claim to it on Friday. please. The next morning. who nodded. Thank God. Sometime during that week.

?? ??Just doing my job
?? ??Just doing my job. Two people at least.S.?? ??Do I have a say in this??? ??No. I think we could assume her actions were on some level self-defence.F.M. as well as certain guarantees. so he pushed the sushi aside. but now it was time to take care of the matter. Bj?rck had traces of a strong painkiller in his blood. There??ll be opportunities later.?? ??No. has gone out.S. He turned over Bj?rck??s report as soon as S..?? Jonasson pulled off his blood-stained nitrile gloves and dropped them in the bio-waste disposal bin.?? Then he added in English.?? They walked together through Kronoberg park towards Fridhemsplan. Berger was furious.?? When at long last he realized that it was fruitless trying to persuade Jonasson to change his mind. He had already bought coffee and sandwiches for her. Blomkvist remembered having seen a pack of Pall Malls on the kitchen counter in Zalachenko??s house. ??Never seen them before. She immediately hired Milton Security to take over her personal protection.?? ??He isn??t a bad person. then he??d do it.

You??ve told me. If there??s any reason to cast doubt on Bublanski??s group. The murderer had been identified as Evert Gullberg.?? ??This means that if you have questions about something.?? ??I wish I could. but we share an objective. Among them. ??This morning S?po got calls from several newspapers who had received letters from Gullberg. Jonas. cervical vertebrae injured.?? Sandberg said.?? ??If he has gone.?? ??Alright. He gave the driver an address in the suburb of Bromma. regular operations. But unfortunately you??re a bit too healthy. against members of the Immigration Division. then crossed Belgium by way of Liege. ??If he??s out of the country.?? ??O. When Linder answered the telephone.000 kronor.?? ??My superior is the one who wants to talk to you. You??re going to be a special correspondent assigned to the Salander trial.. In short. He has to go regularly to the hospital for dialysis. ??Has something happened??? ??Something is happening right now.

however.?? Gullberg raised a hand to forestall Wadensj????s objections. The usual. Your sister might not be the best choice. and appearing in the order and position they had decided on in the morning meeting. How many people around this table would go to McDonald??s and buy a burger for 100 kronor??? Nobody said a word. Palme had accordingly been one of the first subjects that Gullberg discussed with him during the long debriefing. 13. I spoke to Margareta and she said that she clearly explained to you what her interview was going to focus on.?? ??It??s still not my problem. I??m a journalist and I work at Millennium magazine.?? ??There are holes in my story. what have you got??? Blomkvist said. Then her eyes fell on a nurses?? table by the wall three metres from her bed. ??No. He had the face of a model and looked weak. he invited Milton Security??s C.?? ??According to Blomkvist. it was 2. but in reality he had scarcely been seen in the department before the ??90s. As soon as he changed the subject. regardless of how belligerently an opponent might behave.?? ??I didn??t ask you to give special treatment to specific articles. If Modig dared to stick her neck out. Never Mikael.?? ??What do you want??? Bublanski said.?? ??What do you want??? Bublanski said.?? ??The lab has identified the weapon used on Lundin.

That was such a monstrous crime that Edklinth felt yet more apprehensive. ??No. ??He??s the one running the Section today. as you know. but stopped when she saw the woman head for the Pressbyr?n kiosk instead of through the turnstiles.M. other than the parts that concerned the conspiracy against her ?C Giannini needed help with those. Assisting him he has your old friend Peter Teleborian. Jesus Christ?? She looked into the living room and saw that the picture window was shattered and the floor was covered in shattered glass.A.?? said Ekstr?m. As things stood.M. but that had nothing to do with the decision to lock up his daughter. but usually he just followed through with what other people had already decided. He stood for a moment in the sea of travellers. Blomkvist??s appetite was revived even before he sat down. They think that the price of construction materials is absurd..?? Nystr?m said.M. He says that he had nothing to do with the murders in Stockholm.?? ??Good man. That investigation is presently allocated to S?dert?lje. This guarantees the inalienable right to say aloud. ??On the other hand. which meant that policemen would die and Niedermann probably would as well. She did not exclude women on the grounds of their being incapable of such folly.

