usually happened only when she had a visitor or was working intently on some problem. or whether I have possibly misinterpreted something.

had nothing to do with this morning??s events
had nothing to do with this morning??s events. Blomkvist waved from a corner table.?? Inspector Erlander got up from his desk and went upstairs to tell the preliminary investigation leader. For us it??s important to bear in mind that this is a case of criminal activity perpetrated by a small number of individuals.?? ??Could you explain your relationship to Niedermann??? ??I??m disabled.?? ??I see. Before he turned up out of the blue at a meeting with Gullberg.?? ??Why didn??t you say anything??? Blomkvist said. He studied his unexpected visitor as she stood up. Erlander put it in an evidence bag and labelled the find.. He pushed away the sheet of paper with the nine succinct points that Berger had presented at the weekly meeting of the budget committee. I assume it was Salander who nailed him. I suppose??? ??You decide that for yourself. ??And how are you doing this evening??? ??I have a splitting headache and I feel feverish. four hours later than usual.?? ??You??ve been pretty busy these last few months.

He very seldom called in sick.?? ??Which means that the excellent Herr Niedermann took the weapon while Zalachenko was asleep and shot Salander. retired S?po hand. Why had she not stayed outside? She would have recognized him when he came out.I.?? ??As far as I know. Remember what it was like during the Wennerstr?m affair. so he limped to the telephone booth at the grocer??s to call Landsort and book himself a room in the old ships?? pilot lookout. Gullberg arrived together with the then chief of S. ??Lie still. Seconds later they had set off down the corridor. But I actually have some news. Plague. but my boss. said. The technique was not uncommon.H.

?? ??No. She had worked an average of five hours each day.?? ??Could he have recognized you from the papers? You??ve had a lot of publicity over several widely reported cases.?? ??Did you make eye contact??? ??No.?? ??Yes. He logged on to her broadband connection. If you need to talk. Eventually he put the folder aside.?? ??You mean you felt threatened by Niedermann??? Erlander said. ??Anders ?C I need a mobile.?? ??Is there a computer??? ??No. He??s asleep and has turned off his mobile. whom he did not know. the police will be alerted automatically. A theatre nurse was applying bandages to the gunshot wound on Salander??s hip. She did survive and her prognosis has been exceedingly satisfactory ?? so much so that my colleagues and I were getting ready to discharge her. Finally.

but he had lived in north London since childhood. He was a hit man for Russian military intelligence.?? ??But let??s save the secrets till we meet again tomorrow. Figuerola noted the time.00 in the morning. of Milton Security.?? ??I know. She felt an intense desire to move. Her heart sank again.?? ??Let me call you back.?? ??Police officer??? ??She graduated from the police academy and worked for six years on the S?dermalm crime team. That way she could look at all the activity in the email system. By lunchtime they already had extensive documentation of the fact that both Fredrik Clinton and Hans von Rottinger had been associated with the Security Police in the ??60s and early ??70s. Dakota wrote. Whatever it was. Reassigned to a secret post abroad in 2000. Call her.

Today we have fewer employees responsible for producing more text every day. Promise me. Cortez had the weekend shift and Blomkvist found him again in the office in the evening. when that idiot from Trollh?ttan took charge of the situation. Then she heard the same sound again.L. Jerker. It was the seventh time he had seen the same car in four days. ??Hello. He saw that he had missed six calls in the past twenty-four hours: three from Cortez. She sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the screen of her Palm. respectable operation producing appliances and plumbing goods.?? ??I see. just as when we were editing Dag??s book.?? Blomkvist said. At first she could not make any sense of it. That was what they had been expecting.

Gullberg was expecting this objection and played the strongest card he had available.?? ??But how on earth did she handle Niedermann??? Blomkvist shrugged.00 on Wednesday morning and went for an unusually short run before she showered and dressed in black jeans. I??m a friend.?? ??The neighbours on the right are away for long periods.?? ??It??s possible. He pretended to be asleep. I was going out with a guy this spring..?? ??Precisely.K. At present it consists of you. He quoted from the correspondence between Teleborian and Bj?rck.B. ??this could lead to a constitutional crisis. The girl looked terrible. He would have to turn to the chief to secure political support for what he was working on.

the trail will fizzle out. opening the message only if it was something that caught her attention. ??Why the hell is it that the first thing Millennium does after I leave is to start running background checks on S. Blomkvist frowned. He jogged home to Bellmansgatan and up the stairs. I don??t know whether that affects things. F?lldin. Press freedom has also been enshrined by parliament and is based on the socially and democratically acceptable restrictions of society. but nevertheless I don??t want to know any more than I already do about the content of the next two issues. But since we don??t know who the enemy is. She sat so that the light from the window fell on her back. ??You know how it goes. But he had done something extremely shrewd. Someone who was trying to cover Zalachenko??s tracks. It??s hardly a story we can make public. Bj?rck was a sailor. it is a tragedy that could have been prevented if there had been more support within society.

then three murders in Stockholm. when the trial starts. ??This is most assuredly a matter of life or death. ??Probably not. she had joined him at his table. has. You don??t have to stress out about it. Above all. He??s a prick who plays people off against each other. He focused his gaze on the computer screen.?? Zalachenko said.?? She looked around at her colleagues in the cramped editorial office. Things might be a bit rocky at first. Foreign guests. If you can??t manage a simple job like that then you might as well sit here with your thumb up your backside until the constitutional committee comes knocking on your door. she was being unfair. and he had not yet been caught.

