Yugoslav who owned a string of bars. ??In the first instance. Classify TOP SECRET.?? ??Why didn??t you say anything??? Blomkvist said. she knew.

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?? ??So.?? ??Denmark??? ??Correct.00 p. had imported goods from a company on the United Nations blacklist of companies using child labour ?C and in this case slave labour too. even if the printer breaks every record for us. The secret was known also to a thirteenth person.?? ??Lisbeth???? ??Wait. Luckily she does accept information. ??His behaviour was a bit odd and a little too eager. ??I??m guessing that he??s sitting there wishing he??d never heard of Zalachenko. He saw a dining-room table of dark wood that was cluttered with glasses. He was based in London. ??So you??re telling me instead. Edklinth and Figuerola looked at him. And now I have the world??s worst guilty conscience. And you send a couple of village policemen to arrest him as if he were some Saturday night drunk. He then engaged Thomasson on a couple of other matters. & M.?? ??Well.00 on Friday night. When she returned to her station. She was the one who got in touch with us after Lisbeth??s unexpected visit.

puzzled.00. If we don??t have a source for something. The investigation was totally inadequate.?? ??Umm-hmm. Only four people in the world knew how he had come by that scar. The editor-in-chief has to be the one who takes the initiative.. other people can. And I??ll have to buy a new shift dress or something on the way to work. ??My name is Annika Giannini and I??ve been taken on to represent Lisbeth Salander. He was moved from Personal Protection and is working on his own. So we??ve cut back. The scandals had undoubtedly been many. She considered calling Daniel Mogren. Hiding behind the arras in this situation is a wildly overrated tactic in view of all that has been written about you since Easter. she very steadily raised her Nikon with its 300mm telephoto lens and took two pictures.G. he watched as Torstensson and Ingemarsson drove off in their patrol car. as he often did for patients after an operation. then we have to produce a smaller newspaper. but it did not look so good now.

nor could she see him in the newsroom. There were two kinds of injury that he hated. It??s Friday night. The sky was filled with leaden thunderclouds. At 2.?? The discussion went on until lunchtime.?? ??Did you come straight here??? ??Yes ?? no. No.?? Figuerola said ??What??s that??? ??Evert Gullberg. he actually slept in the car coming down from Nossebro. and damn near destroy him with two blows of an axe. If you publish before Edklinth has completed it. First of all.?? the P.. He did not want Niedermann to die.?? Berglund said. 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. but he stopped himself. injure any vital areas.00 on a Saturday afternoon??? Figuerola and Blomkvist exchanged a sceptical look. Berger did not regularly write a diary.

?? ??It seems to be a modest group. ??I??m going home.?? ??So you??re saying that Salander isn??t exactly what she seems to be. ??Zala is a Russian hit man ?C apparently without a grain of conscience ?C who defected in the ??70s. Its mandate put it outside regular operations.?? ??How are you??? ??I??m sick.?? ??Hi. ??When the city edition of the paper landed in my letterbox this morning we had a three-column story about Salander and the developments in the Stallarholmen incident in our best news spot. She sat for a long time thinking about the day??s events. Malin.K. She??ll have to choose between selling her share of Millennium and leaving our board ?? or in the worst case. and they had both ended up in bed with Torkel. Let??s agree on what??s most important right now. ??I can suggest a few names. too.M. She pulled out her mobile and pretended to be talking. where Dr Jonasson received him and immediately initiated a battery of measures to maintain his vital functions.?? ??That??s correct.?? ??That??s me. either by customs or by passport control.

?? Figuerola said ??What??s that??? ??Evert Gullberg. I don??t know exactly what happened here tonight. Finally Bublanski got up and stood at the window. That bastard Zalachenko. She could give a good description of the woman.?? They shook hands.m. then she signalled yes. ??In other words.. Nor Cortez for that matter. Wrong. It was this last which created potentially acute political problems. tubes loose as she carried her to the bathroom and set her on the toilet seat. Gullberg had been appointed head of a newly created division with the working title of ??the Special Section??. or other handicaps from the injury. including the Prime Minister. ??I??m going home. and that over the years this conspiracy has committed what could be categorized as serious criminal acts. We have him in the Secret State Police from the early ??50s to 1964.?? ??My priority is that Salander should be acquitted and declared competent. Millennium is going to publish a story that I am contractually bound not to reveal to S.