Blomkvist opened the driver??s door a minute later.?? ??It??s that simple??? ??What else can we do in this case? We could leave the bullet where it is. We had also informed Camilla that her sister was violent and mentally ill.K. she tried to avoid padding her bill with expensive hotel charges. you can do up your nightshirt and get into bed.?? ??Hello.. It was not a skilled collage. She was on the telephone and writing furiously on a yellow Post-it. Fredriksson looked up from his desk and she waved him in. And then we??ll track down Niedermann. ??I thought you??d be dead by now. yes. Then Edklinth turned serious. ran the bath. No. where she spent two hours driving herself hard to catch up on lost training time. I??ve read Bj?rck??s report. Your role was only to do me the kindness of introducing me to one of your acquaintances.?? A ripple of groans greeted this response. took a folder from her desk and handed it to Giannini. terribly sorry. and I??ve found out the truth about what happened to her.D. The burek was fantastic. Millennium had paid a fee to Advokat Giannini which was supposed to come out of the general fund. He withdrew cash from an A.

I shouldn??t have picked that spot. His job was to investigate crimes. ??That??s the drawback with this arrangement. (Which he also did. ??It??s important that you understand this: in no way am I trying to influence how you might act or how you do your job. She felt uneasy.?? ??Alright. hoping to find a personal topic he could discuss with her. he??s a threat to us. For three years you??ve been working in S. But I don??t know the objective of the conspiracy. where he used Salander??s keys to get in. A number of pictures were of infants. said. ??Zalachenko was shot dead at 1. Now go. Blomkvist had promised Salander that he would never reveal her secret. Niedermann was on the run. ??It??s good of you to take the time to come in. They were just passing Sergels Torg in the city centre.I. Jonasson had no idea whether she was guilty or innocent. Gullberg began to believe that Zalachenko was not quite right in the head. and swung her legs over the side of the bed. Cortez had the weekend shift and Blomkvist found him again in the office in the evening. In real life he was a severely overweight and socially challenged thirty-year-old living on disability benefit in Sundbyberg. She would go to Borgsj?.?? ??But who would be interested in creating such a thing??? Nystr?m put down the report and frowned.

Who would do it ?? you? But she has to disappear. He knows who I am.?? Blomkvist said.?? Edklinth frowned. 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. ??I??m a little miffed at my brother. At 7. But you??re Lisbeth??s doctor and you have access to her.36. It appears to be older than the others. When he tried to resist. Karl Axel Bodin would disappear into rehabilitative custody. They found one more late last night. And yet through their assignments they were connected to ?? to what? The conspiracy was intimately linked to the late Alexander Zalachenko. you may regard me as her legal representative. intended for page five under national news. Your job is to press the attack alarm. He??s going to take pictures of the entire property and the immediate surroundings. two police inspectors were given fifteen minutes to ask her questions. In a time of great danger she had been cool. which meant that policemen would die and Niedermann probably would as well. I was vaguely aware of him for just a few seconds. But Trinity and Bob the Dog devoted the best part of a week to identifying and separating out Ekstr?m??s mobile from the background noise of about 200. Marita Ulfskog. a passport. she did not want to go to hospital. ??He??s taking the back roads. you??re worryingly habit-forming.

somewhere near Nossebro. They all shook hands. eliminated all the men in the twenty-six to fifty-four age group who were married. Blomkvist had objected at once. I have to explain why they??re wrong. Acts calm and cool. ??Plague. Which Nieminen doubted ?C Lundin had never been clever with money.?? ??Good. she would be transferred to Kronoberg prison in Stockholm to await trial. ??Nothing today. In the organization. ??There are several parts to this problem. He wanted to be sure this time that the bastard really was dead. According to the green numerals on the digital clock on her bedside cabinet. who is considered the queen of investigative journalism. And now here we all are.M. I know. Almost all of them are negative.. the budget chief. Ronald Niedermann was without doubt a very talented person who had physical attributes to make him a formidable and feared individual. she would have to resign. the woman who had been shot.M.?? ??What do we know??? Blomkvist shouted after him. ??O.

