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??Blomkvist gave the report to his editor-in-chief. He was executed in January 1988. He took the escalator three steps at a time down to the main ticket hall.?? He smiled at her. Edklinth. He had voted instead for Ingvar Carlsson. when he came back here. The ambassador finally relented and agreed to meet him at 10. He turned over Bj?rck??s report as soon as S.?? ??This is one hell of an investigation. ??He??ll be home by 5.?? Modig held up a photograph of Bj?rck??s distorted face.?? ??That??s true. a work of art. The tide of this crap never receded. Sometimes I start running regularly and lose a couple of kilos.v ?C Sunday. I can??t handle it right now. ??I??ve just changed into jogging things to work off a little of my surplus energy. She was not the one who had killed Svensson and Johansson. You took a break. They had eaten well and talked politely about nothing in particular. She had taken him out easily.P. He listened with increasing dismay to Giannini??s account of what had happened. That??s the only reasonable explanation. she now has a lawyer named Annika Giannini. ??Well.

I??m just bringing him in for questioning. and a patient.M. They had found the pencil.?? ??I can??t accept that.P. Niedermann could have taken the ferry the next morning. should also be informed.?? Modig said. ??And there??s going to be war when we publish it. My prognosis is that the third quarter will produce a significant loss.?? ??But if the story is true ?? if even a fraction of it is true. He??s a good friend of mine. Herr Blomkvist. He did not answer either. ??I just spoke to a nurse at Sahlgrenska. then we can take a taxi. In both latter instances.??Friday. It was a pleasant feeling to know that her reactions were up to an emergency. The only thing he seemed capable of grasping was that the badly damaged girl being cared for by the medics on the floor next to the kitchen bench was the triple murderer Lisbeth Salander.?? ??I agree with you there. and he could step in and take over the reins when Berger was away or busy. and that her still-extant declaration of incompetence is revoked. For the past few weeks he had been loaned to Counter-Espionage. and he??s one of the chief reasons why it??s almost impossible to get the staff to work as a team. I want you to focus on the follow-up care given to severely injured patients in corridor 11C. At Armansky??s instruction Bohman had been following the Salander investigation from the very start.

?? ??Thanks. Instead he made his second mistake: he offered to hand over the weapon he had in his jacket pocket ?C the Colt . In this case. had an annual budget of several billion U. F?lldin.?? ??What about the reports that Bodin tried to murder his daughter??? ??That is under investigation.M. with all the advantages and drawbacks.?? Blomkvist said. ??I??m sorry.K. It??s about Lisbeth Salander. Then he called Dragan Armansky.P. until the immigration authorities decided that Ghidi did not have sufficient grounds for a residency permit. to help??? ??I??d already decided that Milton ought to hire a lawyer for her???? ??Is that a yes or a no? I know what happened to her.?? Armansky said. dark-green English felt hat. Quite elderly for a murderer.C. We have to think about how we can keep him in check.M.P. from top to bottom.?? Modig nodded. S?po was necessary. His wounds had not been life-threatening. He sounded like an anxious brother.

As he talked to Berger.?? ??Then that??s how it??ll have to be. and his job was to make sure she got well. And of course it was usually after somebody had given in to such impulses that Inspector Bublanski was called in.?? Salander spent the whole day brooding about Zalachenko. talk to the press??? Wadensj?? said. You can start as acting editor-in-chief as from today. But that is all. ??Good evening. and in daily parlance ??the Section. who was once more reading his book. He seems ready to let bygones be bygones. Stefan went to chase someone up from the city building office. It??s clear that there must have been financing.?? ??She was shot. I??m terribly. Salander lapsed into such inexhaustible silence that it seemed she might never utter a word again. The activity may for all I know be legitimate and sanctioned by the government. Berger told him not to bother. ??Hi.?? Holmberg said. but she suspected that Dakota was a woman. I know nothing about Niedermann??s affairs. The nurse gave her a beaker with a straw to drink water through. Fredrik Clinton. She would hardly notice the difference. You??re all members. the emergency vehicle will come out anyway and you??ll be charged a fee.

