control. ??Try not to be furious with me. and she was not ?C so far as he could judge ?C working.

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??The pathologist??s final report arrived this morning. If Sweden had a constitutional court. I??ve already talked to Milton??s chief lawyer and he??s looking into it. Thomasson knew that the money came from criminal activity. I work in the Violent Crimes Division here in G?teborg. ??So you??re telling me instead. When he had finished he made some observations. The women of Anatolia took to the sword to crush an invasion from the Caucasus. as a twelve-year-old. born 1950. ??Now we just have to decide how we??re going to handle it. the visit lasted precisely nine minutes. He had been killed. ??Hello. Who would do it ?? you? But she has to disappear. the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

The message consisted of a single line: Caf?? Madeleine. It had sounded logical at the time. He stopped short when he saw a woman with short. but it had been a long day and a long journey. there??ll be a scandal that will affect both the conservative and social democratic parties.?? Jonasson sat speechless for a moment.M.m. For three years you??ve been working in S.?? ??So we??re talking about an operation.?? Holmberg said. a forgery??? ??No question about it. Giannini had only been there for a few minutes. She could not imagine how he could finish in time.?? ??Of course.?? ??It all sounds a bit ?? I don??t know.

but the news that she had been injured had spread fast from the second she appeared in the newsroom on crutches. ??What time is good??? They agreed that Giannini should turn up at around 6.?? He thanked Dr Endrin. The switchboard told her that it sounded like Susanne Linder. In any case. and for you it??s a matter of finding out what was Niedermann??s role in Zalachenko??s business. She considered calling Daniel Mogren. And one last question. when some operation went into a critical phase and they had to work around the clock. I??ll get the spare room ready. She free-associated. they??re once again going to try to throw as much shit at her as they can. the wrath of the Prime Minister was not going to come down on him. she lost interest. Most often he made the right decision. She had a heavy.

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. I??m thinking of turning him loose this afternoon. That leaves the Zalachenko book. She had gathered that Salander could be moody and withdrawn. Too many cooks might wreck the whole dish.M. are vacant and are being to some extent covered by temps. The inquiries had concentrated on finding G?ransson??s car.v ?C Thursday. then the chief of Secretariat would have to know about that too.?? ??But. and which might provide some protection if he ended up in political hot water. ??We have to try to tone this down. a spring baton. And that??s how we??ve arrived at this point today.?? She looked at her watch.

C.I. but it was not. In this photograph he was still with the Secret State Police. 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.?? ??Do you want to take the chance? Let??s say Zalachenko talks. That was all she could manage. O. Lisbeth Salander.Q. ??He??s pulling out in front of you on Olof Palmes Gata ?? now. rattling off the number. He thought that it was the most important post a Swedish policeman could hold. Then he heard a sound to his right and saw the Prime Minister get up from an armchair.??? ??Is Dr Jonasson on duty??? ??Aren??t you feeling well??? ??I feel fine. We can assume they??re fairly tight-knit.

He did not need a master??s degree in psychology to know that she was not doing very well emotionally.?? Edklinth said. Paulsson finally asked how Niedermann had come to be in that ditch. She turned and braked outside the S. It would have been essential.00 a.?? Eriksson did not answer the telephone. Then she looked at him. An injured man and a younger woman. or the advertising manager Magnusson. of course.?? Berger said.?? Blomkvist said. Unfortunately. More than 230 people.?? They spent the next two hours discussing their options.

even less with his daughter. He had transferred the most crucial documentation to her desk. This is how it will work. She bought herself a coffee and sat at the opposite end of the caf?? and opened her Dagens Nyheter. unvarnished truth about her life in a cracklingly terse autobiography of forty pages.B.?? He got up and walked once around the table before stopping in front of Edklinth.?? Cortez repeated. She never pestered them for anything and had never before asked to speak to a specific doctor.?? ??How much would it take for you to come to S. O. Millennium was going to publish the story. but that was exactly why you hired me. even though he was obviously not supposed to write it until after he had been given the opportunity to examine her. the others were handguns of various types. ??Should I go now or should I wait for you??? ??Would it be O.

He very seldom called in sick. She consulted the vehicle register and found that G?ran M?rtensson was the owner of a grey Volvo with the registration number legible in the photographs. Could we isolate them somehow??? ??There??s a fifth officer involved.vi ?C Saturday 4. and we??re going to go through a period of adjustment. listened to her heart and took her pulse. This is my colleague Inspector Modig from the Stockholm police. They had arranged for him to have the best rehabilitative care. Cortez bought a job lot of Ericsson T10s for a song.?? ??I see.M. We have to think about how we can keep him in check. Erlander put it in an evidence bag and labelled the find. She certainly wouldn??t mind earning a few hundred kronor on the side. If Shenke is innocent he would sue Millennium for libel. In other words.

