as you can see. In a well-ordered world he would be at home in Gosseberga now.

when she was sent to the psychiatric hospital
when she was sent to the psychiatric hospital. And for it to be worth the cost. made some coffee. which corresponded to the word P-I-P-P-I ?C Pippi Bloody Longstocking. People called from all over the world to talk to Baksi. and I watch only the news on T.R. The headache was still there. piecing together what had happened overnight. So too was her brother. she flipped open her mobile and pressed a speed-dial number.?? She lay quiet for a moment. But Jonasson also realized that isolation was an inhumane way of punishing people; in fact it bordered on torture.?? he said.?? ??Unless I??m mistaken. so he waited for her to finish her call. The government collapsed again when the moderates jumped ship.M.K.?? ??The pathologist wrote that there were graze wounds. So I would recommend that you extract it ?? but ???? ??But what??? ??The bullet doesn??t worry me so much. ??As soon as we realized that the report was out and in the hands of the police. I can??t believe Salander knows anything about it. He thought that it was the most important post a Swedish policeman could hold.

She had 200 kronor in cash from Annika Giannini to pay for sweets from the hospital snack shop.?? ??That??s O. Edklinth nodded and the Minister of Justice poured coffee from a thermos jug.?? ??Tip off the police??? ??Yes. & E.?? said Modig. She then related how he had repeatedly committed acts of sexual violence against her.?? Ekstr?m pinched his lip. is it??? ??Hardly.?? Edklinth was careful to use the word ??we??.40.?? ??And??? ??I don??t like the man. She??s been doing so well lately. As we know.?? ??I??ll make the decisions and do the surgery. He sat still for while. Salander saw at once that she had the same eyes as Blomkvist. She sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the screen of her Palm. You??ll discover positive things and negative things. when she was due to appear at a school in T?by.S. which right now is a nightmare. and film roles.?? Figuerola promised that she would.

1989); An Assignment by Carl Lidbom (Wahlstr?m & Widstrand. He had reserved the room the day before and presented himself as Evert Gullberg. but I??ll probably be following him pretty soon. Let me call my wife to warn her.?? ??I see.M.?? ??May I ask ?? Paulsson. boys and girls. and was already on his way to a higher position within the police hierarchy.?? ??But isn??t that supposed to be done by her lawyer??? ??As you must have gathered by now. he had gone back in time and described Zalachenko??s arrival in Sweden. which corresponded to the letters W-A-S-P on the keyboard. Or else you could expound on what you think about the Section for Special Analysis.?? ??But how did Bjurman get involved??? ??Palmgren had a stroke in the autumn of 2002. She rang for the nurse and asked for another Tylenol. He made sure he had left clear fingerprints on each sheet.?? ??That??s true.?? ??I??ll come to your place at 8.?? ??So ?? what else? Illegal tapping or something??? Edklinth said. which indicated that the document was Top Secret.?? and a subscription to fashion.?? Bublanski leaned forward.F. She did not make a single revision to the text she had written.

For a long moment they stood looking at each other. Erika. She was left to her own devices at the end of the working day.?? ??Holm has devoted his life to S.?? ??He is forbidden to talk about it. she certainly isn??t easy to deal with.?? he said. Teleborian. ??Listen ?? I??m not an open book for everyone to read.00 on Sunday morning. Other Kurds in Sweden got involved. Is that what you??re saying??? ??No. That??s when normal rules no longer apply. for Christ??s sake. almost as if to confide in the other man. He??s going to be in the slammer for a while.?? ??The way you did with Hans-Erik Wennerstr?m??? ??Something like that. where she could still see the back of the man in the blue overalls. since he??s still alive.. ??Please hear me out. Convicted of insurance fraud in the ??70s. Salander would just stare at her and smile her crooked smile. ??I mean I??ve glanced at it.

and he wasn??t mentioned in Svensson??s material.?? ??Good man.?? ??I get it. The source is protected. She knew right away that it was not one of the night nurses. She forgave nothing. One of the first things he did was to have Blomkvist released from his handcuffs. I was wondering about your involvement in this story. and second. do call. You see. it??s my job to do the same. I mean how long before I can get up and start walking and moving around??? ??That depends on how the healing progresses.?? the Minister of Justice said.Q. ??You??re right. If he??s planning to get out of the country as fast as hell then we could help him on his way.000 a month to live in those crappy dumps in Hammarbyhamnen? Because the construction companies don??t give a damn about keeping prices down. Since he did not know Swedish. The public register listed eighteen Susanne Linders in Stockholm county. It doesn??t matter how much I disagree with her about the matter; it??s her decision.?? Figuerola said.?? ??Think like a reporter.I.

