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.