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I??ll explain the situation. whenever it is. He had no idea what he did in his free time.?? Sellberg said with a polite smile. She smiled. How can this have gone on for so long? How could this activity have been both concealed and financed??? ??Go on. Don??t you understand what???? Clinton cut him off. a second tie. but the letter to the Deputy Minister wasn??t logged in at the department until the following day. or swimming. Salander woke with a start when she heard the door open. This is just an extra job for me. When at long last Edklinth concluded that he had to act on Armansky??s information. drove to Rosenbad to inform the incoming Prime Minister. That is how the media work. but he knew that he had one hell of a story. ??The police didn??t get hold of Bj?rck??s report by themselves ?? they got it from a journalist. He weighed thirty-nine kilos and was unable to walk. But one thing is for sure ?C I don??t mean to spend the rest of it in this glass cage. ??Why haven??t we heard anything about this??? ??Blomkvist put it like this: there??s only one right time to publish a story. You must understand how improbably complicated this story has become. This morning she had not had a single visitor.

A man no-one had ever heard of before. He wore a hound??s-tooth jacket and dark-grey trousers. where she??s been isolated since April? She doesn??t want the police to know she has access to the Net.?? ??Thanks. some squiggles on a piece of paper. Various assignments had been given to Cortez and Eriksson. ??You could take this as a complaint from the staff.P. Press freedom has also been enshrined by parliament and is based on the socially and democratically acceptable restrictions of society. he needs a new kidney and spends a lot of his time in dialysis or some other treatment. ??How do I get out of here??? he asked. ??How long has this been going on??? ??A couple of weeks. She tried 52553. The personnel department had no information about what Bj?rck had been working on in 1991. in which it was clear that Bublanski was uncomfortable in the extreme and obviously annoyed at Ekstr?m??s rapid conclusions. ??The Section?? was Francke??s idea. neatly dressed. Figuerola went implacably on. he was a good person.?? ??But he did drive to Stockholm and to Svavelsj?. She tried to focus her gaze. and living in Sk?vde.

She was still thinking when she heard footsteps in the corridor.??s hardly dry behind the ears. and the glass partition to the corridor was covered by curtains. along with information about the C. which right now is a nightmare.?? ??She sort of halfway believed the first email although she was quite surprised by it. Trinity wrote.?? ??I know. ??The long and the short of it is that we??re to hand all our material on Salander over to him this afternoon. We??re so secret that we don??t exist. ??Teleborian is a really.?? ??That??s also true.iv Modig and Holmberg arrived at G?teborg Central Station just after 8. thought Malm. Landsort was the end of the world.?? Sandberg said. Edklinth thought him taciturn.?? ??I know. talking on the telephone.Thursday. This is my last week.?? Borgsj? looked puzzled.

?? ??What do we do now??? ??I have no idea. Bj?rck??s prints were on the handle and the blade. even if that. it was a great loss to Uppsala street safety. Lottie Karim was notoriously afraid of the dark and would never for the life of her have agreed to be by herself overnight at the office. He was sent to a refugee camp in Upplands V?sby. The United Nations keeps an eye on child labour. and its purpose is to damage Salander before the trial. She was shot and buried here.?? Clinton said. That will take time. Do you want me to be your lawyer? Armansky and Mikael are paying my fee and???? ??No.?? ??I??m coming into the city this evening.?? ??That??s exactly what I don??t understand. I??m running the club. ??My name is???? ??Monica Figuerola.?? Blomkvist said. but in fact I forgot to deliver it to his office before I left. He corresponded with Teleborian ?C but the correspondence in the form we??ve seen it is apparently a forgery. Sonny Nieminen. who had paled in the course of the presentation. He also noticed another odd thing: there was no bibliography in any one of the books Cortez had found.

no question. and she went through every public register she could find. We??re going to be talking to each other quite a lot. who did the actual eavesdropping.?? Blomkvist laughed. He was shown to Zalachenko??s room.T. He was Inspector Bergling. irrespective of whether she was a triple murderer or a Nobel Prize winner.?? Blomkvist said. to take over as editor-inchief. and then you??ll find yourself editing the family page or the comics page or something like that. Berger had been a boss she could always rely on. most recently at the editorial meeting on Friday. ??Blomkvist gave the report to his editor-in-chief. And Karlskrona.K. nothing??s happened. and in A. She sank back on to the pillow. A housing association block since the 1890s. It was David Rosin from Milton Security.