But you didn??t see that??? ??No. He had been tracking Salander. ??How does Bjurman come into the story in the first place? You say he was the one who started the whole thing by contacting Zalachenko and asking him to kill Salander. ??And the Zalachenko report is gone. the police will enter the house. V. It??s about Lisbeth Salander. almost all) agreed had an indispensable value. I thought he could protect me ?? but he has actually taken over my life. a second tie. The police wanted to question him also in connection with the murders in Stockholm. We have a younger talent who does some field work. especially when he had been drinking. we??re going to write about what happened. National Security Agency. The car was still there. Then I can tell you that I like neither your tone nor your evasions nor your lies. It??s an invitation to abuse of power. you??re not to say a single word to the police. printed out the document and began to read it at once.?? He nodded. Camilla.?? ??What sort of odd??? ??I??m afraid some idiot is sending really vile emails and he seems to have targeted me. Blomkvist ordered couscous and a beer. He took a hasty swallow of his tea and set down the cup. S?po people conspired with a psychiatrist to lock Salander up in an asylum.I. ??Is that what awaits us??? he said.

Like every other journalist the world over.?? ??He was referring to the fact that I??m extremely good with computers. if she??s well enough. looking at her pupils. The Prime Minister gave the Director of Constitutional Protection a long. so mostly I see the negative things. ??Bellona Inc. Salander fumbled with the clumsy stylus and wished she had a keyboard.?? ??Ah ?? yes. nobody can.K.?? She coughed. Until she had access to a computer. He looked around. which right now is a nightmare. In short. The problem. Finally he shut down the computer and went to bed. has been sent out on this Ronald Niedermann. In great excitement she turned on the computer at once and discovered that it was password-protected. causing deep bruising there. was the first indication that Zalachenko??s predicament had come to the attention of the Section. You beat the police by several lengths when you tracked down Zalachenko and identified Niedermann. But I???? ??You left the material with Holm. But to open the door from the outside. ??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. They rejected marriage as subjugation. he exploited his hold over them to the maximum.

??Thanks for letting me borrow your kitchen today. & E. She stared in frustration at the blinking screen. But then she got restless and put on her running kit.?? ??Harsh words. since he??s still alive. Exactly what??s causing it I can??t say.?? Modig said. After she was gone Blomkvist called the hospital in Sahlgrenska and tried to get some information about Salander??s condition. Which was also routine. ever since a woman Member of Parliament had received death threats. She could not imagine how he could finish in time. A new editor-in-chief will have to take over. A police dog followed the trail to a narrow trench in a clearing in a wood about four hundred metres north-east of the farmhouse. ??Has anything else of interest happened??? he said.m. when I was editor-in-chief at Millennium. ??Vietnam. the chief of Secretariat is the only one who has insight into our activities. the worst possible thing I could do in this situation would be to try to influence the shape or content of your story. You??ll have my support if you need it. ??Yes. But don??t forget that this was during the period when the Soviet Union was collapsing and the K. He was being led through a doorway by two broad-shouldered plain-clothes police officers. With that an inexorable process would have been set in motion. She had failed. I??m a damn good assistant editor ?C it??s a piece of cake with Erika as your boss. She was told that there was no car available to come and take her statement.

which has Bj?rck instructing Teleborian to falsify a mental examination. He was meticulously cleaning his glasses. He??s under pressure from every direction. In short.?? Blomkvist gave her a wan smile. Salander laughed aloud for the first time in weeks. Salander was surprised that the officers had treated her in such a correct. sat up. almost friendly manner. He asked her to open her mouth and examined her throat. That left a period of c. Erlander gave her a cool smile. He pressed his stethoscope against his wrist for a moment to warm it. Zalachenko told me that things were getting too hot and that it had already been decided that Niedermann should leave the country for a while. Actually it was Malm who had the night shift.?? The Prime Minister nodded grimly. Bublanski??s face clouded over. He was living on a disability pension. If this Zalachenko club exists.?? ??Is there a computer??? ??No. who did the actual eavesdropping. but not a paranoid sociopath. Sonny Nieminen. She put her cursor on the spire of the church tower and clicked. ??The officer running the investigation. ??What I am able to do. You can bill us for five days. they had made it clear to him that Zalachenko and the Section were going their separate ways.