for the first time in a long time.?? she said. It had been a quiet evening and they arrived within twenty minutes. So.?? Blomkvist sighed. and because she probably thought you had your hands full with the Salander story. The conclusion was just as unpleasant as it was obvious.00. I could go up there and talk to him. ??and get a couple of hours?? sleep yourself. ??My last editorial. ??Well ?? that??s good. Blomkvist realized at once that he was in a position of some strength.?? ??We??ll use the whole front page and move everything else back. F?lldin had in practice demonstrated that he had been informed. at 6. There??s the world of difference.m. You see.?? Modig said nothing. political parties. Nystr?m saw that Ekstr?m had swallowed the bait.M. and he did not ask any questions.?? Blomkvist??s whole world suddenly felt off balance. So Malin??s going to be editor-in-chief. He had done something that Salander knew about. And sex with Blomkvist.

He had tried to get into her room. Petrova had injuries that could very well have been inflicted by a man??s bare hands ???? ??Niedermann??? ??It??s a reasonable assumption. said.Q. ??I haven??t got my bearings yet. Keep in mind that he shot someone dead. there is a risk that her condition may continue to deteriorate. It??s dated. And I??ll have to buy a new shift dress or something on the way to work.iv ?C Sunday. I was about to lock up Bjurman??s cabin outside Stallarholmen when Carl-Magnus Lundin and Sonny Nieminen arrived on motorbikes. not exactly. You and Magge take off on some fucking job we know nothing about. But a piece of lead inside her brain was a trauma of a wholly different magnitude. except for 1991 when he deliberately voted against the moderates because he believed that Carl Bildt was a realpolitik catastrophe. The same rules apply as in your day. Waltari may be an idiot. It was impossible.U. ??Not quite yet. She had originally intended to return to Stockholm that evening.?? Eriksson did not answer the telephone. including anal penetration. If Personal Protection had loaned out M?rtensson.?? ??I know that. Mogren was a carpenter and bodybuilder and had been her training partner off and on for three years.?? ??I don??t like institutions that are beyond normal parliamentary scrutiny. ??It??s Jonasson.

?? ??Right. He approved a directive that was immediately entered into the secret protocol. Sp?ngberg. getting his bearings. He braced himself against the wall and limped over to the door. this year you will be paying out a huge amount of money in dividends to the paper??s twenty-three shareholders. It had sounded logical at the time. Our former I. and pulled out a 9 mm Smith & Wesson with a gold-plated butt.?? ??The house is a monster. It??s going to be difficult to explain away the grave in Gosseberga. Under the circumstances neither of these epithets could be considered wide of the mark. She got out of bed and took out the new Dell laptop that she had been given when she had started at S.Q. of course. and for that Gullberg could breathe a sigh of relief. or the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. And you were one of them!?? ??But you??re an officer in S?po. had called eleven times. ??I don??t understand. Agreed??? ??I think so. and had become one of its trusted veterans. The first email ?C which was also the most crude and intimidating with its suggestion that she would be fucked with a screwdriver ?C had come on May 16. He outlined the strategy that Giannini had already explained to her.?? Jonasson looked over his shoulder at the door.m. They handle coverage about 320 days a year. (2) They have to separate the ??Salander affair?? from the ??Zalachenko affair??.

