?? she said without greeting
?? she said without greeting. I want you to focus on the follow-up care given to severely injured patients in corridor 11C. He works for Prosecutor Ekstr?m. Then she got a bedpan. S?po??s ears are going to be burning. 7. but very painful. and pulled out a 9 mm Smith & Wesson with a gold-plated butt. question her about her actual condition. There was still much research to be done. Dr Jonasson burst out laughing and shook his head. She assumed that he would be in the restaurant car and that is where she found him. no question. you??re going to have to fight. But the most obvious purpose would have been to involve the Swedish government in a scandal.
?? Blomkvist laid Salander??s Palm Tungsten T3 hand-held computer and a battery charger on the table between them. I??ve been considering bringing him in here. who did not easily forget an enemy. daubed sexually explicit epithets on her living-room walls. Why are you talking to me??? ??You asked me a question. Both understood that Edklinth was covering his back.?? ??It??s about Lisbeth Salander??s future and wellbeing. 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.. I know Ghidi. and a number of individuals were acting outside of. I don??t like this business with Ekstr?m and Faste and a new trial. so no point in looking forward to a long-term relationship. and did not seem to lead a fast life. But she did not have the remotest wish to talk about her feelings or her actions.
He was one of the officers responsible on formal occasions for the safety of the Prime Minister. At first she felt faint. He??s acting on orders from the government. he walked south one street and rang the doorbell of a small. ??I have met Mikael Blomkvist on several occasions in the course of this investigation. and the Violent Crimes Division had racked up a vast amount of overtime since Wednesday. I don??t know if it contains anything compromising. Modig raised her voice. ??Yes.?? ??Damn.?? ??O. I??m dealing with pros here. He withdrew cash from an A. I have a mountain of work before the trial begins. he called Berger himself.
Call her. she realised she was hungry. He frowned and looked long and hard at the hand-held computer. took out the stylus and began to tap on the letters on the digital keypad. We??re Sweden??s last line of defence. this Gunnar Bj?rck.?? ??Hell of a way to die.?? Modig said. An Internet search showed that there was hardly any current literature on the subject. Saturday. But we have several suspects. ??When you came to see me the first time.?? Wadensj?? said. we have to play it safe. who??s leading the investigation into Zalachenko??s murder.
They followed the red Audi via Hamngatan to Strandv?gen and then straight up to Artillerigatan.?? Edklinth said. It was three storeys to the ground.36. we have had an analysis group working almost round the clock to discover exactly what happened.M. ??Raml?sa. I would hesitate to confine myself to an exact diagnosis.?? She told him that a nationwide manhunt was under way for Ronald Niedermann. and at the same time he offered inducements. ??Hurry up ?C go and wash and brush your teeth. ??Can you explain what prompted her to do that??? ??You would have to ask my daughter. it??s Monica from S. and underwear. Sometimes she thought that there was nothing going on in there at all.
Certainly. A third goes to salaries. But for it to be legal. I don??t. She was out of a job for several months before she was hired by Milton Security. ??Toilets. Drama last night as triple murderer Lisbeth Salander is finally captured. Sex was almost as satisfying as a rigorous workout at the gym. to take over as editor-inchief.P. Payment to an Idris Ghidi went into the budget under fees to sources who could not be named. She bought a coffee in the restaurant car. I was just quicker on my feet than he was. Lottie? Dig up her passport picture. had butterflies in his stomach as he asked his team leader Inspector Bublanski to take a seat opposite him.
Hans von Rottinger had first hired Falun for the Section in 1986 for an operation that involved forcing entry into the home of the leader of an anarchist group. I would never. naturally curly hair. That should be happening ???? ?C Bublanski looked at his watch ?C ???? yes. Finally Berger heard a voice from the left side of the room. Bj?rck. This meant that they gave up far too easily; alternatively they spent too much time at the acute stage trying to work out exactly what was wrong with the patient so as to decide on the right treatment.* ??This print comes from ?hlens & ?kerlunds Publishers and was used in Se magazine in the spring of 1964. This was one of twelve similar matters which the assistant chief of S. Ronald Niedermann was without doubt a very talented person who had physical attributes to make him a formidable and feared individual.?? Bublanski replied curtly. ??So the Zalachenko club is somewhere in this building. when that idiot from Trollh?ttan took charge of the situation.?? Gullberg repeated. She was breathing hard and felt wretchedly out of shape.
has been sent out on this Ronald Niedermann. it is a tragedy that could have been prevented if there had been more support within society. M?rtensson went back to his car on Tavastgatan. He got up from the kitchen table. Ten years ago I was doing rock-hard bodybuilding. No luck. lit a cigarette. But after what happened today I??m more than ever persuaded that you were the ideal choice. But it??s absurd that you should think I would discuss it with a journalist. and then with great resolve kicked the stool across the room. and did not seem to lead a fast life. I??ll let you know. Blomkvist ordered couscous and a beer.?? ??So soon??? He nodded. but she had not had any particular need to read what he was up to.
unfortunately. showered.?? ??What do you want??? Bublanski said.?? she said. Once he had understood how the telephone network functioned and realized how hopelessly antiquated it was. Holm. He was biding his time and letting the other participants at the meeting say their piece. And if so.?? ??Why did Helena ask you to visit her??? ??Salander is starting to recover. Oh no. He was obviously not the faithful type. She was content to confine her dealings with him to the Net. She had 37. You said that F?lldin was visited by two people from S?po. but with no success.
opened the door to him. ??May I help you??? ??Thank you. In his opinion. In short. Trinity was born in Bradford.M. The Prime Minister glanced quickly at Edklinth and then at Blomkvist. G?ransson. I cannot help you. Henry.?? ??There??s a great probability that you will have to do just that.?? ??When they leave the pub. They lay in bed and talked through the details of the Zalachenko story. If so.?? He grunted.
At that time. and then we??ll also have to have a talk with your husband. furthermore. At all other times either Berger or David were in the house until the theft was discovered. I??m crazy with desire. She??s with me right now. ??What have we got? Sonja??? She smiled weakly. but he was in hospital in S?dert?lje with one foot in a cast and his jaw wired shut.. He could not identify any one of them.?? ??What is it??? ??Out here. a former agent of Soviet military intelligence.??s mail server. told them that she did not have time to wait. What I think is no longer of any interest.
?? ??No.C.?? ??Intensive care??? Olsson said. Formally.v ?C Monday.I.?? ??Who??? Frisk hesitated. black-and-white photograph on the desk.?? ??Not a hope. At 4. ??What did you say??? he asked in a low voice. I??m thinking of moving you to the Constitutional Protection operations unit. Blomkvist did not move when she came out. Her clinical status also includes periods of manic depression and she lacks empathy. She did not even know if his mobile worked in other countries.
They spent three hours going over the articles for the themed issue and keeping track of the book??s progress. no-one ever told me that the warehouse was doubling up as a woodland cemetery. He happened to read the registration number. ??I want to know who Evert Gullberg was. Since Blomkvist presumably intended that she should use the computer. ??A mutual friend spoke with you.S. I believe.?? he said.. The file was stamped Top Secret.G.?? ??Hans Faste is back on duty. almost two weeks after Blomkvist had given her Cortez??s research papers on Borgsj?. taking her pulse.
It??s an industry that in practice cannot be outsourced overseas. Only when that has happened can she begin to confront her legal problems. He was embarrassed to be discussing flaws in their organization in front of the visitors from Stockholm. and suddenly there isn??t much time left. Who wants to go first??? Berglund cleared his throat. He went to open it and found the lawyer Annika Giannini. For the past few weeks he had been loaned to Counter-Espionage.?? He tied a sheet around his waist. I worked for him for three months as a temp in the mid-??80s. when she was sent to the psychiatric hospital.?? ??True.?? Erlander had no more questions.K. I will expose you and do everything I can to ensure that you are never re-elected. The later conventional use of the term ??S?po?? was actually something that the potentially subversive communist publication Clart?? had coined as a pejorative name for the communist-hunters within the police force.
One was from Malm. The meeting at the Constitutional Protection Unit lasted until after 5. and in 1999 he had registered his own company.?? Berger was at home. ever since Giannini had stormed out and slammed the door behind her. So I lift weights once a week and spend the rest of the time doing some cross-training. whore.?? ??This is one hell of an investigation. Three of them were called [PrelimInv/Salander].?? ??Why didn??t the police give Bodin protection??? ??The letters naming Bodin were sent only last night and thus arrived at the same time as the murder was being committed. Gullberg was transported at top speed to the hospital??s trauma unit. This also had geographical consequences. ??Blomkvist ?? we have to be able to trust each other.?? ??How do you mean??? ??First we have to ask the question: how could this have been possible? Who is responsible? How did such a conspiracy develop within the framework of an established police organization? I myself work for S. In theory that would be about twenty hours?? driving.
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basement. He was an older man. a Mace canister and a pistol. I??m just bringing him in for questioning.
?? ??I??ll be going on holiday for three weeks
?? ??I??ll be going on holiday for three weeks.B. Eriksson??s office. The battering he had been subjected to could only be defined as torture.22 calibre Browning.?? Blomkvist said. The only spot from which the entrance door to the building could be observed directly was from the promenade and footbridge on upper Bellmansgatan near the Maria lift and the Laurinska building. Blomkvist had convinced her that she had nothing to lose. He knew that his guesswork was on the mark when Edklinth??s eyes widened. sent on May 15. who had called out of the blue and insisted on his coming to Sunday dinner at his place on Liding?.10. The closest car will come from Adam Security in Fisks?tra. and when I asked for it back he said he??d make me a copy.?? ??That petty thief you identified ???? ??Kenneth Gustafsson.
What else??? ??The only one who could tell us exactly what happened. but Bj?rck could not possibly be the only man responsible. 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.?? ??Bodin ?? Zalachenko is as slippery as an eel and he has an answer to all our questions.Q.?? She used the toilet in the master bathroom and then pulled on some black trousers and borrowed one of Greger??s slippers for her injured foot. to listen to the news. ??I??d be glad to discharge her because we certainly don??t have any beds to spare here.?? ??And??? Modig hesitated once again. of course. Threats to National Security. For a long moment they stood looking at each other. He was behind me. ??He??s going to be digging up that stuff himself if he keeps at it for a while. At a time when the newspaper was on the edge and a campaign of rejuvenation was under way.
.P. she had encouraged him to think for himself. I couldn??t even take notes.I.?? Figuerola said.?? ??He collapsed this morning and was admitted to the hospital suffering from exhaustion. He was convinced that. Blomkvist??s taxi got to Central Station at 3. She almost missed the terse message: Saturday. As far as we can determine at the moment. The buyers cheerfully pay what they are told it costs.?? ??Yes. He visited her room. ??I think it??s time we had a discussion in peace and quiet to try to make sense of this mess.
It was three storeys to the ground. according to the report. go on ???? ??I have a man in the regular police who has spoken with Prosecutor Ekstr?m. Then she lay quite still in bed and stared at the ceiling. ??At risk of ending up shot. He??s murdered at least three people with his bare hands and he??s built like a tank. loose stride. called Jonas Sandberg. not at all. They were the ones who had taken care of Zalachenko.U. Zalachenko said that he would mull over the matter.K. More diplomatically than that. He tried to murder Lisbeth.
Her clinical status also includes periods of manic depression and she lacks empathy.P. said. She spent nearly three hours scrutinizing folder after folder on Teleborian??s computer. execute someone who was the object of a police investigation ?C his investigation.?? ??Eriksson??? ??Unless you want to be editor-in-chief ???? ??Good God. ??Welcome.G.?? Holm said. And two years ago she had single-handedly destroyed Wennerstr?m??s financial empire and saved Millennium. and the younger one followed Blomkvist towards Hornstull tunnelbana station. but the figure kept slipping away.?? Bublanski closed the preliminary report with distaste. We??ll arrange for Faste to be assigned to investigate Salander. who nodded.
if you add in your annual bonus. and access to cutting-edge technology in I. ??Hello. What??s the situation??? ??Our technicians were here and installed a proper alarm. I have let it be known that our Zalachenko documents are gone. But I see no evidence whatsoever that she is schizophrenic or suffering from paranoid delusions. He??s had recurring trouble with it over the past few years. the computer had reacted to three keywords ?C immigrant. Ulla something. and because she probably thought you had your hands full with the Salander story.M. Unfortunately I won??t now be able to discharge you for at least two more weeks.?? he said.?? he said. Blomkvist could tell that Ekstr?m??s search for Niedermann was making no headway.
The paper has to be rejuvenated. I was going out with a guy this spring.?? ??The way you did with Hans-Erik Wennerstr?m??? ??Something like that.?? Gullberg and Wadensj?? glared at each other for a long moment. His colleagues all frowned. Edklinth did not believe in coincidence on such a grand scale. Figuerola and Blomkvist were waiting for him. After a while she pinged Blomkvist on I.?? ??I know. She shook her head. ??Nothing. Figuerola sat motionless for thirty seconds. as a matter of fact. Herr Bodin. He could be in Oslo by now.
?? ??Think like a reporter.?? Modig said. ??Thanks.?? ??Lisbeth. And the paedophile industry. ??Have you got anybody on duty this weekend??? ??Modig.?? ??It??s hard when you??re locked up like this.00. and that something serious must have happened if you wanted to see me outside all normal channels. which she took back to her office. and that the information he provided was invaluable. The autopsy revealed that she died as a result of a staggeringly vicious assault. the matter would be simple. or the Section will cease to exist a few weeks from now.?? ??Benny Karlsson??? Nieminen yelled.
He had Salander??s keys to her burgundy Honda. It was nothing to him if people wanted to dress up in costume. It was in an upstairs room used by Niedermann.?? Figuerola said. Blomkvist drove to Millennium.?? Andersson said. but that there was a boundary and it could not be infringed. where place settings were already laid out. S. ?C among the few people who actually knew about the existence of the Section ?C a certain amount of criticism had surfaced. ??Why so??? Berger said.?? ??I understand. your only task.?? He stood up suddenly. The May issue is done ?C we??ve already worked hard on it.
And that would have to mean that locking you up in 1991 was illegal.?? Wadensj?? turned to Gullberg. But I need somebody to tell me if I??m doing anything stupid. He shook his head. It had been a quiet evening and they arrived within twenty minutes. drumming her fingertips in annoyance. and sometimes she would answer a question that Giannini had asked several days earlier. starting with one lasting fifteen minutes in which Assistant Editor Fredriksson presented the guidelines for the day??s work.. ??Just a moment.00 on Saturday morning. of course. as far as we can tell. in particular for playing the irascible but honest Inspector Frisk in a wildly popular T. what would you do??? ??I??d shut my eyes.
?? ??I??m happy to have you as my lawyer. the strangest thing was that he detailed one of the techs to make an inventory of everything in the woodshed ?C where we found the Zalachenko guy??? ??An inventory of what in the woodshed??? Sp?ngberg wanted to know. two columns. She emailed him a brief reply and thanked him for the upgrade. That left 141 individuals.?? ??So now you know the lay of the land. Not identified. dear ?? please get to the point.?? Clinton went on. Its task was to watch over national security.?? Salander spent the whole day brooding about Zalachenko. he could forget about Zalachenko. She stepped into the stairwell and was looking for a light switch when the attack came out of the blue. In his view. They had found the pencil.
And Vitavara Inc. and he in turn went to the Prime Minister. There were plenty of examples of these fools taking the leap from fantasy to action. Do you have any idea where he might hide??? ??I am not aware of the circles he moves in. Jan. ??We??ll go and tip off the police about what happened here. Salander thought for a moment.00 in the evening. Is that O.?? Berger drove to the office on Saturday morning still feeling queasy. Finally she leaned her head back and looked up at the ceiling. 3.M. and who are you??? ??My name is Blomkvist.?? ??Paolo Roberto uses steroids??? ??What? No.
and now. She sat still for a moment and looked at him.?? Berger knew exactly what kind of editorial he wanted. ??M?rtensson works for S?po.000 kronor. What are you up to??? ??I??m sitting at home sorting through my collection of photographs of old lovers. and a message from her dental hygienist suggesting a time for her quarterly visit. Blomkvist concluded that he was under surveillance. ??You should start working out yourself.?? ??I see. I asked you for two things: first. he sat on the floor next to the bench and kept a watchful eye on Salander. ??I??ve decided that Salander should be moved to a different room. ??There??s something I have to do. What could I say? If I asked what it meant.
she put on one shoe and stuck the toes of her injured foot into the other. immigrant. yes.?? ??If he has gone. that answer was simple. But when Blomkvist was working on a complicated story ?C Malm had observed the same obsessive and secretive behaviour in the weeks before the Wennerstr?m story broke ?C it became more pronounced. but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale.P. I can tell you that I see no sign of mental illness. We??ll keep in touch by mobile. dollars. a need had arisen for the Section to assign a trusted colleague to the operation who could reinforce its control. and from the conversation Blomkvist gathered that it was a stringer in G?teborg whom Eriksson had sent to Sahlgrenska. after all. and the Section had in fact been instrumental in the very formation of the group.
Everything could have gone fine. After a moment he turned on his heel and resumed his little stroll towards Hornsgatan.* But no politician would dare to be involved in such a decision. But in the half-staffed Saturday newsroom everything was normal. Instead of turning down towards S?dermalm she kept going straight to Kungsholmen.C. But let??s not lose hope altogether. But this will be O. and for possession of an illegal weapon.?? Gullberg said. cares about it. not counting the attic and basement. He was an older man. a Mace canister and a pistol. I??m just bringing him in for questioning.
?? ??I??ll be going on holiday for three weeks.B. Eriksson??s office. The battering he had been subjected to could only be defined as torture.22 calibre Browning.?? Blomkvist said. The only spot from which the entrance door to the building could be observed directly was from the promenade and footbridge on upper Bellmansgatan near the Maria lift and the Laurinska building. Blomkvist had convinced her that she had nothing to lose. He knew that his guesswork was on the mark when Edklinth??s eyes widened. sent on May 15. who had called out of the blue and insisted on his coming to Sunday dinner at his place on Liding?.10. The closest car will come from Adam Security in Fisks?tra. and when I asked for it back he said he??d make me a copy.?? ??That petty thief you identified ???? ??Kenneth Gustafsson.
What else??? ??The only one who could tell us exactly what happened. but Bj?rck could not possibly be the only man responsible. 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.?? ??Bodin ?? Zalachenko is as slippery as an eel and he has an answer to all our questions.Q.?? She used the toilet in the master bathroom and then pulled on some black trousers and borrowed one of Greger??s slippers for her injured foot. to listen to the news. ??I??d be glad to discharge her because we certainly don??t have any beds to spare here.?? ??And??? Modig hesitated once again. of course. Threats to National Security. For a long moment they stood looking at each other. He was behind me. ??He??s going to be digging up that stuff himself if he keeps at it for a while. At a time when the newspaper was on the edge and a campaign of rejuvenation was under way.
.P. she had encouraged him to think for himself. I couldn??t even take notes.I.?? Figuerola said.?? ??He collapsed this morning and was admitted to the hospital suffering from exhaustion. He was convinced that. Blomkvist??s taxi got to Central Station at 3. She almost missed the terse message: Saturday. As far as we can determine at the moment. The buyers cheerfully pay what they are told it costs.?? ??Yes. He visited her room. ??I think it??s time we had a discussion in peace and quiet to try to make sense of this mess.
It was three storeys to the ground. according to the report. go on ???? ??I have a man in the regular police who has spoken with Prosecutor Ekstr?m. Then she lay quite still in bed and stared at the ceiling. ??At risk of ending up shot. He??s murdered at least three people with his bare hands and he??s built like a tank. loose stride. called Jonas Sandberg. not at all. They were the ones who had taken care of Zalachenko.U. Zalachenko said that he would mull over the matter.K. More diplomatically than that. He tried to murder Lisbeth.
Her clinical status also includes periods of manic depression and she lacks empathy.P. said. She spent nearly three hours scrutinizing folder after folder on Teleborian??s computer. execute someone who was the object of a police investigation ?C his investigation.?? ??Eriksson??? ??Unless you want to be editor-in-chief ???? ??Good God. ??Welcome.G.?? Holm said. And two years ago she had single-handedly destroyed Wennerstr?m??s financial empire and saved Millennium. and the younger one followed Blomkvist towards Hornstull tunnelbana station. but the figure kept slipping away.?? Bublanski closed the preliminary report with distaste. We??ll arrange for Faste to be assigned to investigate Salander. who nodded.
if you add in your annual bonus. and access to cutting-edge technology in I. ??Hello. What??s the situation??? ??Our technicians were here and installed a proper alarm. I have let it be known that our Zalachenko documents are gone. But I see no evidence whatsoever that she is schizophrenic or suffering from paranoid delusions. He??s had recurring trouble with it over the past few years. the computer had reacted to three keywords ?C immigrant. Ulla something. and because she probably thought you had your hands full with the Salander story.M. Unfortunately I won??t now be able to discharge you for at least two more weeks.?? he said.?? he said. Blomkvist could tell that Ekstr?m??s search for Niedermann was making no headway.
The paper has to be rejuvenated. I was going out with a guy this spring.?? ??The way you did with Hans-Erik Wennerstr?m??? ??Something like that.?? Gullberg and Wadensj?? glared at each other for a long moment. His colleagues all frowned. Edklinth did not believe in coincidence on such a grand scale. Figuerola and Blomkvist were waiting for him. After a while she pinged Blomkvist on I.?? ??I know. She shook her head. ??Nothing. Figuerola sat motionless for thirty seconds. as a matter of fact. Herr Bodin. He could be in Oslo by now.
?? ??Think like a reporter.?? Modig said. ??Thanks.?? ??Lisbeth. And the paedophile industry. ??Have you got anybody on duty this weekend??? ??Modig.?? ??It??s hard when you??re locked up like this.00. and that something serious must have happened if you wanted to see me outside all normal channels. which she took back to her office. and that the information he provided was invaluable. The autopsy revealed that she died as a result of a staggeringly vicious assault. the matter would be simple. or the Section will cease to exist a few weeks from now.?? ??Benny Karlsson??? Nieminen yelled.
He had Salander??s keys to her burgundy Honda. It was nothing to him if people wanted to dress up in costume. It was in an upstairs room used by Niedermann.?? Figuerola said. Blomkvist drove to Millennium.?? Andersson said. but that there was a boundary and it could not be infringed. where place settings were already laid out. S. ?C among the few people who actually knew about the existence of the Section ?C a certain amount of criticism had surfaced. ??Why so??? Berger said.?? ??I understand. your only task.?? He stood up suddenly. The May issue is done ?C we??ve already worked hard on it.
And that would have to mean that locking you up in 1991 was illegal.?? Wadensj?? turned to Gullberg. But I need somebody to tell me if I??m doing anything stupid. He shook his head. It had been a quiet evening and they arrived within twenty minutes. drumming her fingertips in annoyance. and sometimes she would answer a question that Giannini had asked several days earlier. starting with one lasting fifteen minutes in which Assistant Editor Fredriksson presented the guidelines for the day??s work.. ??Just a moment.00 on Saturday morning. of course. as far as we can tell. in particular for playing the irascible but honest Inspector Frisk in a wildly popular T. what would you do??? ??I??d shut my eyes.
?? ??I??m happy to have you as my lawyer. the strangest thing was that he detailed one of the techs to make an inventory of everything in the woodshed ?C where we found the Zalachenko guy??? ??An inventory of what in the woodshed??? Sp?ngberg wanted to know. two columns. She emailed him a brief reply and thanked him for the upgrade. That left 141 individuals.?? ??So now you know the lay of the land. Not identified. dear ?? please get to the point.?? Clinton went on. Its task was to watch over national security.?? Salander spent the whole day brooding about Zalachenko. he could forget about Zalachenko. She stepped into the stairwell and was looking for a light switch when the attack came out of the blue. In his view. They had found the pencil.
And Vitavara Inc. and he in turn went to the Prime Minister. There were plenty of examples of these fools taking the leap from fantasy to action. Do you have any idea where he might hide??? ??I am not aware of the circles he moves in. Jan. ??We??ll go and tip off the police about what happened here. Salander thought for a moment.00 in the evening. Is that O.?? Berger drove to the office on Saturday morning still feeling queasy. Finally she leaned her head back and looked up at the ceiling. 3.M. and who are you??? ??My name is Blomkvist.?? ??Paolo Roberto uses steroids??? ??What? No.
and now. She sat still for a moment and looked at him.?? Berger knew exactly what kind of editorial he wanted. ??M?rtensson works for S?po.000 kronor. What are you up to??? ??I??m sitting at home sorting through my collection of photographs of old lovers. and a message from her dental hygienist suggesting a time for her quarterly visit. Blomkvist concluded that he was under surveillance. ??You should start working out yourself.?? ??I see. I asked you for two things: first. he sat on the floor next to the bench and kept a watchful eye on Salander. ??I??ve decided that Salander should be moved to a different room. ??There??s something I have to do. What could I say? If I asked what it meant.
she put on one shoe and stuck the toes of her injured foot into the other. immigrant. yes.?? ??If he has gone. that answer was simple. But when Blomkvist was working on a complicated story ?C Malm had observed the same obsessive and secretive behaviour in the weeks before the Wennerstr?m story broke ?C it became more pronounced. but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale.P. I can tell you that I see no sign of mental illness. We??ll keep in touch by mobile. dollars. a need had arisen for the Section to assign a trusted colleague to the operation who could reinforce its control. and from the conversation Blomkvist gathered that it was a stringer in G?teborg whom Eriksson had sent to Sahlgrenska. after all. and the Section had in fact been instrumental in the very formation of the group.
Everything could have gone fine. After a moment he turned on his heel and resumed his little stroll towards Hornsgatan.* But no politician would dare to be involved in such a decision. But in the half-staffed Saturday newsroom everything was normal. Instead of turning down towards S?dermalm she kept going straight to Kungsholmen.C. But let??s not lose hope altogether. But this will be O. and for possession of an illegal weapon.?? Gullberg said. cares about it. not counting the attic and basement. He was an older man. a Mace canister and a pistol. I??m just bringing him in for questioning.
switch when the attack came out of the blue. and when I asked for it back he said he??d make me a copy.30 this morning.
She pulled up a chair and sat down
She pulled up a chair and sat down. Not that there were not warnings. a Mace canister and a pistol.?? he said.M. That??s why Clinton has returned to duty. He gave the driver an address in the suburb of Bromma. who examined her patient briskly and prescribed a powerful painkiller.?? ??Where??? ??Outside Seglora. That was how she felt about Fermat. and one was from the Violent Crimes Division. It was not a perfect plan.M. They don??t know that he??s my brother. Zalachenko was thrown back on to the pillow.?? Flodin said.?? ??Salander. But I??ve understood that you??re driven by several factors. Her client was in much worse shape than she had been led to believe. Micke.
R. who boxed with him.?? ??I saw him a little while ago. The next morning.?? ??Where do you want me to begin??? ??Start with the simple things.M. Two masked men had robbed at gunpoint a shop owned by an immigrant.?? Blomkvist said. It was only when he heard the details and studied Malm??s photographs that he reluctantly admitted that Blomkvist had good reason to be suspicious. Then they go back to their regular jobs in S. I actually met him a couple of times. whoever did it had access to the very typewriter that Bj?rck used. Her hands were tied behind her back. Which means that there was some degree of contact between the two of them while Salander was on the run.?? ??It??s in the daily memo. my name is Marianne. so it was no surprise that she had killed these people. Then he screwed on the cover again. On the other hand. ??Teleborian went straight to Ekstr?m.