Two of the guns were Polish P-83 Wanads. She relaxed and waited. we want you and your husband to be aware of certain things and to take certain routine measures.?? ??No leads??? ??No.?? ??We studied all your notes today and we??ve informed the prosecutor that we??re prepared to discharge you. but the percentage was negligible. Plague was an intelligent and socially gifted citizen. ??I suggest we don??t decide anything now. She did not understand what it was about.?? ??Well ???? ??Do you have a friend who could come and stay with you??? ??Sure.?? ??I??ll make the decisions and do the surgery. But he had done something extremely shrewd.?? ??Fredrik. I don??t know if it contains anything compromising. The rear is screened by your hedge. ??I??m getting to that. Zalachenko was Salander??s father and her worst enemy. but I think only the Prosecutor General could appoint a preliminary investigation leader in this situation. But in the half-staffed Saturday newsroom everything was normal. I??m going to walk to the Scandic Crown and book a room. So she??s read it too.?? ??How about management??? ??Magnus Borgsj? is chairman of the board.

Now she was suddenly editor-in-chief. He was without doubt a most competent news editor. and Edklinth did not welcome the necessity to get mixed up in it.?? ??I??m not suggesting that they should lose money. she would leave hospital with a scar on her scalp.?? ??There was a ?? Clinton.?? They were silent for a moment. but that was words. but we can make a few assumptions.P. so he tried her number at the Millennium offices. because Gullberg had made specific death threats against Karl Axel Bodin. even if his body had not yet absorbed the message that it was time to shut down. Malm??s boyfriend. don??t you think??? ??Well. ??Tell me. on the other hand.e. 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. At 6.?? * Richard Ekstr?m. as Mikael Blomkvist claimed from the very beginning.

started up the I. bangs together some sheet-metal cubes for exclusive rental at G?shaga on Liding?. he??s the one who gets S. ??I??d like to examine you for a moment. ??Congrats. She was grown-up now. Then Modig leaned forward and said in a low voice. but this whole story has so many different threads and connections ?? It seems to me that it would be wise to get Bublanski and Modig away from Salander. where did you spring from? They stopped outside the door to Blomkvist??s building. itself be implemented? The Wennerstr?m debacle had given rise to an avalanche of dilemmas within the Security Police. But it is unusual. ??I just spoke to a nurse at Sahlgrenska. Which she should not have done. This situation makes the Prime Minister both angry and uneasy. Armansky had begun to tell him the story of Lisbeth Salander. My name is Lisbeth Salander. and squeezed the trigger.?? ??Alright. and from the conversation Blomkvist gathered that it was a stringer in G?teborg whom Eriksson had sent to Sahlgrenska. From the moment in mid-April when Bj?rck??s report was stolen and Blomkvist realized that he was under surveillance. If this was the case. She had scarcely sent the message before she heard that Berger was up and moving about again.

and some cash. yes. ??Hello. ??It??s all about getting Ekstr?m to split the two cases. I??ll be back in Stockholm tomorrow if nothing else comes up. She remembered the nights when. Borgsj? is going to be persona non grata.?? ??What did Vinge and Francke quarrel about??? ??They were just very different. What matters to them is their own survival. I don??t want to say what it entails right now. Then. or whatever he was. She could give a good description of the woman. It??s nonsense. 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. I think you??re pretty tough too. Millennium is sitting on a scoop that will turn the Salander story on its head. Monica. The difference. All the blood was either in his head ?C the noose having prevented it from running into his body ?C or in the lower extremities.A. Peter Teleborian.

?? ??I don??t think???? ??It??s up to you. But don??t worry about him for the time being. and turned on the T.?? Waltari said. But this rape took place two years ago. ??I don??t understand this.?? ??Amazing. but he knew that some time in the future he would have to pay her back and erase the shame.?? Jonasson sat for a while.?? ??He seems not to have had any contact with his old friends in Hamburg. Giannini had only been there for a few minutes. but as I told you I??m not active in any political party. a doorman.?? ??I don??t think so. and I??m proud of it. ??Once again we have to haul you out of the furnace.?? ??Not a hope. to help disseminate.?? ??I understand. According to the newspapers. Add to this the unforgivably absurd bonuses that will cost S. I went through Forelius.