?? ??Harsh words. She then proceeded to the Yahoo group [The_Knights] and checked whether Plague had added anything. She recognized Modig as one of the officers in Bublanski??s team. Vinge??s memoir as propaganda. But the majority of the workers are convicts. That the budget was so low was a stroke of genius. He was Prime Minister at the time.?? ??No. and the Section had in fact been instrumental in the very formation of the group. And she was exceptionally fit. Most often he made the right decision.?? She told Blomkvist to fasten his seat belt and drove over Slussen to ?stermalm and parked on a side street off Artillerigatan. The Kaspersson woman kicked on the door of a house at 3. The board is going to???? ??The board is going to do as I say. For herself. But she??s calm and matter-of-fact and seems to be able to cope with her situation.?? ??Where was this man then??? Giannini hesitated. Because of the merry-go-round associated with a change of government. He asked her to open her mouth and examined her throat. Berger had gathered her colleagues into Millennium??s small conference room with only a few minutes?? notice. It??s a typical pre-emptive retaliation to undermine potential complaints from Blomkvist. And I won??t write a word of what you tell me. ??Raped??? he said.?? ??Good man. I would have gone for the Silbersky type or another of the heavy-duty criminal lawyers. it??s not a unique situation in the wake of the Soviet Union??s collapse. I??ll even arrange for somebody to carry you back and forth on a stretcher if necessary. She said that she didn??t.

??I have to call for support. ??we??re sitting here with P.?? ??I didn??t mean it that way. They had had a long. in H?rn?sand. Psychiatry. If I run into him sometime. In 1963 Gullberg was transferred from Counter-Espionage to personnel control. we were fast asleep moments after we got here. That did not work either. Salander grabbed it from him. decidedly unsimple. no matter how noble the intentions. Gullberg saw a red flower-shaped splatter on the wall behind the bedhead. Which meant that his was being monitored too.M. Instead she called the duty officer at Milton Security and explained her situation.?? Gullberg said. In its place hung a rope from a hook. He filled half the page before he stopped and tore the sheet off the pad. ??Mumbo jumbo.?? ??I was following M?rtensson. You have the option to remove me as leader of the investigation ?? but if you did that I would be forced to write a harsh memo about the matter. She downloaded a list of everyone who worked at S. adjusted his glasses. whoever did it had access to the very typewriter that Bj?rck used. of course not.?? Zalachenko said laboriously through clenched teeth.

?? Gullberg said.G. ??Fru Berger.?? Ekstr?m nodded. But to be honest. She first worked in Counter-Espionage. ??I??m going out for a while. I urge you to listen to his story and answer his questions. You took a break. and would have to be removed. And tell them that next time they should send a grown man for me to discuss things with. He had packed his van on Friday morning and taken the ferry from Dover to Calais. So there is no record of him until the ??70s. when suddenly he became assistant director. Impossible.?? ??No. If Volvo built cars the same way.?? Wadensj?? said. He??s the entire operations department and I don??t think Wadensj?? has the drive to do what needs to be done. and I meant asap.50. His mouth was dry so his first stop was a corner shop where he bought a Pepsi. Objectively. is it??? ??Hardly. It appears to be older than the others. She staggered out of bed. She had thought that she was beginning to get to grips with the actual process of producing a newspaper and had planned to reward herself with a weekend off ?C the first since she started at S..

It was 4. At first she could not make any sense of it. and he hacked his first computer when he was thirteen. you??re worryingly habit-forming. I asked you for two things: first. Figuerola looked into her rear-view mirror.?? He got up and stood next to her to look through the glass at the newsroom. all this stuff about Zalachenko is highly classified.C. She could not tell how bad the situation was.?? ??I get it.I. She discovered that they got along famously.?? ??So the rumours might be true after all. With the possible exception of President Nixon??s lunatic break-in at Watergate. Whoever did the falsification was extremely well informed. which had a range of ten to twelve metres. and after a few unsuccessful attempts he managed to lift it very slightly so that he could turn it in the right direction.?? Bublanski said. Her grip was hard.?? ??And what was her condition??? ??She was conscious the whole time. So that the report would be accurate.?? ??How about management??? ??Magnus Borgsj? is chairman of the board. but the blond man was gone. Her foot was aching badly. we??ll see. a government agency.?? Figuerola said to no-one in particular.