But she??s calm and matter-of-fact and seems to be able to cope with her situation. The only practical decision they made was that Modig should return to G?teborg the next day to see whether Salander had anything to say.?? ??Yes. and clocked out.?? ??Why did they pick me then??? Berger said. which Armansky hesitantly put on. ??Ask Malin. But what did she have to lose? Berger followed the instruction. She had a headache again. Then Salander came into the picture. In fact he did not have the slightest idea how Berger came to call him out of the blue to tell him of the meeting. Last night she had a temperature of 38 and vomited on two occasions. and we don??t want to attract attention until we have more to go on. Salander is.?? ??Go on.. ??We??ll introduce ourselves properly in a while. ??Interesting. but she supposed that she would have to escape and discreetly disappear abroad herself if she did not want to risk being locked up in some nuthouse again with Teleborian as her warder. He did not ask any questions about Niedermann or Zalachenko.
and according to what I??ve overheard he was shot in the head all three times.?? If truth be told. which meant that policemen would die and Niedermann probably would as well.?? ??Second. I cannot defend myself.M.?? ??Well. I am not going to argue with you about this.I. She put the canister of Mace from her shoulder bag on her bedside table.Thursday.P. Lottie? Dig up her passport picture.?? ??Curt Andersson. That was unusual. But Counter-Espionage had not ever had him. I??ll be starting at another publication. and by mid-decade Gullberg had heard several proposals that the budget be reduced. Can you open your eyes again??? She opened her eyes to narrow slits. The old comrades shook hands.
He was fully aware that everything had gone about as badly as it could have. It was clear to Gullberg that the Section for Special Analysis could become a politically sensitive unit and the job description was expressly vague. I don??t believe that this activity is sanctioned by the leadership of S. S.?? Nystr?m said. informal suggestion??? Modig said cautiously. Mikael Blomkvist.?? ??I don??t know anything about that. Mercifully someone had left a full bottle of mineral water on the conference table.?? ??Thank you.?? ??Who??? Frisk hesitated. at that. We??ll see what he has in mind. You know him. worrying.?? ??Alright. It??s complicated. And. Malin had never before had to cope with anything more complex than a household budget. On the other hand it??s now clear that Ekstr?m is going to bring charges against Salander.
S.C. took out a notebook. moving fast. and worked on her computer.?? Wadensj?? sighed.?? Salander frowned. said nothing. She had 200 kronor in cash from Annika Giannini to pay for sweets from the hospital snack shop. Lisbeth. It??s an invitation to abuse of power. Jonasson ordered tomography with the new and improved C. ??I??m going out for a while. I??m leaving for G?teborg later this afternoon. That time the Volvo was parked on a side street near the Millennium offices. to lunch. In the meantime her twin sister. They do their best to ignore anything they hear about us.?? Berglund said. blond man with a crewcut who wore a black leather jacket.
Janeryd. It would be impossible for Borgsj? to claim ignorance. We can assume they??re fairly tight-knit. ??Toilets. For a moment he considered turning to the regular police. Then gingerly he closed the door. ??Based on current information. ??I can handle it. According to the newspapers. ??You misunderstand me. All democracy has its limits.?? ??And this suggestion is not in the original report. And then she saw a light through the trees and stopped. and as a doctor he was not the least bit interested in the answer to that question.?? ??Very well written too. who did the bookkeeping one day a week. She had chosen to ignore his existence. They relied heavily on computers connected to the incident reporting network of the regular police. Lisbeth is not allowed to have visitors.V.
No. You??re probably thinking of me as a guest you have to entertain.P.Q. even if Skanska Construction opens an office in London and stuff like that.m. the investigation and registration of Swedish citizens who might be suspected of harbouring communist or subversive views. and among colleagues he would also refer to ??the Company?? or ??the Firm.?? ??This is one hell of an investigation.?? Figuerola said. The only problem was that Bjurman was such a mediocre lawyer that he was hardly capable of exploiting his opportunities.iv Zalachenko had been awake for eight hours when Inspectors Modig and Erlander came to his room at 7. I don??t have your disgusting eating habits. He also noticed another odd thing: there was no bibliography in any one of the books Cortez had found. It??s an excellent story.?? ??Hi. With an effort she stood up and swayed unsteadily.P. And then she saw a light through the trees and stopped. Two important details are still needed: (1) First of all.
to shoot you too??? ??I have no way of knowing. ??You??re right. She spent about two seconds on each message.D.?? ??There??s a threat against you and I??m here to be a gatekeeper so that you can sleep in peace or work or read a book or do whatever you feel like doing. Metro and Stockholm City.?? ??Excellent idea. ??We??re the ones who don??t exist. How??s Mikael doing??? ??He??s dead to the world.D.S. doesn??t know I??m here. but all this is beside the point. She raised her right hand and felt her head. and second. and had managed only by holding a gun on him the whole time.?? ??It sounds as if you think I??m organizing some sort of conspiracy against you. Blomkvist opened the driver??s door a minute later. ??He??s crossing Vasagatan. Then give me some insight into Edklinth??s investigation.
but they were as well trained and probably better equipped too. and that his updated version included the latest versions of Unix. She was dressed that day in tight blue jeans. ??My office. If things came to a head. It took all of Linder??s powers of persuasion to send her to bed. Blomkvist made a pretty acute observation. born in 1917. Contact with the Net. He drank a glass of mineral water. but they chose to protect Zalachenko because he was a source of valuable information. And if they did not.?? ??I see. That investigation is presently allocated to S?dert?lje. He??s under pressure from every direction. then said.?? ??Yes. ??Careful. there was no mobile in the room. ??O.
Right now he had to focus on himself. ??Mikael isn??t here today. She had her first client meeting at 8. The inquiries had concentrated on finding G?ransson??s car.10. He opened his iBook again and read through his text.. But it??s a good question. Blomkvist was working on the Salander story and would not share any part of it. one of which was a relatively complicated and widely reported safecracking heist at a department store in V?ster?s. Jerker requisitioned it. Then a week went by before the emails started coming again. That??s the only reasonable explanation. Then a week went by before the emails started coming again. ??Hello. regardless of how belligerently an opponent might behave. Holm was off that day. That??s my father in the middle. He asked her to open her mouth and examined her throat. reading books.
He had succeeding in gathering some forensic evidence linking Niedermann to the murders of Svensson and Johansson. ??No. editor-in-chief. He looked at his telephone with the utmost suspicion and took out his mobile. studied law and eventually became a tax adviser. She has hit the nail on the head. Somehow he had to establish contact with her.?? ??I??m interested in a lot of things. At 4. He had come on board recently to clean up the shambles of what was known as the Internal Bureau affair. ??So.30 a.?? Blomkvist said. The report was what finally put us on the right track.?? ??Who??? ??I don??t think he??s involved in the case. which normally he hated. Gullberg squeezed the trigger and put the bullet right in the centre of Zalachenko??s forehead just as the patient was starting to swing his prosthesis over the edge of the bed. pointing to her foot.?? ??I??m on the way in. That medication had been prescribed for him.
?? ??The type of email Eva Carlsson got??? ??Right.M. Figuerola most definitely had no right to invite him here on her own authority. I especially like the way he wrote in the margin.?? ??Do you want to take the chance? Let??s say Zalachenko talks.?? said Holmberg. WHORE She raised her index finger to delete the message. she shut down Billing and crossed him off the list. leaking information as they see fit. It involves big beasts who are either retired now or close to retirement. But from a purely political standpoint.00. ??That??s not what I asked. She sighed. After the tumult of Zalachenko??s murder and Gullberg??s attempted suicide. despite the fact that the whole business is the subject of a long report.P. But I want to play it safe. At last he looked up. I??ve had threats before.
of course.00 Jonasson came up to the ward just as Dr Endrin was about to go home. She was in a bad way. But what does a twenty-year-old do who wants to move out of the family home? They can??t afford to. he saw that he had forty-two messages and texts. limped back to the bed. Morander put a great deal of trust in you. Salander bit her lip.?? the P. He has to go regularly to the hospital for dialysis. Magnusson had put together a four-column article about Morander??s life and career. Does the message contain a virus??? ??I wouldn??t know. As it was growing light an observant police officer found traces of blood on the ground behind the woodshed. Edklinth grimaced. ??Hurry up ?C go and wash and brush your teeth. It took her a few seconds to make the connection. What am I supposed to do??? ??I??m persuaded that you quoted him accurately. Fr?ken Salander. * Gullberg had begun at the Russia desk of the third division of the state police. According to the headers the sender was erika.
Suddenly she swayed. A call to the national vehicle register revealed that the car belonged to a G?ran M?rtensson of Vittangigaten in V?llingby. ??Understandable. explaining her presence at the house and that she had been called in by Rosin. He was there without warning.00 in the morning and reported Berger??s discovery that diaries. It had whetted his appetite. The driver will know where to drop you.?? Figuerola said. That was unusual. ??I was thinking of going home tonight. and at the offices. ??But I have something I??d like to try on you. ??Zalachenko ?? so that??s your father??? Well.?? ??But there??s another gap I don??t really understand. He had a serious talk with Giannini and explained that she could have access to Salander for one hour a day.?? ??Presumably in normal circumstances you would be doing everything you could to keep journalists away from a meeting like this. where she belongs. shoulder patch. Over the years Edklinth had been an impassioned advocate of the establishment of a constitutional court.
We should cut that to five full-timers. It would be as it was in the ??80s. We??ve just fine-tuned it. Criminal Inspector.P.. but they were old colleagues.S. to investigate whether there are grounds for a new trial. Palme was defeated. but with no other visible damage. ??Hello. Have you got any more surprises up your sleeve??? ??Yes. He found himself. She was the most unlikely person Berger could turn to with any hope of getting help. She laid it next to her hip and fell asleep. Convicted of insurance fraud in the ??70s.?? ??And in this instance Blomkvist is quite correct. Then he stood up and put the muzzle to Zalachenko??s temple and squeezed the trigger twice.?? Blomkvist said.
Lisbeth Salander had seldom rung for a nurse if she did not have a severe headache or some other equally serious problem.?? ??I??m sorry.?? ??Good. One was pronounced D. She had been dozing only a few minutes when she was aware of movement and opened her eyelids to a narrow slit. Some are embedded in the brain tissue. Millennium will tell the story of how government officials conspired against Salander in order to protect a pathological murderer ?? He wrote steadily for fifty minutes. has received a number of emails that appear to come from me. But we have several suspects.?? Salander said in a low voice.?? ??The basic story was an interview with Martina Fransson about the confiscation of anabolic steroids. An exclusive address in a fine old cultural quarter. Wadensj?? had been one of the latest recruits to the Section around the time Gullberg retired. But do you want me to represent you??? Salander gave a curt nod. She went downstairs to put on some coffee and for the first time since she had started at S. ??I must admit ?? just between us ?? that sometimes I worry about Niedermann. Salander herself was critically injured and at Sahlgrenska hospital in G?teborg. Now she was suddenly editor-in-chief. He had heard fragments of ongoing investigations. She put the folder on the windowsill and stretched out in the bath to ponder the situation.
He reached out his hand and mussed her hair affectionately. have you? Lisbeth Salander is in fact innocent and the police have violated her and destroyed her reputation in ways that beggar belief.?? ??In 1989 a refugee by the name of Idris Ghidi came to Sweden from Iraq.?? ??I gather you??re still busy with excavations in Nykvarn. Dr Jonasson paused for a second. David Rosin was a short. pointing to her foot. Advokat Palmgren. darling. But when it comes to policy he??s going to have to toe the line. worrying. ??O. had begun his criminal career stealing cars at seventeen. by the look of them. how was she able to climb out and start wandering around with an axe??? ??Whatever went on here tonight. WHORE! THE SOONER YOU DISAPPEAR THE BETTER. ??I thought Salander had recovered. how??? ??Tell me what you want to know.?? he said. Someone decides that a certain person should be given a particular level of clearance.
pathologist.?? ??I??m curious about something. When she was gone he turned to Clinton.?? Salander said breathlessly. Three women and six men: the head of the Violent Crimes Division and his assistant head; three criminal inspectors including Erlander and the G?teborg police press officers; preliminary investigation leader Agneta Jervas from the prosecutor??s office. but in any case she was in no condition to be questioned.?? ??O. we??re going to need telephone taps and bugs in everyone??s homes. The constitution had nothing to do with it. but he seemed peripheral.?? ??So the budget has shrunk.V. V. He had patched up a girl who had ridden her bike into a ditch that the road-repair department had chosen to dig close to the end of a bike path; the warning barriers had been tipped into the hole. He had been tracking Salander. He nodded. but your decisions are the ones that count.?? Figuerola said. Find out the registration number. we have to work faster.
a little sense of responsibility would not hurt. What would his next step be??? ??He has to get out of Sweden. which she was immediately given.?? Figuerola said ??What??s that??? ??Evert Gullberg. He then described Zalachenko??s new identity and his criminal operations.e..?? He looked almost apologetic. for one.P. Give me information and I won??t try to compromise you. Fredriksson was definitely a candidate. where he was required once more to provide precise directions to the spot. It suits you somehow. But the surgeon says he has high hopes that she??ll survive.?? Ekstr?m repeated in a brittle tone. but also not a nutcase. She stepped into the stairwell and was looking for a light switch when the attack came out of the blue. and when I asked for it back he said he??d make me a copy.30 this morning.
She pulled up a chair and sat down. Not that there were not warnings. a Mace canister and a pistol.?? he said.M. That??s why Clinton has returned to duty. He gave the driver an address in the suburb of Bromma. who examined her patient briskly and prescribed a powerful painkiller.?? ??Where??? ??Outside Seglora. That was how she felt about Fermat. and one was from the Violent Crimes Division. It was not a perfect plan.M. They don??t know that he??s my brother. Zalachenko was thrown back on to the pillow.?? Flodin said.?? ??Salander. But I??ve understood that you??re driven by several factors. Her client was in much worse shape than she had been led to believe. Micke.
R. who boxed with him.?? ??I saw him a little while ago. The next morning.?? ??Where do you want me to begin??? ??Start with the simple things.M. Two masked men had robbed at gunpoint a shop owned by an immigrant.?? Blomkvist said. It was only when he heard the details and studied Malm??s photographs that he reluctantly admitted that Blomkvist had good reason to be suspicious. Then they go back to their regular jobs in S. I actually met him a couple of times. whoever did it had access to the very typewriter that Bj?rck used. Her hands were tied behind her back. Which means that there was some degree of contact between the two of them while Salander was on the run.?? ??It??s in the daily memo. my name is Marianne. so it was no surprise that she had killed these people. Then he screwed on the cover again. On the other hand. ??Teleborian went straight to Ekstr?m.
But she??s calm and matter-of-fact and seems to be able to cope with her situation. The only practical decision they made was that Modig should return to G?teborg the next day to see whether Salander had anything to say.?? ??Yes. and clocked out.?? ??Why did they pick me then??? Berger said. which Armansky hesitantly put on. ??Ask Malin. But what did she have to lose? Berger followed the instruction. She had a headache again. Then Salander came into the picture. In fact he did not have the slightest idea how Berger came to call him out of the blue to tell him of the meeting. Last night she had a temperature of 38 and vomited on two occasions. and we don??t want to attract attention until we have more to go on. Salander is.?? ??Go on.. ??We??ll introduce ourselves properly in a while. ??Interesting. but she supposed that she would have to escape and discreetly disappear abroad herself if she did not want to risk being locked up in some nuthouse again with Teleborian as her warder. He did not ask any questions about Niedermann or Zalachenko.
and according to what I??ve overheard he was shot in the head all three times.?? If truth be told. which meant that policemen would die and Niedermann probably would as well.?? ??Second. I cannot defend myself.M.?? ??Well. I am not going to argue with you about this.I. She put the canister of Mace from her shoulder bag on her bedside table.Thursday.P. Lottie? Dig up her passport picture.?? ??Curt Andersson. That was unusual. But Counter-Espionage had not ever had him. I??ll be starting at another publication. and by mid-decade Gullberg had heard several proposals that the budget be reduced. Can you open your eyes again??? She opened her eyes to narrow slits. The old comrades shook hands.
He was fully aware that everything had gone about as badly as it could have. It was clear to Gullberg that the Section for Special Analysis could become a politically sensitive unit and the job description was expressly vague. I don??t believe that this activity is sanctioned by the leadership of S. S.?? Nystr?m said. informal suggestion??? Modig said cautiously. Mikael Blomkvist.?? ??I don??t know anything about that. Mercifully someone had left a full bottle of mineral water on the conference table.?? ??Thank you.?? ??Who??? Frisk hesitated. at that. We??ll see what he has in mind. You know him. worrying.?? ??Alright. It??s complicated. And. Malin had never before had to cope with anything more complex than a household budget. On the other hand it??s now clear that Ekstr?m is going to bring charges against Salander.
S.C. took out a notebook. moving fast. and worked on her computer.?? Wadensj?? sighed.?? Salander frowned. said nothing. She had 200 kronor in cash from Annika Giannini to pay for sweets from the hospital snack shop. Lisbeth. It??s an invitation to abuse of power. Jonasson ordered tomography with the new and improved C. ??I??m going out for a while. I??m leaving for G?teborg later this afternoon. That time the Volvo was parked on a side street near the Millennium offices. to lunch. In the meantime her twin sister. They do their best to ignore anything they hear about us.?? Berglund said. blond man with a crewcut who wore a black leather jacket.
Janeryd. It would be impossible for Borgsj? to claim ignorance. We can assume they??re fairly tight-knit. ??Toilets. For a moment he considered turning to the regular police. Then gingerly he closed the door. ??Based on current information. ??I can handle it. According to the newspapers. ??You misunderstand me. All democracy has its limits.?? ??And this suggestion is not in the original report. And then she saw a light through the trees and stopped. and as a doctor he was not the least bit interested in the answer to that question.?? ??Very well written too. who did the bookkeeping one day a week. She had chosen to ignore his existence. They relied heavily on computers connected to the incident reporting network of the regular police. Lisbeth is not allowed to have visitors.V.
No. You??re probably thinking of me as a guest you have to entertain.P.Q. even if Skanska Construction opens an office in London and stuff like that.m. the investigation and registration of Swedish citizens who might be suspected of harbouring communist or subversive views. and among colleagues he would also refer to ??the Company?? or ??the Firm.?? ??This is one hell of an investigation.?? Figuerola said. The only problem was that Bjurman was such a mediocre lawyer that he was hardly capable of exploiting his opportunities.iv Zalachenko had been awake for eight hours when Inspectors Modig and Erlander came to his room at 7. I don??t have your disgusting eating habits. He also noticed another odd thing: there was no bibliography in any one of the books Cortez had found. It??s an excellent story.?? ??Hi. With an effort she stood up and swayed unsteadily.P. And then she saw a light through the trees and stopped. Two important details are still needed: (1) First of all.
to shoot you too??? ??I have no way of knowing. ??You??re right. She spent about two seconds on each message.D.?? ??There??s a threat against you and I??m here to be a gatekeeper so that you can sleep in peace or work or read a book or do whatever you feel like doing. Metro and Stockholm City.?? ??Excellent idea. ??We??re the ones who don??t exist. How??s Mikael doing??? ??He??s dead to the world.D.S. doesn??t know I??m here. but all this is beside the point. She raised her right hand and felt her head. and second. and had managed only by holding a gun on him the whole time.?? ??It sounds as if you think I??m organizing some sort of conspiracy against you. Blomkvist opened the driver??s door a minute later. ??He??s crossing Vasagatan. Then give me some insight into Edklinth??s investigation.
but they were as well trained and probably better equipped too. and that his updated version included the latest versions of Unix. She was dressed that day in tight blue jeans. ??My office. If things came to a head. It took all of Linder??s powers of persuasion to send her to bed. Blomkvist made a pretty acute observation. born in 1917. Contact with the Net. He drank a glass of mineral water. but they chose to protect Zalachenko because he was a source of valuable information. And if they did not.?? ??I see. That investigation is presently allocated to S?dert?lje. He??s under pressure from every direction. then said.?? ??Yes. ??Careful. there was no mobile in the room. ??O.
Right now he had to focus on himself. ??Mikael isn??t here today. She had her first client meeting at 8. The inquiries had concentrated on finding G?ransson??s car.10. He opened his iBook again and read through his text.. But it??s a good question. Blomkvist was working on the Salander story and would not share any part of it. one of which was a relatively complicated and widely reported safecracking heist at a department store in V?ster?s. Jerker requisitioned it. Then a week went by before the emails started coming again. That??s the only reasonable explanation. Then a week went by before the emails started coming again. ??Hello. regardless of how belligerently an opponent might behave. Holm was off that day. That??s my father in the middle. He asked her to open her mouth and examined her throat. reading books.
He had succeeding in gathering some forensic evidence linking Niedermann to the murders of Svensson and Johansson. ??No. editor-in-chief. He looked at his telephone with the utmost suspicion and took out his mobile. studied law and eventually became a tax adviser. She has hit the nail on the head. Somehow he had to establish contact with her.?? ??I??m interested in a lot of things. At 4. He had come on board recently to clean up the shambles of what was known as the Internal Bureau affair. ??So.30 a.?? Blomkvist said. The report was what finally put us on the right track.?? ??Who??? ??I don??t think he??s involved in the case. which normally he hated. Gullberg squeezed the trigger and put the bullet right in the centre of Zalachenko??s forehead just as the patient was starting to swing his prosthesis over the edge of the bed. pointing to her foot.?? ??I??m on the way in. That medication had been prescribed for him.
?? ??The type of email Eva Carlsson got??? ??Right.M. Figuerola most definitely had no right to invite him here on her own authority. I especially like the way he wrote in the margin.?? ??Do you want to take the chance? Let??s say Zalachenko talks.?? said Holmberg. WHORE She raised her index finger to delete the message. she shut down Billing and crossed him off the list. leaking information as they see fit. It involves big beasts who are either retired now or close to retirement. But from a purely political standpoint.00. ??That??s not what I asked. She sighed. After the tumult of Zalachenko??s murder and Gullberg??s attempted suicide. despite the fact that the whole business is the subject of a long report.P. But I want to play it safe. At last he looked up. I??ve had threats before.
of course.00 Jonasson came up to the ward just as Dr Endrin was about to go home. She was in a bad way. But what does a twenty-year-old do who wants to move out of the family home? They can??t afford to. he saw that he had forty-two messages and texts. limped back to the bed. Morander put a great deal of trust in you. Salander bit her lip.?? the P. He has to go regularly to the hospital for dialysis. Magnusson had put together a four-column article about Morander??s life and career. Does the message contain a virus??? ??I wouldn??t know. As it was growing light an observant police officer found traces of blood on the ground behind the woodshed. Edklinth grimaced. ??Hurry up ?C go and wash and brush your teeth. It took her a few seconds to make the connection. What am I supposed to do??? ??I??m persuaded that you quoted him accurately. Fr?ken Salander. * Gullberg had begun at the Russia desk of the third division of the state police. According to the headers the sender was erika.
Suddenly she swayed. A call to the national vehicle register revealed that the car belonged to a G?ran M?rtensson of Vittangigaten in V?llingby. ??Understandable. explaining her presence at the house and that she had been called in by Rosin. He was there without warning.00 in the morning and reported Berger??s discovery that diaries. It had whetted his appetite. The driver will know where to drop you.?? Figuerola said. That was unusual. ??I was thinking of going home tonight. and at the offices. ??But I have something I??d like to try on you. ??Zalachenko ?? so that??s your father??? Well.?? ??But there??s another gap I don??t really understand. He had a serious talk with Giannini and explained that she could have access to Salander for one hour a day.?? ??Presumably in normal circumstances you would be doing everything you could to keep journalists away from a meeting like this. where she belongs. shoulder patch. Over the years Edklinth had been an impassioned advocate of the establishment of a constitutional court.
We should cut that to five full-timers. It would be as it was in the ??80s. We??ve just fine-tuned it. Criminal Inspector.P.. but they were old colleagues.S. to investigate whether there are grounds for a new trial. Palme was defeated. but with no other visible damage. ??Hello. Have you got any more surprises up your sleeve??? ??Yes. He found himself. She was the most unlikely person Berger could turn to with any hope of getting help. She laid it next to her hip and fell asleep. Convicted of insurance fraud in the ??70s.?? ??And in this instance Blomkvist is quite correct. Then he stood up and put the muzzle to Zalachenko??s temple and squeezed the trigger twice.?? Blomkvist said.
Lisbeth Salander had seldom rung for a nurse if she did not have a severe headache or some other equally serious problem.?? ??I??m sorry.?? ??Good. One was pronounced D. She had been dozing only a few minutes when she was aware of movement and opened her eyelids to a narrow slit. Some are embedded in the brain tissue. Millennium will tell the story of how government officials conspired against Salander in order to protect a pathological murderer ?? He wrote steadily for fifty minutes. has received a number of emails that appear to come from me. But we have several suspects.?? Salander said in a low voice.?? ??The basic story was an interview with Martina Fransson about the confiscation of anabolic steroids. An exclusive address in a fine old cultural quarter. Wadensj?? had been one of the latest recruits to the Section around the time Gullberg retired. But do you want me to represent you??? Salander gave a curt nod. She went downstairs to put on some coffee and for the first time since she had started at S. ??I must admit ?? just between us ?? that sometimes I worry about Niedermann. Salander herself was critically injured and at Sahlgrenska hospital in G?teborg. Now she was suddenly editor-in-chief. He had heard fragments of ongoing investigations. She put the folder on the windowsill and stretched out in the bath to ponder the situation.
He reached out his hand and mussed her hair affectionately. have you? Lisbeth Salander is in fact innocent and the police have violated her and destroyed her reputation in ways that beggar belief.?? ??In 1989 a refugee by the name of Idris Ghidi came to Sweden from Iraq.?? ??I gather you??re still busy with excavations in Nykvarn. Dr Jonasson paused for a second. David Rosin was a short. pointing to her foot. Advokat Palmgren. darling. But when it comes to policy he??s going to have to toe the line. worrying. ??O. had begun his criminal career stealing cars at seventeen. by the look of them. how was she able to climb out and start wandering around with an axe??? ??Whatever went on here tonight. WHORE! THE SOONER YOU DISAPPEAR THE BETTER. ??I thought Salander had recovered. how??? ??Tell me what you want to know.?? he said. Someone decides that a certain person should be given a particular level of clearance.
pathologist.?? ??I??m curious about something. When she was gone he turned to Clinton.?? Salander said breathlessly. Three women and six men: the head of the Violent Crimes Division and his assistant head; three criminal inspectors including Erlander and the G?teborg police press officers; preliminary investigation leader Agneta Jervas from the prosecutor??s office. but in any case she was in no condition to be questioned.?? ??O. we??re going to need telephone taps and bugs in everyone??s homes. The constitution had nothing to do with it. but he seemed peripheral.?? ??So the budget has shrunk.V. V. He had patched up a girl who had ridden her bike into a ditch that the road-repair department had chosen to dig close to the end of a bike path; the warning barriers had been tipped into the hole. He had been tracking Salander. He nodded. but your decisions are the ones that count.?? Figuerola said. Find out the registration number. we have to work faster.
a little sense of responsibility would not hurt. What would his next step be??? ??He has to get out of Sweden. which she was immediately given.?? Figuerola said ??What??s that??? ??Evert Gullberg. He then described Zalachenko??s new identity and his criminal operations.e..?? He looked almost apologetic. for one.P. Give me information and I won??t try to compromise you. Fredriksson was definitely a candidate. where he was required once more to provide precise directions to the spot. It suits you somehow. But the surgeon says he has high hopes that she??ll survive.?? Ekstr?m repeated in a brittle tone. but also not a nutcase. She stepped into the stairwell and was looking for a light switch when the attack came out of the blue. and when I asked for it back he said he??d make me a copy.30 this morning.
surprise. He was too busy monitoring the movements of the journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
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C.8 ?C too high. As he talked to Berger. At that moment. But she had never met him in person. ??Assault with a deadly weapon.?? Andersson said. Then she found the brick in the middle of the living-room floor. ??The killing of the police officer is the main thing right now. He had been tracking Salander. I??m a doctor. So that they might have children they were granted a leave of absence. I have no recollection of any of that. Berger cursed the whole time she was at the hospital. P.00.?? Janeryd nodded. Usually the Sheraton. Blomkvist did not say anything about the implications of what she told him. It turned out that one piece had broken off and was still in her heel.
but since I had already filed a report. Modig stood up. but riddled with suspicion.?? Just before noon there was a knock on the door and a uniformed officer delivered a document to Sp?ngberg.00.?? ??Lisbeth. Shit. I have to be able to construct a completely new media image of you. ??But it??ll cost you a bottle of Cragganmore the next time we go fishing. something he might not enjoy in any case. She chose a black blouse and put on a jacket.?? ??I see. and it was his job to see to it that it stayed intact. You??re sitting here in the dark looking glum.?? ??Then we could run it in the June issue??? ??No problem. Don??t think so. She looked for other options.00 and no doubt I have an impressive blood alcohol content. shut the door behind her. but the glass was her only reachable weapon.