?? ??The neighbours on the right are away for long periods. With an effort she stood up and swayed unsteadily. The government has the power to adopt a wide range of measures in the event that breaches of the constitution are threatened. She calculated the distance.?? ??Have you appointed an assistant editor??? ??Henry. Many of them were sadistic. But would you be willing. It was found in Gosseberga outside G?teborg and it has Salander??s prints on it. and I are tending towards the belief that Blomkvist is correct in claiming that the first three murders were committed by Niedermann. She kept an eye on the clock. He watched the flow of people on G?tgatan. perhaps you could help me with a matter I don??t quite understand ?? as one doctor to another. and had probably saved her life. He corresponded with Teleborian ?C but the correspondence in the form we??ve seen it is apparently a forgery. ??What on earth?? you were there??? ??Yes.?? She laughed.?? ??Which means that if problems arise. She watched the woman as she stood in the queue at the kiosk. The stalker then took the opportunity to get into the house. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word. Saturday. I??m here on a work issue.

?? the nurse said. ??Thanks. 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. but statistics showed that the absolute majority of people who harassed women were men. So you have to pay the going rate. She poured black coffee into a paper cup and ate a lettuce and cheese baguette. Unfortunately there was not much he could help with.I. then it was with these lunatics. ??I??m just dead tired. And not one of us had noticed a thing. he had helped in the attempt to murder and bury her. Tonight. and they might not be the same ones Erika would have made.?? Blomkvist said.?? he said. He was still amazed that it had not been confiscated when Paulsson frisked him. Malm was never quite sure whether Blomkvist was paranoid by nature or if he had paranormal gifts.00. Jervas raised her hand.?? she said. He had a view of medicine that was at times unorthodox.

But not one of us wants to hurt you. but I??m responsible for her. Poison Pen might easily be a married man with five children and a dog. but they were old colleagues. The prosecutor has forbidden my client to have visitors. for as long as she kept trying. He decided against the train. knowing things about her that Giannini did not. Niedermann is of no importance. She was thirty-six. It was an automatic response.?? ??Don??t call me crazy. I got in at the same time he did. is mixed up in several kinds of criminal activity. before she got mixed up in the hunt for Zalachenko. The problem was that she did not know what she should do.?? ??And he spent his sick leave running around with prostitutes??? Gullberg said. ??Give us a written order and the authority we need. Bublanski had to stop himself from smiling. then do so. Thanks for the legwork yesterday. ??Mikael.

H on another officer. It was entitled [Read this first]. As the plywood was being put up. even if she had no say over the magazine??s contents. Nils Erik Bjurman. Salander was one of them.?? ??He??s an artist. He woke at 10. The story simply did not sound credible. His parents lived in ?rebro and they were his sole heirs. He had no will to react when calmly they took him in a firm grip under both arms. and by mid-decade Gullberg had heard several proposals that the budget be reduced. He glanced at Cortez and Karim. That could be the only explanation. Millennium was going to publish the story. and the Prime Minister has no jurisdiction to determine whether or not she is sane. We??re not going to kill the article.?? ??No need to apologize.M.?? Blomkvist thanked him and took a taxi to City Hotel on Lorensbergsgatan. outside Nykvarn.?? she said.

who had a similar position in the C. Things might be a bit rocky at first. Shall we say 6. The computer started up.?? ??A little. we??ve tried it. Foolish to think otherwise. It could be scar tissue as a product of the healing process. But if he can??t handle the fact that you screwed up one time in twenty years. I can??t recall having any discussion about it at the two o??clock meeting.?? Berger smiled. On the other hand. The only two books with any real ambition to portray the work of the Security Police were Power Struggle for S?po and Espionage in Sweden. I would have gone for the Silbersky type or another of the heavy-duty criminal lawyers. please. it will take longer.?? ??O.?? ??Our activity is completely legal ?? we??re actually working under the auspices of the government. or could he be borrowed for an investigation in Constitutional Protection? The assistant chief of Counter-Espionage was puzzled. and Salander would be buried in a hole in the ground. Why should it cost 10. Jonasson spent ten minutes examining her.

P. of course.?? Edklinth said tentatively.S. When he checked the clock he quickly closed his iBook.?? Fransson wondered whether she could somehow arrange to hand the entire business over to Prosecutor Ekstr?m in Stockholm. He always felt a bit bemused when he went into the apartment: twenty-one rooms. She reached out and rang for a nurse. Have you got any more surprises up your sleeve??? ??Yes. he had. Right now we have about thirty officers working directly on the investigation. But not one of us wants to hurt you. like writing a column in a trade journal every week. But this was not going to be of any help to Salander. She had wiped her hard drive clean before she left for Gosseberga and the confrontation with Zalachenko. You met him down in G?teborg.000 copies since the glory days of the ??60s. He was hungry and exhausted. she put on one shoe and stuck the toes of her injured foot into the other.?? ??This sounds fun. ??I don??t know what this is going to turn into.S.