Salander tapped her way.?? ??That??s good. He would ordinarily meet each member of his team every day. obviously.?? ??We don??t know. I took down your registration and ran a routine check. He had also gathered that she was polite to the rest of the staff but never said a word when the police came to see her.P.?? The woman came to the living-room doorway and asked if Gullberg would like anything. She had not lost her photographic memory. He was advised that he alone had to make the decisions. They must have been there for a couple of hours already. She??s the one who makes the decisions on these things. to Zalachenko??s farm. she was a psychopathic mass murderer. A doctor had explained that the axe blow had crushed his cheekbone and damaged his forehead. She looked at the officers in sullen silence as they came into her room and pulled up chairs. Blomkvist had been one of the people who gave Baksi practical help when he started the magazine Black/White with an issue that he produced secretly at night at the Trades Union Federation offices. S?po got saddled with Zalachenko in the middle of the Cold War. Contact with the Net.A. But when Blomkvist came over to give him a secure mobile.?? Blomkvist said. I transferred to the foreign ministry and became a diplomat. This is just an extra job for me. And this is the document that proves me right.?? Blomkvist said. ??Should I drive you home or do you want to be dropped off somewhere??? Blomkvist stared straight ahead.

He had mentioned her in an email.5 who in good Philby style was working for the Russians. or skinhead. This is my last week. and when he sat by the window he never felt isolated.?? ??Hmm. ??Our number one objective is to discover if she has any information as to where Ronald Niedermann might be. There??s a darker area here. Then she clenched her teeth and concentrated on breathing.M. ??No. ??So where do you come from??? ??Most recently from G?teborg.?? Berglund said. It??s more serious than that. ??It??s almost impossible to answer that question.?? ??So we no longer have the report??? ??No. it??s you. He very soon realized that Paulsson was a pompous.?? ??That??s the story I??m going to publish. Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R. If Salander was shot in Gosseberga. It was beautiful and well done. ??You??ll discover that ?C it comes with the job ?C you??re going to have a number of adversaries out there ?C daily editors and veterans among the editors who have created their own little empires. There??s also a possibility that you??ll develop scar tissue in your brain. Kalle Bloody Blomkvist had somehow planted a mobile just outside her room. He took the lift up to the reception on the fourth floor and was immediately shown into a conference room. A real breakthrough. If the Zalachenko story gets out.

?? ??True. about two hours later than usual. of course I??ll come with you. They handle coverage about 320 days a year. We haven??t found hide nor hair of her since. The first hours of her workday had been taken up entirely with meetings. She was very badly wounded. How else to explain the fact that he had been so fucking stupid. As it was growing light an observant police officer found traces of blood on the ground behind the woodshed. But you didn??t see that??? ??No.?? ??We want to know your publication date. But use your judgement.?? Inspector Modig woke with a start when her mobile rang at the other end of the bedroom. they had given carte blanche to a former Soviet intelligence officer to commit crimes involving weapons. they agreed to meet at his place at 10. If you need to talk. and that this had then been the subject of magazine articles. He undertook never to discuss the matter with anyone. plus eight apartments in a small building in the courtyard. ??You played your cards very well. Wadensj?? has a young kid. and an older gentleman we didn??t recognize.. not Blomkvist??s own much more recent Wennerstr?m affair. and which might provide some protection if he ended up in political hot water. Vinge had been dismissed from the service after he had given voice to the view. Open up S. And Holm ?? you??re starting to look like dead meat to me.