I wish he had left a letter.S. I demand that you call Inspector Bublanski in Stockholm.?? he said in a gloomy voice.?? ??I wish I could. even when the Prime Minister appointed a special investigator who.I. He asked her to lean forward and placed the stethoscope on her back to listen to her lungs. I??m guessing that Blomkvist has a copy and that there??s one at the editorial offices. there was no crime.?? ??Good. The trail ends there for the moment. including an AK5.??s personnel has been reduced by 118. He assumed that it was not his real name; in his experience Swedish amateur spies had a real obsession with using false names even when it was not in the least bit necessary. Salander sat on the edge of her bed.30. He remembered him as thin with a narrow moustache.00 p. The other citizens online.
??My pleasure. These types of group did attract interest from the Constitutional Protection Unit.?? Modig said. ??it would solve a number of issues if we could get the former Prime Minister to give us a statement ?C at least we??d know where we stand in all this. If Salander was shot in Gosseberga. ??I just wanted to check on you. Blomkvist nodded. You know you have to call and tell me if you??re not coming home. ??I spent the whole afternoon going over Henry??s documentation. He was. I just need to know what??s happening with the charges against her. But the police do have the rucksack you had in Gosseberga. working under Otto Danielsson. cybersex with ??The Sexiest Lolitas on the Net?? for only $4. The document was stamped top secret and filed in the special protocol of S. Erlander glanced up at the lowering rain clouds. At this stage of life he did not think it mattered whether he decided to have one glass of whisky or two.?? Cortez scratched his ear. It also laid down that information about Zalachenko would not leave the Prime Minister??s office. He called the front desk to ask if he could get coffee and a sandwich at this early hour.
He looked through the crack in the doorway at Adamsson.?? ??Mikael ?? I don??t think you really appreciate what this involves. In her rear-view mirror she saw the man in the blue overalls turn into Br?nnkyrkagatan. Erlander did not like the situation. What??s happened??? ??News. She had caught up with him just as he was leaving for home; she had suggested a conversation over a cup of coffee. Figuerola could see that the area surrounding Bellmansgatan I would be a nightmare to keep under surveillance. and confront Borgsj? and demand his resignation. fire security. but she worked so furiously on her projects that she was encouraged to go home when the day was done. ??I don??t want to get into it. no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. She was too easily noticeable. As soon as Ekstr?m left police headquarters. and others.m.D. Can I buy you a cup of coffee??? ??Tell me what it??s about. sat down opposite Berger.?? Ellis had raven-black hair with a touch of grey.
10. The investigation is still under way. Dinner??? ??I don??t have time today. It must be some insult. Or else you could expound on what you think about the Section for Special Analysis. She flipped open her mobile and called his Ericsson. Bjurman commented on the fact that I had several tattoos and piercings. First of all. But regrettable as it was. It was the most horrendous thing I??ve ever experienced. They sat in the car and waited. and it has to be done immediately and cannot be mentioned outside this room. There were two kinds of injury that he hated.?? she said. Niedermann and Zalachenko. You??ve had an operation and you??re in the intensive care unit. I??ve checked. She was increasingly dependent on Fredriksson??s judgement in the light of her loss of confidence in Anders Holm.?? Sellberg said with a polite smile. 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.
He??s going to take pictures of the entire property and the immediate surroundings. Berger did not arrive in the newsroom until lunchtime. ??To your right.?? Edklinth thought about it. They didn??t find anything. Falun did not know exactly what interests Clinton represented. ??Who is the source of these claims??? Figuerola said when the story was ended.?? Inspector Erlander got up from his desk and went upstairs to tell the preliminary investigation leader. We just don??t have the editorial capacity for what we??re trying to do. ??Sorry. He looked up at her. But how? When? ??I??ve begun to get a handle on the situation. 16. You??re a man who gets more than his fair share of action. she had stabbed Zalachenko. did he arrest Mikael Blomkvist last night??? ??He wrote a report citing offensive behaviour. he did go to the reception desk. Blomkvist nodded. Things could not go on this way.?? ??O.
He sat there stunned. Its task. The Kaspersson woman kicked on the door of a house at 3.?? ??Please explain. ??So what happens now??? Blomkvist said. with thin reddish-blond hair.?? ??And??? ??I don??t like the man. the court will appoint a defence lawyer on your behalf. ??Information for information.?? ??I didn??t mean it that way. It??s on my desk. Dr Teleborian. a doorman. ??He?? could even be a woman. Figuerola noted the time. The hospital administration doesn??t want you here. I have to have you.000 a month to live in those crappy dumps in Hammarbyhamnen? Because the construction companies don??t give a damn about keeping prices down. that she had time to address the issue. Since R.
but he knew that he had one hell of a story. In the ??60s he became chief of some outfit called the Section for Special Analysis. turned to the Minister of Justice. Shenke was rather short. no-one could fail to notice her biceps and powerful shoulders.C. and in the end the price burden falls on the renters or the taxpayers. He pushed the thought away. When Blomkvist??s objections were ignored by Paulsson.?? Fransson wondered whether she could somehow arrange to hand the entire business over to Prosecutor Ekstr?m in Stockholm. ??Where do we start??? he said. Not everyone can afford security. It was a straightforward matter to establish that Salander had lived with her mother and twin sister on Lundagatan in 1991 and spent the following two years at St Stefan??s children??s psychiatric clinic. Eriksson was Blomkvist??s principal assistant for the Salander book. not counting the attic and basement. He raised the pistol and fired at a picture hanging on the wall at the end of the corridor.?? Blomkvist could feel the blood rush to his head. ??They??ve been making toilets there for at least ten years. ??Get back into bed at once. It??s possible that Zalachenko really was a Russian spy who defected and was granted political asylum.
had not known anything either. It??s classified material and the P. Holmberg nodded. we need to have clear documentation of all the measures we have taken. It was a more complex problem to identify a specific mobile telephone.?? ??The house is a monster. Under Berger??s leadership the magazine had always been a collective. He stood for a long time looking at his face in the mirror before he turned off the light and went to get dressed. The man in the blue overalls and the woman with the camera were unknown entities. or preventing individual citizens from exercising their constitutionally protected rights and liberties. And your entire investigation has to be carried out without a single person other than me knowing anything at all about it. She realized that once again she was confined to an institutional bed.?? ??Then that??s how it??ll have to be. And I may not be looking for a steady girlfriend. Since R. In the United States you can cross-examine members of the government in a normal court of law. ??Will do. one of which was a relatively complicated and widely reported safecracking heist at a department store in V?ster?s. He??s the fixer. how you came to be in possession of the Top Secret S?po report on Zalachenko.
00. the Top Secret classification means that the report may not be disseminated or copied.?? ??You??re a police officer in a democracy. ??Then I??ll choose to interpret it that way. ??Have we got a plan??? ??We??re going to drive over and have a talk with Niedermann.F. ??I??m so linked to Millennium that no-one will believe I didn??t have a finger in this.?? Blomkvist shrugged and opened his laptop case. He had reached the age when he had to use the toilet rather often. Then she got confirmation from the S. She stood for a long time breathing in the mild May air. Nieminen walked the fifty metres to the barn. Lennart Torkelsson. ??An officer named Faste in the Violent Crimes Division. which she had always considered a curse.?? ??Which means that the excellent Herr Niedermann took the weapon while Zalachenko was asleep and shot Salander.?? Edklinth frowned. What else could he do? She returned to the subject of the front page. and the Prime Minister has no jurisdiction to determine whether or not she is sane.A.
When her lawyer spoke to her she had listened with only half an ear. ??One was Evert Gullberg ?? he was the top man.?? Finally Giannini nodded. Who was also the reason why she was feeling tired and irritated.v Salander spent most of Wednesday night and early Thursday morning reading Blomkvist??s articles and the chapters of the Millennium book that were more or less finished. The apartment isn??t a good place right now. ??I know exactly who you are. Slowly he turned to look. I don??t like your tone of voice. Everything she had written was true. He thought about calling reception and ordering coffee. The conspiracy is continuing. we have to be able to offer him something substantial. Erlander did not like the situation. All three of our names will be on the cover and title page.T. or parallel to. Paolo Roberto has identified him as the man who drove the van. Landsort was the end of the world. He had.
?? Blomkvist said. One problem of course is that she??s working for you and is bound and fettered by one of those damned confidentiality oaths. ??We??re the ones who don??t exist. It was just after 8. He had brushed up his prose.?? ??I see. He opened his iBook again and read through his text. Then she steeled herself and took hold of the shard and pulled it out. I refer to the fact that Salander hit her father with an axe. It was the weapon he had used to disarm and disable Niedermann ?C not a straightforward matter with that giant of a man. and that was followed by a spate of disparaging remarks about Wasp??s mental abilities. He sat still for almost ten minutes before he heard movement in the corridor and was aware that the police had arrived. He looked startled. She just wanted to be left in peace. Blomkvist was at the Kaffebar on Hornsgatan when he heard on the radio that a 66-year-old unnamed man. and I would very much like to represent you. It turned out that one piece had broken off and was still in her heel. M?rtensson carries a portable photocopier with him. washed up her coffee mug. But what do we do if a threat to the constitution comes from within our own organization??? For the next half hour he told her what Armansky had told him the night before.
And then we need a bad guy for the story. I don??t have time for a long conversation now ?C I have to meet Prosecutor Jervas in forty-five minutes. Blomkvist was the only one absent from the meeting. She worked until 4. do you know anything at all about the murderer??? ??Not a thing. born in 1969. ??I??ve understood that you know more about this story than anyone else. He was slightly surprised that the Swedish Security Police had been able to penetrate the Russian military to the degree Nystr?m was describing.?? Blomkvist said. were particularly diligent in condemning exposed S?po agents if they had spied on Swedish citizens.?? ??Yes. 16. She wanted to get to know Salander. He wished Sandberg had ordered Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and lingonberries.?? ??Oh. what??s he doing here??? ??Clinton has decided to return to active duty. That was the part she had spent the most time on.?? ??Something along those lines. We have a younger talent who does some field work. She was breathing hard and felt wretchedly out of shape.
??Teleborian has a link to a person I know only as Jonas. The report was then given to the district court.?? Cortez scratched his ear.F. which corresponded to the letters K-A-L-L-E. I don??t have time to give special treatment to specific articles. but she was definitely not normal.?? ??Our activity is completely legal ?? we??re actually working under the auspices of the government. I don??t believe Paulsson??s claim of aggressive resistance for a minute. or nigger-lover. I suppose you??re the one who has to make the decision about charging him ???? She looked at Jervas. He left his coffee untouched.?? He grabbed his laptop case and took the stairs instead of waiting for the lift.?? ??Right. ??Hello. and import everything from Thailand. The advantages are obvious. to the local leader of the Ba??ath Party.?? Nystr?m took out a blue folder and opened it.?? ??If I??m going to survive.
One was the chief of S?po. He needed the Budget chief and the Secretariat chief to create the hidden substructure. If you publish before Edklinth has completed it. But you do have to shut your eyes to the fact that I am. he would be forced to tender his resignation immediately.?? ??Do you want to take the chance? Let??s say Zalachenko talks. i. It was cool. if that time ever comes.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??That works for me.K. he was sent to Karlskrona as a signal tracker in the navy??s intelligence service. But she was astonished at how imperturbable Salander was. one of Ghidi??s uncles paid the equivalent of 50. A whole bunch of experienced professionals who know how to do their jobs.?? said Modig. He asked if I liked being pierced and then left the room. but they had no facts.?? she said.
In the midst of all this mess he??s like a hand grenade with the pin pulled..?? Gullberg said..?? ??I see.?? ??I??ll get back to you. who had an alcohol problem. ??He??s taking the back roads. A housing association block since the 1890s. ??Who is this woman. Things could not go on this way.G. ??What happened to Zalachenko??? ??Who??? ??The old bastard. Salander has also been declared legally incompetent. If he decided to fight. Sp?ngberg. Then he gently raised her shoulder and located the entry wound in her back. At 9.?? ??But this thing with Erika is a real fly in the ointment. She has secrets I happen to know about.
??You know who I am ?C so you don??t have to be afraid of me.?? Blomkvist laid Salander??s Palm Tungsten T3 hand-held computer and a battery charger on the table between them. although neither of the men were paying her any attention. He might also be a man who worked in maintenance.I. ??But I don??t think we could manage that even if we had a whole year. They make toilets at a factory in Vietnam which has been condemned by the U. That was all Ghidi had to do. Just after 6. Armansky had Blomkvist??s copy of Lidbom??s book An Assignment. ??O. The notion of secrecy took on a whole new dimension. On any number of occasions they cleaned up behind his rampages. had been suffering chronic pain for a long time ?? I don??t know. At 7. Berger thought for while before she replied. And. forty-minus. opening the door. what have you got??? Blomkvist said.
And her breasts. but he had a short fuse and was a dangerous man. Holmberg was studying his fingernails. If I run into him sometime.?? ??Go on. and sometimes she would answer a question that Giannini had asked several days earlier. ??Do you have anything against a Milton employee staying here? I could call and find out if my colleague Susanne Linder is free tonight. ??I assume that we??re going to tell him in a subtle way what he has to do to avoid an abrupt end to his career. close to twelve thousand fulltime agents.?? Figuerola said. I asked you to get Frisk and come to my office. against or the attempted murder of Zalachenko. When she came back to Sweden. But if we aren??t careful I could end up in one hell of a conflict with your colleagues. I demand that you call Inspector Bublanski in Stockholm.?? ??I definitely heard him at the door. If the Section??s archives were opened. She had sat undisturbed and motionless for an hour. limped back to the bed.?? ??We??ll take care of them.
of course.10.?? Holmberg said. The next moment she saw a thin. My name is Jerker Holmberg. ??They??re showing signs of leaving. On any number of occasions they cleaned up behind his rampages.?? ??I understand. They died in an accident in 1946. His wounds had not been life-threatening. But what was going to happen now? Erika had always been a crucial part of Millennium. You??re a typical example. the investigation and registration of Swedish citizens who might be suspected of harbouring communist or subversive views. The night nurses were at their station about twenty metres down on the other side of the corridor. He called Malm as the train was coming into Stockholm and asked him what had prompted the tone of his text message.?? ??Me??? Eriksson said. Ms Salander has already received a good deal of negative publicity ?? Let me deal with the situation. and an entirely new investigation has been set up for the purpose. She took him by surprise. He was too busy monitoring the movements of the journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
C.8 ?C too high. As he talked to Berger. At that moment. But she had never met him in person. ??Assault with a deadly weapon.?? Andersson said. Then she found the brick in the middle of the living-room floor. ??The killing of the police officer is the main thing right now. He had been tracking Salander. I??m a doctor. So that they might have children they were granted a leave of absence. I have no recollection of any of that. Berger cursed the whole time she was at the hospital. P.00.?? Janeryd nodded. Usually the Sheraton. Blomkvist did not say anything about the implications of what she told him. It turned out that one piece had broken off and was still in her heel.
but since I had already filed a report. Modig stood up. but riddled with suspicion.?? Just before noon there was a knock on the door and a uniformed officer delivered a document to Sp?ngberg.00.?? ??Lisbeth. Shit. I have to be able to construct a completely new media image of you. ??But it??ll cost you a bottle of Cragganmore the next time we go fishing. something he might not enjoy in any case. She chose a black blouse and put on a jacket.?? ??I see. and it was his job to see to it that it stayed intact. You??re sitting here in the dark looking glum.?? ??Then we could run it in the June issue??? ??No problem. Don??t think so. She looked for other options.00 and no doubt I have an impressive blood alcohol content. shut the door behind her. but the glass was her only reachable weapon.
I wish he had left a letter.S. I demand that you call Inspector Bublanski in Stockholm.?? he said in a gloomy voice.?? ??I wish I could. even when the Prime Minister appointed a special investigator who.I. He asked her to lean forward and placed the stethoscope on her back to listen to her lungs. I??m guessing that Blomkvist has a copy and that there??s one at the editorial offices. there was no crime.?? ??Good. The trail ends there for the moment. including an AK5.??s personnel has been reduced by 118. He assumed that it was not his real name; in his experience Swedish amateur spies had a real obsession with using false names even when it was not in the least bit necessary. Salander sat on the edge of her bed.30. He remembered him as thin with a narrow moustache.00 p. The other citizens online.
??My pleasure. These types of group did attract interest from the Constitutional Protection Unit.?? Modig said. ??it would solve a number of issues if we could get the former Prime Minister to give us a statement ?C at least we??d know where we stand in all this. If Salander was shot in Gosseberga. ??I just wanted to check on you. Blomkvist nodded. You know you have to call and tell me if you??re not coming home. ??I spent the whole afternoon going over Henry??s documentation. He was. I just need to know what??s happening with the charges against her. But the police do have the rucksack you had in Gosseberga. working under Otto Danielsson. cybersex with ??The Sexiest Lolitas on the Net?? for only $4. The document was stamped top secret and filed in the special protocol of S. Erlander glanced up at the lowering rain clouds. At this stage of life he did not think it mattered whether he decided to have one glass of whisky or two.?? Cortez scratched his ear. It also laid down that information about Zalachenko would not leave the Prime Minister??s office. He called the front desk to ask if he could get coffee and a sandwich at this early hour.
He looked through the crack in the doorway at Adamsson.?? ??Mikael ?? I don??t think you really appreciate what this involves. In her rear-view mirror she saw the man in the blue overalls turn into Br?nnkyrkagatan. Erlander did not like the situation. What??s happened??? ??News. She had caught up with him just as he was leaving for home; she had suggested a conversation over a cup of coffee. Figuerola could see that the area surrounding Bellmansgatan I would be a nightmare to keep under surveillance. and confront Borgsj? and demand his resignation. fire security. but she worked so furiously on her projects that she was encouraged to go home when the day was done. ??I don??t want to get into it. no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. She was too easily noticeable. As soon as Ekstr?m left police headquarters. and others.m.D. Can I buy you a cup of coffee??? ??Tell me what it??s about. sat down opposite Berger.?? Ellis had raven-black hair with a touch of grey.
10. The investigation is still under way. Dinner??? ??I don??t have time today. It must be some insult. Or else you could expound on what you think about the Section for Special Analysis. She flipped open her mobile and called his Ericsson. Bjurman commented on the fact that I had several tattoos and piercings. First of all. But regrettable as it was. It was the most horrendous thing I??ve ever experienced. They sat in the car and waited. and it has to be done immediately and cannot be mentioned outside this room. There were two kinds of injury that he hated.?? she said. Niedermann and Zalachenko. You??ve had an operation and you??re in the intensive care unit. I??ve checked. She was increasingly dependent on Fredriksson??s judgement in the light of her loss of confidence in Anders Holm.?? Sellberg said with a polite smile. 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.
He??s going to take pictures of the entire property and the immediate surroundings. Berger did not arrive in the newsroom until lunchtime. ??To your right.?? Edklinth thought about it. They didn??t find anything. Falun did not know exactly what interests Clinton represented. ??Who is the source of these claims??? Figuerola said when the story was ended.?? Inspector Erlander got up from his desk and went upstairs to tell the preliminary investigation leader. We just don??t have the editorial capacity for what we??re trying to do. ??Sorry. He looked up at her. But how? When? ??I??ve begun to get a handle on the situation. 16. You??re a man who gets more than his fair share of action. she had stabbed Zalachenko. did he arrest Mikael Blomkvist last night??? ??He wrote a report citing offensive behaviour. he did go to the reception desk. Blomkvist nodded. Things could not go on this way.?? ??O.
He sat there stunned. Its task. The Kaspersson woman kicked on the door of a house at 3.?? ??Please explain. ??So what happens now??? Blomkvist said. with thin reddish-blond hair.?? ??And??? ??I don??t like the man. the court will appoint a defence lawyer on your behalf. ??Information for information.?? ??I didn??t mean it that way. It??s on my desk. Dr Teleborian. a doorman. ??He?? could even be a woman. Figuerola noted the time. The hospital administration doesn??t want you here. I have to have you.000 a month to live in those crappy dumps in Hammarbyhamnen? Because the construction companies don??t give a damn about keeping prices down. that she had time to address the issue. Since R.
but he knew that he had one hell of a story. In the ??60s he became chief of some outfit called the Section for Special Analysis. turned to the Minister of Justice. Shenke was rather short. no-one could fail to notice her biceps and powerful shoulders.C. and in the end the price burden falls on the renters or the taxpayers. He pushed the thought away. When Blomkvist??s objections were ignored by Paulsson.?? Fransson wondered whether she could somehow arrange to hand the entire business over to Prosecutor Ekstr?m in Stockholm. ??Where do we start??? he said. Not everyone can afford security. It was a straightforward matter to establish that Salander had lived with her mother and twin sister on Lundagatan in 1991 and spent the following two years at St Stefan??s children??s psychiatric clinic. Eriksson was Blomkvist??s principal assistant for the Salander book. not counting the attic and basement. He raised the pistol and fired at a picture hanging on the wall at the end of the corridor.?? Blomkvist could feel the blood rush to his head. ??They??ve been making toilets there for at least ten years. ??Get back into bed at once. It??s possible that Zalachenko really was a Russian spy who defected and was granted political asylum.
had not known anything either. It??s classified material and the P. Holmberg nodded. we need to have clear documentation of all the measures we have taken. It was a more complex problem to identify a specific mobile telephone.?? ??The house is a monster. Under Berger??s leadership the magazine had always been a collective. He stood for a long time looking at his face in the mirror before he turned off the light and went to get dressed. The man in the blue overalls and the woman with the camera were unknown entities. or preventing individual citizens from exercising their constitutionally protected rights and liberties. And your entire investigation has to be carried out without a single person other than me knowing anything at all about it. She realized that once again she was confined to an institutional bed.?? ??Then that??s how it??ll have to be. And I may not be looking for a steady girlfriend. Since R. In the United States you can cross-examine members of the government in a normal court of law. ??Will do. one of which was a relatively complicated and widely reported safecracking heist at a department store in V?ster?s. He??s the fixer. how you came to be in possession of the Top Secret S?po report on Zalachenko.
00. the Top Secret classification means that the report may not be disseminated or copied.?? ??You??re a police officer in a democracy. ??Then I??ll choose to interpret it that way. ??Have we got a plan??? ??We??re going to drive over and have a talk with Niedermann.F. ??I??m so linked to Millennium that no-one will believe I didn??t have a finger in this.?? Blomkvist shrugged and opened his laptop case. He had reached the age when he had to use the toilet rather often. Then she got confirmation from the S. She stood for a long time breathing in the mild May air. Nieminen walked the fifty metres to the barn. Lennart Torkelsson. ??An officer named Faste in the Violent Crimes Division. which she had always considered a curse.?? ??Which means that the excellent Herr Niedermann took the weapon while Zalachenko was asleep and shot Salander.?? Edklinth frowned. What else could he do? She returned to the subject of the front page. and the Prime Minister has no jurisdiction to determine whether or not she is sane.A.
When her lawyer spoke to her she had listened with only half an ear. ??One was Evert Gullberg ?? he was the top man.?? Finally Giannini nodded. Who was also the reason why she was feeling tired and irritated.v Salander spent most of Wednesday night and early Thursday morning reading Blomkvist??s articles and the chapters of the Millennium book that were more or less finished. The apartment isn??t a good place right now. ??I know exactly who you are. Slowly he turned to look. I don??t like your tone of voice. Everything she had written was true. He thought about calling reception and ordering coffee. The conspiracy is continuing. we have to be able to offer him something substantial. Erlander did not like the situation. All three of our names will be on the cover and title page.T. or parallel to. Paolo Roberto has identified him as the man who drove the van. Landsort was the end of the world. He had.
?? Blomkvist said. One problem of course is that she??s working for you and is bound and fettered by one of those damned confidentiality oaths. ??We??re the ones who don??t exist. It was just after 8. He had brushed up his prose.?? ??I see. He opened his iBook again and read through his text. Then she steeled herself and took hold of the shard and pulled it out. I refer to the fact that Salander hit her father with an axe. It was the weapon he had used to disarm and disable Niedermann ?C not a straightforward matter with that giant of a man. and that was followed by a spate of disparaging remarks about Wasp??s mental abilities. He sat still for almost ten minutes before he heard movement in the corridor and was aware that the police had arrived. He looked startled. She just wanted to be left in peace. Blomkvist was at the Kaffebar on Hornsgatan when he heard on the radio that a 66-year-old unnamed man. and I would very much like to represent you. It turned out that one piece had broken off and was still in her heel. M?rtensson carries a portable photocopier with him. washed up her coffee mug. But what do we do if a threat to the constitution comes from within our own organization??? For the next half hour he told her what Armansky had told him the night before.
And then we need a bad guy for the story. I don??t have time for a long conversation now ?C I have to meet Prosecutor Jervas in forty-five minutes. Blomkvist was the only one absent from the meeting. She worked until 4. do you know anything at all about the murderer??? ??Not a thing. born in 1969. ??I??ve understood that you know more about this story than anyone else. He was slightly surprised that the Swedish Security Police had been able to penetrate the Russian military to the degree Nystr?m was describing.?? Blomkvist said. were particularly diligent in condemning exposed S?po agents if they had spied on Swedish citizens.?? ??Yes. 16. She wanted to get to know Salander. He wished Sandberg had ordered Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and lingonberries.?? ??Oh. what??s he doing here??? ??Clinton has decided to return to active duty. That was the part she had spent the most time on.?? ??Something along those lines. We have a younger talent who does some field work. She was breathing hard and felt wretchedly out of shape.
??Teleborian has a link to a person I know only as Jonas. The report was then given to the district court.?? Cortez scratched his ear.F. which corresponded to the letters K-A-L-L-E. I don??t have time to give special treatment to specific articles. but she was definitely not normal.?? ??Our activity is completely legal ?? we??re actually working under the auspices of the government. I don??t believe Paulsson??s claim of aggressive resistance for a minute. or nigger-lover. I suppose you??re the one who has to make the decision about charging him ???? She looked at Jervas. He left his coffee untouched.?? He grabbed his laptop case and took the stairs instead of waiting for the lift.?? ??Right. ??Hello. and import everything from Thailand. The advantages are obvious. to the local leader of the Ba??ath Party.?? Nystr?m took out a blue folder and opened it.?? ??If I??m going to survive.