the fate of Sweden rests in your hands.?? ??That was Margareta Orring??s article. The layout was not perfect. The second was an injury to the brain.?? ??Order everything you can find from parliament: budgets.?? ??You misunderstand me. we have a journalistic responsibility. so that Millennium??s office was always staffed and someone slept there every night. just long enough to get an idea of who sent it and what it was about.?? he said.?? He paused. Does that sound good??? ??It sounds fantastic. the attack on Annika. The problem was that she did not know what she should do. We have just under six weeks. and its purpose is to damage Salander before the trial.?? Gullberg shook his head. Her head was wrapped in bandages. There was a pile of unopened post that he shoved firmly to one side. Policemen aren??t supposed to think in those terms. On Friday KAB was conspicuous by its absence. the worst possible thing I could do in this situation would be to try to influence the shape or content of your story.

R. These pages. On Sunday morning they said a hasty goodbye before Berger drove home to her husband. He knows who I am. but he??s incredibly bad at routine work. ??O.?? Edklinth exhaled a little. The trail ends there for the moment. ??I??m in G?teborg. Zalachenko is there too with an axe wound to his skull. He had flowers in one hand and a briefcase in the other. Within the Section this was no obstacle. In his opinion. Today we have what??s called an internal and an external organization.?? He explained how the story had developed. yes. He had done something that Salander knew about.S. she won??t be able to do the research she needs to do to prepare her defence. was involved in Zalachenko??s murder. and suddenly there isn??t much time left.?? he said at last.

?? ??Talk to Erika and ask her for a copy. I asked if she wanted something to read.?? ??Hello.?? ??Where are you??? ??Nyk?ping. He felt strangely uninterested in everything to do with the hunt for Niedermann. ??You should start working out yourself. but we??re going to have to act fast so that we don??t squander the opportunity. He would have to turn to the chief to secure political support for what he was working on.?? ??Yes. ??I think I??ll doze for a while. This thing about steroids has to do with her connection to boxers.?? ??Barring the unforeseen.?? ??It??s precisely the same thing.Friday. ??I know what we??re supposed to be doing. and the crime scene investigation proceeded as best it could under the circumstances. Von Rottinger is dead. 3. ??Wadensj??. But Ekstr?m??s the boss. there was no crime. ??Niedermann is the scapegoat and I guarantee that no-one will ever find him.

Dr Anders Jonasson was blond and blue-eyed.?? He tied a sheet around his waist. She had cut through all the rhetoric and intimated that the Prime Minister himself was responsible.?? ??But he refuses to give the police any information about Salander.Q.?? Figuerola said.?? ??Falsifications??? ??I think that??s the only appropriate description. ??I need a favour. means invading your privacy ?C preferably with your approval. Eriksson and Blomkvist looked up from the typescript of the book about the Zalachenko case. Finally he shut down the computer and went to bed.?? ??I know. Did you try to call the police about what happened??? ??Yes.. But she could afford it. He had only the vaguest notion of how S?po was organized. And that led to a little clash at the Construction Fair in ?lvsj? last year. I don??t want to guess what it would cost with fries and a Coke. I don??t want to guess what it would cost with fries and a Coke. my assignment is to provide you with background as necessary. account pinged. He had heart and artery problems.

If he wanted to.?? ??I always dress nicely. which consisted solely of numbers. his chest hit the coffee table. our lawyer in S. her husband.?? ??That petty thief you identified ???? ??Kenneth Gustafsson.?? ??I wish I could. She blamed Blomkvist for this state of affairs as she showered and then rousted him out of bed. More??? ??We only I. and they lack credibility. I??m a doctor. like writing a column in a trade journal every week.?? Wadensj?? said. Start by reading through the clippings. but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale.K. He felt inadequate but all of a sudden realized that he might be luckier than he deserved. not for a moment.?? Sandberg said. She??s at the hospital in Bor?s.?? ??What happened then??? ??We got out of the lift on the same floor.

?? ??The way you did with Hans-Erik Wennerstr?m??? ??Something like that.?? Modig said nothing. Have you got any more surprises up your sleeve??? ??Yes. No police report was ever filed. He did a quick visual examination: it looked like she was a teenager. but he seemed alert still. Not surprisingly. Tell me about this story. He has an exemplary record with no real criticisms. But before that there are one or two things we ought to discuss. spear. It??s exercise more than hard training. Someone had taken the trouble to find out where she lived. ??As you no doubt know.?? Wadensj?? said.M.M.K. She had to find a hiding place. and a lesbian Satanist.U.00 on Saturday afternoon.