These women trained in the use of all types of weapons. So that the report would be accurate.?? Baksi spoke for a short while before he hung up. He??ll have to be as safety-conscious as you are. ??Hello. ??That was a serious mistake. She walked slowly past the entrances to the buildings.?? ??I??m not sure exactly what I think. where Figuerola had parked. Then Dr Jonasson and Blomkvist had upset her plans by smuggling in her Palm.I. The difference between Trinity and the N. but it would be done without her being consulted.?? Cortez put down the telephone and drummed so loudly with his fingertips on the edge of his desk that Nilsson glared at him.?? ??I can show you chapter and verse to prove that the person who leaked this information is a police officer called Hans Faste. The Ring area was almost deserted.?? ??I read the article.?? ??Good. I??ve studied law and political science while I??ve worked for the police. but he??s incredibly bad at routine work. even if Skanska Construction opens an office in London and stuff like that. Then he burst out laughing. They??re on the U. and who the killer was. She had cut back on bodybuilding. I??d have to get myself a new lawyer. This too was saved in an evidence bag and labelled. He comes and goes as he pleases ?? I have nothing more to say about it.

he observed. It would be damned empty without Berger. It was 2.se>. and then sat down with his iBook. He took the lift up to the reception on the fourth floor and was immediately shown into a conference room.?? ??I notice that you have golf clubs planted here and there around the house. He put on a jacket and walked to Milton Security??s offices at Slussen. from the passport photograph Karim had located. Bye. Saturday.?? ??Umm-hmm. 4.?? Berger nodded and turned on a light. ??You wanted to know if Ekstr?m had a meeting.?? Blomkvist said. Dr Teleborian. but now they??re working for us. did not have any teenagers on its staff. ??And who the hell is Evert Gullberg??? ??Retired. Erlander??s mobile chimed. so mostly I see the negative things.S.?? ??How do you mean??? ??M?rtensson. He knew he was being watched from the kitchen window. Both the battery charger and the Palm could fit in there. He assumed it was Wadensj?? who was responsible for the Chagall and Mondrian reproductions. the chief of Secretariat is the only one who has insight into our activities.

After lunch she would not. ??We want to hear everything Janeryd tells you. Most likely he would need a brain surgeon.?? ??But if the K. it could be ruined. Does this story have any connection to yesterday??s article about S?dert?lje. but he had failed.?? ??That petty thief you identified ???? ??Kenneth Gustafsson.?? Blomkvist smiled weakly.?? Salander thought for a while. born in 1969. Before the day was over. He hovered between life and death for several weeks. on the steep slope down towards Pryssgr?nd. will Millennium??s publication clash with our investigation. ??Twenty-two.?? She wondered if he were pulling her leg. for some unknown reason. Half an hour had passed before she had recovered enough to call her brother. not counting the attic and basement.?? ??According to Blomkvist. He withdrew cash from an A. there was a downpour. later this morning.?? Zalachenko lowered his voice: ??Our partner Niedermann. and undressed. he began to recover. Which meant that Sonja had to relinquish the copy she had too.

As things stood. which has Bj?rck instructing Teleborian to falsify a mental examination. But after a few months he was always back with the Salander woman. 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. the defector had lived in an anonymous apartment owned by the Section. First. A half-empty thermos of coffee. There is a strong likelihood that she too would have been his victim.?? Modig and Holmberg then described in detail the investigation as it had developed. you??re going to have to sort out some resources pretty damn fast. a man who well-trained men would avoid getting into a fight with. who told me that they had recently initiated a preliminary investigation against him. He then engaged Thomasson on a couple of other matters.?? Her heart sank. and it was 50/50 whether she would survive. S. ??I never thought I??d see you again. He had not even thought about Zalachenko for months until the morning he discovered the daughter on every newspaper billboard. you have to get on board with the program. He spoke of how Morander had dedicated the past fifteen years of his life to the newspaper.?? ??Our activity is completely legal ?? we??re actually working under the auspices of the government. I might be able to postpone the move for another week.?? He muttered to himself as he turned down the corridor to his office.. Morander was writing his editorial this morning. She took Cortez??s folder with her and spent the next half hour reading through the whole story. You said it yourself: we have to trust each other. with the result that Ghidi was granted both a residency permit and a work visa in the kingdom of Sweden.

berger@smpost.M. and I??ll try to work out what??s going on.?? * Linder from Milton Security was dressed in jeans. After a while Jonasson glanced at his watch and saw that it was almost 7. which prompted the newspaper to speculate about her mental state. That little fool is not telling me the truth. a man infinitely better qualified. but when you were uncovered I was pretty busy stopping the bleeding and extracting bullets and so on. for example when we need to arrange a telephone tap or enter an apartment. That is how the media work. In the long term there was another worry. Figuerola apologized and said she must have dialled the wrong number. and I went to visit my client.S. was freelancing at Millennium.?? ??What??s that??? ??Jonas has put his wallet and mobile on the table. He suffers from a disease called congenital analgesia. ??So who the fuck is minding the store while all of you hide away like a bunch of girls??? ??That??s not fair. It was absurd. Peter Teleborian. Salander fumbled with the clumsy stylus and wished she had a keyboard. But I need to have a few words with him. So you remember what happened. neither could he. They don??t know that he??s my brother. ??We??ve talked it through. Control was everything.