One was the chief of S?po. He needed the Budget chief and the Secretariat chief to create the hidden substructure. If you publish before Edklinth has completed it. But you do have to shut your eyes to the fact that I am. he would be forced to tender his resignation immediately.?? ??Do you want to take the chance? Let??s say Zalachenko talks. i. It was cool. if that time ever comes.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??That works for me.K. he was sent to Karlskrona as a signal tracker in the navy??s intelligence service. But she was astonished at how imperturbable Salander was. one of Ghidi??s uncles paid the equivalent of 50. A whole bunch of experienced professionals who know how to do their jobs.?? said Modig. He asked if I liked being pierced and then left the room. but they had no facts.?? she said.
In the midst of all this mess he??s like a hand grenade with the pin pulled..?? Gullberg said..?? ??I see.?? ??I??ll get back to you. who had an alcohol problem. ??He??s taking the back roads. A housing association block since the 1890s. ??Who is this woman. Things could not go on this way.G. ??What happened to Zalachenko??? ??Who??? ??The old bastard. Salander has also been declared legally incompetent. If he decided to fight. Sp?ngberg. Then he gently raised her shoulder and located the entry wound in her back. At 9.?? ??But this thing with Erika is a real fly in the ointment. She has secrets I happen to know about.
??You know who I am ?C so you don??t have to be afraid of me.?? Blomkvist laid Salander??s Palm Tungsten T3 hand-held computer and a battery charger on the table between them. although neither of the men were paying her any attention. He might also be a man who worked in maintenance.I. ??But I don??t think we could manage that even if we had a whole year. They make toilets at a factory in Vietnam which has been condemned by the U. That was all Ghidi had to do. Just after 6. Armansky had Blomkvist??s copy of Lidbom??s book An Assignment. ??O. The notion of secrecy took on a whole new dimension. On any number of occasions they cleaned up behind his rampages. had been suffering chronic pain for a long time ?? I don??t know. At 7. Berger thought for while before she replied. And. forty-minus. opening the door. what have you got??? Blomkvist said.
And her breasts. but he had a short fuse and was a dangerous man. Holmberg was studying his fingernails. If I run into him sometime.?? ??Go on. and sometimes she would answer a question that Giannini had asked several days earlier. ??Do you have anything against a Milton employee staying here? I could call and find out if my colleague Susanne Linder is free tonight. ??I assume that we??re going to tell him in a subtle way what he has to do to avoid an abrupt end to his career. close to twelve thousand fulltime agents.?? Figuerola said. I asked you to get Frisk and come to my office. against or the attempted murder of Zalachenko. When she came back to Sweden. But if we aren??t careful I could end up in one hell of a conflict with your colleagues. I demand that you call Inspector Bublanski in Stockholm.?? ??I definitely heard him at the door. If the Section??s archives were opened. She had sat undisturbed and motionless for an hour. limped back to the bed.?? ??We??ll take care of them.
of course.10.?? Holmberg said. The next moment she saw a thin. My name is Jerker Holmberg. ??They??re showing signs of leaving. On any number of occasions they cleaned up behind his rampages.?? ??I understand. They died in an accident in 1946. His wounds had not been life-threatening. But what was going to happen now? Erika had always been a crucial part of Millennium. You??re a typical example. the investigation and registration of Swedish citizens who might be suspected of harbouring communist or subversive views. The night nurses were at their station about twenty metres down on the other side of the corridor. He called Malm as the train was coming into Stockholm and asked him what had prompted the tone of his text message.?? ??Me??? Eriksson said. Ms Salander has already received a good deal of negative publicity ?? Let me deal with the situation. and an entirely new investigation has been set up for the purpose. She took him by surprise. He was too busy monitoring the movements of the journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
She laid it next to her hip and fell asleep She laid it next to her hip and fell asleep. ??Do as I say and the Section might survive. In fact I had a third copy that I was going to give to Armansky. I??m a cynic. ??We??ll go and tip off the police about what happened here. It corresponds to about fifty pages of book text. He saw a lined face framed by short grey hair.?? ??You amaze me. But I don??t discuss my patients with journalists. But here??s the bad news: Assistant County Police Chief Sp?ngberg has been here since 5. She radiated a cheerful confidence. She paused at the front door to think.P. The Zalachenko club. lifted him off the ground. and when the man known as Trinity found himself on Sunday in the middle of the ?resundsbron. ??I think he knows that already..?? ??Yes.?? ??I??m sorry. and together we would have decided what to do.?? ??But F?lldin is alive and willing to talk about the matter. He had already bought coffee and sandwiches for her.?? ??What??? ??The names of the individuals you had your meetings with. ??It??s almost impossible to answer that question.?? * Jonasson left Salander??s room somewhat confused. We still flag Salander for monitoring whenever she turns up in any database. ??It??s a police killing and the press is out in force. and then served for nine years in Uppsala police and studied law in her spare time. and when he was pressingly invited to dinner and a private conversation. He walked the three hundred metres to Frey??s Hotel next to the old post office on Vasagatan.?? Edklinth said.?? ??Sounds good. Someone who rummaged around in your brain had to be treated with respect.?? ??Fredrik. She worked first in the Violent Crime Division and then in the unit that specialized in financial crime.B. that Figuerola and Blomkvist wrapped sheets around themselves and went to her kitchen to make a cold pasta salad with tuna and bacon from the leftovers in her fridge.?? ??No. M?rtensson went back to his car on Tavastgatan. ?? ??From S?po??? ??Yes. as far as his eyes could see. Salander is a devil with computers. You??ve been damned good as assistant editor. upgrades. Just a few years after Palme??s assassination that was still a sensitive issue. he exploited his hold over them to the maximum. ferreted out a toothbrush and went to the bathroom.?? ??There??s no misunderstanding. then he??d do it. He had no knowledge of the circles Niedermann moved in.G. and we??ll make you a proposal. There was only a jpeg that she opened in Photoshop. I have ordered an investigation. Instead he made his second mistake: he offered to hand over the weapon he had in his jacket pocket ?C the Colt . She made two slices of toast with cheese. Blomkvist regarded P.C. You??re withholding information. It was not until a month after the government was formed that the chief of S. He looked around the corridor and saw that he was being watched by nurses.?? ??I see ???? ??The problem is that a number of sentences were altered in a very subtle way. You were the one who exposed Wennerstr?m last year.?? ??Which is what ????? ??Lisbeth Salander suffers from a serious mental disorder. or running. playing badminton.?? Salander said. He had discovered stacks of pages from Black/White??s first issue along with an oddly subdued Baksi in one of the copy rooms. Hiding behind the arras in this situation is a wildly overrated tactic in view of all that has been written about you since Easter. He should have been on sick leave. If he made the wrong decision. and she enjoyed her job at Milton Security a great deal. He had lived with computers since he was ten. what??s going on with you??? ??I??m about to resign from Millennium. I spoke to Margareta and she said that she clearly explained to you what her interview was going to focus on. No notes were taken at the meeting.iv At 5. of course. we have to work faster. That??s why you asked about your credibility. That applied to Gullberg and equally to Bj?rck.G.?? Gullberg said. The police could probably work that out for themselves.G. cleaned the brushes. but soon after he would have had to abandon the car in Finland. She could not piece together all that had happened.K. and eventually not at all. but the editor. They were in sharp focus. Your lawyer. and Blomkvist had got himself somehow involved in the killing of a policeman in G?teborg.M.vi ?C Saturday 4.?? Gullberg and Wadensj?? glared at each other for a long moment. department store. The headache was still there. She was wearing a short-sleeved summer dress and had laid a brick-red leather jacket over the top stair. said. The text was short. which she had not done since she got the hand-held. With the possible exception of President Nixon??s lunatic break-in at Watergate. You have to concentrate on getting well. Which must have been Edklinth. some ambitious scribbler would float the theory that the Section was behind the assassination of Palme. Some of them concerned how he should present Salander in the articles. Many of them were sadistic. She heard the nurse go down the corridor to the left. That yielded better results. Salander??s childhood. He finally got off a bus at Slussen. I officially leave on the last day of April. Cursing. he??s a threat to us. ??Lie still. a change of clothes. ??He?? could even be a woman. M.?? ??I can assure you that it??s quite true. ??It might be as early as this weekend. of which only three were furnished. ??He worked for something called the Section for Special Analysis. briskly. but got no answer.Thursday. ask Annika to do this favour. Mercifully someone had left a full bottle of mineral water on the conference table. Palme??s suitability as Prime Minister had been the object of more than one lunch conversation in the corridors of S. ??In other words. shaking his head. Seconds later they had set off down the corridor. Late as it was. Ekstr?m had brought a charge for grievous bodily harm in the case of Magge Lundin. We??re so secret that we don??t exist. it was not a good idea to start boasting that he actually knew something on a mobile less than two hundred metres from a police station.T. Lisbeth is not allowed to have visitors. He would have to turn to the chief to secure political support for what he was working on.20. getting his bearings. and a muted brick-red jacket. and then with great resolve kicked the stool across the room. she trained so hard and her body was so muscular that malicious colleagues still called her Herr Figuerola. most often those on the extreme left or the extreme right. I have to know whether you really do want me to be your lawyer. when Paolo Roberto had fought his boxing match with Niedermann in the warehouse there.?? the Minister of Justice said. Her vision was blurred. ??Here we are again. ??Whole books will probably be written about this first part. She worked first in the Violent Crime Division and then in the unit that specialized in financial crime.?? ??Can you prove that??? ??I can. She had next. and on the left is an elderly couple who go to bed quite early. and consulted a list. is he out of the country? What do we think??? ??We have nothing to tell us that he has left the country. Vinge never saw eye to eye. It??s almost as powerful as good sex.I. certainly. He looked through it for a minute before he found the number. He??ll be leading the Section??s operations department until the present crisis is over.?? he said. The plane would take off from Arlanda at 2. She??s at the hospital in Bor?s. There??s bleeding there. this is an extreme state of affairs. and came to a website somewhere on the Internet that contained the sixteen gigabytes of Ekstr?m??s hard drive. She checked Teleborian??s emails from the past twenty-four hours.00 in the morning. Perhaps the murder of Zalachenko is a part of it too. ??I??m cutting back on the training now. In this case there are no differences of opinion to divide us. This morning she had not had a single visitor.?? ??I don??t like this. I wish he had left a letter.B. Before she removed the doorstop from the bedroom door. ??An officer named Faste in the Violent Crimes Division. ??I got it for reasons that I don??t want to discuss. And shrewd municipal buyers started to scratch their heads and wonder why they were shelling out 1700 kronor when they could get a similar toilet from Thailand for 500. That??s what he put in the report. A bastard defected Soviet Russian agent and professional gangster. which was understandable enough from the point of view of a budget chief and a C. really. He had two operations and could now walk without crutches. She saw that Erlander had noticed the same thing. ??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.?? Blomkvist said.I.?? ??Thailand.B.?? Her hair was still so short that he hardly needed to push aside the tufts to feel the scar above her ear. which sells genuine Swedish toilets for 1700 kronor apiece.?? Wadensj?? felt the panic rise. ??I know. the alarm we installed today contains two components. ??Toilets. As soon as she was a little way down the hill. other people can. which meant that they had to walk back and forth between the two buildings several times a day. but the source was a fake.?? sent apparently by someone at a well-known media outlet in Sweden. came out to look at the damage.?? ??What ?? huh??? He sat up and looked around in bewilderment.?? ??I??ll make the decisions and do the surgery. And that would have to mean that locking you up in 1991 was illegal. The doorbell interrupted his ruminations. Nurse Nicander came back with the number of the Radisson. and then he remembered that he had booked himself a room in City Hotel. your lovely breasts. The investigation was totally inadequate. listening. There??s also a possibility that you??ll develop scar tissue in your brain. ??For those of you who haven??t met her before. She went to her study and turned on the light. She supposed that her brain had not been too greatly damaged after being perforated by a bullet with a full-metal jacket. Someone had taken the trouble to find out where she lived. During the next hour. demanding her attention and vexing her intellect.?? ??I understand. and an entirely new investigation has been set up for the purpose. but roughly half of all the calls that Ekstr?m made on his mobile from anywhere near police headquarters were monitored and recorded. the others were handguns of various types.?? The Prime Minister said: ??And my job is to run the country in accordance with the constitution. a former agent of Soviet military intelligence. She was alive. Lisbeth ?C seriously ?C this battle is going to be decided in the mass media and not in the courtroom. also in some quarters known as the Salander case. ??It just ended. He had first met Jonasson at a seminar in Stockholm fourteen years earlier and discovered that they were both fly-fishing enthusiasts. Fredrik Clinton. In Sweden this function is divided between two institutions. He was careful to annihilate both Teleborian and the now dead Bj?rck. he did what he could for Salander. We have to be a single-level organization. We??ve got time. of course. She could not tell how bad the situation was. That was unusual. which in this case is a bit of a handicap. of course. She waited until the woman reached the crossing in front of her. for a fee of 30.00 in the afternoon she threw up. In came Jonasson. so finally he called Inspector Erlander. He says that he had nothing to do with the murders in Stockholm. just as Blomkvist had asked him to.I. She called home first and then rang Lillian Josefsson. And item two: today this piece by Johannes shows up on my desk. Be realistic.M. It was entitled [Read this first].?? ??You have to hand in a statement. gathering up Blomkvist??s documentation. It was 1. fucking airhead or fucking cunt. How else to explain the fact that he had been so fucking stupid. Now she was suddenly editor-in-chief. when Bergling became the object of suspicion outside the Section as well. ??Is it something personal between the two of you??? ??You could say that. in the hall.?? ??Lars Faulsson. ??O. Every other basic right. Micke. that there was no-one with much experience in government. She was tall. but all this is beside the point. He issued instructions that required even the chief of S. It??s dated. a spy. Above all they needed the cash to take care of day-to-day expenses. He??s a gofer. Figuerola came to Edklinth??s office. ?? ??Which is??? ??I??m an investigative journalist.?? He tied a sheet around his waist. causing deep bruising there. but I anticipate we??ll have grounds for charging him with the three murders here in Stockholm.?? ??If Zalachenko were to talk. After some palaver over jurisdiction between Str?ngn?s and S?dert?lje. but I think he??s honest. and that he should have nothing more to do with the matter. Teleborian had done a strikingly good analysis.?? Eriksson said. I simply have no energy. But not active. but he looked much older.C. ??Technically speaking. Nieminen drove away all thought of Salander. Since she had access to Teleborian??s P. She put the folder on the windowsill and stretched out in the bath to ponder the situation. It could be if someone is trying to break in or turns up in the garden or something like that. She raised her right hand and felt her head. staring at the ceiling above Figuerola??s bed. or to interviews with some old. ??What??s so funny??? ??I??m thinking that Edklinth would be a little bit disturbed if he saw us right now. And if they did not.. ??It is legal. I wish he had left a letter. Finally he called for a minute??s silence. and obviously he would be interested in any related information. Nor did she have reason to think that anyone on the editorial staff wished her ill. The old comrades shook hands. 10. After he left. she won??t be able to do the research she needs to do to prepare her defence. He was also about to go on holiday. But in my eyes you??re not worth a bonus of so much as one single ?re. but I doubt that??s who you??re working for. Who??s that over there? God. On the same day. ??Good morning. I see spreadsheets before my eyes. she tried to avoid padding her bill with expensive hotel charges. ??I think we??re done. He walked to Dressman on Kungsgatan and bought a shirt and a change of underwear. ??But our supposition is that Bjurman assaulted Salander and that she struck back and did that ???? He pointed at the tattoo in the autopsy photograph. and added very little water. He checked that nobody else was in the corridor. Consequently Blomkvist had no clue whether Salander had revealed that her previous guardian had raped her. Nazi. then dialled the number of Hans-?ke Waltari. No-one can go into her room without permission except for doctors or nurses who work here at Sahlgrenska.?? Salander still said nothing. And he was inflexible. Her mobile was being monitored.?? ??You have my word. Jan Bublanski. Now it??s all about this German. it could be a major step forward in your career.?? Berger barely looked up from her position by the window. Blomkvist ?C or more likely somebody he had hired and who was out there ?C would have to change the batteries at regular intervals. ??We need to talk to you. Remember what it was like during the Wennerstr?m affair. but she was pleased with herself. above. That??s why I??m proud to be working at Constitutional Protection.?? a list which towards the end of the ??60s amounted to around 300. Who would guarantee that the top ranks and middle management at the Firm were not working for the Russians? Who. They will do everything they can to reduce the damage to themselves and their group. Plus. She could not see the blue overalls. chief of Secretariat. ??It??s not important.?? ??I couldn??t help reading in the papers that you??re mixed up in this Salander story. I??ll handle it. box on Fleminggatan in Kungsholmen. Erika had me to lean on. colliding with the second nurse. he??s turned up Drottninggatan heading north. He had ridden over there with Lundin to burn the damned summer cabin down. where place settings were already laid out. He was in his thirties. he had joined the navy. He went back to the cabin as fast as his aching back would permit. ??I??m going to Kungsholmen now. but each time his efforts were stymied. We??re not going to lift a finger to help you this time. When they got to the room they undressed. He looked at Giannini.00 on Saturday morning to the ringing of his telephone. I??ll put on some coffee???? ??No. Ekstr?m is the head of the preliminary investigation ???? ??But Bublanski??s leading it. At the very least Zalachenko was a witness; but in the worst case he was involved up to his neck in a series of murders. practically speaking. so she couldn??t tell the rest of us.?? ??I assume it came up during the interview???? ??Anders. that is.?? ??That is unforgivably incompetent. and I??m beginning to expect that we??ll find her fingerprints on the cigarette case. furthermore. She looked at the time of the message. ?? ??Right. ??I see. He has to go regularly to the hospital for dialysis. other people can. ??That was one of our first thoughts too. was given a liquid lunch. You??re healing. the signature of the Prime Minister meant that he had sanctioned the need for a unit that would be responsible for ??internal personnel control??.S. and Ola Ullsten came in.?? ??This doesn??t mean that I distrust you. We have Borgsj? ready for the slaughter.Wednesday. Where are we going??? She had parked around the corner down on Pryssgr?nd.?? ??You can arrest whoever you want. and be the news editor??? ??I wouldn??t do it for anything. He had read Jan Guillou??s books.Q.?? Berger said with a smile. felt a rush of pain and fell to the ground.
She laid it next to her hip and fell asleep
She laid it next to her hip and fell asleep. ??Do as I say and the Section might survive. In fact I had a third copy that I was going to give to Armansky. I??m a cynic. ??We??ll go and tip off the police about what happened here. It corresponds to about fifty pages of book text. He saw a lined face framed by short grey hair.?? ??You amaze me. But I don??t discuss my patients with journalists. But here??s the bad news: Assistant County Police Chief Sp?ngberg has been here since 5. She radiated a cheerful confidence. She paused at the front door to think.P. The Zalachenko club. lifted him off the ground. and when the man known as Trinity found himself on Sunday in the middle of the ?resundsbron. ??I think he knows that already..?? ??Yes.?? ??I??m sorry.
and together we would have decided what to do.?? ??But F?lldin is alive and willing to talk about the matter. He had already bought coffee and sandwiches for her.?? ??What??? ??The names of the individuals you had your meetings with. ??It??s almost impossible to answer that question.?? * Jonasson left Salander??s room somewhat confused. We still flag Salander for monitoring whenever she turns up in any database. ??It??s a police killing and the press is out in force. and then served for nine years in Uppsala police and studied law in her spare time. and when he was pressingly invited to dinner and a private conversation. He walked the three hundred metres to Frey??s Hotel next to the old post office on Vasagatan.?? Edklinth said.?? ??Sounds good. Someone who rummaged around in your brain had to be treated with respect.?? ??Fredrik. She worked first in the Violent Crime Division and then in the unit that specialized in financial crime.B. that Figuerola and Blomkvist wrapped sheets around themselves and went to her kitchen to make a cold pasta salad with tuna and bacon from the leftovers in her fridge.?? ??No. M?rtensson went back to his car on Tavastgatan.
?? ??From S?po??? ??Yes. as far as his eyes could see. Salander is a devil with computers. You??ve been damned good as assistant editor. upgrades. Just a few years after Palme??s assassination that was still a sensitive issue. he exploited his hold over them to the maximum. ferreted out a toothbrush and went to the bathroom.?? ??There??s no misunderstanding. then he??d do it. He had no knowledge of the circles Niedermann moved in.G. and we??ll make you a proposal. There was only a jpeg that she opened in Photoshop. I have ordered an investigation. Instead he made his second mistake: he offered to hand over the weapon he had in his jacket pocket ?C the Colt . She made two slices of toast with cheese. Blomkvist regarded P.C. You??re withholding information.
It was not until a month after the government was formed that the chief of S. He looked around the corridor and saw that he was being watched by nurses.?? ??I see ???? ??The problem is that a number of sentences were altered in a very subtle way. You were the one who exposed Wennerstr?m last year.?? ??Which is what ????? ??Lisbeth Salander suffers from a serious mental disorder. or running. playing badminton.?? Salander said. He had discovered stacks of pages from Black/White??s first issue along with an oddly subdued Baksi in one of the copy rooms. Hiding behind the arras in this situation is a wildly overrated tactic in view of all that has been written about you since Easter. He should have been on sick leave. If he made the wrong decision. and she enjoyed her job at Milton Security a great deal. He had lived with computers since he was ten. what??s going on with you??? ??I??m about to resign from Millennium. I spoke to Margareta and she said that she clearly explained to you what her interview was going to focus on. No notes were taken at the meeting.iv At 5. of course. we have to work faster.
That??s why you asked about your credibility. That applied to Gullberg and equally to Bj?rck.G.?? Gullberg said. The police could probably work that out for themselves.G. cleaned the brushes. but soon after he would have had to abandon the car in Finland. She could not piece together all that had happened.K. and eventually not at all. but the editor. They were in sharp focus. Your lawyer. and Blomkvist had got himself somehow involved in the killing of a policeman in G?teborg.M.vi ?C Saturday 4.?? Gullberg and Wadensj?? glared at each other for a long moment. department store. The headache was still there.
She was wearing a short-sleeved summer dress and had laid a brick-red leather jacket over the top stair. said. The text was short. which she had not done since she got the hand-held. With the possible exception of President Nixon??s lunatic break-in at Watergate. You have to concentrate on getting well. Which must have been Edklinth. some ambitious scribbler would float the theory that the Section was behind the assassination of Palme. Some of them concerned how he should present Salander in the articles. Many of them were sadistic. She heard the nurse go down the corridor to the left. That yielded better results. Salander??s childhood. He finally got off a bus at Slussen. I officially leave on the last day of April. Cursing. he??s a threat to us. ??Lie still. a change of clothes. ??He?? could even be a woman.
M.?? ??I can assure you that it??s quite true. ??It might be as early as this weekend. of which only three were furnished. ??He worked for something called the Section for Special Analysis. briskly. but got no answer.Thursday. ask Annika to do this favour. Mercifully someone had left a full bottle of mineral water on the conference table. Palme??s suitability as Prime Minister had been the object of more than one lunch conversation in the corridors of S. ??In other words. shaking his head. Seconds later they had set off down the corridor. Late as it was. Ekstr?m had brought a charge for grievous bodily harm in the case of Magge Lundin. We??re so secret that we don??t exist. it was not a good idea to start boasting that he actually knew something on a mobile less than two hundred metres from a police station.T. Lisbeth is not allowed to have visitors.
He would have to turn to the chief to secure political support for what he was working on.20. getting his bearings. and a muted brick-red jacket. and then with great resolve kicked the stool across the room. she trained so hard and her body was so muscular that malicious colleagues still called her Herr Figuerola. most often those on the extreme left or the extreme right. I have to know whether you really do want me to be your lawyer. when Paolo Roberto had fought his boxing match with Niedermann in the warehouse there.?? the Minister of Justice said. Her vision was blurred. ??Here we are again. ??Whole books will probably be written about this first part. She worked first in the Violent Crime Division and then in the unit that specialized in financial crime.?? ??Can you prove that??? ??I can. She had next. and on the left is an elderly couple who go to bed quite early. and consulted a list. is he out of the country? What do we think??? ??We have nothing to tell us that he has left the country. Vinge never saw eye to eye.
It??s almost as powerful as good sex.I. certainly. He looked through it for a minute before he found the number. He??ll be leading the Section??s operations department until the present crisis is over.?? he said. The plane would take off from Arlanda at 2. She??s at the hospital in Bor?s. There??s bleeding there. this is an extreme state of affairs. and came to a website somewhere on the Internet that contained the sixteen gigabytes of Ekstr?m??s hard drive. She checked Teleborian??s emails from the past twenty-four hours.00 in the morning. Perhaps the murder of Zalachenko is a part of it too. ??I??m cutting back on the training now. In this case there are no differences of opinion to divide us. This morning she had not had a single visitor.?? ??I don??t like this. I wish he had left a letter.B.
Before she removed the doorstop from the bedroom door. ??An officer named Faste in the Violent Crimes Division. ??I got it for reasons that I don??t want to discuss. And shrewd municipal buyers started to scratch their heads and wonder why they were shelling out 1700 kronor when they could get a similar toilet from Thailand for 500. That??s what he put in the report. A bastard defected Soviet Russian agent and professional gangster. which was understandable enough from the point of view of a budget chief and a C. really. He had two operations and could now walk without crutches. She saw that Erlander had noticed the same thing. ??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.?? Blomkvist said.I.?? ??Thailand.B.?? Her hair was still so short that he hardly needed to push aside the tufts to feel the scar above her ear. which sells genuine Swedish toilets for 1700 kronor apiece.?? Wadensj?? felt the panic rise. ??I know. the alarm we installed today contains two components.
??Toilets. As soon as she was a little way down the hill. other people can. which meant that they had to walk back and forth between the two buildings several times a day. but the source was a fake.?? sent apparently by someone at a well-known media outlet in Sweden. came out to look at the damage.?? ??What ?? huh??? He sat up and looked around in bewilderment.?? ??I??ll make the decisions and do the surgery. And that would have to mean that locking you up in 1991 was illegal. The doorbell interrupted his ruminations. Nurse Nicander came back with the number of the Radisson. and then he remembered that he had booked himself a room in City Hotel. your lovely breasts. The investigation was totally inadequate. listening. There??s also a possibility that you??ll develop scar tissue in your brain. ??For those of you who haven??t met her before. She went to her study and turned on the light. She supposed that her brain had not been too greatly damaged after being perforated by a bullet with a full-metal jacket.
Someone had taken the trouble to find out where she lived. During the next hour. demanding her attention and vexing her intellect.?? ??I understand. and an entirely new investigation has been set up for the purpose. but roughly half of all the calls that Ekstr?m made on his mobile from anywhere near police headquarters were monitored and recorded. the others were handguns of various types.?? The Prime Minister said: ??And my job is to run the country in accordance with the constitution. a former agent of Soviet military intelligence. She was alive. Lisbeth ?C seriously ?C this battle is going to be decided in the mass media and not in the courtroom. also in some quarters known as the Salander case. ??It just ended. He had first met Jonasson at a seminar in Stockholm fourteen years earlier and discovered that they were both fly-fishing enthusiasts. Fredrik Clinton. In Sweden this function is divided between two institutions. He was careful to annihilate both Teleborian and the now dead Bj?rck. he did what he could for Salander. We have to be a single-level organization. We??ve got time.
of course. She could not tell how bad the situation was. That was unusual. which in this case is a bit of a handicap. of course. She waited until the woman reached the crossing in front of her. for a fee of 30.00 in the afternoon she threw up. In came Jonasson. so finally he called Inspector Erlander. He says that he had nothing to do with the murders in Stockholm. just as Blomkvist had asked him to.I. She called home first and then rang Lillian Josefsson. And item two: today this piece by Johannes shows up on my desk. Be realistic.M. It was entitled [Read this first].?? ??You have to hand in a statement. gathering up Blomkvist??s documentation.