??The private investigators won this round. He??ll understand. He shrugged just as Beatrice the receptionist came in with coffee and milk. since he??s still alive. She knew perfectly well that no such address existed at Millennium. along with information about the C.??s assets were in the form of bonds that he could access. you can. Figuerola thought long and hard as to what she should do about Gullberg. I don??t know why. But I??m not going to ask. Now!?? When he heard the desperation in her voice he dug into his inside pocket and handed her his Motorola. Nieminen went up the stairs and out of the front door.?? The rabbi offered him a kippa for his head. Improbable??? ??Doesn??t it? One might think it??s the stuff of a spy novel. but he was in hospital in S?dert?lje with one foot in a cast and his jaw wired shut.P. They went from room to room.?? ??How do you mean??? Sandberg looked so nervous for a second that Zalachenko had to smile. Jonasson put his hand on her forehead and felt that it was damp. ??When Lisbeth was twelve. He was a senior official in the immigration unit. He wanted to get an idea of how the ward was laid out.I. which she unpacked in Berger??s spare room.?? ??Good. That??s my part of the operation. however.

The sender was centraled@smpost. It is a very clear instruction. the U. Bublanski??s face clouded over. ??I??m fearing the worst.L. Before he scrubbed up and put on his operating clothes he sent for Nurse Nicander. Johannes. I know I have to sign a contract.C. Modig held up her mobile to the gap in the curtains and took two low-res photographs of the group outside Ekstr?m??s door. I??ve read your file from S?po. He picked up the telephone and called Martina Karlgren. Blomkvist went into the kitchenette and poured coffee with milk into two mugs marked with the logos of the K. Do you feel like an afternoon on the town??? ??Not particularly. But he??s tricky to deal with.00 on Friday night. She closed her door. I??m not holding back anything that could be useful to your investigation of the Section or throw light on the various crimes that have been committed. Offhand I would guess it??s to do with an internal shake-up of some sort. Borgsj? went to Vietnam twice more.?? Cortez scratched his ear. Unremarkable. Figuerola escorted Blomkvist out of police headquarters at 10. ??I thought Salander had recovered. On three occasions Zalachenko was arrested by the Swedish police for drunkenness and twice more in connection with fights in bars. or Malm?. He had the authority to make it happen.

and that means you??ll once again be a pawn in their game. On Friday morning Jonasson was faced with an obviously irritated Inspector Faste on the other side of his desk. Let me explain why I gave orders that everything to do with Salander has to cross my desk. Besides. Mogren was a carpenter and bodybuilder and had been her training partner off and on for three years. You can only do your best.C. Or that he could. There was more than a trace of admiration in his voice.?? ??Hello.S. Gullberg sat down next to Clinton when their meeting was over. ??I??m with you on that. ??Gullberg has murdered Zalachenko and then shot himself in the head. but he had only a vague idea of what the Section actually did. Hmm. But how?? In amazement she glanced over at the locked door. as a psychiatric consultant on specific cases in the late ??80s and early ??90s ?C on three occasions.?? Only three people knew where Svavelsj? M. The call came just as the voting booths had closed and all signs pointed to the fact that Palme was going to lose. Criminal Inspector Marcus Erlander from the Violent Crimes Division of the G?teborg police arrived in Gosseberga and took over the investigation from the overburdened Paulsson. Bublanski was also wearing a kippa. At 9. But what I??m asking is whether or not you??re willing to put yourself in her corner and get into a pitched battle with her enemies.?? ??So you don??t think she??s crazy. he actually slept in the car coming down from Nossebro. Figuerola waited for forty-nine minutes before M?rtensson and his companion in overalls came out of Bellmansgatan 1. neither could he.

the police and hospital administration had agreed that Salander should remain in room eighteen for the time being. ??O. she has been throughout a victim in the whole affair. It??s probably the only thing that??s a bit odd. ??We??ll introduce ourselves properly in a while. trying to convince me to let him examine you. It was already 4. thinks that Bjurman raped Salander.B. She free-associated. 8. In short.?? ??No. We??ll take him from here. ??I??m taking a big risk here.M.?? ??I??d rather you didn??t. Someone decides that a certain person should be given a particular level of clearance. Mikael Blomkvist. she felt a sharp pain in her foot. Dr Jonasson was pleased with the response he had got. By any interpretation that would be attempted murder. it was in his desk drawer.M.M. do you know anything at all about the murderer??? ??Not a thing. Blomkvist explained the background and why F?lldin had written to him. Lars Faulsson.

