quite sure Henry would agree to that.?? ??Can he handle it??? ??He??s no idiot. And she had the Borgsj? problem.

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A number of pictures were of infants. And Evert Gullberg ?C the man who had shot Zalachenko. He had stayed in Stockholm for another three years and worked almost daily at the Section. She kissed his cheek and waved as she left. ??It feels as though I??m already operating at half speed.?? ??Congrats.58 a. She could give a good description of the woman. For the rest of his life. ??Our work has to be done by July 13. lost in thought. yes. He??s had recurring trouble with it over the past few years. or die. 3. In three years. Berger had gathered her colleagues into Millennium??s small conference room with only a few minutes?? notice.?? ??Why the hurry??? ??Because as soon as you come back I need you to make love to me. ??Imbecile. Cortez bought a job lot of Ericsson T10s for a song. I haven??t. I can??t poke around in her skull and extract bullets. ??Because she wanted to tell you first.

Salander is. Eriksson was Blomkvist??s principal assistant for the Salander book.M. nor did he have the feeling that he was being watched or followed. Figuerola. After a period of computer celibacy. Hans Faste ?? do you think he might come back on duty? He sounds like the right man to investigate the allegations against Salander.?? ??That??s a comfort. She hobbled over to her glass cage and sank into her chair with relief. Now it was time to express herself more clearly. they had made it clear to him that Zalachenko and the Section were going their separate ways. He thought doctors often drew conclusions that they could not substantiate. Or that he could. ??Child labour exists mostly in the textile and souvenir industries in Thailand. the author of the report.. staring at the ceiling above Figuerola??s bed.D. ??O. ??No. She limped over to the balcony door and went out to the garden. weighing her chances. but he could not remember his name ?C some sort of foreign name ?C but Adamsson did not feel the need to check his I.

??I know what we??re supposed to be doing. Figuerola apologized and said she must have dialled the wrong number.?? ??What do you need now??? ??A little more legwork. we have to know.S. Then her I. so she clicked on the strategy document she was writing for S. reading paragraphs here and there. Zalachenko looked astonished. thereby compromising some secret operation. ??You want to bring charges against the Zalachenko club.P.S. He carried a shoulder bag and he walked with a long. at 6. He was arrested with Lundin at Stallarholmen.?? ??And who are his superiors??? ??He won??t say. You don??t have to be afraid.I. I can tell you that we have our equivalent of Inspector Paulsson. Which means that there was some degree of contact between the two of them while Salander was on the run. It would have been essential. ??Right.

and spontaneously gave Berger a hug and a kiss on the cheek. She had to remind him that he was at the Slussen Hilton.?? ??Quite so. that he saw visions ?C ghosts even. and that there are forces at work you haven??t even dreamed of. She was cured. We don??t have the resources for what you??d think of as an operations unit. The conversation was in Kurdish. I got to bed at 1. Dr Jonasson was pleased with the response he had got. but after going back and forth about this. V.?? ??That helps a bit. ??They met to discuss the forensic psychiatric report on Salander. The sports desk has six and a half jobs at the moment.G. sending a fax of a threatening letter that hadn??t yet reached its addressee. it would soak up all of Millennium??s time. Two men stood there. Criminal Inspector Jan Bublanski of the Violent Crimes Division in Stockholm. with the result that Zalachenko was alive and tucked up in bed barely ten metres from where she was.?? ??He was her guardian. Nieminen grimaced.

I mean. What??s happened??? ??News. ??Could I give you a piece of advice??? ??Of course. Who??s that over there? God.30 in the afternoon. Fredriksson was definitely a candidate. pointing out that Niedermann was not a man who could be arrested and handcuffed just like that: he was a maniacal killer. but she was completely rational.?? ??You don??t have to apologize for the actions of some idiot. He looked back at her for a moment. And that was enough. She opened his mail and began to click back in time.?? she said. Blomkvist wrote a note on a yellow Post-it.?? ??Yes. The folder from Bjurman??s summer cabin with Bj?rck??s report was taken. and as discreetly as possible. a car from Milton will come down from Nacka. ??Yes. Under Berger??s leadership the magazine had always been a collective. The first nurse stopped short on the threshold. This means that you have confirmed the existence of what I call the Zalachenko club. ??And how did you know that this meeting was going to take place??? ??I have to protect my source.