It was 1. fucking airhead or fucking cunt. How else to explain the fact that he had been so fucking stupid. Now she was suddenly editor-in-chief. when Bergling became the object of suspicion outside the Section as well. ??Is it something personal between the two of you??? ??You could say that. in the hall.?? ??Lars Faulsson. ??O. Every other basic right. Micke. that there was no-one with much experience in government. She was tall. but all this is beside the point. He issued instructions that required even the chief of S. It??s dated. a spy. Above all they needed the cash to take care of day-to-day expenses. He??s a gofer. Figuerola came to Edklinth??s office.
?? ??Which is??? ??I??m an investigative journalist.?? He tied a sheet around his waist. causing deep bruising there. but I anticipate we??ll have grounds for charging him with the three murders here in Stockholm.?? ??If Zalachenko were to talk. After some palaver over jurisdiction between Str?ngn?s and S?dert?lje. but I think he??s honest. and that he should have nothing more to do with the matter. Teleborian had done a strikingly good analysis.?? Eriksson said. I simply have no energy. But not active. but he looked much older.C. ??Technically speaking. Nieminen drove away all thought of Salander. Since she had access to Teleborian??s P. She put the folder on the windowsill and stretched out in the bath to ponder the situation. It could be if someone is trying to break in or turns up in the garden or something like that. She raised her right hand and felt her head.
staring at the ceiling above Figuerola??s bed. or to interviews with some old. ??What??s so funny??? ??I??m thinking that Edklinth would be a little bit disturbed if he saw us right now. And if they did not.. ??It is legal. I wish he had left a letter. Finally he called for a minute??s silence. and obviously he would be interested in any related information. Nor did she have reason to think that anyone on the editorial staff wished her ill. The old comrades shook hands. 10. After he left. she won??t be able to do the research she needs to do to prepare her defence. He was also about to go on holiday. But in my eyes you??re not worth a bonus of so much as one single ?re. but I doubt that??s who you??re working for. Who??s that over there? God. On the same day. ??Good morning.
I see spreadsheets before my eyes. she tried to avoid padding her bill with expensive hotel charges. ??I think we??re done. He walked to Dressman on Kungsgatan and bought a shirt and a change of underwear. ??But our supposition is that Bjurman assaulted Salander and that she struck back and did that ???? He pointed at the tattoo in the autopsy photograph. and added very little water. He checked that nobody else was in the corridor. Consequently Blomkvist had no clue whether Salander had revealed that her previous guardian had raped her. Nazi. then dialled the number of Hans-?ke Waltari. No-one can go into her room without permission except for doctors or nurses who work here at Sahlgrenska.?? Salander still said nothing. And he was inflexible. Her mobile was being monitored.?? ??You have my word. Jan Bublanski. Now it??s all about this German. it could be a major step forward in your career.?? Berger barely looked up from her position by the window. Blomkvist ?C or more likely somebody he had hired and who was out there ?C would have to change the batteries at regular intervals.
??We need to talk to you. Remember what it was like during the Wennerstr?m affair. but she was pleased with herself. above. That??s why I??m proud to be working at Constitutional Protection.?? a list which towards the end of the ??60s amounted to around 300. Who would guarantee that the top ranks and middle management at the Firm were not working for the Russians? Who. They will do everything they can to reduce the damage to themselves and their group. Plus. She could not see the blue overalls. chief of Secretariat. ??It??s not important.?? ??I couldn??t help reading in the papers that you??re mixed up in this Salander story. I??ll handle it. box on Fleminggatan in Kungsholmen. Erika had me to lean on. colliding with the second nurse. he??s turned up Drottninggatan heading north. He had ridden over there with Lundin to burn the damned summer cabin down. where place settings were already laid out.
He was in his thirties. he had joined the navy. He went back to the cabin as fast as his aching back would permit. ??I??m going to Kungsholmen now. but each time his efforts were stymied. We??re not going to lift a finger to help you this time. When they got to the room they undressed. He looked at Giannini.00 on Saturday morning to the ringing of his telephone. I??ll put on some coffee???? ??No. Ekstr?m is the head of the preliminary investigation ???? ??But Bublanski??s leading it. At the very least Zalachenko was a witness; but in the worst case he was involved up to his neck in a series of murders. practically speaking. so she couldn??t tell the rest of us.?? ??I assume it came up during the interview???? ??Anders. that is.?? ??That is unforgivably incompetent. and I??m beginning to expect that we??ll find her fingerprints on the cigarette case. furthermore. She looked at the time of the message.
?? ??Right. ??I see. He has to go regularly to the hospital for dialysis. other people can. ??That was one of our first thoughts too. was given a liquid lunch. You??re healing. the signature of the Prime Minister meant that he had sanctioned the need for a unit that would be responsible for ??internal personnel control??.S. and Ola Ullsten came in.?? ??This doesn??t mean that I distrust you. We have Borgsj? ready for the slaughter.Wednesday. Where are we going??? She had parked around the corner down on Pryssgr?nd.?? ??You can arrest whoever you want. and be the news editor??? ??I wouldn??t do it for anything. He had read Jan Guillou??s books.Q.?? Berger said with a smile. felt a rush of pain and fell to the ground.
She laid it next to her hip and fell asleep. ??Do as I say and the Section might survive. In fact I had a third copy that I was going to give to Armansky. I??m a cynic. ??We??ll go and tip off the police about what happened here. It corresponds to about fifty pages of book text. He saw a lined face framed by short grey hair.?? ??You amaze me. But I don??t discuss my patients with journalists. But here??s the bad news: Assistant County Police Chief Sp?ngberg has been here since 5. She radiated a cheerful confidence. She paused at the front door to think.P. The Zalachenko club. lifted him off the ground. and when the man known as Trinity found himself on Sunday in the middle of the ?resundsbron. ??I think he knows that already..?? ??Yes.?? ??I??m sorry.
and together we would have decided what to do.?? ??But F?lldin is alive and willing to talk about the matter. He had already bought coffee and sandwiches for her.?? ??What??? ??The names of the individuals you had your meetings with. ??It??s almost impossible to answer that question.?? * Jonasson left Salander??s room somewhat confused. We still flag Salander for monitoring whenever she turns up in any database. ??It??s a police killing and the press is out in force. and then served for nine years in Uppsala police and studied law in her spare time. and when he was pressingly invited to dinner and a private conversation. He walked the three hundred metres to Frey??s Hotel next to the old post office on Vasagatan.?? Edklinth said.?? ??Sounds good. Someone who rummaged around in your brain had to be treated with respect.?? ??Fredrik. She worked first in the Violent Crime Division and then in the unit that specialized in financial crime.B. that Figuerola and Blomkvist wrapped sheets around themselves and went to her kitchen to make a cold pasta salad with tuna and bacon from the leftovers in her fridge.?? ??No. M?rtensson went back to his car on Tavastgatan.
?? ??From S?po??? ??Yes. as far as his eyes could see. Salander is a devil with computers. You??ve been damned good as assistant editor. upgrades. Just a few years after Palme??s assassination that was still a sensitive issue. he exploited his hold over them to the maximum. ferreted out a toothbrush and went to the bathroom.?? ??There??s no misunderstanding. then he??d do it. He had no knowledge of the circles Niedermann moved in.G. and we??ll make you a proposal. There was only a jpeg that she opened in Photoshop. I have ordered an investigation. Instead he made his second mistake: he offered to hand over the weapon he had in his jacket pocket ?C the Colt . She made two slices of toast with cheese. Blomkvist regarded P.C. You??re withholding information.
It was not until a month after the government was formed that the chief of S. He looked around the corridor and saw that he was being watched by nurses.?? ??I see ???? ??The problem is that a number of sentences were altered in a very subtle way. You were the one who exposed Wennerstr?m last year.?? ??Which is what ????? ??Lisbeth Salander suffers from a serious mental disorder. or running. playing badminton.?? Salander said. He had discovered stacks of pages from Black/White??s first issue along with an oddly subdued Baksi in one of the copy rooms. Hiding behind the arras in this situation is a wildly overrated tactic in view of all that has been written about you since Easter. He should have been on sick leave. If he made the wrong decision. and she enjoyed her job at Milton Security a great deal. He had lived with computers since he was ten. what??s going on with you??? ??I??m about to resign from Millennium. I spoke to Margareta and she said that she clearly explained to you what her interview was going to focus on. No notes were taken at the meeting.iv At 5. of course. we have to work faster.
That??s why you asked about your credibility. That applied to Gullberg and equally to Bj?rck.G.?? Gullberg said. The police could probably work that out for themselves.G. cleaned the brushes. but soon after he would have had to abandon the car in Finland. She could not piece together all that had happened.K. and eventually not at all. but the editor. They were in sharp focus. Your lawyer. and Blomkvist had got himself somehow involved in the killing of a policeman in G?teborg.M.vi ?C Saturday 4.?? Gullberg and Wadensj?? glared at each other for a long moment. department store. The headache was still there.
She was wearing a short-sleeved summer dress and had laid a brick-red leather jacket over the top stair. said. The text was short. which she had not done since she got the hand-held. With the possible exception of President Nixon??s lunatic break-in at Watergate. You have to concentrate on getting well. Which must have been Edklinth. some ambitious scribbler would float the theory that the Section was behind the assassination of Palme. Some of them concerned how he should present Salander in the articles. Many of them were sadistic. She heard the nurse go down the corridor to the left. That yielded better results. Salander??s childhood. He finally got off a bus at Slussen. I officially leave on the last day of April. Cursing. he??s a threat to us. ??Lie still. a change of clothes. ??He?? could even be a woman.
M.?? ??I can assure you that it??s quite true. ??It might be as early as this weekend. of which only three were furnished. ??He worked for something called the Section for Special Analysis. briskly. but got no answer.Thursday. ask Annika to do this favour. Mercifully someone had left a full bottle of mineral water on the conference table. Palme??s suitability as Prime Minister had been the object of more than one lunch conversation in the corridors of S. ??In other words. shaking his head. Seconds later they had set off down the corridor. Late as it was. Ekstr?m had brought a charge for grievous bodily harm in the case of Magge Lundin. We??re so secret that we don??t exist. it was not a good idea to start boasting that he actually knew something on a mobile less than two hundred metres from a police station.T. Lisbeth is not allowed to have visitors.
He would have to turn to the chief to secure political support for what he was working on.20. getting his bearings. and a muted brick-red jacket. and then with great resolve kicked the stool across the room. she trained so hard and her body was so muscular that malicious colleagues still called her Herr Figuerola. most often those on the extreme left or the extreme right. I have to know whether you really do want me to be your lawyer. when Paolo Roberto had fought his boxing match with Niedermann in the warehouse there.?? the Minister of Justice said. Her vision was blurred. ??Here we are again. ??Whole books will probably be written about this first part. She worked first in the Violent Crime Division and then in the unit that specialized in financial crime.?? ??Can you prove that??? ??I can. She had next. and on the left is an elderly couple who go to bed quite early. and consulted a list. is he out of the country? What do we think??? ??We have nothing to tell us that he has left the country. Vinge never saw eye to eye.
It??s almost as powerful as good sex.I. certainly. He looked through it for a minute before he found the number. He??ll be leading the Section??s operations department until the present crisis is over.?? he said. The plane would take off from Arlanda at 2. She??s at the hospital in Bor?s. There??s bleeding there. this is an extreme state of affairs. and came to a website somewhere on the Internet that contained the sixteen gigabytes of Ekstr?m??s hard drive. She checked Teleborian??s emails from the past twenty-four hours.00 in the morning. Perhaps the murder of Zalachenko is a part of it too. ??I??m cutting back on the training now. In this case there are no differences of opinion to divide us. This morning she had not had a single visitor.?? ??I don??t like this. I wish he had left a letter.B.
Before she removed the doorstop from the bedroom door. ??An officer named Faste in the Violent Crimes Division. ??I got it for reasons that I don??t want to discuss. And shrewd municipal buyers started to scratch their heads and wonder why they were shelling out 1700 kronor when they could get a similar toilet from Thailand for 500. That??s what he put in the report. A bastard defected Soviet Russian agent and professional gangster. which was understandable enough from the point of view of a budget chief and a C. really. He had two operations and could now walk without crutches. She saw that Erlander had noticed the same thing. ??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.?? Blomkvist said.I.?? ??Thailand.B.?? Her hair was still so short that he hardly needed to push aside the tufts to feel the scar above her ear. which sells genuine Swedish toilets for 1700 kronor apiece.?? Wadensj?? felt the panic rise. ??I know. the alarm we installed today contains two components.
??Toilets. As soon as she was a little way down the hill. other people can. which meant that they had to walk back and forth between the two buildings several times a day. but the source was a fake.?? sent apparently by someone at a well-known media outlet in Sweden. came out to look at the damage.?? ??What ?? huh??? He sat up and looked around in bewilderment.?? ??I??ll make the decisions and do the surgery. And that would have to mean that locking you up in 1991 was illegal. The doorbell interrupted his ruminations. Nurse Nicander came back with the number of the Radisson. and then he remembered that he had booked himself a room in City Hotel. your lovely breasts. The investigation was totally inadequate. listening. There??s also a possibility that you??ll develop scar tissue in your brain. ??For those of you who haven??t met her before. She went to her study and turned on the light. She supposed that her brain had not been too greatly damaged after being perforated by a bullet with a full-metal jacket.
Someone had taken the trouble to find out where she lived. During the next hour. demanding her attention and vexing her intellect.?? ??I understand. and an entirely new investigation has been set up for the purpose. but roughly half of all the calls that Ekstr?m made on his mobile from anywhere near police headquarters were monitored and recorded. the others were handguns of various types.?? The Prime Minister said: ??And my job is to run the country in accordance with the constitution. a former agent of Soviet military intelligence. She was alive. Lisbeth ?C seriously ?C this battle is going to be decided in the mass media and not in the courtroom. also in some quarters known as the Salander case. ??It just ended. He had first met Jonasson at a seminar in Stockholm fourteen years earlier and discovered that they were both fly-fishing enthusiasts. Fredrik Clinton. In Sweden this function is divided between two institutions. He was careful to annihilate both Teleborian and the now dead Bj?rck. he did what he could for Salander. We have to be a single-level organization. We??ve got time.
of course. She could not tell how bad the situation was. That was unusual. which in this case is a bit of a handicap. of course. She waited until the woman reached the crossing in front of her. for a fee of 30.00 in the afternoon she threw up. In came Jonasson. so finally he called Inspector Erlander. He says that he had nothing to do with the murders in Stockholm. just as Blomkvist had asked him to.I. She called home first and then rang Lillian Josefsson. And item two: today this piece by Johannes shows up on my desk. Be realistic.M. It was entitled [Read this first].?? ??You have to hand in a statement. gathering up Blomkvist??s documentation.
It was 1. fucking airhead or fucking cunt. How else to explain the fact that he had been so fucking stupid. Now she was suddenly editor-in-chief. when Bergling became the object of suspicion outside the Section as well. ??Is it something personal between the two of you??? ??You could say that. in the hall.?? ??Lars Faulsson. ??O. Every other basic right. Micke. that there was no-one with much experience in government. She was tall. but all this is beside the point. He issued instructions that required even the chief of S. It??s dated. a spy. Above all they needed the cash to take care of day-to-day expenses. He??s a gofer. Figuerola came to Edklinth??s office.
?? ??Which is??? ??I??m an investigative journalist.?? He tied a sheet around his waist. causing deep bruising there. but I anticipate we??ll have grounds for charging him with the three murders here in Stockholm.?? ??If Zalachenko were to talk. After some palaver over jurisdiction between Str?ngn?s and S?dert?lje. but I think he??s honest. and that he should have nothing more to do with the matter. Teleborian had done a strikingly good analysis.?? Eriksson said. I simply have no energy. But not active. but he looked much older.C. ??Technically speaking. Nieminen drove away all thought of Salander. Since she had access to Teleborian??s P. She put the folder on the windowsill and stretched out in the bath to ponder the situation. It could be if someone is trying to break in or turns up in the garden or something like that. She raised her right hand and felt her head.
staring at the ceiling above Figuerola??s bed. or to interviews with some old. ??What??s so funny??? ??I??m thinking that Edklinth would be a little bit disturbed if he saw us right now. And if they did not.. ??It is legal. I wish he had left a letter. Finally he called for a minute??s silence. and obviously he would be interested in any related information. Nor did she have reason to think that anyone on the editorial staff wished her ill. The old comrades shook hands. 10. After he left. she won??t be able to do the research she needs to do to prepare her defence. He was also about to go on holiday. But in my eyes you??re not worth a bonus of so much as one single ?re. but I doubt that??s who you??re working for. Who??s that over there? God. On the same day. ??Good morning.
I see spreadsheets before my eyes. she tried to avoid padding her bill with expensive hotel charges. ??I think we??re done. He walked to Dressman on Kungsgatan and bought a shirt and a change of underwear. ??But our supposition is that Bjurman assaulted Salander and that she struck back and did that ???? He pointed at the tattoo in the autopsy photograph. and added very little water. He checked that nobody else was in the corridor. Consequently Blomkvist had no clue whether Salander had revealed that her previous guardian had raped her. Nazi. then dialled the number of Hans-?ke Waltari. No-one can go into her room without permission except for doctors or nurses who work here at Sahlgrenska.?? Salander still said nothing. And he was inflexible. Her mobile was being monitored.?? ??You have my word. Jan Bublanski. Now it??s all about this German. it could be a major step forward in your career.?? Berger barely looked up from her position by the window. Blomkvist ?C or more likely somebody he had hired and who was out there ?C would have to change the batteries at regular intervals.
??We need to talk to you. Remember what it was like during the Wennerstr?m affair. but she was pleased with herself. above. That??s why I??m proud to be working at Constitutional Protection.?? a list which towards the end of the ??60s amounted to around 300. Who would guarantee that the top ranks and middle management at the Firm were not working for the Russians? Who. They will do everything they can to reduce the damage to themselves and their group. Plus. She could not see the blue overalls. chief of Secretariat. ??It??s not important.?? ??I couldn??t help reading in the papers that you??re mixed up in this Salander story. I??ll handle it. box on Fleminggatan in Kungsholmen. Erika had me to lean on. colliding with the second nurse. he??s turned up Drottninggatan heading north. He had ridden over there with Lundin to burn the damned summer cabin down. where place settings were already laid out.
He was in his thirties. he had joined the navy. He went back to the cabin as fast as his aching back would permit. ??I??m going to Kungsholmen now. but each time his efforts were stymied. We??re not going to lift a finger to help you this time. When they got to the room they undressed. He looked at Giannini.00 on Saturday morning to the ringing of his telephone. I??ll put on some coffee???? ??No. Ekstr?m is the head of the preliminary investigation ???? ??But Bublanski??s leading it. At the very least Zalachenko was a witness; but in the worst case he was involved up to his neck in a series of murders. practically speaking. so she couldn??t tell the rest of us.?? ??I assume it came up during the interview???? ??Anders. that is.?? ??That is unforgivably incompetent. and I??m beginning to expect that we??ll find her fingerprints on the cigarette case. furthermore. She looked at the time of the message.
?? ??Right. ??I see. He has to go regularly to the hospital for dialysis. other people can. ??That was one of our first thoughts too. was given a liquid lunch. You??re healing. the signature of the Prime Minister meant that he had sanctioned the need for a unit that would be responsible for ??internal personnel control??.S. and Ola Ullsten came in.?? ??This doesn??t mean that I distrust you. We have Borgsj? ready for the slaughter.Wednesday. Where are we going??? She had parked around the corner down on Pryssgr?nd.?? ??You can arrest whoever you want. and be the news editor??? ??I wouldn??t do it for anything. He had read Jan Guillou??s books.Q.?? Berger said with a smile. felt a rush of pain and fell to the ground.
15 in the morning 15 in the morning. I checked out the story behind the Bellona apartment. but he also gave lectures from time to time at S. and it was his job to see to it that it stayed intact. But she could see that he was lost in his own thoughts. You can decide nearer the time. he??s turned up Drottninggatan heading north. he was suspected of running errands for the Yugoslav mafia.?? They said goodbye. which he at once identified as belonging to the Security Police. She stared in frustration at the blinking screen. In Sweden this function is divided between two institutions. the day the Salander trial begins.?? She met his gaze.?? ??You mean we should ???? Nieminen had already decided that Niedermann had to be got rid of. They take care of their normal jobs and do some discreet moonlighting for us should the need or opportunity arise. the patient might die or perhaps wake up disabled for life.?? Jonasson looked again at the unconscious patient??s face. I was in the police for six years and I??ve worked at Milton for four.?? Karim said. ?? Erlander cleared his throat.?? ??I don??t think???? ??It??s up to you. so the obvious thing would be for him to head for Germany. and then attended a vocational school and earned a certificate as a trained telecommunications technician.?? ??The police suspect that I am involved. She took another step and pain shot through her entire foot.I. And this is the document that proves me right. I had no idea that he worked for S?po. As far as I understand it. as far as we can tell. People who have risked their lives for democracy will be in danger of being killed. And that means that Teleborian will be given the chance to observe you. This bothered her.?? ??First thing is to locate all the copies ???? ??I??ve already done that. which she had not done since she got the hand-held. What mattered to her was that he was the board chairman of S. ??Thank you. Yet Blomkvist was right: behind the conspiracy there had to be others not known to her who had contributed to the shaping of her life. and I haven??t been able to tell Mikael. A genuine scoop for Millennium. in H?rn?sand. She recognized Modig as one of the officers in Bublanski??s team. and from there she would create a new identity somewhere in the world.K.?? ??Is that the truth??? Berger nodded. Bingo. swastika.C. He did not think that Advokat Thomasson??s visit earlier in the day had been particularly reassuring.?? He explained how the story had developed. or at least parts of it. The public register listed eighteen Susanne Linders in Stockholm county. Only four people in the world knew how he had come by that scar. ??Jonas Sandberg. And that particular murder was no longer one of the charges against her.?? Modig and Holmberg exchanged glances. but you??re standing here lying to my face. M?rtensson??s C. As soon as he closed the door Figuerola was on her feet and back out on Kungsgatan. 11. adjusted his glasses. it??s like the old days. he called Berger himself. At least Morander understood the necessity of the reductions. If she continued to heal at the same pace.D. But the offer came like a bolt from the blue. ??Teleborian meets with the Section and then goes directly to see Prosecutor Ekstr?m. and your delicious grotto. ??that we make the whole thing disappear and put Salander back in an asylum??? ??Salander we can handle.?? Salander said without enthusiasm. but I won??t mention how or where I got them.?? Teleborian laughed. Bates had taken more than 200 photographs of the community and created a gallery of small thumbnails. or the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He quoted from the correspondence between Teleborian and Bj?rck. Dr Jonasson burst out laughing and shook his head. but the wires stretched in the direction of the pencil. But I can give you the authority to conduct a one-man investigation. or whatever his name was.U. ??If I didn??t know about it ???? ??But if you did know about it. have already done me in. He thought for a long time before he went back to the landline and called his sister. ??You know more than you ought to.?? ??And yet the recommendation was that she should be institutionalized??? ??That was based on her prior history.?? ??Evert Gullberg. it must have been something that Niedermann decided to do.00 Linder arrived and knocked on the door. who for some strange reason was not online. Either the person who did the falsification was someone in the psychiatric or forensic medicine departments. He had terrible pain in his back. But I??m only talking about a couple of days until we have all the installations ready. I??m guessing that Blomkvist has a copy and that there??s one at the editorial offices. (No. He looked back at the clock. She reported in a matter-of-fact manner how he had hit her. ??Do you have any pain or discomfort in the shoulder??? She shook her head.?? ??You changed the whole door??? ??Yes. And now I have the world??s worst guilty conscience. a summer cabin or???? ??I don??t think it would be a summer cabin. Niedermann must not be captured alive.?? ??Thomas Paulsson happened at Gosseberga.?? Clinton shook his head again. she consistently refused to participate in conversations with Dr L?derman. A dental nurse by the name of Anita Kaspersson left her home by car at 7. just ring for us.?? ??Rubbish. and was gone. You and your colleague are sources and you have complete source protection.?? ??Micke ?? I??m so sorry. switched on the night light and looked around the room. ??I can find my way. He was gasping as if he had just run a marathon..I. He was dead before the ambulance arrived. Her client was in much worse shape than she had been led to believe. That??s what this button is for. 15 in the morning. It was in fact Bj?rck who had proposed the solution. She sank back on to the pillow. staying at the Radisson on Avenyn. We??ll have to keep an eye on both of them. Then the efficient chaos. she armed herself with the canister of Mace.. He would not be able to get back to sleep. She sat still. He was handcuffed and increasingly uncomfortable. All except Figuerola shook their heads. As she heard the key in the door she realized that the cloth bag and charger were still in view on the bedside table. Her testimony has to be declared invalid. ??I thought Salander had recovered. he already had enough material to set off a landslide of headlines.?? ??But I???? ??Give it a try. Since the murder of Zalachenko. ??Thorbj?rn F?lldin.P. Salander stared for a long time at the locked door. the footnotes often referred to articles in the evening newspapers. He had played it safe. It had taken him all day to work out that her room was two doors down the corridor to the right. ??Coffee. I officially leave on the last day of April.?? ??And??? Modig hesitated once again. Don??t do anything until we can agree a strategy.?? ??I didn??t give anyone permission to arrest Bj?rck. But this rape took place two years ago. and he paid attention because those were the initials of Zalachenko??s holding company. The electrodes.10 a. To raise the matter with the chief of Secretariat might be to chuck a very large stone into a pond. Clinton would take care of Giannini. But he??s tricky to deal with. ??I thought you??d be dead by now. it??s pretty slow today. Jonasson ordered tomography with the new and improved C. Cortez sat on the sofa in Eriksson??s office looking guilty. ?? ??Yes. He downloaded four folders. ??That was a long time ago.?? Sandberg nodded his agreement. the day the Salander trial begins.?? which referred to the Security Police as a whole. ??Blomkvist. Finally he inserted narrow forceps with serrated jaws. Then he sat on the edge of the bed and untied the strings of her nightshirt.?? ??Who got in first??? ??We got in more or less at the same time. it was a case of deep antagonism in a tragically dysfunctional family. Come and have breakfast if you can make it. 3. and Trinity.?? Zalachenko was suddenly very unsure whether Gullberg was bluffing. Francke and P. No. He was better at planning operations than I. ??And how did you know that this meeting was going to take place??? ??I have to protect my source. Salander looked at him. we are quite aware of that. mostly so that the wound would not be exposed to bacteria or dirt. and Trelleborg.M.?? Karim said.?? Berger got up. But somehow. Petrova had injuries that could very well have been inflicted by a man??s bare hands ???? ??Niedermann??? ??It??s a reasonable assumption. since Bj?rck already knew of Zalachenko??s existence.?? Clinton said. Then he placed his hands gently around her neck and turned her head back and forth and to the sides a few times. She was looking at the building from the side. and throw a brick through the window. Milton will send cars out here. ??Coffee. She looked in astonishment at the icon bar. And you??re better than I am at what you do.P. Figuerola locked all the material in her safe. were masters of forgery and disinformation. I??ve apologized to him for the way he was treated last night. and it??s important that we see to it at once that this is the image presented to the press. ??Hello. Blomkvist called from Caf?? Madeleine on his anonymous mobile to book a flight to Amsterdam.?? ??That would be a mistake. Not tonight. ??The four of us are just dumb police officers. He had been key as a consultant in connection with Counter-Espionage??s surveillance of a suspected industrial spy. but from a number of sources Cortez had a fairly clear picture of the events of the night before.?? At 10. the defector had lived in an anonymous apartment owned by the Section.?? ??Alright. ??Worst of all. Quite elderly for a murderer. He was given asylum and began to work for S?po.?? ??All I ask is that you hear me out. which was available in the Republic??s archive for its citizens. ??Is it something personal between the two of you??? ??You could say that. She had said her name and started to count. has been to see me twice in the past few days. Yet he was not hungry. then pay out as much as you want in bonuses.?? ??Try out the idea that she??s innocent of these accusations. When she was alone she said: ??Hello.M.?? Edklinth said at last. and she went through every public register she could find. She had a brace on her neck. So I would recommend that you extract it ?? but ???? ??But what??? ??The bullet doesn??t worry me so much. He held it up to the light for a few seconds and saw that it appeared intact; then he dropped it into a bowl. S. and a muted brick-red jacket. It was entirely up to him to decide whether he would talk to her or not. ??How does that work in practice??? ??That??s a very good question. He looked around the corridor and saw that he was being watched by nurses. a van pulled out and left a parking space on Bellmansgatan at the corner with Tavastgatan. And the paedophile industry. ??You don??t know about the tattoo Bjurman had on his abdomen??? ??What tattoo??? Blomkvist was taken aback. If you find evidence of criminal activity. Perhaps the murder of Zalachenko is a part of it too. You??ll have to send the material to a hotmail address. She says that the murderer was a man in his seventies. ??So you??re completely innocent??? ??Of course I am.?? ??If I tried to go at your pace. of course.P. I??m also going to charge him with probable involvement in arson. it is not merely a criminal conspiracy ?C it is a threat to national security. is to provide you with information. She said she??d read books on the subject before.?? Salander??s heart sank. In the end he had his own resources to fall back on. I??m just so swamped here. Ever since he had heard the news at the Kaffebar he had had his heart in his throat and a panicky feeling that Salander might have been the killer. In any normal situation she would have knocked on the door. so he decided that Salander??s lawyer should serve as a proxy friend.00. An industrious investigative journalist could get paranoid on less than this.?? ??Not so. and she told him that she had been assigned by her boss to form an unofficial picture of what was true and what not true in the so-called Zalachenko case. ?? ??No. could decide to put S?po??s top bosses under the microscope. Alias Falun. He had filled in the gaps by saying that Bjurman had made a deal with Zalachenko which collapsed when Bjurman lost control. ??What is it??? ??Well. Of all the people who touched her and poked at her.?? Sandberg said.??? ??Are you bullshitting me??? Ellis had lived in Sweden for many years and was fluent in Swedish ?C albeit with an American accent ?C but when Jonasson spoke to him in Swedish.?? ??I can??t. ??Hello. just call. and its purpose is to damage Salander before the trial.?? ??I understand. that Bjurman had been Salander??s guardian; on the other hand he could not see why the old Zalachenko story should surface.?? The officers nodded. You know how the paper is made and I have a while to go on the school bench.M. She??s been doing so well lately.?? ??I get it. apart from Gunnar Bj?rck. and his girlfriend too.?? ??Car. We??ll hold back on charging him with the murders of the three individuals we dug up on the property. She put the Palm in the recess behind the bedside table and waited while two Eritrean women vacuumed the room and changed her bedlinen. Then she walked back to the door and punched in the code again.?? Edklinth frowned. She has been badly treated and is under a lot of pressure. We have taps on Blomkvist??s landline and mobile. And then she called to say that Teleborian and somebody called Jonas were meeting at Central Station this afternoon. ??Well. A man in advanced old age. Probably he would go to Tallinn. Then she looked at her husband. had landed in because of Salander and Niedermann. so that she will not be believed if anyone should start asking questions about Zalachenko. There had to be a group ?? a division or unit of some sort. no matter how many times she tried to block it. I??m saying that some people within the Security Police are involved in such activity.00. Metro and Stockholm City. She heard a movement and turned to see Salander just starting to clamber out of bed again. Through all these storms Berger had been the rock that nothing seemed capable of shifting. he had become involved.?? he said. ??Evert.?? ??Is there any prognosis??? ??As I understand it. of whom four were female.?? ??So Blomkvist had a gun. Richard Ekstr?m.?? Figuerola said. There were photographs from various parties. It??s beautiful weather and Saturday afternoon.K. Who wants to go first??? Berglund cleared his throat. Blomkvist closed his eyes.?? Gullberg said. then pay out as much as you want in bonuses.?? ??Correct. if the need arose. He is correctly quoted. He took the stairs down to the ground floor.?? Blomkvist said.?? Blomkvist stood at Armansky??s whiteboard and picked up a marker. But she could scarcely keep her eyes open. Salander got up from the edge of the bed and went to the window. writing his own programs and planting insidious tendrils on the Internet. S. he opened the door to the room next to Salander??s. and he has backing from higher up in the bureaucracy. The question is. The old bastard had a pistol too. Pain stabbed through her shoulder. some unknown lawyer appointed by the court would probably be worse. he had found her sitting in the chair by the window. But I need an opportunity to question the girl.?? ??Which means that if problems arise. She??s considering taking on Salander as a client. don??t you??? ??You were sitting with a map spread out on the front seat. Blomkvist had his arm around her shoulders. but in any case she was in no condition to be questioned. or rather two. we want surveillance on that apartment around the clock. The fourth was a copy of Ekstr?m??s email folder made at 2. ??Nothing.I. As far as he knew. and he had to stop after each step to deal with the pain. It had upset F?lldin that an important Soviet agent had sought asylum in Sweden. but it could have come about in a dozen different ways ?? for instance.06 p. along with the kidnapping and assault of Salander??s friend Miriam Wu.?? ??Just to say that I??d be on very thin ice if my superiors found out about this visit. We get access tomorrow. He??s at his best when things heat up. She was walking to the university when someone shot her with a crossbow. ??Imbecile. Only when Salander had logged out of Hacker Republic did she go into Yahoo and log on to the private newsgroup [Idiotic_Table]. ??Svensson. and would have been passed over to the next administration. and paid with Berger??s credit card. ?? ??And how are we supposed to give her the proper care here if we can??t have access to her records? The medical responsibility for her right now is ours. for example. nutters who had the gift to read messages hidden from the normal world.06 p. I??m certainly not used to this kind of situation. was dissolved. some of it. She shook her head. trying to find out what??s happening there. The blood had coagulated at the entry wound in her head.?? ??I understand. but in reality he had scarcely been seen in the department before the ??90s.00 in the evening. two columns.?? Sonny froze. She had a cyber-stalker on her hands. She pondered for a moment her suspicion that the person threatening her had something to do with S.?? ??You??re not married. Things could not go on this way. If he wanted to. I usually draw a blank. not to discuss the topic in his office without taking special precautions. Those three had formed an inner circle and were always shutting themselves in Berger??s office ?? well. She put her hand over the mouthpiece and turned to the others. For a moment he considered turning to the regular police. S?po??s ears are going to be burning. That yielded better results. Blomkvist sat on a sofa while Baksi got coffee from a machine in the hallway. ??Interesting. They told a fantastic story about a Russian defector who had come to Sweden. I repeat. I??m being paid a monthly salary of 88. but I think we??ll put that idea on the back burner for now. but we may have to postpone it for a month. I??m still on the Salander story. but he looked much older.?? Only three people knew where Svavelsj? M. Which was not very likely.?? ??Good. He wrote a carefully worded and noncommittal comment on her chart: Radiological examination gives a basis for definitive conclusions but the condition of the patient has deteriorated steadily during the day.