was now seventy-eight years old and had been retired for thirteen years. I could break in by using the fire escape at the back of the house and entering through the roof hatch leading to the attic. When he started.?? ??If you trip the burglar alarm by mistake. Lottie? Dig up her passport picture. ??Agneta ?? it??s up to you to decide whether you want to initiate a preliminary investigation against Blomkvist. After a period of computer celibacy. You can move in on Monday morning. Then came the election in 1985. ??He was S. Cortez wrote feverishly. threat or coercion for the purpose of altering our form of government..?? (3) The problem is that if you??re acquitted. Not for my brother or for Armansky. He found what linked the investigations in the Salander slush.. a lawyer colleague who was a member of the Women??s Network and an old friend from law school. ??Cortez. She smiled. He was also an excellent and cold-blooded organizer. They lay in bed and talked through the details of the Zalachenko story. then the chief of Secretariat would have to know about that too.00. ??Hello. obviously. ??I have met Mikael Blomkvist on several occasions in the course of this investigation.V.

??What??s up??? ??Salander. revenue in Stockholm. and I can??t tell the others before I tell him. There are a thousand things I??ve got to learn.?? Sandberg looked around the room. He remembers Sandberg quite well.?? ??I hope she will. Mikael. Cortez stayed on the other side of the street. then Bj?rck would have said so when we brought him in.?? ??I understand.B. which Blomkvist studied. We??ll have a complete security plan ready in a few days which will include a personal attack alarm. and [PrelimInv/Niedermann]. Wittfelt on the fourth floor. but her face was otherwise expressionless.v Blomkvist made sure that he was not being watched when he walked from the Millennium offices early on Friday morning to Salander??s old apartment block on Lundagatan. or Swedish Internal Security ?C S. Lisbeth Salander had at the very least been deprived of the opportunity to exercise her constitutionally protected rights and liberties. I??ve got a young woman here who??s been shot in the head. She got up and came out from behind the counter and extended her hand. I badly need a second opinion. He stood for a long time looking at his face in the mirror before he turned off the light and went to get dressed. They had discussed the psychology that causes certain men to stalk women. One of them had the address editorial-sr@swedishradio. The older I get. She stopped outside Ekstr?m??s closed door.

He took the stairs down to the ground floor. you slammed an axe into his head.00 in the afternoon he turned on his iBook and took up the thread of the text he had begun writing at the hotel in G?teborg. Gullberg considered various alternatives and then chose to steer Bjurman carefully out of the picture. He checked her chart and saw that she was free of her fever. ??It makes no difference to me who you appoint. And the media as a whole bought Faste??s propaganda simply because he appears to be a serious source and it??s always cool to write about S. I can see at least a dozen that are a couple of millimetres long.?? ??He was her guardian. where he would seek protection among contacts in Zalachenko??s criminal empire. he might have only himself to rely on. He turned left on to Tavastgatan at the Bishop??s Arms pub and parked at the corner.?? ??Alright. Lundin should have been ready.?? ??He had a hell of a good motive.?? Edklinth said tentatively. He was Salander??s friend. She??s survived this far and that??s a good omen for her getting through having the bullet removed. The other participants at the meeting were two individuals from the top echelon of the Firm. I??ve missed you. A . but also not a nutcase. The day that Zalachenko was shot there was a robbery at my apartment. He asked if he would be able to visit her. ??Certainly.?? ??That??s true.?? ??A little too fast. commission on child labour had added Fong Soo Industries to its list of companies that exploit child labour.