Finally Prosecutor Ekstr?m.?? ??It??s a question of saving money we??re not going to have. Who on earth do you think can resist that??? ??You??re very kind. ??I think she??s out of danger.?? ??I??m having trouble digesting it myself. V. or rather two. I mean. I want to talk to him. Zalachenko turned his head a little so that he could see Erlander.?? ??You changed the whole door??? ??Yes. I have a source who provides me with some info. Three times Paulsson had asked the urgently occupied medical orderly whether the girl could be arrested on the spot. It was a structure with only two ranks. She emailed him a brief reply and thanked him for the upgrade. ??Tell me.K.00 p. ??this could lead to a constitutional crisis. After a while he said to Blomkvist: ??When do you want to meet him??? ??Friday afternoon. ??My target is the Zalachenko club. He took her left elbow and raised the arm.06 p.

could home in highly sensitive antennae on a specific building anywhere in the world. I would have gone for the Silbersky type or another of the heavy-duty criminal lawyers. Lars Faulsson. I have never been charged. It simply could not have been the government.00 and gathered the employees for a brief memorial to Morander. She remembered still the humiliation she had felt when she saw her walk off down Hornsgatan with Blomkvist the day before New Year??s Eve a year and a half ago.. and explained how a policeman??s death was a needless catastrophe because Niedermann had already been shackled. all ready to be arrested.?? ??But he??s alive.I.?? ??Interesting thought. I want you to go to the hospital and observe the work in the emergency ward and the intensive care unit for a couple of days. wary look.?? ??And what happened??? ??His nearest competitor was a Swedish wholesale outfit called Vitavara Inc. ??It??ll pass. ??I??m not competent to judge whether or not Salander is mentally ill.?? ??Where did the rope come from??? ??From the flagpole in the garden.I. it could also be classified as murder.?? Blomkvist said. ??They??re bound to move the date of the trial.

it??s Monica from S. and that there are forces at work you haven??t even dreamed of. To make the ultimate decision he needed to have a personal conversation with her to get her approval to tell the truth. if the entire underworld is looking for him. So why are you talking to me? Should I take it to mean that you have a certain amount of trust in me??? She did not reply.I. Each day he had checked the address he had given to Criminal Inspector Modig. But right now she had to make decisions on several matters. According to Giannini. She had brought a green military bag containing her laptop. Edklinth is as straight as a die. He considered himself a democrat. Then he shut off the computer and sat down at Salander??s kitchen table with an editing pencil. I??ll go over the details with you. She was dressed in a T-shirt and jeans and had no other injuries that Nieminen could see. then it was with these lunatics.M. That little fool is not telling me the truth. There would certainly be headlines in the evening papers and it would probably result in an assault charge. I??ve worked in the media for twenty-five years and I have never met a person like him in a management position. Someone who was trying to cover Zalachenko??s tracks.?? Blomkvist went on asking questions for another few minutes. She isn??t the type to ask anyone for help.

?? ??And??? Modig hesitated once again. and came to the realization that most of all she felt indifference towards her entire life. ??Thanks. ??I??m simply asking out of personal interest. she would simply have to plan her escape from St Stefan??s or whichever other nuthouse. And the paedophile industry. Henry shoots from the hip a little too often.?? ??I asked if you understood. awaiting trial for the kidnapping of Miriam Wu. also in some quarters known as the Salander case. In its place hung a rope from a hook. How did this get here??? one of them said. In which case Sandberg. Fire the Swedish workers and close the factories here. But this is no time for you to be increasing your own bonus. So when I finished school I studied to be a welder and I even worked as one for several years. Adam Security in Fisks?tra.?? ??Why is that??? ??You??re proposing that the newspaper should not be profitable. She wondered whether she could manage to get out of bed. and a taxi driver.?? ??Sometimes you can be surprised. The pain was appalling. even if that.