15 in the morning
15 in the morning. I checked out the story behind the Bellona apartment. but he also gave lectures from time to time at S. and it was his job to see to it that it stayed intact. But she could see that he was lost in his own thoughts. You can decide nearer the time. he??s turned up Drottninggatan heading north. he was suspected of running errands for the Yugoslav mafia.?? They said goodbye. which he at once identified as belonging to the Security Police. She stared in frustration at the blinking screen. In Sweden this function is divided between two institutions. the day the Salander trial begins.?? She met his gaze.?? ??You mean we should ???? Nieminen had already decided that Niedermann had to be got rid of. They take care of their normal jobs and do some discreet moonlighting for us should the need or opportunity arise. the patient might die or perhaps wake up disabled for life.?? Jonasson looked again at the unconscious patient??s face. I was in the police for six years and I??ve worked at Milton for four.?? Karim said.
?? Erlander cleared his throat.?? ??I don??t think???? ??It??s up to you. so the obvious thing would be for him to head for Germany. and then attended a vocational school and earned a certificate as a trained telecommunications technician.?? ??The police suspect that I am involved. She took another step and pain shot through her entire foot.I. And this is the document that proves me right. I had no idea that he worked for S?po. As far as I understand it. as far as we can tell. People who have risked their lives for democracy will be in danger of being killed. And that means that Teleborian will be given the chance to observe you. This bothered her.?? ??First thing is to locate all the copies ???? ??I??ve already done that. which she had not done since she got the hand-held. What mattered to her was that he was the board chairman of S. ??Thank you. Yet Blomkvist was right: behind the conspiracy there had to be others not known to her who had contributed to the shaping of her life. and I haven??t been able to tell Mikael.
A genuine scoop for Millennium. in H?rn?sand. She recognized Modig as one of the officers in Bublanski??s team. and from there she would create a new identity somewhere in the world.K.?? ??Is that the truth??? Berger nodded. Bingo. swastika.C. He did not think that Advokat Thomasson??s visit earlier in the day had been particularly reassuring.?? He explained how the story had developed. or at least parts of it. The public register listed eighteen Susanne Linders in Stockholm county. Only four people in the world knew how he had come by that scar. ??Jonas Sandberg. And that particular murder was no longer one of the charges against her.?? Modig and Holmberg exchanged glances. but you??re standing here lying to my face. M?rtensson??s C. As soon as he closed the door Figuerola was on her feet and back out on Kungsgatan.
11. adjusted his glasses. it??s like the old days. he called Berger himself. At least Morander understood the necessity of the reductions. If she continued to heal at the same pace.D. But the offer came like a bolt from the blue. ??Teleborian meets with the Section and then goes directly to see Prosecutor Ekstr?m. and your delicious grotto. ??that we make the whole thing disappear and put Salander back in an asylum??? ??Salander we can handle.?? Salander said without enthusiasm. but I won??t mention how or where I got them.?? Teleborian laughed. Bates had taken more than 200 photographs of the community and created a gallery of small thumbnails. or the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He quoted from the correspondence between Teleborian and Bj?rck. Dr Jonasson burst out laughing and shook his head. but the wires stretched in the direction of the pencil. But I can give you the authority to conduct a one-man investigation.
or whatever his name was.U. ??If I didn??t know about it ???? ??But if you did know about it. have already done me in. He thought for a long time before he went back to the landline and called his sister. ??You know more than you ought to.?? ??And yet the recommendation was that she should be institutionalized??? ??That was based on her prior history.?? ??Evert Gullberg. it must have been something that Niedermann decided to do.00 Linder arrived and knocked on the door. who for some strange reason was not online. Either the person who did the falsification was someone in the psychiatric or forensic medicine departments. He had terrible pain in his back. But I??m only talking about a couple of days until we have all the installations ready. I??m guessing that Blomkvist has a copy and that there??s one at the editorial offices. (No. He looked back at the clock. She reported in a matter-of-fact manner how he had hit her. ??Do you have any pain or discomfort in the shoulder??? She shook her head.?? ??You changed the whole door??? ??Yes.
And now I have the world??s worst guilty conscience. a summer cabin or???? ??I don??t think it would be a summer cabin. Niedermann must not be captured alive.?? ??Thomas Paulsson happened at Gosseberga.?? Clinton shook his head again. she consistently refused to participate in conversations with Dr L?derman. A dental nurse by the name of Anita Kaspersson left her home by car at 7. just ring for us.?? ??Rubbish. and was gone. You and your colleague are sources and you have complete source protection.?? ??Micke ?? I??m so sorry. switched on the night light and looked around the room. ??I can find my way. He was gasping as if he had just run a marathon..I. He was dead before the ambulance arrived. Her client was in much worse shape than she had been led to believe. That??s what this button is for.
15 in the morning. It was in fact Bj?rck who had proposed the solution. She sank back on to the pillow. staying at the Radisson on Avenyn. We??ll have to keep an eye on both of them. Then the efficient chaos. she armed herself with the canister of Mace.. He would not be able to get back to sleep. She sat still. He was handcuffed and increasingly uncomfortable. All except Figuerola shook their heads. As she heard the key in the door she realized that the cloth bag and charger were still in view on the bedside table. Her testimony has to be declared invalid. ??I thought Salander had recovered. he already had enough material to set off a landslide of headlines.?? ??But I???? ??Give it a try. Since the murder of Zalachenko. ??Thorbj?rn F?lldin.P.
Salander stared for a long time at the locked door. the footnotes often referred to articles in the evening newspapers. He had played it safe. It had taken him all day to work out that her room was two doors down the corridor to the right. ??Coffee. I officially leave on the last day of April.?? ??And??? Modig hesitated once again. Don??t do anything until we can agree a strategy.?? ??I didn??t give anyone permission to arrest Bj?rck. But this rape took place two years ago. and he paid attention because those were the initials of Zalachenko??s holding company. The electrodes.10 a. To raise the matter with the chief of Secretariat might be to chuck a very large stone into a pond. Clinton would take care of Giannini. But he??s tricky to deal with. ??I thought you??d be dead by now. it??s pretty slow today. Jonasson ordered tomography with the new and improved C. Cortez sat on the sofa in Eriksson??s office looking guilty.
?? ??Yes. He downloaded four folders. ??That was a long time ago.?? Sandberg nodded his agreement. the day the Salander trial begins.?? which referred to the Security Police as a whole. ??Blomkvist. Finally he inserted narrow forceps with serrated jaws. Then he sat on the edge of the bed and untied the strings of her nightshirt.?? ??Who got in first??? ??We got in more or less at the same time. it was a case of deep antagonism in a tragically dysfunctional family. Come and have breakfast if you can make it. 3. and Trinity.?? Zalachenko was suddenly very unsure whether Gullberg was bluffing. Francke and P. No. He was better at planning operations than I. ??And how did you know that this meeting was going to take place??? ??I have to protect my source. Salander looked at him.
we are quite aware of that. mostly so that the wound would not be exposed to bacteria or dirt. and Trelleborg.M.?? Karim said.?? Berger got up. But somehow. Petrova had injuries that could very well have been inflicted by a man??s bare hands ???? ??Niedermann??? ??It??s a reasonable assumption. since Bj?rck already knew of Zalachenko??s existence.?? Clinton said. Then he placed his hands gently around her neck and turned her head back and forth and to the sides a few times. She was looking at the building from the side. and throw a brick through the window. Milton will send cars out here. ??Coffee. She looked in astonishment at the icon bar. And you??re better than I am at what you do.P. Figuerola locked all the material in her safe. were masters of forgery and disinformation.
I??ve apologized to him for the way he was treated last night. and it??s important that we see to it at once that this is the image presented to the press. ??Hello. Blomkvist called from Caf?? Madeleine on his anonymous mobile to book a flight to Amsterdam.?? ??That would be a mistake. Not tonight. ??The four of us are just dumb police officers. He had been key as a consultant in connection with Counter-Espionage??s surveillance of a suspected industrial spy. but from a number of sources Cortez had a fairly clear picture of the events of the night before.?? At 10. the defector had lived in an anonymous apartment owned by the Section.?? ??Alright. ??Worst of all. Quite elderly for a murderer. He was given asylum and began to work for S?po.?? ??All I ask is that you hear me out. which was available in the Republic??s archive for its citizens. ??Is it something personal between the two of you??? ??You could say that. She had said her name and started to count. has been to see me twice in the past few days.
Yet he was not hungry. then pay out as much as you want in bonuses.?? ??Try out the idea that she??s innocent of these accusations. When she was alone she said: ??Hello.M.?? Edklinth said at last. and she went through every public register she could find. She had a brace on her neck. So I would recommend that you extract it ?? but ???? ??But what??? ??The bullet doesn??t worry me so much. He held it up to the light for a few seconds and saw that it appeared intact; then he dropped it into a bowl. S. and a muted brick-red jacket. It was entirely up to him to decide whether he would talk to her or not. ??How does that work in practice??? ??That??s a very good question. He looked around the corridor and saw that he was being watched by nurses. a van pulled out and left a parking space on Bellmansgatan at the corner with Tavastgatan. And the paedophile industry. ??You don??t know about the tattoo Bjurman had on his abdomen??? ??What tattoo??? Blomkvist was taken aback. If you find evidence of criminal activity. Perhaps the murder of Zalachenko is a part of it too.
You??ll have to send the material to a hotmail address. She says that the murderer was a man in his seventies. ??So you??re completely innocent??? ??Of course I am.?? ??If I tried to go at your pace. of course.P. I??m also going to charge him with probable involvement in arson. it is not merely a criminal conspiracy ?C it is a threat to national security. is to provide you with information. She said she??d read books on the subject before.?? Salander??s heart sank. In the end he had his own resources to fall back on. I??m just so swamped here. Ever since he had heard the news at the Kaffebar he had had his heart in his throat and a panicky feeling that Salander might have been the killer. In any normal situation she would have knocked on the door. so he decided that Salander??s lawyer should serve as a proxy friend.00. An industrious investigative journalist could get paranoid on less than this.?? ??Not so. and she told him that she had been assigned by her boss to form an unofficial picture of what was true and what not true in the so-called Zalachenko case.
?? ??No. could decide to put S?po??s top bosses under the microscope. Alias Falun. He had filled in the gaps by saying that Bjurman had made a deal with Zalachenko which collapsed when Bjurman lost control. ??What is it??? ??Well. Of all the people who touched her and poked at her.?? Sandberg said.??? ??Are you bullshitting me??? Ellis had lived in Sweden for many years and was fluent in Swedish ?C albeit with an American accent ?C but when Jonasson spoke to him in Swedish.?? ??I can??t. ??Hello. just call. and its purpose is to damage Salander before the trial.?? ??I understand. that Bjurman had been Salander??s guardian; on the other hand he could not see why the old Zalachenko story should surface.?? The officers nodded. You know how the paper is made and I have a while to go on the school bench.M. She??s been doing so well lately.?? ??I get it. apart from Gunnar Bj?rck.
and his girlfriend too.?? ??Car. We??ll hold back on charging him with the murders of the three individuals we dug up on the property. She put the Palm in the recess behind the bedside table and waited while two Eritrean women vacuumed the room and changed her bedlinen. Then she walked back to the door and punched in the code again.?? Edklinth frowned. She has been badly treated and is under a lot of pressure. We have taps on Blomkvist??s landline and mobile. And then she called to say that Teleborian and somebody called Jonas were meeting at Central Station this afternoon. ??Well. A man in advanced old age. Probably he would go to Tallinn. Then she looked at her husband. had landed in because of Salander and Niedermann. so that she will not be believed if anyone should start asking questions about Zalachenko. There had to be a group ?? a division or unit of some sort. no matter how many times she tried to block it. I??m saying that some people within the Security Police are involved in such activity.00. Metro and Stockholm City.
She heard a movement and turned to see Salander just starting to clamber out of bed again. Through all these storms Berger had been the rock that nothing seemed capable of shifting. he had become involved.?? he said. ??Evert.?? ??Is there any prognosis??? ??As I understand it. of whom four were female.?? ??So Blomkvist had a gun. Richard Ekstr?m.?? Figuerola said. There were photographs from various parties. It??s beautiful weather and Saturday afternoon.K. Who wants to go first??? Berglund cleared his throat. Blomkvist closed his eyes.?? Gullberg said. then pay out as much as you want in bonuses.?? ??Correct. if the need arose. He is correctly quoted.
He took the stairs down to the ground floor.?? Blomkvist said.?? Blomkvist stood at Armansky??s whiteboard and picked up a marker. But she could scarcely keep her eyes open. Salander got up from the edge of the bed and went to the window. writing his own programs and planting insidious tendrils on the Internet. S. he opened the door to the room next to Salander??s. and he has backing from higher up in the bureaucracy. The question is. The old bastard had a pistol too. Pain stabbed through her shoulder. some unknown lawyer appointed by the court would probably be worse. he had found her sitting in the chair by the window. But I need an opportunity to question the girl.?? ??Which means that if problems arise. She??s considering taking on Salander as a client. don??t you??? ??You were sitting with a map spread out on the front seat. Blomkvist had his arm around her shoulders. but in any case she was in no condition to be questioned.
or rather two. we want surveillance on that apartment around the clock. The fourth was a copy of Ekstr?m??s email folder made at 2. ??Nothing.I. As far as he knew. and he had to stop after each step to deal with the pain. It had upset F?lldin that an important Soviet agent had sought asylum in Sweden. but it could have come about in a dozen different ways ?? for instance.06 p. along with the kidnapping and assault of Salander??s friend Miriam Wu.?? ??Just to say that I??d be on very thin ice if my superiors found out about this visit. We get access tomorrow. He??s at his best when things heat up. She was walking to the university when someone shot her with a crossbow. ??Imbecile. Only when Salander had logged out of Hacker Republic did she go into Yahoo and log on to the private newsgroup [Idiotic_Table]. ??Svensson. and would have been passed over to the next administration. and paid with Berger??s credit card.
?? ??And how are we supposed to give her the proper care here if we can??t have access to her records? The medical responsibility for her right now is ours. for example. nutters who had the gift to read messages hidden from the normal world.06 p. I??m certainly not used to this kind of situation. was dissolved. some of it. She shook her head. trying to find out what??s happening there. The blood had coagulated at the entry wound in her head.?? ??I understand. but in reality he had scarcely been seen in the department before the ??90s.00 in the evening. two columns.?? Sonny froze. She had a cyber-stalker on her hands. She pondered for a moment her suspicion that the person threatening her had something to do with S.?? ??You??re not married. Things could not go on this way. If he wanted to.
I usually draw a blank. not to discuss the topic in his office without taking special precautions. Those three had formed an inner circle and were always shutting themselves in Berger??s office ?? well. She put her hand over the mouthpiece and turned to the others. For a moment he considered turning to the regular police. S?po??s ears are going to be burning. That yielded better results. Blomkvist sat on a sofa while Baksi got coffee from a machine in the hallway. ??Interesting. They told a fantastic story about a Russian defector who had come to Sweden. I repeat. I??m being paid a monthly salary of 88. but I think we??ll put that idea on the back burner for now. but we may have to postpone it for a month. I??m still on the Salander story. but he looked much older.?? Only three people knew where Svavelsj? M. Which was not very likely.?? ??Good. He wrote a carefully worded and noncommittal comment on her chart: Radiological examination gives a basis for definitive conclusions but the condition of the patient has deteriorated steadily during the day.
15 in the morning. I checked out the story behind the Bellona apartment. but he also gave lectures from time to time at S. and it was his job to see to it that it stayed intact. But she could see that he was lost in his own thoughts. You can decide nearer the time. he??s turned up Drottninggatan heading north. he was suspected of running errands for the Yugoslav mafia.?? They said goodbye. which he at once identified as belonging to the Security Police. She stared in frustration at the blinking screen. In Sweden this function is divided between two institutions. the day the Salander trial begins.?? She met his gaze.?? ??You mean we should ???? Nieminen had already decided that Niedermann had to be got rid of. They take care of their normal jobs and do some discreet moonlighting for us should the need or opportunity arise. the patient might die or perhaps wake up disabled for life.?? Jonasson looked again at the unconscious patient??s face. I was in the police for six years and I??ve worked at Milton for four.?? Karim said.
?? Erlander cleared his throat.?? ??I don??t think???? ??It??s up to you. so the obvious thing would be for him to head for Germany. and then attended a vocational school and earned a certificate as a trained telecommunications technician.?? ??The police suspect that I am involved. She took another step and pain shot through her entire foot.I. And this is the document that proves me right. I had no idea that he worked for S?po. As far as I understand it. as far as we can tell. People who have risked their lives for democracy will be in danger of being killed. And that means that Teleborian will be given the chance to observe you. This bothered her.?? ??First thing is to locate all the copies ???? ??I??ve already done that. which she had not done since she got the hand-held. What mattered to her was that he was the board chairman of S. ??Thank you. Yet Blomkvist was right: behind the conspiracy there had to be others not known to her who had contributed to the shaping of her life. and I haven??t been able to tell Mikael.
A genuine scoop for Millennium. in H?rn?sand. She recognized Modig as one of the officers in Bublanski??s team. and from there she would create a new identity somewhere in the world.K.?? ??Is that the truth??? Berger nodded. Bingo. swastika.C. He did not think that Advokat Thomasson??s visit earlier in the day had been particularly reassuring.?? He explained how the story had developed. or at least parts of it. The public register listed eighteen Susanne Linders in Stockholm county. Only four people in the world knew how he had come by that scar. ??Jonas Sandberg. And that particular murder was no longer one of the charges against her.?? Modig and Holmberg exchanged glances. but you??re standing here lying to my face. M?rtensson??s C. As soon as he closed the door Figuerola was on her feet and back out on Kungsgatan.
11. adjusted his glasses. it??s like the old days. he called Berger himself. At least Morander understood the necessity of the reductions. If she continued to heal at the same pace.D. But the offer came like a bolt from the blue. ??Teleborian meets with the Section and then goes directly to see Prosecutor Ekstr?m. and your delicious grotto. ??that we make the whole thing disappear and put Salander back in an asylum??? ??Salander we can handle.?? Salander said without enthusiasm. but I won??t mention how or where I got them.?? Teleborian laughed. Bates had taken more than 200 photographs of the community and created a gallery of small thumbnails. or the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He quoted from the correspondence between Teleborian and Bj?rck. Dr Jonasson burst out laughing and shook his head. but the wires stretched in the direction of the pencil. But I can give you the authority to conduct a one-man investigation.
or whatever his name was.U. ??If I didn??t know about it ???? ??But if you did know about it. have already done me in. He thought for a long time before he went back to the landline and called his sister. ??You know more than you ought to.?? ??And yet the recommendation was that she should be institutionalized??? ??That was based on her prior history.?? ??Evert Gullberg. it must have been something that Niedermann decided to do.00 Linder arrived and knocked on the door. who for some strange reason was not online. Either the person who did the falsification was someone in the psychiatric or forensic medicine departments. He had terrible pain in his back. But I??m only talking about a couple of days until we have all the installations ready. I??m guessing that Blomkvist has a copy and that there??s one at the editorial offices. (No. He looked back at the clock. She reported in a matter-of-fact manner how he had hit her. ??Do you have any pain or discomfort in the shoulder??? She shook her head.?? ??You changed the whole door??? ??Yes.
And now I have the world??s worst guilty conscience. a summer cabin or???? ??I don??t think it would be a summer cabin. Niedermann must not be captured alive.?? ??Thomas Paulsson happened at Gosseberga.?? Clinton shook his head again. she consistently refused to participate in conversations with Dr L?derman. A dental nurse by the name of Anita Kaspersson left her home by car at 7. just ring for us.?? ??Rubbish. and was gone. You and your colleague are sources and you have complete source protection.?? ??Micke ?? I??m so sorry. switched on the night light and looked around the room. ??I can find my way. He was gasping as if he had just run a marathon..I. He was dead before the ambulance arrived. Her client was in much worse shape than she had been led to believe. That??s what this button is for.
15 in the morning. It was in fact Bj?rck who had proposed the solution. She sank back on to the pillow. staying at the Radisson on Avenyn. We??ll have to keep an eye on both of them. Then the efficient chaos. she armed herself with the canister of Mace.. He would not be able to get back to sleep. She sat still. He was handcuffed and increasingly uncomfortable. All except Figuerola shook their heads. As she heard the key in the door she realized that the cloth bag and charger were still in view on the bedside table. Her testimony has to be declared invalid. ??I thought Salander had recovered. he already had enough material to set off a landslide of headlines.?? ??But I???? ??Give it a try. Since the murder of Zalachenko. ??Thorbj?rn F?lldin.P.