but she suspected that Dakota was a woman. She could scarcely believe what she was reading. There were whores.?? ??Well. with the Zalachenko report you gave me. which means the transmitter substance in his nerve synapses doesn??t function.?? Edklinth stared at Figuerola. When he started. ??I??d like permission to go through the personnel files from the ??50s. Why not? Maybe he??s going to change tactics. which means that the operations budget has actually increased. Erlander kindly arranged for a crime scene tech to take the car back on his way home. according to a witness. parked at the corner.?? He was at the door when he heard her voice. ??Take a seat. If Niedermann were ever apprehended. As Blomkvist tried in frustration to manoeuvre his mobile out of the breast pocket of his jacket ?C it proved to be an impossible task with his hands cuffed behind his back. The technology of R. olive skin and black hair going grey at the temples.?? Gullberg pulled on his earlobe. She simply did not grasp or did not care that the only way Giannini could provide her with an effective defence would be if she had access to all the facts. Anita Kaspersson has been found. In a few quick steps she crossed the floor. ??Has something happened??? ??Something is happening right now.A. He began by making coffee and sandwiches before he went into Salander??s office and booted up her PowerBook. But we don??t have a damned thing on Nieminen.

Don??t worry ?? it??s painted white and looks just like a normal bedroom door. nurses and cleaners ?C everybody who works there in fact. Blomkvist wondered to what extent this was a coincidence and to what extent it was contrived. She tore electrodes and I. He was convinced that. His job was to save his patient??s life. Bublanski still had the report.?? ??I get it. I demand that you call Inspector Bublanski in Stockholm.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??I must not have realized that it would centre on Salander. First.?? he said. ??I don??t know anything about that. Jan. She made a note of every name and every incident in the report that had to be verified. She took a hammer from the tool box in the basement and put that in the master bathroom too.?? ??I had a patient a number of years ago. At last he looked up. I have a lot of international trade stuff to check out.?? Holmberg said. That was when he started making calls and decided it was time to go to Stockholm. Blomkvist waited.?? Figuerola held up a diplomatic finger. If we had to arrange for bodyguard protection that would be a different matter ?C and it would be rather expensive. We??ll deal with any problems as and when they crop up. It??s something that you all on the staff will have to talk through. ??There are a few holes in your account.

which meant that he would be able to control the flow of information. If I understand the matter correctly. Now!?? When he heard the desperation in her voice he dug into his inside pocket and handed her his Motorola..C. You and Bj?rck arrested Salander in 1991. and she named some standard works that I??d never heard of. and I can??t direct what prosecutors and the courts decide. He isn??t so stupid after all. She got out of bed and took out the new Dell laptop that she had been given when she had started at S. The government has the power to adopt a wide range of measures in the event that breaches of the constitution are threatened. She knew the text by heart already. and one metre eighty-four tall. In the morning two nurses had come to change her bedlinen. ??It??s a Colt 1911 Government. and Millennium are not competitors. but she worked so furiously on her projects that she was encouraged to go home when the day was done. I already know that.?? ??As do we all. ??You??ve been scratching the wound. We don??t know who this person is. ??But we have other urgent problems.?? ??I??m coming into the city this evening.?? ??You don??t have to apologize for the actions of some idiot.S. If the plan failed. She vouchsafed that it was not absolutely certain whether she had the right to question him. His head was wrapped in so many bandages that you could see only his left eye and a narrow slit of mouth.

They were scrutinizing the results of the preliminary investigation that Holmberg had completed that morning.?? Blomkvist breathed more easily. Finally she leaned her head back and looked up at the ceiling. He opened a new Word document. he received help from your family until he was granted a residency permit. Holm. but the injuries aren??t life-threatening. or what they were about. ??O. ??So I wish to press charges against my daughter. The car was still there. but instead of going out on to the street he turned left and went through the basement.?? Modig said.?? As she waved him out of the glass cage she saw Holm watching her from the other side of the news desk. a woman by the name of Kristina Cederholm. But then she realized that this isn??t exactly your style and then ???? ??Then??? ??Well. But not with Mogren. But the living-room window was so big that they did not have the glass in stock. He had bought bread. it was Bj?rck who set this whole mess rolling. it is not merely a criminal conspiracy ?C it is a threat to national security. ??Have a seat. which began with KAB. First day on the job. Hire some people. ??We??ve received a call. no-one could fail to notice her biceps and powerful shoulders. cares about it.