She knew perfectly well that no such address existed at Millennium.?? ??If I were to tell you that this story is untrue. The damaging thing was not that his company. It would take half a second to shove the broken edge into Zalachenko??s throat if he leaned over her. On the instructions of that goddamned blond monster. With infinite care he inserted a probe into the brain and enlarged the wound channel by a few millimetres.?? Monica was already on her way and passing Drottninggatan. and began to check them off. ??We have to be of one mind. Cortez now kept an ashtray on his desk. and finally the preliminary investigation leader. when relations would once again worsen ?C which according to Gullberg was inevitable ?C absurd demands would be made on the Security Police and the military intelligence service; they would be expected to wave their magic wand and summon up well-placed agents out of a bottle. ??I??m going home. Blomkvist could find no such enquiry in Ekstr?m??s email. If this were a regular police investigation of an ordinary crime.?? he said. I have to know whether you really do want me to be your lawyer.?? ??Tip off the police??? ??Yes. yes. faxed nine letters that Gullberg had supposedly written.?? ??And she survived??? ??She looked like nothing on earth when she came in. This is my colleague Inspector Modig from the Stockholm police. Just let??s see if you understand this message.

Jonas??? Sandberg glanced at Wadensj??. Then the two old agents embraced.?? ??O. It is a very clear instruction. reached out and grabbed the pencil. I cannot help you. She was surprised to be alive. Gullberg thought. ??They??ll twist what I say and use it against me. Trinity was born in Bradford. for G. not to mention their years of investigations of Palme and other prominent Social Democrats. rather. which has Bj?rck instructing Teleborian to falsify a mental examination.?? ??O. Trinity wrote. As she opened the folder she realized that her procrastination had also to do with the fact that she did not really want to face up to the problem. Gullberg was the chief. where Bj?rck draws conclusions and makes recommendations. Could it really be possible??? ??I??m afraid it is. He instinctively disliked a situation in which private muscle was doing what a government department was supposed to be doing. I have documentation. She sounded surprised.

If so. and hurried off towards the editorial offices on G?tgatan. He was like everyone else. Blomkvist was asking her for permission to tell the truth in his book. She radiated a cheerful confidence. There??s a whisper that Nieminen has offered a big reward to anyone who could provide information as to Niedermann??s whereabouts. It had sounded logical at the time.?? ??I can??t help you with that. At the same time he was supposed to keep his eyes peeled for anyone who might follow Blomkvist. ??Where??? ??This afternoon I found out that Salander has taken on a lawyer.?? ??So ?? what else? Illegal tapping or something??? Edklinth said. Add to this the unforgivably absurd bonuses that will cost S. The stalker then took the opportunity to get into the house.?? ??What you don??t understand is that our shareholders bought stock in the paper because they want to make money.?? When she hung up she called the office and left a message for Fredriksson. If something went wrong. Berger turned and looked out over the landscape of the newsroom. Remember the Wennerstr?m affair. Ronald Niedermann. As a result of this outburst.?? ??O.?? ??Good.?? ??We??ll use the whole front page and move everything else back.

Francke and P. He had taken off her shoes and her trousers so that he could bandage the wound to her hip. Do you understand??? ??Yes. but he was starting to get a line on how the letters should be expressed. Someone who was trying to cover Zalachenko??s tracks.?? ??And you did it because even you recognize that this is far more than just a scoop in your magazine. Gullberg did not have a clear sense of what Wadensj?? was made of. the names of today??s participants must not be mentioned in your articles. ??Teleborian??? Jonasson could not help overhearing the name. One advantage of working at Constitutional Protection was that she had authority to access almost any police report in Sweden that might have any connection to racially or politically motivated crimes. told them that she did not have time to wait. She had spent thirty minutes trying to do arm lifts.P. as it turned out. Ronald Niedermann. has developed its own text editing system.P. This time he had left that bloody Modig woman behind and instead was accompanied by Inspector Holmberg.M. Then there were a hundred other details. pointing to her foot. First of all. Who was murdered??? ??Herr Bodin.

and password. One part concerns Zalachenko.10 on Tuesday morning.?? After they had settled in. ??I??m getting to that. He had also bathed Salander??s face with a wet towel and done his best to wipe off the dirt. They were not dramatic sums. She had given him an especially long kiss that morning because he was flying to Paris to deliver some lectures and would not be back until the weekend. dull headache and acute pain in her left shoulder. which he at once identified as belonging to the Security Police. She parked on Bergsgatan. Then he smiled. you have a number of loyal idiots working on your behalf. V. I should perhaps mention that I opposed that action. stood on tiptoe and unscrewed the three screws in the round white cover of a vent in the wall of Salander??s room. Nieminen went up the stairs and out of the front door.I. But. pushed open the door. And she liked giving in to threats even less. Good God. ??Welcome.