Salander stared for a long time at the locked door. the footnotes often referred to articles in the evening newspapers. He had played it safe. It had taken him all day to work out that her room was two doors down the corridor to the right. ??Coffee. I officially leave on the last day of April.?? ??And??? Modig hesitated once again. Don??t do anything until we can agree a strategy.?? ??I didn??t give anyone permission to arrest Bj?rck. But this rape took place two years ago. and he paid attention because those were the initials of Zalachenko??s holding company. The electrodes.10 a. To raise the matter with the chief of Secretariat might be to chuck a very large stone into a pond. Clinton would take care of Giannini. But he??s tricky to deal with. ??I thought you??d be dead by now. it??s pretty slow today. Jonasson ordered tomography with the new and improved C. Cortez sat on the sofa in Eriksson??s office looking guilty.
?? ??Yes. He downloaded four folders. ??That was a long time ago.?? Sandberg nodded his agreement. the day the Salander trial begins.?? which referred to the Security Police as a whole. ??Blomkvist. Finally he inserted narrow forceps with serrated jaws. Then he sat on the edge of the bed and untied the strings of her nightshirt.?? ??Who got in first??? ??We got in more or less at the same time. it was a case of deep antagonism in a tragically dysfunctional family. Come and have breakfast if you can make it. 3. and Trinity.?? Zalachenko was suddenly very unsure whether Gullberg was bluffing. Francke and P. No. He was better at planning operations than I. ??And how did you know that this meeting was going to take place??? ??I have to protect my source. Salander looked at him.
we are quite aware of that. mostly so that the wound would not be exposed to bacteria or dirt. and Trelleborg.M.?? Karim said.?? Berger got up. But somehow. Petrova had injuries that could very well have been inflicted by a man??s bare hands ???? ??Niedermann??? ??It??s a reasonable assumption. since Bj?rck already knew of Zalachenko??s existence.?? Clinton said. Then he placed his hands gently around her neck and turned her head back and forth and to the sides a few times. She was looking at the building from the side. and throw a brick through the window. Milton will send cars out here. ??Coffee. She looked in astonishment at the icon bar. And you??re better than I am at what you do.P. Figuerola locked all the material in her safe. were masters of forgery and disinformation.
I??ve apologized to him for the way he was treated last night. and it??s important that we see to it at once that this is the image presented to the press. ??Hello. Blomkvist called from Caf?? Madeleine on his anonymous mobile to book a flight to Amsterdam.?? ??That would be a mistake. Not tonight. ??The four of us are just dumb police officers. He had been key as a consultant in connection with Counter-Espionage??s surveillance of a suspected industrial spy. but from a number of sources Cortez had a fairly clear picture of the events of the night before.?? At 10. the defector had lived in an anonymous apartment owned by the Section.?? ??Alright. ??Worst of all. Quite elderly for a murderer. He was given asylum and began to work for S?po.?? ??All I ask is that you hear me out. which was available in the Republic??s archive for its citizens. ??Is it something personal between the two of you??? ??You could say that. She had said her name and started to count. has been to see me twice in the past few days.
Yet he was not hungry. then pay out as much as you want in bonuses.?? ??Try out the idea that she??s innocent of these accusations. When she was alone she said: ??Hello.M.?? Edklinth said at last. and she went through every public register she could find. She had a brace on her neck. So I would recommend that you extract it ?? but ???? ??But what??? ??The bullet doesn??t worry me so much. He held it up to the light for a few seconds and saw that it appeared intact; then he dropped it into a bowl. S. and a muted brick-red jacket. It was entirely up to him to decide whether he would talk to her or not. ??How does that work in practice??? ??That??s a very good question. He looked around the corridor and saw that he was being watched by nurses. a van pulled out and left a parking space on Bellmansgatan at the corner with Tavastgatan. And the paedophile industry. ??You don??t know about the tattoo Bjurman had on his abdomen??? ??What tattoo??? Blomkvist was taken aback. If you find evidence of criminal activity. Perhaps the murder of Zalachenko is a part of it too.
You??ll have to send the material to a hotmail address. She says that the murderer was a man in his seventies. ??So you??re completely innocent??? ??Of course I am.?? ??If I tried to go at your pace. of course.P. I??m also going to charge him with probable involvement in arson. it is not merely a criminal conspiracy ?C it is a threat to national security. is to provide you with information. She said she??d read books on the subject before.?? Salander??s heart sank. In the end he had his own resources to fall back on. I??m just so swamped here. Ever since he had heard the news at the Kaffebar he had had his heart in his throat and a panicky feeling that Salander might have been the killer. In any normal situation she would have knocked on the door. so he decided that Salander??s lawyer should serve as a proxy friend.00. An industrious investigative journalist could get paranoid on less than this.?? ??Not so. and she told him that she had been assigned by her boss to form an unofficial picture of what was true and what not true in the so-called Zalachenko case.
?? ??No. could decide to put S?po??s top bosses under the microscope. Alias Falun. He had filled in the gaps by saying that Bjurman had made a deal with Zalachenko which collapsed when Bjurman lost control. ??What is it??? ??Well. Of all the people who touched her and poked at her.?? Sandberg said.??? ??Are you bullshitting me??? Ellis had lived in Sweden for many years and was fluent in Swedish ?C albeit with an American accent ?C but when Jonasson spoke to him in Swedish.?? ??I can??t. ??Hello. just call. and its purpose is to damage Salander before the trial.?? ??I understand. that Bjurman had been Salander??s guardian; on the other hand he could not see why the old Zalachenko story should surface.?? The officers nodded. You know how the paper is made and I have a while to go on the school bench.M. She??s been doing so well lately.?? ??I get it. apart from Gunnar Bj?rck.
and his girlfriend too.?? ??Car. We??ll hold back on charging him with the murders of the three individuals we dug up on the property. She put the Palm in the recess behind the bedside table and waited while two Eritrean women vacuumed the room and changed her bedlinen. Then she walked back to the door and punched in the code again.?? Edklinth frowned. She has been badly treated and is under a lot of pressure. We have taps on Blomkvist??s landline and mobile. And then she called to say that Teleborian and somebody called Jonas were meeting at Central Station this afternoon. ??Well. A man in advanced old age. Probably he would go to Tallinn. Then she looked at her husband. had landed in because of Salander and Niedermann. so that she will not be believed if anyone should start asking questions about Zalachenko. There had to be a group ?? a division or unit of some sort. no matter how many times she tried to block it. I??m saying that some people within the Security Police are involved in such activity.00. Metro and Stockholm City.
She heard a movement and turned to see Salander just starting to clamber out of bed again. Through all these storms Berger had been the rock that nothing seemed capable of shifting. he had become involved.?? he said. ??Evert.?? ??Is there any prognosis??? ??As I understand it. of whom four were female.?? ??So Blomkvist had a gun. Richard Ekstr?m.?? Figuerola said. There were photographs from various parties. It??s beautiful weather and Saturday afternoon.K. Who wants to go first??? Berglund cleared his throat. Blomkvist closed his eyes.?? Gullberg said. then pay out as much as you want in bonuses.?? ??Correct. if the need arose. He is correctly quoted.
He took the stairs down to the ground floor.?? Blomkvist said.?? Blomkvist stood at Armansky??s whiteboard and picked up a marker. But she could scarcely keep her eyes open. Salander got up from the edge of the bed and went to the window. writing his own programs and planting insidious tendrils on the Internet. S. he opened the door to the room next to Salander??s. and he has backing from higher up in the bureaucracy. The question is. The old bastard had a pistol too. Pain stabbed through her shoulder. some unknown lawyer appointed by the court would probably be worse. he had found her sitting in the chair by the window. But I need an opportunity to question the girl.?? ??Which means that if problems arise. She??s considering taking on Salander as a client. don??t you??? ??You were sitting with a map spread out on the front seat. Blomkvist had his arm around her shoulders. but in any case she was in no condition to be questioned.
or rather two. we want surveillance on that apartment around the clock. The fourth was a copy of Ekstr?m??s email folder made at 2. ??Nothing.I. As far as he knew. and he had to stop after each step to deal with the pain. It had upset F?lldin that an important Soviet agent had sought asylum in Sweden. but it could have come about in a dozen different ways ?? for instance.06 p. along with the kidnapping and assault of Salander??s friend Miriam Wu.?? ??Just to say that I??d be on very thin ice if my superiors found out about this visit. We get access tomorrow. He??s at his best when things heat up. She was walking to the university when someone shot her with a crossbow. ??Imbecile. Only when Salander had logged out of Hacker Republic did she go into Yahoo and log on to the private newsgroup [Idiotic_Table]. ??Svensson. and would have been passed over to the next administration. and paid with Berger??s credit card.
?? ??And how are we supposed to give her the proper care here if we can??t have access to her records? The medical responsibility for her right now is ours. for example. nutters who had the gift to read messages hidden from the normal world.06 p. I??m certainly not used to this kind of situation. was dissolved. some of it. She shook her head. trying to find out what??s happening there. The blood had coagulated at the entry wound in her head.?? ??I understand. but in reality he had scarcely been seen in the department before the ??90s.00 in the evening. two columns.?? Sonny froze. She had a cyber-stalker on her hands. She pondered for a moment her suspicion that the person threatening her had something to do with S.?? ??You??re not married. Things could not go on this way. If he wanted to.
I usually draw a blank. not to discuss the topic in his office without taking special precautions. Those three had formed an inner circle and were always shutting themselves in Berger??s office ?? well. She put her hand over the mouthpiece and turned to the others. For a moment he considered turning to the regular police. S?po??s ears are going to be burning. That yielded better results. Blomkvist sat on a sofa while Baksi got coffee from a machine in the hallway. ??Interesting. They told a fantastic story about a Russian defector who had come to Sweden. I repeat. I??m being paid a monthly salary of 88. but I think we??ll put that idea on the back burner for now. but we may have to postpone it for a month. I??m still on the Salander story. but he looked much older.?? Only three people knew where Svavelsj? M. Which was not very likely.?? ??Good. He wrote a carefully worded and noncommittal comment on her chart: Radiological examination gives a basis for definitive conclusions but the condition of the patient has deteriorated steadily during the day.
girlfriend.?? Berger said. But he had retrained himself to be a locksmith (of all professions).I.
Is that accurate??? ??Yes
Is that accurate??? ??Yes. Infernal bastard piss rats. He closed his iBook. but my boss. These doors are so thin that the bullets would have gone clean through them if he had fired. Are you O. She could not imagine how he could finish in time. took out the stylus and began to tap on the letters on the digital keypad. Then a crooked grin spread across her face. and I come into the picture before a crime is committed. I have to think about this.?? ??I??m on her side. She forced herself to relax. then G?ransson??s car would have been parked at one of the ports. Having my afternoon beer.K. which he at once identified as belonging to the Security Police. She thought for a moment. They sat in the car and waited.?? Blomkvist said again. Nurse Nicander came back with the number of the Radisson. We depend for that on freelancers and the material from the T. He did not want to do it at the hotel where he had been staying. Besides.
They stopped at the same place in Kronoberg park as the day before. Gullberg saw a red flower-shaped splatter on the wall behind the bedhead. ??Why not give it to her lawyer??? ??Because Lisbeth is the only one who knows how to get at the evidence. ??Svensson.?? ??I didn??t know that. There might have been some risk that the sound of the breaking window would be heard and someone might have reacted ?? but your house sits at an angle and the sound was deflected by the facade. but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale. Sometimes she thought that there was nothing going on in there at all. He studied Gullberg. He was wearing blue jeans. Vinge??s memoirs. It??s like this. ??I hope all??s well with your father. Anita Kaspersson. M?rtensson??s apartment was on the top floor of a three-storey building in the suburbs. We haven??t seen each other in ages.T. but that Zalachenko might have any connection to the affair had not dawned on him.?? ??Who in the police has read the report??? ??There were two copies which were read by Bublanski. As soon as she was a little way down the hill. I hope you know what you??re doing. Only when that has happened can she begin to confront her legal problems. That was where he had stayed on previous visits. consultant at the Trades Union Federation ?C his only venture into the I.
27. Her head was wrapped in bandages. Which could explain the low price. Then there??s the investigation at Nykvarn ?? three cold-case killings. unusually early. Within reason.?? Cortez said. and no questions should be asked.?? ??And so am I. but for security reasons almost the whole team was moved out of police headquarters to an eleven-room apartment in ?stermalm that had been discreetly remodelled into a fortified office. almost two weeks after Blomkvist had given her Cortez??s research papers on Borgsj?. ??One flight up. This was correct procedure. The telephone tapping was a more difficult task than the computer monitoring. The problem is the ones who won??t let them do their jobs. ??He recognized me and knew my name. and I??ve also been made a mentor for a couple of interns. And before you read it. 2. And now the murderer herself had been shot.?? Bublanski replied curtly. none of this looks like much fun. He had mentioned her in an email. ??O.
The majority were of girls. At the last moment she changed her mind.?? ??I see. to drive over to the Nossebro road. Nieminen grimaced. She had given him an especially long kiss that morning because he was flying to Paris to deliver some lectures and would not be back until the weekend. he did go to the reception desk.?? ??I??ve been running. It was just before 4.?? ??But you??re still withholding key material. A nurses?? table stood right next to her.?? ??But those journals contain mostly scholarly papers and pure research. Two had a background in the Fraud Division. ??And you have seen her only for a short period when she has been forced to be passive because of her injuries.N. He frowned as he stared out of the window. I??m a survivor. and there is no satisfactory forensic evidence. bad cop. and acting very quickly and efficiently. itself be implemented? The Wennerstr?m debacle had given rise to an avalanche of dilemmas within the Security Police.?? Nurse Agneta frowned. but she still worked out obsessively at the gym five nights a week. You remember when Mikael was up in Hedestad sulking for almost a whole bloody year.
??O. The pathologist was unable to supply the exact time of death. It was. They had found the pencil. She could give a good description of the woman. the reporter. called Jonas Sandberg. We have no authority to travel to Holland to interview the ambassador. ??Maybe you??re just bothered by seeing a girl with muscles.?? ??Which means that my problem is definitely the government??s problem. Zalachenko would give his word. He opened a new Word document.?? ??And since she went into your building I assume that Milton has put in some sort of hidden surveillance of your flat.?? ??Quite right. ??What do you intend to do??? ??I was hoping you would tell me.?? she said.?? ??Who should I say is here??? ??An old colleague. The face was grotesquely swollen. he had gone back in time and described Zalachenko??s arrival in Sweden. Even though it did not offer any answers to his immediate questions.?? ??O. we??re going to lose the case. but ???? ??Not a problem.?? ??The government does not cover up criminal activity.
still wet behind the ears. Fr?ken Salander.?? ??If Zalachenko were to talk. ??O. But he was bothered by the fact that they had to dress like that in the middle of Stockholm. Which. Malm wanted to know what had happened in Gosseberga. If things did not go right for her there was a risk that she would spend many more birthdays in some form of confinement. and we??re in the middle of an investigation in which I??m involved ???? ??You mean it was unprofessional of me. Then a crime would have been committed and led to a prosecution. But Nurse Agneta had noticed that Dr Jonasson had spent time with the patient who was under arrest and otherwise seemed withdrawn from the world. She watched the woman as she stood in the queue at the kiosk. The first patrol car with Torstensson and Ingemarsson from the station in Trollh?ttan arrived a few minutes after the helicopter landed. except???? ??Except what??? ??Except for one or two surprising details. I think the dyke needs some cock.?? ??Very good. For a moment he considered turning to the regular police.?? ??He has to be tough to handle the job. ??Get back into bed at once. ??Yes??? ??It??s just that when we talked to Teleborian.?? ??Thank you. we will. stark raving mad. Two of the people living in the building have police records.
She clicked on the bubble and wrote Wasp. ??I??d like permission to go through the personnel files from the ??50s. ??This is an untraceable hotmail address. and examined her to check on her progress. Bublanski had called the meeting on Sunday because he knew that preliminary investigation leader Richard Ekstr?m was busy elsewhere. ??But it doesn??t add up. and put on long black trousers.?? ??The chief of Secretariat is the only person who could make this sort of arrangement. Besides. I??m not going to haggle with you.I. a summer cabin or???? ??I don??t think it would be a summer cabin.?? Blomkvist looked at Malm intently. Which indeed you quite often did. And then he was taken ill again in August last year. and the purpose of the trial is to get me committed to a secure psychiatric ward. ??Do we kill the article??? Blomkvist looked Cortez straight in the eye. ??He??s well versed in Swedish law and police procedure.?? Blomkvist looked at Malm intently. they are anxious to arrest him as soon as possible.?? Wadensj?? sounded doubtful. Gullberg thought. You know you have to call and tell me if you??re not coming home. ??That??s possible.
rigid drill sergeant type. not the remotest idea of the background you??ve described. nor did he have the feeling that he was being watched or followed. But Salander was gone from her I. but if this pans out we??ll have a fantastic article for the June issue. But the living-room window was so big that they did not have the glass in stock. Blomkvist thought.?? ??And he was the person with primary responsibility for Zalachenko when he defected. In other words. I don??t really know. Magnusson had put together a four-column article about Morander??s life and career. 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.?? Clinton gave him a feeble smile. I??m into my third day with hardly any sleep. Holm.?? ??I??ve been running. the supplementary information that the prosecutor considered irrelevant to the preliminary investigation. He??s the fixer.?? ??He says he??s never been to the Nykvarn warehouse and that he just happened to be out with Lundin on a motorcycle ride. I check out every car that catches my attention. which meant that some operator would go in manually and listen to the conversation to decide whether it was of interest or not. V. now knew about the existence of the Section. The operations unit of Constitutional Protection spent Friday trying to get a handle on the information they had received from Blomkvist.
??You were reading a book about it on my staircase.?? ??O. Right now I just feel like shit. if I understood correctly ?C is to clean corridor 11C.S.?? Clinton waited. All except Figuerola shook their heads.?? Blomkvist explained how F?lldin had reacted to the information about Zalachenko and how he had travelled to the Hague to interview Janeryd. playing badminton.?? ??Thailand. I don??t want to say what it entails right now.?? ??Good. Blomkvist got out his anonymous mobile and called Daniel Olsson. She immediately pinged Blomkvist??s I. She turned the computer off at once and shoved it under her pillow. reading paragraphs here and there. We??re the ones who will decide what we can tell you.?? ??I know. ??That was the crucial part of the evidence. How should I deal with it??? ??I don??t have the energy to think that through right now.?? Assistant Editor Fredriksson looked to be in a bad mood as he knocked on the door of Berger??s glass cage at 2.?? ??Could we talk to the prosecutor??? ??No. Trinity was an ardent fan of the E. but that was exactly why you hired me.
On several occasions when he had knocked on the door to relay some news. which Blomkvist studied.I. We put out the paper. ??To your right.00??? ??That??ll be fine.?? ??Indeed. She took a sip of coffee and had just opened her mouth to take a bite of toast when she heard the headlines.?? Eriksson did not answer the telephone. The plane landed at Schiphol airport at 4. which means the transmitter substance in his nerve synapses doesn??t function. That would require us to believe that Salander is innocent. to an apartment with the name Martinsson on the door. It was 9. or the board should find a way to take an aggressive stance. From the moment I sat down in that glass cage. Slowly she put down her coffee cup.?? Salander felt an icy chill run down her spine. ??One more thing. There is a nationwide A. But let??s not lose hope altogether. How the hell did they think I would?? Then she looked in the cloth bag and found at the bottom a scrap of folded paper. ??Teleborian has a link to a person I know only as Jonas.?? A ripple of groans greeted this response.
Erlander did not like the situation. Leaving the restaurant she had stuffed it into her pocket instead of putting it back in her briefcase. Then he logged on to the media archive and picked out several of the articles on which Olsson??s report was based. chatted a while. and the consequences are there for all to see today. The buyers cheerfully pay what they are told it costs. HOW DOES YOUR FOOT FEEL? She raised her eyes involuntarily and looked out across the newsroom. They were drinking coffee in the pavement area of a caf?? on Norr M?larstrand. Was it you who put duct tape on her wounds??? ??Yes.??s department of Counter-Espionage in a quite different case. but it was mild and it was distant. suffering from cancer. He did his military service in the ??40s and became an accountant or some such. was involved in Zalachenko??s murder. pain shot like a knife through his back. She had?? He could not remember a thing when he came to.?? Endrin hesitated for a moment. Then she turned directly to the head of the Violent Crimes Division. All that was needed was a legal psychiatric report. Zalachenko had gone and fucked that stupid whore Agneta Sofia Salander. and attempted murder. She decided that she did not feel like seeing anyone that evening.?? ??I??ll give the go-ahead tomorrow. and hurried off towards the editorial offices on G?tgatan.
Part of it is probably that she??s very impressed by you and likes you a lot ?? as a boss. which was available in the Republic??s archive for its citizens. He had a gun in his hand. Late on the evening of the fifth day. but after going back and forth about this. We will be holding an annual dinner at which we??ll have fun talking crap about you. which means the transmitter substance in his nerve synapses doesn??t function. ??Her behaviour was exemplary. and we have extensive forensic evidence against her.?? ??This is a bit difficult to digest. And I understood from Holger Palmgren that you had some information. between 37 and 37. Have you got any more surprises up your sleeve??? ??Yes. Edklinth had told her: no rings in the water. They do their best to ignore anything they hear about us.?? ??Sure. It was too early to go to bed. She took a chance and hurried to the corner of Sveav?gen. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and pulled the electrodes off her arms and chest.M.?? ??I did not say there was no rush.R. We??re already out on ice so thin that we??ll need paddles rather than ice picks. He lowered his gaze and pretended that he had not been looking at her.
my mother knew the von Rottinger family.?? ??Hello. And a murderer who called himself Ronald Niedermann. checking one face after another. and the price that the work of a newspaperman can sometimes exact. Second. and Edklinth was Figuerola??s boss. pointing out that Niedermann was not a man who could be arrested and handcuffed just like that: he was a maniacal killer. I heard her lecture once. and not some celebrity chasing headlines. Don??t misunderstand me.?? Berger said with a smile. She bought herself a coffee and sat at the opposite end of the caf?? and opened her Dagens Nyheter.?? ??Teleborian is meeting Jonas at the Ring in Central Station at 3. His other two reports had involved less significant evaluations: one was of an employee inside S. ??That blond monster you and Magge hang out with. He was almost paralysed as he felt himself being lifted on to the stool. But to be honest. but no idea how to find him. Malm could see for himself that Blomkvist was indeed being tailed. I??m convinced that he??s involved. Suspicious of everything around him.?? ??And what the fuck would that be? We??re the ones who took the job for the sake of the club. department store.
How? She walked all the way round. It had been sent just before 3. M?rtensson left home at 7. or whether she was off her rocker or why the police kept her locked up. ??Should I call her??? ??No. You extended his contract and gave him a feature assignment. but he??ll try to get out of the country as soon as he can.30 that afternoon. She looked in the bathroom.?? ??I??ve taken care of her since she was twelve.D.?? she said. In the trial. but she was definitely not normal. ??Give us a written order and the authority we need. I just want to leave the flowers. and she felt no desire at all to engage with it. It almost seems to be an academic study of a patient who refuses to speak. It dawned on her that here he was calmly talking of the possibility of there being a threat to her life. and he in turn went to the Prime Minister.: Clinton in 1971 and von Rottinger in 1973. Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize most critically. It corresponds to about fifty pages of book text.T.
That part of the story focused on the deaths of Svensson and Johansson ?C what they were working on. What matters to them is their own survival. she hit back and threw a Molotov cocktail at him as he sat in his car. the latest model would cost about one. During surgery the night before. and whether the robbery could be defined as a racist crime. It has to stay that way. She left out all the details that could be used against her. Bj?rck had hired Teleborian effectively to lock Salander up in a psychiatric hospital for children on the ?C false ?C pretext that she was mentally deranged. But of course things have become more complicated technically. Blomkvist printed out the 220 pages of the manuscript that were finished. and above all that she is not subjected to new injustices.?? ??She doesn??t know Niedermann at all. F?lldin could hardly still be an active farmer. I??m only interested in the Zalachenko club. But he could not work out this strange girl. Then he heard movement behind him and felt his knees buckle. The Security Police recently initiated an investigation of this man because he had written a number of apparently unstable letters to well-known politicians and the media. The criticism meant that the Section??s future was questioned. wasn??t established until four months later. I gather that there was a very considerable difference of opinion between Faste and Bublanski. That investigation is presently allocated to S?dert?lje. In real life. Either we ancients step in and do our bit.
Who took your place??? ??I don??t know. And I??m dead tired. Criminal Inspector Holmberg. And Blomkvist did not believe it. When they passed Ikea at Kungens Kurva in Sk?rholmen. She bent down and bit him on the ear. We??ll have a complete security plan ready in a few days which will include a personal attack alarm.D. Henry Cortez answered. I??ve read your file from S?po. but the preliminary investigation against Salander for the murder of your friends seems to have been shelved.R. But there??s something else I need to tell you. Even so. He could not see anything illegal about his task.?? Blomkvist said to remind them that he was there in the room. But that won??t work for the rest of us. ??Nothing??? Bublanski said. Then she picked up her mobile and called Blomkvist. for God??s sake. He walked across the street and through the front door of an 1890s building.?? ??In what way??? ??Faste appears to have become obsessed by one newspaper story about a lesbian Satanist gang. Bublanski explained why he was calling. Finally she shrugged.
S. That is how the media work. in accordance with his own paranoid delusions. Just tell us.?? he said. It has nothing to do with Mikael. a terrible pain shot up his leg. Some of the board members. We have been caught napping. Do you want me to take the bus??? Waltari sneaked a look at Nieminen sitting quiet as a mouse as they drove out to Svavelsj?. this Gunnar Bj?rck. ??Nothing today.00. She was the one who got in touch with us after Lisbeth??s unexpected visit.?? ??So you??re suggesting in all seriousness that the board should decide to abolish dividends and bonuses. but it was only a matter of time before the rain came. Her longest had been with a colleague in Uppsala ?C they had shared an apartment for two years.S. That report alleges that the Security Police and the psychiatrist Peter Teleborian co-operated to place Lisbeth Salander in psychiatric care. Jonasson sat in the visitor??s chair. This involved recruiting new personnel and continual problems breaking them in.?? he said and shook hands.?? and they all seemed to come from sources in the media.P.
They were tiny children savaged by dogs on Vasaplatsen. the signature of the Prime Minister meant that he had sanctioned the need for a unit that would be responsible for ??internal personnel control??.D. Why not??? She turned her back and pulled the hospital gown off her shoulder.?? ??But someone else ?C your brother. Prostitutes. took it into their hearts that parliamentary government had outlived its role and that parliament should be replaced by a dictatorship. Both Holger and I have accepted your plan and are co-operating with you. there??s a risk that a woman??s rights will be shockingly violated. She looked up towards the roof of Bellmansgatan 1. That is. He looked at the girl??s shaved and wounded head. of course not. ??On the train. Do you feel like an afternoon on the town??? ??Not particularly. Neither of them had noticed the man in the lobby who had been watching them as they stepped into the lift. He still had one or two secrets that he shared only with Salander.K.?? ??O. is Niedermann still hiding out somewhere in Sweden?; two. She was in a bad way. And thank God nobody yet knew that he was her brother. Sandberg looked at Zalachenko for a moment. which Blomkvist studied.
we??ve tried it. Edklinth did not believe in coincidence on such a grand scale.?? ??This conversation is over. I??d like to let you know that your friend Mikael Blomkvist has told us that a lawyer by the name of Annika Giannini is willing to represent you. but I assure you it??s in no way illegal. They were not pleasant thoughts.G. and how she felt in general. She immediately pinged Blomkvist??s I.?? Gullberg said.00 and no doubt I have an impressive blood alcohol content. Now we have burglaries. There??s a small kitchen alcove at the far end on the right. We have routines here at S. When she returned to her station. Her heart skipped a beat.?? ??But Blomkvist has already been warned ?? they stole Bj?rck??s report from there. so long as its objective was to safeguard the security of the nation.01. She was tall. the typesetter. He??s going to get away again. it??s not O. Zalachenko??s activities since then have nothing whatsoever to do with national security.
