night. but he was taken to St G?ran??s hospital and the group had more of a mop-up job to do than ever. Ekstr?m hated press conferences.

and taped hours and hours of conversations of no interest whatsoever
and taped hours and hours of conversations of no interest whatsoever. Behind them came an older. She was a little shaky now that the adrenaline had worn off. As luck would have it.I. and they lack credibility. If I understand the matter correctly. since Billing took an unpleasant tone with most of the people to whom he wrote messages ?C reporters.?? ??It??s a hell of a dilemma. But they were every one of them computer wizards.V.30 on Wednesday morning. She waited until the woman reached the crossing in front of her. He was offered supervisory training a few years ago but turned it down. But he could not work out this strange girl. it??s all speculation. forty-four. looking around in desperation. They had both left S. Second.??* ??I??m not Ebbe Carlsson. That was the sound I heard last night.

Presumably the reduced frequency of the nurse??s visits meant that the doctors had decided her condition had improved; over the weekend the nurses had checked on her at least once every fifteen minutes. There were photographs from various parties. I might be able to use some leverage if I need to. and a number of individuals were acting outside of. given the circumstances. Lena Nygren. But when Blomkvist came over to give him a secure mobile. Blomkvist knows Salander and has always believed in her innocence. Then he raised the revolver one last time.?? ??But what about a budget? An operation like this has to be financed.?? ??Toilets. Then he took his mop and swabbed the corners in the reception area where the brushes of the floor polisher could not reach. and then with great resolve kicked the stool across the room. We??ve had him under surveillance round the clock for the past week.?? he said.00 and gathered the employees for a brief memorial to Morander. for having struck Zalachenko on the head with an axe.?? Nystr?m said.M. She reached for the telephone to call him. In came Jonasson. S.

00 at the Ring in Central Station. researcher or media that had carried out a critical examination of S?po. It was dark and she had no sense of how long she had been aimlessly walking.?? ??That??s the story I??m going to publish. Once at the Amaranth on Kungsholmen and sometimes at the Continental pub. ??They??ll twist what I say and use it against me. or swimming. ??Evert. Hans von Rottinger was always a pleasant chap.?? Andersson said.R. But the thing is. ??The staff would like to have a word. I??m not allowed to reveal what I know about the Salander story.C.?? ??We??? ??I mean the staff and the board.?? Berger smiled. and vigorous. what tone of voice and frequency range it had. much of it dealt with Salander??s mental state.?? Wadensj?? said. But he??s an idiot.

Starting now. he had no objection to doing Blomkvist this favour ?C a favour worth 1000 kronor a week. ??May I come in??? Salander studied her without expression. During this hour she could talk with her or just sit quietly and keep her company. He wondered what would happen if he acted on his impulse.?? Sandberg said into a handsfree mobile. and appeared in several articles. He opened the entrance door using the code and took the stairs to the top-floor apartment. you were the only one in the group who offered any opposition when he answered our questions. who was also a temp. She sounded surprised.?? ??Cancer??? ??He??s been carrying that gun around for the past six months. and the purpose of the trial is to get me committed to a secure psychiatric ward.??? ??Nieminen has taken over as club president while Lundin remains in custody. We have more serious issues to discuss. with an apologetic glance at Blomkvist. who had obviously not paid attention to a word he had said. he had been head-hunted from outside the company ?C so he had once taken that very same first walk to his office. It must have been done with the consent of the authorities. and he had to stop after each step to deal with the pain. That was when she felt that there was something hard beneath her head. The headache will eventually go away altogether.

you may not speak with anyone but myself and Monica Figuerola. she easily decoded the correspondence. She had a cyber-stalker on her hands. and started reading the Bj?rck report while she ate her sandwich.?? ??What happened if you needed to get in contact with them? For instance.?? He put his arms around her.M. He made his way to the end of the corridor. in the form of convicts. but you have to think about Christer and the others on the staff too. who??s leading the investigation into Zalachenko??s murder.?? ??A whole bunch of crimes. how are you all doing??? ??Sandberg is brighter than we thought. The smoking ban at Millennium had soon been relaxed after Berger left.?? the Minister of Justice said.?? ??O.?? Jervas said. He can be surly sometimes. you would most probably be charged with manslaughter. had enormous resources and used a vast network in order to capture a large number of mobile conversations in a certain region simultaneously. he had a rough draft of two articles totalling twenty-one pages. that is.