You??re to contact an Inspector Thomas Paulsson at the Trollh?ttan police.?? ??You don??t need to do that. definite advice. On this third visit Ekstr?m would be given answers to several of the questions he had asked earlier. of course. He turned to Giannini. So go to your superior and tell him what I??ve said. ??What in the world ???? Wadensj?? said. These were still in the early stages and there would need to be another hundred pages of detailed work before they were ready to go to trial. ribs crushed.?? Cortez said. but that was no longer possible. ??We??ve got a problem. Nowadays there are alarms and other devices everywhere. Seven letters had been sent to Vitavara Inc. much of which was home-made stuff that Bob the Dog had set up.00 p. Pred.?? ??Is there any desk or ???? ??He seems to work at the kitchen table or sitting on the living-room sofa ?? wait. He had kept his mouth shut through the entire series of police interrogations.H. he had been head-hunted from outside the company ?C so he had once taken that very same first walk to his office. ??Now let me say my piece. Wadensj?? glanced at Gullberg and was struck by how thin the old man had become.

But I can hire you as an external consultant. ??Here we are again. that I won??t take the job if it??s illegal. ??You can read about a lot of this in a report from the government??s Construction Cost Delegation. I propose a co-operation between Sahlgrenska hospital and St Stefan??s. and that it was a question of gaining her trust. With an effort she stood up and swayed unsteadily. so she followed him.?? ??I was never convicted of anything. been particularly straight or honest with him. almost ten million kronor for nine individuals who sit on S. She pondered for a moment her suspicion that the person threatening her had something to do with S. was founded. You are going to have some painful times ahead while your body heals. Then he heard movement behind him and felt his knees buckle.?? ??What did Vinge and Francke quarrel about??? ??They were just very different. which was no surprise since S?po was deeply involved in what had happened. ask Annika to do this favour. I have let it be known that our Zalachenko documents are gone. But I get a tip from the police investigation and go over and have a coffee with Faste and he tells me this.?? ??Is it really something to be proud of??? said Blomkvist. He worked as a newspaper boy. a red jumper and a dark jacket. Gullberg was subordinate to a line of people in the hierarchy under the head of Secretariat of the Security Police.

I have to know whether you really do want me to be your lawyer.?? ??Well. except possibly M?rtensson. If you are involved. ??Yes ?? well ?? he said he needed to know exactly how many pieces of wood were in there.?? ??Sounds like blackmail. ??Torsten Edklinth has been given the task of finding out whether we can confirm this. but stopped with his hand on the receiver. ferreted out a toothbrush and went to the bathroom. something that was not right. Got himself arrested for insulting a police officer.?? she said. He would have to turn to the chief to secure political support for what he was working on. ?C and he did not have the requisite experience or skills.?? ??Nor do I. the toilets??? ??The little that has changed since the Construction Cost Delegation??s report has happened at the local level. Chairman Borgsj? appeared neutral. That did not help either. It had been a pretty wonderful holiday.?? ??So what are you planning. She only got his voicemail. ??If it??s true that the government doesn??t know about this operation. who nodded. taxis.

Since S. And it??s only temporary. There were four others there: his sister.F.?? Figuerola laughed. took out a notebook. knew about the Section for Special Analysis. I repeat. but in reality he had scarcely been seen in the department before the ??90s. If you find evidence of criminal activity. He waited in the stairwell. He was probably unconscious within a few seconds and dead in one or two minutes.?? Blomkvist said to himself. and he has a very painful facial wound. Two people at least. But it was almost impossible for Members of Parliament to have oversight of S?po. We rather think that it was the weapon used to shoot Salander. thin girl had the physical strength for this sort of violent criminality. He closed his iBook. when he needed to restructure certain funds connected to a small financial firm that he owned in Liechtenstein. She would test the system. who??s in the neighbouring rooms. At lunchtime on Monday she had a visit from Dr Jonasson. Criminal Inspector Jan Bublanski of the Violent Crimes Division in Stockholm.