00.?? Eriksson did not answer the telephone. He was on the board of Zalachenko??s company. There??s nothing in her file that says why. It was 6. That??s the only reasonable explanation. Jonasson made two deep incisions all the way down to the cranium and peeled back the skin round the entry wound. ??We have to be of one mind. Some years earlier that post had been occupied by the notorious Colonel Wennerstr?m. we??ve landed in a constitutional crisis.I. ??Bring some coffee. When she went into Slussen tunnelbana Figuerola picked up her pace.?? ??I couldn??t stand sitting at home one more day. and a prosecutor intended to charge her with attempted murder and grievous bodily harm. Blomkvist waited.?? Edklinth sighed. I??m not going to steal your story. but it was mild and it was distant. You can bill us for five days. but just pottering. when she was due to appear at a school in T?by.P.

it sounds like she might need a criminal lawyer. a relic from the Cold War. The house was well kept and neat. Start by reading the Bj?rck report. At 2. ??That was one of our first thoughts too. but the glass was her only reachable weapon. a murderer. Greger Beckman. the total budget of the secret police was 2.?? ??I can??t. ??It might be as early as this weekend. but that there was a boundary and it could not be infringed. I can??t give you her name.?? ??They want to take you over to the prison in G?teborg tonight. The Section had its offices at Kungsholmen. Jonasson met them in the emergency admissions area. It??s your job to take care of Lisbeth??s physical and mental health.?? ??Same difference. He got out of the car and looked around. This is just the way it was in his day. Out of this somewhat esoteric bureaucratic debate. But it??s very simple to fake an apparently legitimate address.

But what really interested Salander were the forty-seven folders containing close to nine thousand photographs of explicit child pornography. Why Aftonbladet? The address was another fake.?? ??Sometimes you can be surprised. Then he took a taxi to Artillerigatan in ?stermalm. ??Even though crucial evidence is lacking.v Blomkvist put his laptop case on the desk. I asked if I could help her with anything. ??The police didn??t get hold of Bj?rck??s report by themselves ?? they got it from a journalist. And we did a thorough investigation of Bj?rck??s place. On this third visit Ekstr?m would be given answers to several of the questions he had asked earlier. i.?? Gullberg drew a series of concentric circles on his notepad. She had observed his ill-concealed enthusiasm when he sauntered into the Friday meeting. But if her car had been damaged on some random street in S?dermalm. He corresponded with Teleborian ?C but the correspondence in the form we??ve seen it is apparently a forgery. a dangerous psychopath. But that doesn??t mean he has to behave like an idiot. But it can??t go to the prosecutor until just before the trial. and defected to Sweden on Election Day in 1976. He was gone from 1985 to 1987. The Constitutional Protection Unit publishes an annual report. He used clamps to secure the opening. She looked up towards the roof of Bellmansgatan 1.

But we don??t have a damned thing on Nieminen. we have a journalistic responsibility. Lisbeth started digging into her past.?? ??It??s an inconvenience because you have to turn off the alarm every time you come downstairs. And then she saw a light through the trees and stopped. She supposed that her brain had not been too greatly damaged after being perforated by a bullet with a full-metal jacket. and he??s going to assist Ekstr?m. An Agent in Place contained so much inaccurate information about Sweden in the first chapter that he threw the book into the wastepaper basket. (No.?? ??Good. ??The rules of the game. Somebody must have made that decision. Then she jumped up and dug into her jacket pocket.?? ??A little too fast. ??You look tired. ??I understand. Trinity flipped open his mobile and dialled a number he had memorized. I??d really like to read the infamous report. Then gingerly he closed the door. She knew. there is that possibility. ??Where??? ??This afternoon I found out that Salander has taken on a lawyer. Swedish Internal Security.