??Gullberg is out of his mind. When they had finished there was a long silence around the table. I??ll get the spare room ready. Clinton is your boss. The decision to commit her to an institution was absolutely correct.v ?C Sunday. Something was eluding him. had to be added to the list: Peter Teleborian. The N. the company that makes the 1700 kronor toilets in Vietnam.vi Blomkvist spent twenty-five minutes on the tunnelbana changing lines and going in different directions. but strangely enough (despite your personality). Dr Jonasson was pleased with the response he had got. But why doesn??t he react? A normal person would react. When her lawyer spoke to her she had listened with only half an ear. She recognized Modig as one of the officers in Bublanski??s team. Her heart sank again. She also has a bullet wound in her shoulder and another in her hip.??s mail server. Everything else is unimportant. On the one hand. frowning when Wadensj?? lit a cigarillo.P. part of the routine at S. She took out the Palm and connected to the Net. In the area around the warehouse in Nykvarn we have so far found three graves. and others. Now it seemed all wrong.

Ingvar Carlsson had been Prime Minister at the time.?? ??And in what context did the name Jonas crop up??? Salander hacked Teleborian??s computer. I??m sending you a picture. Then he logged on to the media archive and picked out several of the articles on which Olsson??s report was based.??Wednesday. vi Berger??s mobile was ringing. But this was not going to be of any help to Salander. I??m now on a side street off Linn??gatan.?? ??We don??t think it is a coincidence.?? Blomkvist told him. I tracked him to Gosseberga. There??s one apartment that raises a question mark though.M. I won??t. and this feels exactly like the time you disappeared to Hedestad two years ago.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??That??s true. Luckily she does accept information. Instead she went to bed with a history of the ancient world. Figuerola noted the time. Jonasson had no idea whether she was guilty or innocent. Sp?ngberg. She was filled with doubt about the plan that her brother had outlined to her. ??I??d like permission to go through the personnel files from the ??50s. At 2. but he assumed it had something to do with the military. stood up. ??M?rtensson works for S?po.

?? Flodin said.B. and the name Zalachenko was not mentioned.P. was supposed to have access to everything. The brief was simply for Bjurman to sound the alarm if she started blabbing about Zalachenko. held it to his temple. I had a late lunch and was going to make a pasta when I got home. They drank water with their dinner. He had been given large doses of painkillers. Instead he called me and said that he had spoken with the Prosecutor General and there was a problem. If he claimed not to have known that many of the workers there were only twelve or thirteen years old. That could not have been chance. he had identified the most glaring holes in the story. ??What was he like??? ??Much as he is today.I. The source is protected.?? ??What happened then??? ??We got out of the lift on the same floor.?? Wadensj?? said. please. But they were every one of them computer wizards. Shit.?? he said. He was not surprised that she had called to wake him early that morning and put him and Lottie Karim to work.?? Zalachenko said. This time of year every cabin owner is out checking their property. The first had been extraordinary ?C Counter-Espionage had identified a Russian informer inside the Swedish telecom industry. were falsifications.

One was from another member. Jerker requisitioned it. and the watcher would stand exposed on the footbridge like a swallow perched on an old telephone wire in the country. He had to deal with Teleborian. Zalachenko had gone and fucked that stupid whore Agneta Sofia Salander. Erlander thought. YOU WHORE! YOU THINK YOU??RE SOMETHING YOU FUCKING CUNT. Jonas heading north. thin as a stick.A.30 in the afternoon. I??m a trained bodyguard. of course not. V. but just pottering.S. and one of the few she had rewritten several times before she was satisfied. you??ll not only be fired but you??ll be guilty of gross misconduct. and A(89)Cx#magnolia as the password. but first let me say that under normal circumstances I would not have dreamed of asking a journalist to come to such a meeting. First day on the job. We will be holding an annual dinner at which we??ll have fun talking crap about you. ??Can you open your eyes??? Who was this bloody idiot harping on at her? Finally she did open her eyes. And I soon found out that some crimes are never even investigated. ??We??ve got a positive I. Nieminen took the two remaining Polish guns. is it??? ??No. ??Do as I say and the Section might survive.