He glanced at Cortez and Karim.?? ??I gather that S.M. ??Look.?? ??Unhappily. ??Satisfied??? ??It??s beautiful. She was not at all sure right now that she was the person to lead the sprawling organization that comprised S. or whatever he was. If there??s a crisis and you need help. ??How long was she in the building??? ??Nine minutes. even if it happened many years ago. he summed up the d??nouement in Gosseberga which led to Salander being shot and buried alive. we have to be decisive and resort to tough measures. particularly after Robert H?rdh. Gullberg was the chief. Niedermann is linked to the site through the kidnapping of Salander??s friend Miriam Wu. but he did not by any means consider himself a brain surgeon. They??re flying down right now. He said that he??d told you almost everything. and nobody else at S. But as long as he risks being busted. and the price that the work of a newspaperman can sometimes exact. He could not identify any one of them.M.

or who he might go to for protection. ??Listen. He bought a pack of Lucky Strike and a tin of G?teborg??s Rap?? snuff. I??m also going to charge him with probable involvement in arson. is not an exact science. First.?? ??Nonsense.?? he said and shook hands. knowing things about her that Giannini did not. since Giannini left for G?teborg this morning.m.?? ??I know. He ordered a coffee and a cheese and liver pat?? sandwich. Gullberg and Clinton talked for a long time. Why? Because she had stirred up a secret that S?po was trying at any price to keep a lid on. ??I??ll gladly listen to other suggestions. shut down her computer.?? ??Why??s that??? ??Don??t know. ??He??s crossing Vasagatan. He??s thirty-eight and comes from the gangs unit in S?der.?? ??What I??m wondering is whether you consider the source to be reliable. interview with Prosecutor Martina Fransson.?? ??O. F?lldin was never told Zalachenko??s name.

had decided to harass her. ??She was operated on during the night. You and Bj?rck arrested Salander in 1991. He was obviously closely connected with the development of events. sharp-witted and charming. Herr Blomkvist. That??s my father in the middle.?? he said. He called Malm as the train was coming into Stockholm and asked him what had prompted the tone of his text message. By 1989 he had advanced to lieutenant. and that was one of his weaknesses.?? ??I just got an email from that address.?? ??Palmgren??? ??Yes. The prosecutor??s office offered him legal assistance in the form of a public defence lawyer. Gullberg followed the story in a state of awful confusion. Ten years ago I was doing rock-hard bodybuilding. * Salander sat up with a start the instant she heard the first shot. Salander??s former guardian Holger Palmgren. But he can??t say without unleashing a political firestorm. don??t do that again. Giannini had planned her visit to G?teborg as a brisk.?? ??That??s right.?? Edklinth and Figuerola were instantly alert. department.

right??? He turned and smiled at her in surprise. But every time she had decided to sleep at Blomkvist??s. smiled sheepishly. ??Forceps. ??The board will never go along with this. Or possibly both of you. He was given asylum and began to work for S?po. but you??re closer. he was sent to Karlskrona as a signal tracker in the navy??s intelligence service. I have to go. They found G?ransson and his girlfriend in the basement.?? the P.?? He stubbed out his cigarette. ??It??s a Colt 1911 Government.K. ??You know what? I??m incredibly hungry. born in 1969. Worse still.?? ??Tell me. I??m optimistic that you??ll make a full recovery.?? Nystr?m said. however. my sister Annika. What have you found out??? ??His name is Jonas Sandberg.

He packed away his laptop and stood up. That held for a few minutes until the head of Budget pointed out that S. Cortez sat on the sofa in Eriksson??s office looking guilty. ??Precisely.?? ??That doesn??t sound so good. heading towards Kungsgatan.Q.?? ??Did he threaten anyone else??? ??I have been advised that he did. He refers to it as the Zalachenko club. Jonasson gave her an inquisitive glance and stopped in his tracks when he saw her desperate look. He glanced down at her briefcase as the nurse checked Giannini??s I. Since he had come on duty at 6. But he??s going to go to prison for the murder of Officer Ingemarsson. What do you know about his role??? ??He??s one of the major players. Or was it clumsy? The only reason he first noticed the car was the registration number. She thought for a moment. put out a contract on a long-ago spy using a 78-year-old man. walk the fifteen metres to Frisk??s desk. Lisbeth Salander??s trial will be starting in a couple of weeks. and A(89)Cx#magnolia as the password. Then she picked up the stylus and wrote the number combination 9277. perhaps you could help me with a matter I don??t quite understand ?? as one doctor to another. She thought for a moment and then went into Armansky??s hard drive. 1.

shook hands with Blomkvist. Then he stood and kissed her on the cheek.?? ??I no longer have access to the report. and by now rather stout. but his colleagues had learned that Ekstr?m was planning for a trial in July.?? ??I see. evacuation and break-in protection. He heard voices from the T. but as soon as she had solved it. The room was easier to guard. who in their private life was a software developer in California. Plague was an intelligent and socially gifted citizen. If she wrote the wrong password three times in a row the site would shut down and the name Wasp would be struck from the membership list. and did it in a way we didn??t think was possible. but she still worked out obsessively at the gym five nights a week.?? ??You mean you felt threatened by Niedermann??? Erlander said. and a kidnapping. ??I??m not competent to judge whether or not Salander is mentally ill. but let??s assume.10 on Tuesday morning. I have let it be known that our Zalachenko documents are gone. As far as we can determine at the moment.?? Zalachenko turned his head away from his visitor. ??Hello there.

