the first things Blomkvist did when he realized that his mobile was bugged was to send Cortez out to buy some used handsets. ??We have to be of one mind. sharp training sessions. ??I heard that you hurt yourself.?? ??Well.

??Come in ?? Evert Gullberg. She was working with a broad brush. in point of fact. What time??? ??2.?? Gullberg had brought the flowers with him mainly as an excuse. And as you know. writing with the stylus on the keypad. Or else the falsification was done for a completely different purpose by someone inside the Security Police. Fru Berger.?? Niklas Adamsson. but I have to insist that you answer the question. which do you prefer? Handcuffed or voluntary??? ??I??ve been handcuffed by the police once already this year. ??He??s at Sahlgrenska. That??s why I??m here. or want to take a break to think for a while. It contained twenty-six documents. Andersson.