Then he spoke in a lighter tone of voice. But tell me this: is there anything at all to even suggest that Salander might be involved in some way in the murders? Could she and Niedermann have somehow committed the murders together??? ??I very much doubt it.?? ??I??m still a member of Millennium??s board. I??ve had a whole string of crazy emails accusing me of being all kinds of things ?C and suggesting various perverse things that ought to be done to me. said.?? ??If we have to arrange full bodyguard protection.?? Modig said. but I was waylaid by you. but she became acquainted with a lawyer. We have to work together. Nieminen walked the fifty metres to the barn.P.?? Figuerola said. after I??ve had a chance to calm down. I??m going to hang them out to dry. I??ve studied law and political science while I??ve worked for the police. don??t do it. The file was stamped Top Secret.?? Clinton held up a finger and uttered his first words since he had arrived. is Niedermann still hiding out somewhere in Sweden?; two. & M. Berger had received twenty-three emails by the time she arrived at S.?? ??What do you want??? ??What do you think??? Gullberg pulled up the chair and sat down. Jonas. decidedly unsimple. Malin. but which was invisible. but no-one knew about his condition.

peeling off a large part of the flesh on the right side of his face and tugging at his eye socket. The woman??s face had been replaced with Berger??s.?? ??That works for me. against or the attempted murder of Zalachenko.?? ??What kind of job??? ??Do you trust me. ??Look. He had leaked information that would have backed him up in an upcoming trial. They waited for almost an hour before Inspector Erlander arrived from Gosseberga with Blomkvist.I.D. and it has to be done immediately and cannot be mentioned outside this room. He felt as soon as he lay down that for the first time in weeks he could relax and sleep peacefully. People called from all over the world to talk to Baksi. But both he and I travel fairly often. ??Hello. ??Not as far as we know.?? Blomkvist said.?? Salander actually smiled. The customer??s going to have to pay. a feeling that had grown stronger with every visit he made since his retirement. starting with one lasting fifteen minutes in which Assistant Editor Fredriksson presented the guidelines for the day??s work. But the work is often to do with people who have been threatened.?? ??Which means that my problem is definitely the government??s problem. then you??ll be my sources ?C with all the enduring anonymity that implies. not 250 metres from the hotel room where he found himself today. Instinctively she wanted as little as possible to do with the hospital staff. ??Black eye.?? ??I understand.

But in the half-staffed Saturday newsroom everything was normal. Your career might be ruined. What else could he do? She returned to the subject of the front page. if a group of police officers decided to stretch the laws so that an individual??s constitutionally guaranteed rights were infringed. the Russians will swiftly identify our informants and sources in Russia. Salander is no longer a suspect. Gullberg paid his hotel bill and went out to the street. She had failed. Counter-Espionage said that they definitely had not borrowed him.?? ??He??s turning down Holl?ndargatan.?? Berger got up.?? ??Sounds promising.30 she made Berger call S. Gunnar Bj?rck. I??ve worked at Constitutional Protection for three years. and he??s going to assist Ekstr?m. he needs a new kidney and spends a lot of his time in dialysis or some other treatment. ??She acts the way she thinks you would expect her to act. Edklinth felt the floor sway slightly beneath his chair. and attempted murder. held it to his temple. ordered the report confiscated from the police ?C it??s not to be disseminated or copied. She requisitioned the report. And then he remembered that she had left Millennium. but during the night some bastard had punctured all four tyres.?? Baksi knew that Blomkvist was busy planning some sort of mischief.?? Ekstr?m looked as if he had just swallowed something very sour. They represented a younger school of activists recruited from the financial.