?? the P. It was 4.?? ??What is it you want??? ??Over the years there have been a number of public reports on S?po.S.?? Nieminen said.?? ??Of course I do. my mother knew the von Rottinger family. Better to have him on the inside than a security risk on the outside. and went into the newly created Yahoo group [The_Knights]. Edklinth is as straight as a die. a member of the police. ??This is. We have more serious issues to discuss. adjusted his glasses. ??I doubt that. She discovered that the group had two members ?C herself and Blomkvist. but that??s the way things are. and deepened the crisis we now find ourselves in.?? Salander was studying the vent window in her room when she heard the key turn in the door.v ?C Tuesday. No energy at all. Salander visited him only once in a blue moon.?? He tied a sheet around his waist. she would get the same dialog box again ?C for years and years.

00 tonight you have to report for duty. There were stalkers who travelled from Germany or Italy to follow a 21-year-old lead singer in a pop band from gig to gig. but we can make a few assumptions. ??Teleborian has a link to a person I know only as Jonas. and she understood the principles. not at all.?? Berger clenched her teeth and put down the article about the forthcoming Salander trial. But do you want me to represent you??? Salander gave a curt nod. After a while she managed to pull the sheet and blanket up to her chin. ??I??m going to???? ??You??re not going to do anything at all. Good to know. but I would tread carefully if I were you. ??Spare me the lectures.?? As she lay in bed Berger thought about what Linder had said. For a moment he stood indecisively outside the door. K. then opened the curtains a crack so that she would have a view of the corridor. He also noticed another odd thing: there was no bibliography in any one of the books Cortez had found. but there was nothing much new. ??Not much. and that it might be two weeks before you can move her to Stockholm.?? ??Hmm.?? ??You mean ???? ??Jerker and I have discussed it. ??Right.

but there was still a small scab. ??You??ve got to be kidding. Someone had left a pencil there. the computer had reacted to three keywords ?C immigrant. How was that possible? Edklinth tried to imagine what reasonably would have happened if he had been sitting at the chief??s desk at S. And as you know. The operations unit of Constitutional Protection spent Friday trying to get a handle on the information they had received from Blomkvist. She blinked hard a few times and got up to turn on the coffeemaker before she took her shower. Is there anything you want us to do??? ??No. on the horns of a constitutional dilemma: he did not have the authority to conduct secret investigations. He had been killed.?? ??What kind of job??? ??Do you trust me. I would very much like to discover how you came by all this information. and Blomkvist had never hesitated if Baksi asked him a favour. part of the routine at S. He just gave a lecture on brain research. She had got used to his visits.K. They had their coffee at the pavement caf?? beside Norr M?larstrand. He says it??s all classified and that he can??t discuss anything without permission from his superiors. There was a pile of unopened post that he shoved firmly to one side. ??My pleasure. And we would very much like to know what strategy they??re planning. let alone leave the room.

B. We can??t just dump it on Erika??s desk as a newspaper billboard. frowning when Wadensj?? lit a cigarillo. Otherwise. the new chief of the Section.?? He looked at her. His voice softened slightly. so that no outsider will have knowledge of or be able to weigh the evidence against Lisbeth. If you have to work. Despite the fact that she kept urging her client to answer questions from the police. Johanna Karolina Oskarsson.?? ??First name??? ??Fredrik. I don??t want you underfoot if there??s any trouble.000 copies since the glory days of the ??60s.?? ??And you did it because even you recognize that this is far more than just a scoop in your magazine.?? ??I never believed you sent them.00??? ??One more thing ?? I??m seeing my sister. Wasp wrote.?? Giannini was suddenly hesitant. This investigation is being conducted in great secrecy. Then a week went by before the emails started coming again. as if Blomkvist were not in the room. chief talked us into it. as well as the tool drawer.

and the double theft of the Salander report.?? Good Lord. Evert Gullberg saw that his whisky glass was empty. But it??s not an arrest. The big question within the Security Police was to what extent personnel control would be given special authority to investigate foreign citizens residing in Sweden.?? ??O. the journalist who was murdered. That??s a horrendous statistic. I??ll ask you for 500 kronor a night to sleep here the rest of the week. she was being unfair. I understand all that. Erika. a terrible pain shot up his leg. but this question does not. She got a dialog box with the text [ERROR ?C you have the wrong password] and a button that said [OK ?C Try again]. ??No. recently treated for depression. Open up S.P. They??re sitting in the Tre Remmare pub on Vasagatan by the stairs down to the Akalla line. account pinged. As the plywood was being put up.K.?? Malm waved a finger in the air.

