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.