But today is my last day of work. even if the printer breaks every record for us. Shall we say 6. He logged on to her broadband connection. staying at the Radisson on Avenyn. he began to recover.?? Gullberg shook his head. we??re going to need telephone taps and bugs in everyone??s homes.?? Olsson said. regardless of how belligerently an opponent might behave. So we are asking for your help. She looked at the text for a minute and pursed her lips. The magazine suddenly felt foreign. And I soon found out that some crimes are never even investigated. Most regrettably it was Thorbj?rn F?lldin who became Prime Minister. was being sought for the killing of a policeman.?? ??Hmm. Then he called Berger. I just need to know if he has a meeting with anybody right now. She could not tell how bad the situation was. He was gone from 1985 to 1987. I??m going to the media if these bastards piss all over Salander one more time.

With the possible exception of President Nixon??s lunatic break-in at Watergate. Zalachenko patiently explained that.C. then I??m sure she will. Ideally he should have come under the auspices of the military intelligence service. or where. He looked at the girl??s shaved and wounded head. 11. she had pushed all thoughts of the Section to one side and concentrated on Berger??s problem. one in Stockholm. recently treated for depression. She parked on Bergsgatan.?? ??I see what you mean when you say I might land in it up to my neck. but check her E. You might be able to trace the I. We haven??t found hide nor hair of her since. Contact with the Net. And if the person responsible for Zalachenko??s safety had seen fit to resign. Plague. She got up. he had gone back in time and described Zalachenko??s arrival in Sweden. he was sent to Karlskrona as a signal tracker in the navy??s intelligence service.

As a result of this outburst.M. He did not see anyone. As he ran he called Cortez on his T10.?? Trinity said. But the surgeon says he has high hopes that she??ll survive.000 kronor for a week??s research on a story that was not now going to be published.?? He grunted some more and promised to scold her when she got home. Cortez had come to his apartment in the afternoon with six books.?? Berger explained what had happened and asked whether Milton Security could take over the contract from Nacka Integrated Protection. Berger had reluctantly agreed and then fallen asleep on the living-room sofa in front of the boarded-up picture window.M. extracting a full-metal-jacketed bullet from human brain tissue. It was Gullberg who took up the thread. but Lisbeth tracked down her father whom she hadn??t seen for fifteen years. This is about a small group of conspirators. lined up the possibilities. The fact that her home had been subject to an attack was understandable ?C it was where it was and impossible to disguise. Holmberg nodded. which in turn is sole owner of a subsidiary called Vitavara Inc. Bublanski had called the meeting on Sunday because he knew that preliminary investigation leader Richard Ekstr?m was busy elsewhere.?? ??Take your time.

And yet it was her life that was going to be turned inside out. If there??s a crisis and you need help.?? said Berger. Every time she accessed Teleborian??s hard drive she felt as if her body temperature dropped a few degrees.00 and called Eriksson at Millennium. Straight ahead of her.?? Blomkvist explained how F?lldin had reacted to the information about Zalachenko and how he had travelled to the Hague to interview Janeryd. When Blomkvist??s objections were ignored by Paulsson.P. She was feeling guilty because she had not contacted Blomkvist even once since the day she had walked into S. Then he called Dragan Armansky. Morander put a great deal of trust in you.?? ??This doesn??t mean that I distrust you. Edklinth would go through the roof. the alarm we installed today contains two components. to whom he had to deliver monthly reports. The fourth was a copy of Ekstr?m??s email folder made at 2. She had caught up with him just as he was leaving for home; she had suggested a conversation over a cup of coffee. but stopped when she saw the woman head for the Pressbyr?n kiosk instead of through the turnstiles. And I??m dead tired. had come under question more and more in recent years. She took the stairs up to the next floor and stopped at the door to the corridor.

It was inconvenient because the police intranet was at headquarters. You mustn??t ever forget something like that. her blood pressure. He called Karim in.?? the girl said. she drew an age curve and deleted everyone over fifty-five and under twenty-five. He??s not married. The batteries.C. As always. Gullberg was pleased as well. I asked her to be here because what we??re going to discuss will also affect her job. It was parked on a side street 350 metres from the railway station. she called the police. The car was still there. that??s not how a magazine is supposed to look. and we??ll make you a proposal. ??Could I borrow your balcony??? ??As long as you brush your teeth afterwards. is still one of the big papers. All the company??s secrets and emails ?C along with some fake documents that might lead people to think that its C. She had no intention of doing that. He would have to cancel the 10.

??And who do you think is going to investigate Salander??? Bublanski said. It was through this organization that the young man was brought to the attention of the Section and recruited. he was sent to Karlskrona as a signal tracker in the navy??s intelligence service. ??What kind of car does G?ransson have??? Nieminen said.?? * Erlander had a chat with Giannini in a brief interlude between one or other or both of them talking on their mobiles.M. held it to his temple. Salander was one of them. After a while she took her Filofax from her briefcase and opened it to the notes section. I want you to promise to give him protection as a source.?? Eriksson said. But I need your help for an introduction ?C so that Idris will listen to me. He was beyond all help. The person who bears this letter is working unofficially and has my trust.?? ??I didn??t give anyone permission to arrest Bj?rck. or how much Armansky and Palmgren and I. ??I miss you. That could not have been chance.?? ??I don??t even know which colleague you??re talking about. ??Hans von Rottinger and Fredrik Clinton.?? Mikael Blomkvist looked up at the clock and saw that it was just after 3. It was a structure with only two ranks.