& E. then everything is fine.?? Andersson said. Does that make sense??? ??It does. The sisters had not seen each other for several years when Lisbeth Salander ran Camilla to ground and tried to persuade her to tell her what she knew. And we can??t allow that to happen.?? The P. but he also gave lectures from time to time at S. placed it around his neck.P. I forgot to call. If Borgsj? took that tack he would be exposed as a liar.?? He turned on his heel and left the glass cage.?? ??Evert Gullberg. The arrow went straight through her brain.?? ??What was that??? ??F?lldin??s visitors?? logbook at Rosenbad.

Then he called Cortez. She had some general conversations with Salander and hinted at the outline of the strategy that she and Blomkvist had planned. And I??m going to write a full account in time for Lisbeth??s trial. I have to have you. I came to G?teborg for two reasons: to interview her and to get her ready to be transferred to a cell in Stockholm. Lisbeth Salander logged on to Hacker Republice and saw that Plague was online. She was a suspect in all three murders. so the obvious thing would be for him to head for Germany. Johannes.I. He needed cash. She drove to G?tgatan where the offices of Millennium were and spent the next half hour walking around the streets in the area. Waltari followed him. She left a putter in the hall and an 8-iron in the kitchen. I??ve got a young woman here who??s been shot in the head. she was a psychopathic mass murderer.

?? Sellberg rolled his eyes and sighed. nothing yet. was but she seldom chatted. and then he went to a pharmacy to buy a toothbrush and other toiletries. But that??s just the problem.B.?? ??How do you expect me to go about tackling it??? ??Starting now. and since he did not see any blood in the woman??s mouth he concluded that probably it had not. Without moving her head she glanced at the digital clock: 3. Stage two is Millennium and Mikael Blomkvist. His real name is Alexander Zalachenko and he??s Lisbeth??s father. plump man in his fifties with a reddish goatee. had butterflies in his stomach as he asked his team leader Inspector Bublanski to take a seat opposite him. but he made a note of every deviation from the norm in his working day. Blomkvist had blown 150. it was out of the question.

?? ??So the sister was your informant??? ??Camilla was mortally afraid of her sister.S. and managed to get past the nurses by showing an I. In his opinion. before then. The email had arrived a minute before. but there was no alternative. as far as we can tell. Whatever he had expected.C.) He could initiate his own investigations or carry out telephone tapping without having to justify his objective or even report it to a higher level. That yielded better results. And the prosecutor will soon be having you transferred to a prison in Stockholm to await trial in six weeks. ??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.?? ??Blomkvist thinks there??s a faction within S?po. He opened his eyes in bewilderment.

A doctor had explained that the axe blow had crushed his cheekbone and damaged his forehead. putting the pencil in her pocket.?? Blomkvist absorbed this news. and I do need to talk to you.P. However. nothing urgent.?? ??I don??t think we have to worry about Berger. We think it??s an organization inside the organization. In those days she was spending two hours a day pumping iron.?? Flodin said. staring at the ceiling above Figuerola??s bed. Her uneasiness grew. she had refused to say a single word to the police. which was what he was famous for doing.00.

She seemed lost in thought. but I??d be grateful if we could meet tomorrow night. then we will assist each other in finding solutions. But three hours after she had taken the helm of S. Whoops. One might say that.?? This time it was Jonasson??s turn to wait patiently for Salander??s reply. In the midst of all this mess he??s like a hand grenade with the pin pulled. had lost upwards of 60 per cent of its assets with G?ransson??s death. What are their working conditions like? What do they actually do? That sort of stuff.?? She paused when she saw out of the corner of her eye that Borgsj? was staring at her. If you can??t rejuvenate this paper. It corresponds to about fifty pages of book text. ??Your night editors are Billinger and Karlsson ?? they??re a whole chapter unto themselves.?? Mikael Blomkvist looked up at the clock and saw that it was just after 3. She sounded shocked.

. So I would recommend that you extract it ?? but ???? ??But what??? ??The bullet doesn??t worry me so much.?? ??I feel extremely self-conscious. ??I??m going home. to shoot you too??? ??I have no way of knowing. if he walked into the corner of a table or a bench. on Monday Blomkvist closed the lid on his iBook and got up from the kitchen table in his apartment on Bellmansgatan. He was like everyone else.?? ??Good. He landed in the spotlight when he shot dead some hooligan a couple of years ago. What are you up to??? ??I??m sitting at home sorting through my collection of photographs of old lovers. had a reputation for not wasting time on formalities or mere courtesies.M. but he was right out of his depth when it came to planning a magazine. but we have no proof. In practice it was a ridiculous situation ?C Millennium was making a profit.

not for S?po alone but probably for intelligence services all over the world. His body was sent to the pathologist.?? Magnusson nodded. and he had to stop after each step to deal with the pain. Is he alive??? ??You must mean Karl Axel Bodin. Nor had he got to the heart of the relationship between Bj?rck and the psychiatrist Peter Teleborian.?? Modig nodded.00. but for everything else to do with the magazine.?? she said. If you arrange that they??re going to lose money. born 1971.?? Salander weighed this information. In 1963 Gullberg was transferred from Counter-Espionage to personnel control. ??Try not to be furious with me. and she was not ?C so far as he could judge ?C working.