?? Blomkvist told him. That part of the story focused on the deaths of Svensson and Johansson ?C what they were working on. had not replied to any of the letters.I. ??No. Afterwards the discussion went on for almost three hours.K. unvarnished truth about her life in a cracklingly terse autobiography of forty pages. just as he was about to leave early. It was 7. ??You talk about trust. Berger was determined to retain her shareholding in Millennium and to remain on the board. ??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. Can you bring me up to speed so that I can get the hang of what??s going on??? ??What happened here tonight is the culmination of the murders of two friends of mine in Enskede. she won??t be able to do the research she needs to do to prepare her defence. I had the choice of being handcuffed or coming quietly. which meant that some operator would go in manually and listen to the conversation to decide whether it was of interest or not. ?str?m had enlisted him to proofread and give Black/White some editorial support. and after a few unsuccessful attempts he managed to lift it very slightly so that he could turn it in the right direction. ??I don??t know. ??The problem is that the closest car we have at night is in Nacka centre. ??You??ve been scratching the wound.?? Modig said. ??Good evening.

he said that she was lethally dangerous and might well resist arrest.?? Clinton gave him a feeble smile. Then I visited her about a week ago. The most sensitive of all issues. Gullberg was content to accept this situation. but how gigantic this problem would become was something Gullberg could never have imagined in his wildest dreams. Someone decides that a certain person should be given a particular level of clearance. I feel stressed out and unhappy. She had a cyber-stalker on her hands.00. when. There was an envelope with photographs that had been cool at the time. playing badminton. By the time the train went through Nyk?ping he had already discarded a number of drafts. Unlike Lundin. ??I can see that. Francke??? Figuerola said. She had not booked a hotel room. That??s why we want you to stay still.?? He turned on his heel and left the glass cage.?? ??My story ?C which I am going to publish ?C is that S?po knew about Zalachenko the wife beater. The secret was known also to a thirteenth person. The picture was from her old byline at Millennium and could be downloaded off the Net.I.

On several occasions when he had knocked on the door to relay some news. You??re not risking anything. But regrettable as it was. The book Secret Forces was fascinating but largely dealt with the time before and during the Second World War. the decision would have to have been made at senior government level.?? Gullberg looked at Wadensj??. adjusted his glasses. but Paulsson ?C whose opinion had little influence on Erlander ?C had warned him that Blomkvist had been babbling on about Russian agents and German hit men ?C hardly routine elements in Swedish police work. I have the keys to your apartment and a passport in name of Nesser. ??You??re here on a temporary basis.?? Modig raised her eyebrows. piecing together what had happened overnight. He knew one. ??Never seen them before. how??? ??Tell me what you want to know.?? the P. The man from N. During the first year the Section consisted of Gullberg and three hand-picked colleagues. So ?C S?po. making the Section responsible for Zalachenko??s safety and debriefing. More or less.K.?? ??So now you know. Two important details are still needed: (1) First of all.

and checking how she swallowed.?? ??O. I obtained the information in my capacity as editor-in-chief of Millennium.?? ??But you two ?? he??ll publish it??? Armansky gave a curt nod. That was why she was locked up.?? ??I need a guarantee of anonymity for both of us. Both he and Nieminen acted so threateningly that I had no choice but to resort to my right of self-defence. she would see them. the computer automatically sent an alarm. He was out flitting around even in your day. I would guess that somebody in Stockholm will be assigned to compile all the material for a prosecution. All the company??s secrets and emails ?C along with some fake documents that might lead people to think that its C. from where he took a taxi to Centraal. He explained that he had decided to go public with the information in the light of events that had occurred in G?teborg that day. He had heart and artery problems. ??We need to talk to you. ??Around the entry wound you have all sorts of bone fragments. Her name is Annika Giannini.?? ??Lisbeth Salander has become a government matter. The system had an obvious weakness.00 was suddenly moved to 1. knowing things about her that Giannini did not. as you can see. In a well-ordered world he would be at home in Gosseberga now.