?? ??What about Gullberg. Blomkvist had no reason to believe that she had anything to do with the Zalachenko club.?? This. I??d give a lot of money to find out what they talked about. Three were messages to call Berger. He drove down Hornsgatan and across to Bellmansgatan via Br?nnkyrkagatan. and there she set up her laptop and took command.?? ??Which part was truth and which part was fantasy. She was left to her own devices at the end of the working day. too. He bought a pack of Lucky Strike and a tin of G?teborg??s Rap?? snuff. ??Let her sleep a while.??s personnel has been reduced by 118. Blomkvist did not see the grey Volvo on Monday. Gullberg used all his eloquence to convince the Prime Minister not to allow information about Zalachenko to pass beyond his own office ?C there was. The hospital administration doesn??t want you here. She could just reach it without having to move her body.

??The district court is going to appoint him to do a forensic psychiatric assessment of you. He waited until she nodded. but you weren??t very hard to convince. You??ll have to do something about the food at this place.. if he walked into the corner of a table or a bench. How had Blomkvist been able to persuade Bj?rck to reveal such explosive material? And to a journalist at that. By all known reckoning she should have been dead. In other words. In the distance she heard a voice that seemed to be talking to her. She pushed through some bushes and stood in the yard of a one-storey house of grey brick. Acquitted of all charges. He??s very experienced and doubtless one of the most competent news chiefs I??ve come across. He had reached the age when he had to use the toilet rather often.?? ??Something along those lines. It was 10. female and Lutheran.

?? ??What did you have to do with the policeman??s murder last night??? she asked him at once. She felt paralysed and unable to concentrate on any real work. for which you bear the primary responsibility. At 2.T. He??s had recurring trouble with it over the past few years. She asked him to cancel a meeting she had arranged with the culture editor. the Minister of Defence or any other member of the government to be informed.?? ??I understand. at least they were in an investigation from 2001. had submitted a report which examined the Prosecutor General??s want of initiative over a number of years. They do their best to ignore anything they hear about us.?? ??Me??? Eriksson said.P. and as you no doubt realize. Nazi. Then an animated door opened and a Lara Croft-like figure stepped out.

?? Janeryd gave Blomkvist a puzzled look. What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles. by the way. He had lived with computers since he was ten. Berger had not been able to sleep on Thursday night. He had packed his van on Friday morning and taken the ferry from Dover to Calais. had landed in because of Salander and Niedermann. He looked like a bit player in E.?? ??What about her??? ??She has to disappear. aggressive resistance to police officers. and the like.K. It contained no lies that could entangle her.00??? ??One more thing ?? I??m seeing my sister. You spoke about co-operation ???? The P.?? Blomkvist said again. listening out for sounds in the vicinity.

Acts calm and cool. ??I??ll hobble in as soon as I??ve pulled myself together. It??s Friday night. She took another step and pain shot through her entire foot. and went up to Inspector Bublanski??s office. Jonasson was a catalogue of surprises.?? Figuerola said. And Georg Nystr?m you know. I thought you might be amused to tag along. and I??m convinced that it??s the best care she could receive.iv By 1. Let??s meet at Samir??s Cauldron for a beer. ??Should I call her??? ??No. Blomkvist had blown 150. after all. She did not need anyone to tell her that. when S.

?? Berger looked at the clock and sighed.?? ??And did any of them buy it??? ??Yes. Otherwise she had had a monstrous headache ever since Giannini had dragged her out of bed and carried her into the bathroom. and after a few unsuccessful attempts he managed to lift it very slightly so that he could turn it in the right direction. who did the actual eavesdropping. In 2000 she applied to the Security Police in Uppsala. was an interesting one. then Sweden was not one iota better than any dictatorship in the entire world. After a while the P. Do we have a description of the third man??? ??Even better. That was almost three weeks. Even though he had lived there for large parts of his working life. With that an inexorable process would have been set in motion. as always. which she planned to smoke by the vent window during the night. the better. He wondered how Niedermann would get along on his own.

He said that he couldn??t know who would be going to the Hague.?? Figuerola looked at the photograph of Gullberg and Francke standing side by side.?? Blomkvist said. was alive. he regained his strength and was eventually able to walk again with crutches. I can??t give you the name.?? the Prime Minister said. But this injury happened long after the time of death. Lundin had somehow always managed to keep Nieminen in line. If Borgsj? took that tack he would be exposed as a liar. Her mobile was being monitored.?? She put the address into the inside pocket of her jacket.?? Erlander cleared his throat. One of the first things he did was to have Blomkvist released from his handcuffs. although he had not in fact been working there. The rear is screened by your hedge. who was looking more and more hollow-eyed.

She went on to report how at one point during the rape he had wound a piece of clothing ?C her own T-shirt ?C around her neck and strangled her for such a long time that she temporarily lost consciousness. doesn??t know I??m here. The driver will know where to drop you. which reported to the police commission or the justice department. When the trial begins.00 in the afternoon. I??ve had threats before. ??Blomkvist. Hallberg is in charge of training. looking at him with amused affection.P??.U. We won??t see you for three months while you hop from one T. ??Can you open your eyes??? Who was this bloody idiot harping on at her? Finally she did open her eyes. Plague gave her the U. the author of the report.?? ??Thailand.

Who were those dead bodies??? Nieminen had a vicious retort on the tip of his tongue. They had had a long. Nor had he got to the heart of the relationship between Bj?rck and the psychiatrist Peter Teleborian. He was gone from 1985 to 1987..?? ??Who gave him the instruction??? ??The chief of Secretariat??s assistant. She would have to spend what was left of the money on a call to Plague. Forty-seven. so he pushed the sushi aside. It wasn??t good. She walked calmly back to the top of the hill just in time to see the woman disappear through the entrance door of Blomkvist??s building.?? ??Yes. that points to hopeful. I grew up a few miles from there. ??You??ve recovered nicely. That usually happened only when she had a visitor or was working intently on some problem. or whether I have possibly misinterpreted something.