He was dead before the ambulance arrived.?? ??Cancer??? ??He??s been carrying that gun around for the past six months. it??s Berger. Figuerola waited for forty-nine minutes before M?rtensson and his companion in overalls came out of Bellmansgatan 1. After Queen Myrina finally fell in battle. The next day it would take less. then Salander??s lawyer could instantly charge the Swedish government with violation of her constitutional rights. If it is. from right under the noses of the policemen circling around him.I. But he had stopped the bleeding from the wounds in her hip and shoulder in the simplest possible way. Inspector Erlander returned. Sandberg offered a considerably stronger lifeline. He asked if I liked being pierced and then left the room.?? ??Send out an A. A bit ironic. Two of the people living in the building have police records.?? Malm said.?? ??But don??t you understand what a scandal this could turn into? Are you just as barmy as Gullberg??? Clinton got to his feet laboriously. Francke and P. Is that understood??? ??Yes. It was absurd. She blinked hard a few times and got up to turn on the coffeemaker before she took her shower.

?? ??I will if you come over. it??s not O. then we will assist each other in finding solutions. and he would not exchange his appointment for any other position in the entire Swedish legal system or police force.?? the P. He was standing about ten metres behind her. until one day he was offered a permanent position at the Karolinska in Stockholm. not counting the attic and basement. ??It??s a new era. ??I decided to turn directly to you because this sort of activity is unconstitutional. Daniel. ??You know what I would have done. he did a brief examination of her.?? ??It would be hard to do her any more damage. has eaten into a great many old consolidated assets. Figuerola slept late on Friday morning; she did not have time for her morning run.?? ??I didn??t give anyone permission to arrest Bj?rck.?? ??That certainly seems to be true in your case. Erlander knew from long experience that there were plenty of nutters out there. This was enough for Figuerola??s team to initiate the preliminary investigation and to set about enquiring whether the robbers had a connection to the neo-Nazi gang in V?rmland. however. It was a job she enjoyed.S.

He would then take the used batteries home and recharge them overnight. there are a number of hidden funds controlled by the chief of Secretariat and chief of Budget that I have no access to. at which time the Soviet Union was heading for collapse and Zalachenko had ceased to be a priority. The page was designed around a black-bordered portrait.?? ??I can??t. Johannes.?? ??I was following M?rtensson.?? ??I??ll be sending a man out this morning. then G?ransson??s car would have been parked at one of the ports. where Clinton had already booked a room for him.S. he had openly discussed the matter with County Governor Lassinanti on a visit to Norrbotten. By all known reckoning she should have been dead.00 a. shaking hands with his former chief. Has a shop at Norrtull. to leave. execute someone who was the object of a police investigation ?C his investigation. She heard voices and all of a sudden her courage deserted her. ??Peter told me that you got an email from me. That unnamed individuals in government circles had great confidence in him implied that he could count on their gratitude if he played his cards right. But every time she had decided to sleep at Blomkvist??s. One result of this increased workload was that Eriksson had had to contract several freelancers to produce articles for future issues.

He was also an excellent and cold-blooded organizer. I am going to propose a co-operation. There are sites on the Net that you can use to send anonymous mail. Sonja. re: narcotics bust in S?dert?lje.30.?? ??I gather you??re still busy with excavations in Nykvarn.?? he greeted Edklinth.I. including the one who called himself SisterJen. But she had not done that since she was fourteen. ??What were you told about that group??? ??Nothing. cares about it. evacuation and break-in protection. ??The killing of the police officer is the main thing right now. If this gets out. Now it was time to express herself more clearly. he took a zigzag route through the narrow streets of the old city until he reached the right address and knocked at the door of Black/White Publishing. The wounds in her shoulder and hip could wait until later with a compress on each. But we have fewer people.?? ??You started it. but it turned into a wearisome sort of arm-wrestling contest. It??s been a long time.

but my salary at Millennium might not cover it.?? ??Maybe you aren??t aware of this ?C though I doubt that ?C but you give off the most incredible sexual vibrations.. How??s the Salander stuff going??? ??Good. I think. nutters who had the gift to read messages hidden from the normal world. ??Richard ?? this is how it is. She had several run-ins with people from the social welfare agency. She had not.P. A nurses?? table stood right next to her. In three years.?? she said.G. When they finally broke up. you check it out.?? ??No. and he did not know whether he dared to put a bandage on it or not. when there was less demand for this type of operation. She undressed and crept into bed. I??m quite sure Henry would agree to that.?? ??Can he handle it??? ??He??s no idiot. And she had the Borgsj? problem.