?? Nystr?m said. it??s not certain that anyone would believe him. He??ll be leading the Section??s operations department until the present crisis is over.30 p. if you??ll forgive me for saying so. ??Give me a few years at the daily and then.?? ??As things now stand.?? ??This sounds fun. To raise the matter with the chief of Secretariat might be to chuck a very large stone into a pond. the trail will fizzle out. so she couldn??t tell the rest of us. Blomkvist took a chance. ?C among the few people who actually knew about the existence of the Section ?C a certain amount of criticism had surfaced. moving away. author of the report. He had crossed Mariatorget and was just turning up St Paulsgatan when his mobile beeped. She was a pretty. The difficulty is that this report does not correspond with other reports that we have in our archives. That would be placing myself in the same relation to you as the Minister of Justice??s predecessor once stood to the journalist Ebbe Carlsson. Then he stood up. spear. He would need crutches.

it??s not a unique situation in the wake of the Soviet Union??s collapse. which came a couple of times a week.?? Bublanski said nothing for a long while.?? ??I see. There were two kinds of injury that he hated. but he??s afraid to make operational decisions. Ever since the girls were nine or ten. Yet she felt indifferent.?? ??Next. I??ll explain the situation. that she had been shot three times. and that impression was magnified by the fact that she was standing two steps above him. According to the P.?? ??What do we do now??? ??I have no idea.37. not really. Her mobile was being monitored. as a result of which Wu was rescued from certain death.30 on Monday morning.?? ??You still haven??t answered the question. but when you were uncovered I was pretty busy stopping the bleeding and extracting bullets and so on. and pretty strongly at that ?? He must have something up his sleeve.

For the second time in less than a week Jonasson performed emergency surgery. Clinton sank silently on to the chair that was offered. Salander was obviously deranged. In point of fact. So we??re bound to observe the bureaucratic procedures. but usually he just followed through with what other people had already decided. He had offered credentials to indicate that he worked for S.?? ??But let??s save the secrets till we meet again tomorrow. He??s over two metres tall and built like a tank. Every other basic right. I would very much like to discover how you came by all this information. ??I assume that this is bound to leak to the media. but he??s usable.?? ??He had a hell of a good motive.?? ??That sounds good.?? ??But if you get difficult about the fact that I??m going to use unethical methods.P. She bought a tin of Catch Dry snuff and went back out on to S?dermalmstorg and turned right across Katarinav?gen.C.?? ??That??s a comfort. We??ll keep in touch by mobile. work it out! / Kalle B.

?? Salander flipped the mobile shut so that Berger would not be tempted to waste precious seconds with unnecessary questions. She could just reach it without having to move her body. Then he inserted a thinner probe and located the bullet. and then Niedermann. Nilsson was not unhappy that she had been passed over. Correct to lock up Salander 1991.?? ??I myself would have checked into a hotel. There were plenty of examples of these fools taking the leap from fantasy to action. had to be added to the list: Peter Teleborian. but now she??s really going to need a lawyer.?? Gullberg looked at Sandberg with blank astonishment. Jonas heading north. ??I was thinking of going home tonight.?? ??And the entire underworld should be excluded as well ?? Any girlfriend we don??t know about??? They could speculate.?? ??He was once one of the very best we had here in the Section. She called the vehicle recovery service. There??s one apartment that raises a question mark though. Whoever had stolen the report already knew that his copy too had been stolen. They went straight to the front desk. in other words. I can??t believe Salander knows anything about it.?? ??I??m going to keep an eye on her overnight.

She remembered the terrible hatred she had felt.?? Niklas Adamsson. but it was not. Scars on her soul were another matter. I recognize you.?? ??What is it??? ??Out here. ??Spare me the lectures. If the plan failed. very close to Sand?bron. You??re a lawyer and you??re a recognized authority in women??s rights. Don??t do anything until we can agree a strategy. In any event she has to have a lawyer.C. and he has Niedermann as a scapegoat. ??I think we??re done. when she was sent to the psychiatric hospital.?? ??Oh. It would take a very few seconds to stretch out her arm and break off the rim of the glass with a firm rap against the hard edge of the table. Then he burst out laughing. She felt fettered to her bed. Which is why she??s still alive. we won??t know anything until she wakes up.

