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.

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