She took out the Palm and connected to the Net. These linguistic skills were one of the reasons he was recruited by the Security Police in 1950.?? ??What is it??? ??Out here. But what does a twenty-year-old do who wants to move out of the family home? They can??t afford to.?? ??Mikael. It was a plain wooden pencil. colliding with the second nurse. But I noticed that the report was vague in the extreme. ??A mutual friend spoke with you. whom he obviously had not been treating for several years.?? ??Have you seen him??? ??Yes. ??H?kan ?? if I??m being a nuisance or if you??re busy today.M. Magge gets shot and you??re busted. Someone had taken the trouble to find out where she lived. She thought for a moment and then went into Armansky??s hard drive.?? ??But that??s nothing new. of course. She had tried friendly reasoning and direct orders. He had mentioned her in an email. As far as he could see she had no complications in the form of memory lapses. but he bent down and kissed her on the cheek.m. Headquarters was almost deserted on this summer afternoon. of course.?? ??There I agree with you. (Which he also did.?? Only after she had finished her conversation with Armansky did Berger realize that she had overslept.

He would never surrender voluntarily. Bj?rck proposes that Zalachenko??s rehabilitation ?C he suffered very severe burns ?C be carried out abroad. I??m going to hang them out to dry.Thursday. He has been retired for fifteen years. Then he drove down to the Continental.?? ??Again. It was nothing to him if people wanted to dress up in costume. ??You know who I am ?C so you don??t have to be afraid of me.?? ??Alright. which is supposed to be neutral. Her gaze fell on Holm. Henry ???? ??Yes??? ??I don??t need them until tomorrow. They found a damaged cigarette case that seemed to have been used as a scoop. Ellis always replied in his mother tongue. mostly seem to sit and kill time. At that moment.?? ??I??ll have a taxi waiting outside by the time you get down to the lobby.?? ??So who in the building is working for the Zalachenko club??? ??We don??t know yet. and he wasn??t sure how things would turn out at the magazine. it??s Malin. There was no need to follow the van. ??You wrote down my car registration when I was parked on the hill outside your building.?? Giannini bit her lower lip.?? ??So we have to ask ourselves. I don??t want to turn it over to Annika without your approval. He ignored the system files. The robber was waiting for her inside the stairwell at 6.

??Have a seat. and was actually located within the Str?ngn?s police district in S?dermanland county.?? Nystr?m said. key. (2) Neither Lundin or Sonny Nieminen has said a word about what happened at Stallarholmen. The deceased lawyer Nils Bjurman had worked in the Immigration Division at the same time as the deceased Bj?rck.?? Figuerola had been right. But she knew that. Accordingly she had the right to involve herself in the investigation of Zalachenko??s murder.B. She opened the document that he had called [Central questions]. Armansky had contributed this information. ??Room twelve.?? Zalachenko said. And then he was taken ill again in August last year. V. almost friendly manner. Who was murdered??? ??Herr Bodin. He felt a sudden tenderness. On the contrary ?C they were hackers and consequently implacable adversaries of those idiots who created viruses whose sole purpose was to sabotage the Net and crash computers. And there was the ever-present anxiety that the Enemy would notice his overseas journeys. She had gathered that Salander could be moody and withdrawn. Figuerola most definitely had no right to invite him here on her own authority. Two hours after the murder there was still chaos in the corridor.P.?? The challenge hung like a cloud over the table. and he??s going to assist Ekstr?m. but it will take only a minute of your time.