Via the front door. he could always fall back on the fact that it was a policeman??s duty to investigate a crime ?C but the breach was now so sensitive from a constitutional standpoint that he would surely be fired if he took a single wrong step. We are now close to the point where we can draw conclusions. A speech bubble materialized with the text [WHO GOES THERE?].?? Olsson said.K. A really important favour. either by customs or by passport control. All that was needed was a legal psychiatric report. My guess is that several employees of the Section would go to prison. Since he had come on duty at 6. when Paolo Roberto had fought his boxing match with Niedermann in the warehouse there. and Ulf Flodin. His job was to investigate crimes. don??t you??? ??You were sitting with a map spread out on the front seat.I. then surely there was good reason to take her in for psychiatric treatment. ??That??s from a source I have to protect. But what do we do if a threat to the constitution comes from within our own organization??? For the next half hour he told her what Armansky had told him the night before. Salander was sweating. Bambi wrote. you control the operation.

and it??s important that we see to it at once that this is the image presented to the press. she was being unfair. I just happened to be passing by. but it had to be something that her brother considered important enough to conceal. and several years later some members of the ??people??s militia?? in Hacker Republic. ??Hardly. but it had a strong moral and emotional impact. Perhaps the murder of Zalachenko is a part of it too.?? Clinton gave him a feeble smile.?? Janeryd blinked and pressed his lips together.00. no great fortune. Events had been rapid and unpredictable.iv ?C Tuesday. At 4. it means that someone is acting against us. This thing about steroids has to do with her connection to boxers.I. You know how the paper is made and I have a while to go on the school bench. and around two kilos of explosives. He??s thirty-eight and comes from the gangs unit in S?der. It took twenty minutes to find the address where Idris Ghidi lived.

so the torture continued. But Blomkvist. Berger got some coffee and watched the screen. as if Blomkvist were not in the room. He had postponed the visit because he had had too much to do.?? Salander actually smiled. Her stay at Sahlgrenska was in any case going to come to an end in a few more weeks. So let??s move on. Let me first say that the government has absolutely no hand in this matter. What we??re going to do in this book is to state what happened.?? ??Could you explain your relationship to Niedermann??? ??I??m disabled. drumming her fingertips in annoyance. ??I??m still in shock that Erika is gone and you want me to take her place. Shit. She would test the system. ??Good morning. She had sat undisturbed and motionless for an hour. Blomkvist had come into the building via the garage. he had openly discussed the matter with County Governor Lassinanti on a visit to Norrbotten. dark-green English felt hat.I.C.

It took ten minutes for the cleaner to work his way over to Adamsson??s spot at the end of the corridor.U.?? ??If he has gone. We??re looking at the blueprints for all the relevant offices and apartments. ??I??ve decided that Salander should be moved to a different room.?? ??Anything new on Svavelsj? M. along with a video of a personal nature. Your job is to ascertain the truth and bring the guilty parties to court.I. Before that I studied both philosophy and the history of ideas. He became aware that his ears were ringing after the shot and he rubbed his left one with his free hand. 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.A. Blomkvist had blown 150. no matter what havoc he wrought. police work was largely uncomplicated when it came to looking for one specific individual.K??. You??re all members. Zalachenko said that he would mull over the matter. when there was less demand for this type of operation. That might cause a bit of turbulence. I am personally very upset over what happened to her.

?? Blomkvist smiled. July 13. Her neck had been broken when her head was turned 180 degrees. In other words. writing his own programs and planting insidious tendrils on the Internet.?? ??Two weeks should be sufficient.?? ??If you leak that report. She had her first client meeting at 8. after all.?? Ellis said. He isn??t one of us. ??Blomkvist. Which was entirely correct on his part. At any rate Holmberg thought so. Keep me posted by mobile. ??Dr Jonasson??? He turned towards her. ??Compare his face with this passport photograph of Gullberg. He answered on the run. ??So what happens now??? Blomkvist said. Blomkvist will have given his sister a copy.M. She clenched her teeth and stifled an impulse to ask Blomkvist to sit on the story.

?? ??No.?? ??I was wondering when you??d think of that.00 in the evening. The meeting at the Constitutional Protection Unit lasted until after 5.5 who in good Philby style was working for the Russians.K. Salander smiled.?? ??Armansky??s detailed her to keep an eye on what goes on around my apartment. turned to the Minister of Justice. It was 9. As the situation now stood. And that led to a little clash at the Construction Fair in ?lvsj? last year. 2. She opened her eyes to two narrow slits and saw a silhouette with crutches in the doorway. who took charge immediately.?? ??Am I to conclude that you??re running some sort of surveillance on Teleborian??? Figuerola shook her head. or he cracks the Section wide open. No answer.?? Malm sat motionless for a few seconds.30 on Friday night. but he was taken to St G?ran??s hospital and the group had more of a mop-up job to do than ever. Ekstr?m hated press conferences.