P.P. This happened because Bublanski had repeatedly tried to get hold of Bj?rck. And the press. Armansky??s first thought was that the man was paranoid.?? ??So what??s going to happen to him??? ??I arrested him for violation of the prostitution laws. The criticism meant that the Section??s future was questioned. Via the front door. As far as I can work out.?? ??I see ???? ??The problem is that a number of sentences were altered in a very subtle way. It was in fact Bj?rck who had proposed the solution. Waltari followed him. hoping to get rid of the daughter. Modig wondered how much she should say to a reporter. Blomkvist had set June 20 as his deadline for going to press. Inspector Thomas Paulsson had a shocked expression on his face. The murderer is just about alive and in surgery. Which was not very likely.?? ??Thailand. She struggled to her feet and put her hand to her forehead. who managed to spring her loose. He was Prime Minister at the time. ??First of all. ??You don??t like the Security Police.
light-blonde. ??Give us a written order and the authority we need. 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. ??No. Various assignments had been given to Cortez and Eriksson. But that??s not why you came. But someone with Niedermann??s distinctive appearance is not going to go unnoticed for long.?? Viktor G?ransson was the club??s treasurer and financial expert. It was highly unlikely that Evert Gullberg would ever be brought before a court.?? ??I need a guarantee of anonymity for both of us. four police officers and one prosecutor. That was good. Anything else did not make sense. Or. the footnotes often referred to articles in the evening newspapers. colon and bladder. During the first year the Section consisted of Gullberg and three hand-picked colleagues.S. but let??s assume. Where did he get the weapon??? ??Blomkvist won??t discuss it without his lawyer being there. Zalachenko stood in the doorway for two minutes without moving. It was in fact Bj?rck who had proposed the solution.30 this morning.?? ??Do you have any weaknesses??? ??I don??t read fiction.
He undressed. She stopped outside Ekstr?m??s closed door. that is. Magnusson was getting on in years and as advertising manager had nothing to do with the editorial side.?? She smiled and did not seem at all irritated by his questions. He took a pinch of snuff.K. You??re probably thinking of me as a guest you have to entertain.P. It was late afternoon by the time Figuerola was able to convey to Edklinth with some certainty the discovery that Clinton??s and von Rottinger??s careers after they left S.?? ??And??? ??When we were discussing this yesterday. had climbed on to a stool. but it could have been longer. But the officers were warned not to tire him. And Inspector Erlander in G?teborg has been focusing his search in that direction from day one. ??But we have more urgent issues to talk about. We found the weapon. He and Malm had thought of a paperback edition. ??You know who I am ?C so you don??t have to be afraid of me. All manner of investigations loomed. You don??t have to be afraid. & E. the most her lawyer could do was to file a report with the Parliamentary Ombudsman. I understand Mikael??s plan.
??Here we are again. where she??s been isolated since April? She doesn??t want the police to know she has access to the Net. There was a confused atmosphere in the newsroom throughout the afternoon. almost all) agreed had an indispensable value. but I do not have any details to pass on to you. We have no idea what went wrong. so he was far from wide awake when he reached to answer it. but his sick leave was extended and now it??s a question of waiting for an operation.?? ??What sort of odd??? ??I??m afraid some idiot is sending really vile emails and he seems to have targeted me. He??s in bad shape. ??I mean I??ve glanced at it.30 in the afternoon. even if he happens to be her boss.5 hours when the house was empty. Everything points towards a suicide.?? Salander said breathlessly. That??s eleven rooms on two floors.?? ??I see. S.?? said Holmberg. And he could not have that conversation because she was under arrest and no visitors were allowed. He paid with a credit card and took a taxi to G?teborg Central Station. showered. not for the past two years.
?? Nystr?m leafed through his notes. Salander found the report. It beggars belief. As far as he knew.?? ??I see. Sorry. said. which meant that she was still more of a real police officer than a fully fledged desk warrior. By the early ??80s Zalachenko had calmed down and begun to adapt. has called in all copies until the matter is investigated. You??ve read Bj?rck??s report. The original shows that Peter Teleborian was assigned by the district court to do a forensic psychiatric examination of Lisbeth Salander. The revolver was a present he had received from British Intelligence twenty-five years earlier as a reward for an invaluable piece of information: the name of a clerical officer at M.?? Edklinth took off his glasses and polished them thoroughly with paper napkin. A prosecutor decided not to take the case any further. the assistant head of Secretariat and the head of Budget. He would never see them again. Do we have a description of the third man??? ??Even better.?? ??A woman??? ??Not just any woman. a pervert and a rapist. but Zalachenko was guilty of repeated assault against his girlfriend.?? Berger said. But he had retrained himself to be a locksmith (of all professions).I.
Is that accurate??? ??Yes. Infernal bastard piss rats. He closed his iBook. but my boss. These doors are so thin that the bullets would have gone clean through them if he had fired. Are you O. She could not imagine how he could finish in time. took out the stylus and began to tap on the letters on the digital keypad. Then a crooked grin spread across her face. and I come into the picture before a crime is committed. I have to think about this.?? ??I??m on her side. She forced herself to relax. then G?ransson??s car would have been parked at one of the ports. Having my afternoon beer.K. which he at once identified as belonging to the Security Police. She thought for a moment. They sat in the car and waited.?? Blomkvist said again. Nurse Nicander came back with the number of the Radisson. We depend for that on freelancers and the material from the T. He did not want to do it at the hotel where he had been staying. Besides.
They stopped at the same place in Kronoberg park as the day before. Gullberg saw a red flower-shaped splatter on the wall behind the bedhead. ??Why not give it to her lawyer??? ??Because Lisbeth is the only one who knows how to get at the evidence. ??Svensson.?? ??I didn??t know that. There might have been some risk that the sound of the breaking window would be heard and someone might have reacted ?? but your house sits at an angle and the sound was deflected by the facade. but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale. Sometimes she thought that there was nothing going on in there at all. He studied Gullberg. He was wearing blue jeans. Vinge??s memoirs. It??s like this. ??I hope all??s well with your father. Anita Kaspersson. M?rtensson??s apartment was on the top floor of a three-storey building in the suburbs. We haven??t seen each other in ages.T. but that Zalachenko might have any connection to the affair had not dawned on him.?? ??Who in the police has read the report??? ??There were two copies which were read by Bublanski. As soon as she was a little way down the hill. I hope you know what you??re doing. Only when that has happened can she begin to confront her legal problems. That was where he had stayed on previous visits. consultant at the Trades Union Federation ?C his only venture into the I.
27. Her head was wrapped in bandages. Which could explain the low price. Then there??s the investigation at Nykvarn ?? three cold-case killings. unusually early. Within reason.?? Cortez said. and no questions should be asked.?? ??And so am I. but for security reasons almost the whole team was moved out of police headquarters to an eleven-room apartment in ?stermalm that had been discreetly remodelled into a fortified office. almost two weeks after Blomkvist had given her Cortez??s research papers on Borgsj?. ??One flight up. This was correct procedure. The telephone tapping was a more difficult task than the computer monitoring. The problem is the ones who won??t let them do their jobs. ??He recognized me and knew my name. and I??ve also been made a mentor for a couple of interns. And before you read it. 2. And now the murderer herself had been shot.?? Bublanski replied curtly. none of this looks like much fun. He had mentioned her in an email. ??O.
The majority were of girls. At the last moment she changed her mind.?? ??I see. to drive over to the Nossebro road. Nieminen grimaced. She had given him an especially long kiss that morning because he was flying to Paris to deliver some lectures and would not be back until the weekend. he did go to the reception desk.?? ??I??ve been running. It was just before 4.?? ??But you??re still withholding key material. A nurses?? table stood right next to her.?? ??But those journals contain mostly scholarly papers and pure research. Two had a background in the Fraud Division. ??And you have seen her only for a short period when she has been forced to be passive because of her injuries.N. He frowned as he stared out of the window. I??m a survivor. and there is no satisfactory forensic evidence. bad cop. and acting very quickly and efficiently. itself be implemented? The Wennerstr?m debacle had given rise to an avalanche of dilemmas within the Security Police.?? Nurse Agneta frowned. but she still worked out obsessively at the gym five nights a week. You remember when Mikael was up in Hedestad sulking for almost a whole bloody year.
??O. The pathologist was unable to supply the exact time of death. It was. They had found the pencil. She could give a good description of the woman. the reporter. called Jonas Sandberg. We have no authority to travel to Holland to interview the ambassador. ??Maybe you??re just bothered by seeing a girl with muscles.?? ??Which means that my problem is definitely the government??s problem. Zalachenko would give his word. He opened a new Word document.?? ??And since she went into your building I assume that Milton has put in some sort of hidden surveillance of your flat.?? ??Quite right. ??What do you intend to do??? ??I was hoping you would tell me.?? she said.?? ??Who should I say is here??? ??An old colleague. The face was grotesquely swollen. he had gone back in time and described Zalachenko??s arrival in Sweden. Even though it did not offer any answers to his immediate questions.?? ??O. we??re going to lose the case. but ???? ??Not a problem.?? ??The government does not cover up criminal activity.
still wet behind the ears. Fr?ken Salander.?? ??If Zalachenko were to talk. ??O. But he was bothered by the fact that they had to dress like that in the middle of Stockholm. Which. Malm wanted to know what had happened in Gosseberga. If things did not go right for her there was a risk that she would spend many more birthdays in some form of confinement. and we??re in the middle of an investigation in which I??m involved ???? ??You mean it was unprofessional of me. Then a crime would have been committed and led to a prosecution. But Nurse Agneta had noticed that Dr Jonasson had spent time with the patient who was under arrest and otherwise seemed withdrawn from the world. She watched the woman as she stood in the queue at the kiosk. The first patrol car with Torstensson and Ingemarsson from the station in Trollh?ttan arrived a few minutes after the helicopter landed. except???? ??Except what??? ??Except for one or two surprising details. I think the dyke needs some cock.?? ??Very good. For a moment he considered turning to the regular police.?? ??He has to be tough to handle the job. ??Get back into bed at once. ??Yes??? ??It??s just that when we talked to Teleborian.?? ??Thank you. we will. stark raving mad. Two of the people living in the building have police records.
She clicked on the bubble and wrote Wasp. ??I??d like permission to go through the personnel files from the ??50s. ??This is an untraceable hotmail address. and examined her to check on her progress. Bublanski had called the meeting on Sunday because he knew that preliminary investigation leader Richard Ekstr?m was busy elsewhere. ??But it doesn??t add up. and put on long black trousers.?? ??The chief of Secretariat is the only person who could make this sort of arrangement. Besides. I??m not going to haggle with you.I. a summer cabin or???? ??I don??t think it would be a summer cabin.?? Blomkvist looked at Malm intently. Which indeed you quite often did. And then he was taken ill again in August last year. and the purpose of the trial is to get me committed to a secure psychiatric ward. ??Do we kill the article??? Blomkvist looked Cortez straight in the eye. ??He??s well versed in Swedish law and police procedure.?? Blomkvist looked at Malm intently. they are anxious to arrest him as soon as possible.?? Wadensj?? sounded doubtful. Gullberg thought. You know you have to call and tell me if you??re not coming home. ??That??s possible.
rigid drill sergeant type. not the remotest idea of the background you??ve described. nor did he have the feeling that he was being watched or followed. But Salander was gone from her I. but if this pans out we??ll have a fantastic article for the June issue. But the living-room window was so big that they did not have the glass in stock. Blomkvist thought.?? ??And he was the person with primary responsibility for Zalachenko when he defected. In other words. I don??t really know. Magnusson had put together a four-column article about Morander??s life and career. 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.?? Clinton gave him a feeble smile. I??m into my third day with hardly any sleep. Holm.?? ??I??ve been running. the supplementary information that the prosecutor considered irrelevant to the preliminary investigation. He??s the fixer.?? ??He says he??s never been to the Nykvarn warehouse and that he just happened to be out with Lundin on a motorcycle ride. I check out every car that catches my attention. which meant that some operator would go in manually and listen to the conversation to decide whether it was of interest or not. V. now knew about the existence of the Section. The operations unit of Constitutional Protection spent Friday trying to get a handle on the information they had received from Blomkvist.
??You were reading a book about it on my staircase.?? ??O. Right now I just feel like shit. if I understood correctly ?C is to clean corridor 11C.S.?? Clinton waited. All except Figuerola shook their heads.?? Blomkvist explained how F?lldin had reacted to the information about Zalachenko and how he had travelled to the Hague to interview Janeryd. playing badminton.?? ??Thailand. I don??t want to say what it entails right now.?? ??Good. Blomkvist got out his anonymous mobile and called Daniel Olsson. She immediately pinged Blomkvist??s I. She turned the computer off at once and shoved it under her pillow. reading paragraphs here and there. We??re the ones who will decide what we can tell you.?? ??I know. ??That was the crucial part of the evidence. How should I deal with it??? ??I don??t have the energy to think that through right now.?? Assistant Editor Fredriksson looked to be in a bad mood as he knocked on the door of Berger??s glass cage at 2.?? ??Could we talk to the prosecutor??? ??No. Trinity was an ardent fan of the E. but that was exactly why you hired me.
On several occasions when he had knocked on the door to relay some news. which Blomkvist studied.I. We put out the paper. ??To your right.00??? ??That??ll be fine.?? ??Indeed. She took a sip of coffee and had just opened her mouth to take a bite of toast when she heard the headlines.?? Eriksson did not answer the telephone. The plane landed at Schiphol airport at 4. which means the transmitter substance in his nerve synapses doesn??t function. That would require us to believe that Salander is innocent. to an apartment with the name Martinsson on the door. It was 9. or the board should find a way to take an aggressive stance. From the moment I sat down in that glass cage. Slowly she put down her coffee cup.?? Salander felt an icy chill run down her spine. ??One more thing. There is a nationwide A. But let??s not lose hope altogether. How the hell did they think I would?? Then she looked in the cloth bag and found at the bottom a scrap of folded paper. ??Teleborian has a link to a person I know only as Jonas.?? A ripple of groans greeted this response.
Erlander did not like the situation. Leaving the restaurant she had stuffed it into her pocket instead of putting it back in her briefcase. Then he logged on to the media archive and picked out several of the articles on which Olsson??s report was based. chatted a while. and the consequences are there for all to see today. The buyers cheerfully pay what they are told it costs. HOW DOES YOUR FOOT FEEL? She raised her eyes involuntarily and looked out across the newsroom. They were drinking coffee in the pavement area of a caf?? on Norr M?larstrand. Was it you who put duct tape on her wounds??? ??Yes.??s department of Counter-Espionage in a quite different case. but it was mild and it was distant. suffering from cancer. He did his military service in the ??40s and became an accountant or some such. was involved in Zalachenko??s murder. pain shot like a knife through his back. She had?? He could not remember a thing when he came to.?? Endrin hesitated for a moment. Then she turned directly to the head of the Violent Crimes Division. All that was needed was a legal psychiatric report. Zalachenko had gone and fucked that stupid whore Agneta Sofia Salander. and attempted murder. She decided that she did not feel like seeing anyone that evening.?? ??I??ll give the go-ahead tomorrow. and hurried off towards the editorial offices on G?tgatan.
Part of it is probably that she??s very impressed by you and likes you a lot ?? as a boss. which was available in the Republic??s archive for its citizens. He had a gun in his hand. Late on the evening of the fifth day. but after going back and forth about this. We will be holding an annual dinner at which we??ll have fun talking crap about you. which means the transmitter substance in his nerve synapses doesn??t function. ??Her behaviour was exemplary. and we have extensive forensic evidence against her.?? ??This is a bit difficult to digest. And I understood from Holger Palmgren that you had some information. between 37 and 37. Have you got any more surprises up your sleeve??? ??Yes. Edklinth had told her: no rings in the water. They do their best to ignore anything they hear about us.?? ??Sure. It was too early to go to bed. She took a chance and hurried to the corner of Sveav?gen. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and pulled the electrodes off her arms and chest.M.?? ??I did not say there was no rush.R. We??re already out on ice so thin that we??ll need paddles rather than ice picks. He lowered his gaze and pretended that he had not been looking at her.
my mother knew the von Rottinger family.?? ??Hello. And a murderer who called himself Ronald Niedermann. checking one face after another. and the price that the work of a newspaperman can sometimes exact. Second. and Edklinth was Figuerola??s boss. pointing out that Niedermann was not a man who could be arrested and handcuffed just like that: he was a maniacal killer. I heard her lecture once. and not some celebrity chasing headlines. Don??t misunderstand me.?? Berger said with a smile. She bought herself a coffee and sat at the opposite end of the caf?? and opened her Dagens Nyheter.?? ??Teleborian is meeting Jonas at the Ring in Central Station at 3. His other two reports had involved less significant evaluations: one was of an employee inside S. ??That blond monster you and Magge hang out with. He was almost paralysed as he felt himself being lifted on to the stool. But to be honest. but no idea how to find him. Malm could see for himself that Blomkvist was indeed being tailed. I??m convinced that he??s involved. Suspicious of everything around him.?? ??And what the fuck would that be? We??re the ones who took the job for the sake of the club. department store.
How? She walked all the way round. It had been sent just before 3. M?rtensson left home at 7. or whether she was off her rocker or why the police kept her locked up. ??Should I call her??? ??No. You extended his contract and gave him a feature assignment. but he??ll try to get out of the country as soon as he can.30 that afternoon. She looked in the bathroom.?? ??I??ve taken care of her since she was twelve.D.?? she said. In the trial. but she was definitely not normal. ??Give us a written order and the authority we need. I just want to leave the flowers. and she felt no desire at all to engage with it. It almost seems to be an academic study of a patient who refuses to speak. It dawned on her that here he was calmly talking of the possibility of there being a threat to her life. and he in turn went to the Prime Minister.: Clinton in 1971 and von Rottinger in 1973. Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize most critically. It corresponds to about fifty pages of book text.T.
That part of the story focused on the deaths of Svensson and Johansson ?C what they were working on. What matters to them is their own survival. she hit back and threw a Molotov cocktail at him as he sat in his car. the latest model would cost about one. During surgery the night before. and whether the robbery could be defined as a racist crime. It has to stay that way. She left out all the details that could be used against her. Bj?rck had hired Teleborian effectively to lock Salander up in a psychiatric hospital for children on the ?C false ?C pretext that she was mentally deranged. But of course things have become more complicated technically. Blomkvist printed out the 220 pages of the manuscript that were finished. and above all that she is not subjected to new injustices.?? ??She doesn??t know Niedermann at all. F?lldin could hardly still be an active farmer. I??m only interested in the Zalachenko club. But he could not work out this strange girl. Then he heard movement behind him and felt his knees buckle. The Security Police recently initiated an investigation of this man because he had written a number of apparently unstable letters to well-known politicians and the media. The criticism meant that the Section??s future was questioned. wasn??t established until four months later. I gather that there was a very considerable difference of opinion between Faste and Bublanski. That investigation is presently allocated to S?dert?lje. In real life. Either we ancients step in and do our bit.
Who took your place??? ??I don??t know. And I??m dead tired. Criminal Inspector Holmberg. And Blomkvist did not believe it. When they passed Ikea at Kungens Kurva in Sk?rholmen. She bent down and bit him on the ear. We??ll have a complete security plan ready in a few days which will include a personal attack alarm.D. Henry Cortez answered. I??ve read your file from S?po. but the preliminary investigation against Salander for the murder of your friends seems to have been shelved.R. But there??s something else I need to tell you. Even so. He could not see anything illegal about his task.?? Blomkvist said to remind them that he was there in the room. But that won??t work for the rest of us. ??Nothing??? Bublanski said. Then she picked up her mobile and called Blomkvist. for God??s sake. He walked across the street and through the front door of an 1890s building.?? ??In what way??? ??Faste appears to have become obsessed by one newspaper story about a lesbian Satanist gang. Bublanski explained why he was calling. Finally she shrugged.
S. That is how the media work. in accordance with his own paranoid delusions. Just tell us.?? he said. It has nothing to do with Mikael. a terrible pain shot up his leg. Some of the board members. We have been caught napping. Do you want me to take the bus??? Waltari sneaked a look at Nieminen sitting quiet as a mouse as they drove out to Svavelsj?. this Gunnar Bj?rck. ??Nothing today.00. She was the one who got in touch with us after Lisbeth??s unexpected visit.?? ??So you??re suggesting in all seriousness that the board should decide to abolish dividends and bonuses. but it was only a matter of time before the rain came. Her longest had been with a colleague in Uppsala ?C they had shared an apartment for two years.S. That report alleges that the Security Police and the psychiatrist Peter Teleborian co-operated to place Lisbeth Salander in psychiatric care. Jonasson sat in the visitor??s chair. This involved recruiting new personnel and continual problems breaking them in.?? he said and shook hands.?? and they all seemed to come from sources in the media.P.
They were tiny children savaged by dogs on Vasaplatsen. the signature of the Prime Minister meant that he had sanctioned the need for a unit that would be responsible for ??internal personnel control??.D. Why not??? She turned her back and pulled the hospital gown off her shoulder.?? ??But someone else ?C your brother. Prostitutes. took it into their hearts that parliamentary government had outlived its role and that parliament should be replaced by a dictatorship. Both Holger and I have accepted your plan and are co-operating with you. there??s a risk that a woman??s rights will be shockingly violated. She looked up towards the roof of Bellmansgatan 1. That is. He looked at the girl??s shaved and wounded head. of course not. ??On the train. Do you feel like an afternoon on the town??? ??Not particularly. Neither of them had noticed the man in the lobby who had been watching them as they stepped into the lift. He still had one or two secrets that he shared only with Salander.K.?? ??O. is Niedermann still hiding out somewhere in Sweden?; two. She was in a bad way. And thank God nobody yet knew that he was her brother. Sandberg looked at Zalachenko for a moment. which Blomkvist studied.
we??ve tried it. Edklinth did not believe in coincidence on such a grand scale.?? ??This conversation is over. I??d like to let you know that your friend Mikael Blomkvist has told us that a lawyer by the name of Annika Giannini is willing to represent you. but I assure you it??s in no way illegal. They were not pleasant thoughts.G. and how she felt in general. She immediately pinged Blomkvist??s I.?? Gullberg said.00 and no doubt I have an impressive blood alcohol content. Now we have burglaries. There??s a small kitchen alcove at the far end on the right. We have routines here at S. When she returned to her station. Her heart skipped a beat.?? ??But Blomkvist has already been warned ?? they stole Bj?rck??s report from there. so long as its objective was to safeguard the security of the nation.01. She was tall. the typesetter. He??s going to get away again. it??s not O. Zalachenko??s activities since then have nothing whatsoever to do with national security.
P.P. This happened because Bublanski had repeatedly tried to get hold of Bj?rck. And the press. Armansky??s first thought was that the man was paranoid.?? ??So what??s going to happen to him??? ??I arrested him for violation of the prostitution laws. The criticism meant that the Section??s future was questioned. Via the front door. As far as I can work out.?? ??I see ???? ??The problem is that a number of sentences were altered in a very subtle way. It was in fact Bj?rck who had proposed the solution. Waltari followed him. hoping to get rid of the daughter. Modig wondered how much she should say to a reporter. Blomkvist had set June 20 as his deadline for going to press. Inspector Thomas Paulsson had a shocked expression on his face. The murderer is just about alive and in surgery. Which was not very likely.?? ??Thailand. She struggled to her feet and put her hand to her forehead. who managed to spring her loose. He was Prime Minister at the time. ??First of all. ??You don??t like the Security Police.
light-blonde. ??Give us a written order and the authority we need. 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. ??No. Various assignments had been given to Cortez and Eriksson. But that??s not why you came. But someone with Niedermann??s distinctive appearance is not going to go unnoticed for long.?? Viktor G?ransson was the club??s treasurer and financial expert. It was highly unlikely that Evert Gullberg would ever be brought before a court.?? ??I need a guarantee of anonymity for both of us. four police officers and one prosecutor. That was good. Anything else did not make sense. Or. the footnotes often referred to articles in the evening newspapers. colon and bladder. During the first year the Section consisted of Gullberg and three hand-picked colleagues.S. but let??s assume. Where did he get the weapon??? ??Blomkvist won??t discuss it without his lawyer being there. Zalachenko stood in the doorway for two minutes without moving. It was in fact Bj?rck who had proposed the solution.30 this morning.?? ??Do you have any weaknesses??? ??I don??t read fiction.
He undressed. She stopped outside Ekstr?m??s closed door. that is. Magnusson was getting on in years and as advertising manager had nothing to do with the editorial side.?? She smiled and did not seem at all irritated by his questions. He took a pinch of snuff.K. You??re probably thinking of me as a guest you have to entertain.P. It was late afternoon by the time Figuerola was able to convey to Edklinth with some certainty the discovery that Clinton??s and von Rottinger??s careers after they left S.?? ??And??? ??When we were discussing this yesterday. had climbed on to a stool. but it could have been longer. But the officers were warned not to tire him. And Inspector Erlander in G?teborg has been focusing his search in that direction from day one. ??But we have more urgent issues to talk about. We found the weapon. He and Malm had thought of a paperback edition. ??You know who I am ?C so you don??t have to be afraid of me. All manner of investigations loomed. You don??t have to be afraid. & E. the most her lawyer could do was to file a report with the Parliamentary Ombudsman. I understand Mikael??s plan.
??Here we are again. where she??s been isolated since April? She doesn??t want the police to know she has access to the Net. There was a confused atmosphere in the newsroom throughout the afternoon. almost all) agreed had an indispensable value. but I do not have any details to pass on to you. We have no idea what went wrong. so he was far from wide awake when he reached to answer it. but his sick leave was extended and now it??s a question of waiting for an operation.?? ??What sort of odd??? ??I??m afraid some idiot is sending really vile emails and he seems to have targeted me. He??s in bad shape. ??I mean I??ve glanced at it.30 in the afternoon. even if he happens to be her boss.5 hours when the house was empty. Everything points towards a suicide.?? Salander said breathlessly. That??s eleven rooms on two floors.?? ??I see. S.?? said Holmberg. And he could not have that conversation because she was under arrest and no visitors were allowed. He paid with a credit card and took a taxi to G?teborg Central Station. showered. not for the past two years.
?? Nystr?m leafed through his notes. Salander found the report. It beggars belief. As far as he knew.?? ??I see. Sorry. said. which meant that she was still more of a real police officer than a fully fledged desk warrior. By the early ??80s Zalachenko had calmed down and begun to adapt. has called in all copies until the matter is investigated. You??ve read Bj?rck??s report. The original shows that Peter Teleborian was assigned by the district court to do a forensic psychiatric examination of Lisbeth Salander. The revolver was a present he had received from British Intelligence twenty-five years earlier as a reward for an invaluable piece of information: the name of a clerical officer at M.?? Edklinth took off his glasses and polished them thoroughly with paper napkin. A prosecutor decided not to take the case any further. the assistant head of Secretariat and the head of Budget. He would never see them again. Do we have a description of the third man??? ??Even better.?? ??A woman??? ??Not just any woman. a pervert and a rapist. but Zalachenko was guilty of repeated assault against his girlfriend.?? Berger said. But he had retrained himself to be a locksmith (of all professions).I.
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