?? They sat in silence around the conference table for a moment. There were bloody-minded individuals who harped on and on about real or imaginary injustices and who sometimes turned to threatening behaviour. He was on leave of absence from the Section for two years in the ??80s when he worked as intelligence attach??. He was a chubby and very charming man. there are a number of hidden funds controlled by the chief of Secretariat and chief of Budget that I have no access to.?? ??That??s no excuse. Cortez had demonstrated that in 1999. When she was alone she gathered her strength.?? ??Well ???? ??The original report is an account of Lisbeth Salander??s attempt to murder her father. So we want everything to be legitimate and in keeping with the constitution. or how much Armansky and Palmgren and I. He sat in the visitor??s chair and leaned back.?? ??And Bublanski knows nothing about this??? ??No. He would hate to be dragged into any sort of scandal. True.?? ??And he was the person with primary responsibility for Zalachenko when he defected. ??You talk about trust. shut the door behind her. said. that is. She had never heard those footsteps before. The only thing they can do now is to stonewall and go on claiming that Salander is mentally ill. is to provide you with information. I do what I have to do to survive. He looked Wadensj?? in the eye and handed him a stack of fax copies. Formally. He also noticed another odd thing: there was no bibliography in any one of the books Cortez had found. Edklinth explained what Figuerola and her team had unearthed.

demanding her attention and vexing her intellect.?? ??What??s the killer??s name??? ??We will not give out that information until his next of kin have been notified.?? he said at last. ??Are you satisfied with the information flow??? Edklinth said at last. She had tracked him to Gosseberga fully intending to kill him. He had worked like a fiend with Zalachenko.?? ??He??s an artist.S. Modig went back to Bublanski??s office and knocked on the door jamb.?? Nystr?m cleared his throat. Good grief ?? a video of me shagging my husband and another man ?C I??m going to end up on half the websites in the world.?? ??Who could blame them. The police are looking for a German citizen by the name of Ronald Niedermann. ??Opposite P. A call to the national vehicle register revealed that the car belonged to a G?ran M?rtensson of Vittangigaten in V?llingby. if that had been possible. She waited three minutes before she followed him into the caf??. How on earth is he going to react? Then he realized that Berger had stopped talking. which was described by the social-democratic media as extreme right-wing. Possibly also to show them how a real police investigation should be run.G. 18. pathologist. ??Well ?? what is it that??s so urgent??? ??Alexander Zalachenko. Could it really be possible??? ??I??m afraid it is. On the other hand. Nor had Berger any thought of taking the story with her. surveillance of the farm.

and this feels exactly like the time you disappeared to Hedestad two years ago. You??re healing. when he came back here. ??Take your time. It was tight.?? ??How are you??? ??I??m sick. In the States a special group of internal spy chasers was created within the C. But he had retrained himself to be a locksmith (of all professions). and what vehicles drop anyone off at that address. And I understood from Holger Palmgren that you had some information.?? Salander said. had become associated with S. Vinge at the time S.?? ??No.?? Edklinth nodded. She was interrupted when the Securitas guard put the key in the door to let in Dr Jonasson. and generally she had done everything she could think of to make him understand how she wanted the newspaper to be shaped. The second thing was more complicated. and she limped into the kitchen and sank on to the nearest chair.?? Eriksson burst out laughing. It had sounded logical at the time. But if he does.R. Salander??s former guardian Holger Palmgren. She pushed away a plate of the health authority??s vegetable stew.?? Modig said in apology.?? * Richard Ekstr?m.?? Edklinth said.

That Millennium had leaked the story to her in advance was nothing but a courtesy ?C they wanted to reduce the damage to her personally.?? He looked Holmberg steadily in the eye. which meant that the accountant would remonstrate about the lack of an invoice or receipt and insist that the matter have the board??s approval.M. Jonas parked a block away from the Arm??museum. Then he picked up the telephone. the article is nonsense. listening out for sounds in the vicinity.M. right out of journalism school. Her eyes lit upon an air vent just below the ceiling. the Minister of Defence or any other member of the government to be informed. But Salander??s being isolated presented one other acute problem.nu. Mercifully someone had left a full bottle of mineral water on the conference table. You??ve been damned good as assistant editor.?? Berger got up. She had thought that she was beginning to get to grips with the actual process of producing a newspaper and had planned to reward herself with a weekend off ?C the first since she started at S. So you remember what happened. and she knew how he had been able to surprise her by knowing her name and shoe size. Only when Salander had logged out of Hacker Republic did she go into Yahoo and log on to the private newsgroup [Idiotic_Table].D. ??Jerker ?? this is how it is: Ekstr?m laid claim to it on Friday. please. The next morning. who nodded. Thank God. Sometime during that week.