But that wasn??t why I had to see you tonight. Eriksson and Malm. At lunchtime on Monday she had a visit from Dr Jonasson.?? ??F?lldin is an honest man.A. Malm put down the printout of his article. ??This is the most important weapon Lisbeth has in her arsenal ?C she has to have it. Accordingly he had to contrive some cause that would legitimize what he was doing. ??So what??s this visit all about then??? Holmberg looked out of the window and saw a magpie land next to his car and peck at the ground. and called Eriksson and Cortez into his office. but we??ve had no report of a car being stolen thereabouts. Berger could not see why Holm had adopted this attitude towards her. He??s actually in worse shape than you are. Lunch consisted of black coffee and a meatball sandwich with beetroot salad. if I came after 9.?? She nodded.?? ??I have to make a call and???? ??You can make your call from Kungsholmen. My name is Jerker Holmberg. ??Can I buy you breakfast??? ??Can one get pancakes and jam anywhere round here??? ??Waffles. ??I don??t want to be quoted. He had come on board recently to clean up the shambles of what was known as the Internal Bureau affair. She dialled the number and explained where she was and why she had not come home.

?? Holmberg said. you have to understand that Salander is exceptionally resourceful.?? As she lay in bed Berger thought about what Linder had said. What do you know about his role??? ??He??s one of the major players. so that you can decide whether you can or you can??t. Blomkvist??s magazine was intending to expose him. ??But you??re the leader of the preliminary investigation. He didn??t go into any detail. who did not have the authority to walk into the Security Police and start demanding documents and other evidence.?? ??Sure. I don??t know if it contains anything compromising.?? ??Alright. Doctors had tried resuscitation immediately after the shooting. He??s worked at S. It was a gigantic step up from Millennium with a staff of five to a daily newspaper with eighty reporters and another ninety people in administration. ??I??ve kicked myself a hundred times about it.?? He nodded curtly once before he went out and locked the door.?? ??There??s forensic evidence that???? ??Fuck the forensic evidence.?? said Modig. She picked up her mobile to call Fredriksson and explained that she had hurt herself. but they did not exist anywhere in the formal structure of the Security Police. to see how her pupils contracted and expanded.

??My pleasure. We haven??t had any tip-offs. and in fact he??s already on his way. ??Listen ?? I??m not an open book for everyone to read. The Prime Minister had begun to talk about how.?? ??The reason I work out is that it feels great. consultant at the Trades Union Federation ?C his only venture into the I. An awkward situation. But someone with Niedermann??s distinctive appearance is not going to go unnoticed for long.. He called his sister. Naturally he has stayed in contact with the Section throughout. could home in highly sensitive antennae on a specific building anywhere in the world. so mostly I see the negative things. He was obviously not the faithful type. then that??s speculation.. He bought a pack of Lucky Strike and a tin of G?teborg??s Rap?? snuff. in your study upstairs. Henry ?? you??ll have to go full-time and take Malin??s place as assistant editor.?? said Bublanski. Berger??s boss is a bloody crook.

?? Modig nodded. Yet Blomkvist was right: behind the conspiracy there had to be others not known to her who had contributed to the shaping of her life. and some cash. Fredriksson was forty-five years old and also relatively new to the paper. She opened them and dropped the brace to the floor. She was increasingly dependent on Fredriksson??s judgement in the light of her loss of confidence in Anders Holm.P.?? ??Armansky.C. Absentmindedly she read his email. she would leave hospital with a scar on her scalp. He would not be able to get back to sleep. Serial number unknown. One question he could not answer ?C based on the existing documentation ?C was who in S?po. I want you to focus on the follow-up care given to severely injured patients in corridor 11C. An alarm is an alarm and is completely pointless if some nutcase is standing in your living room with an automatic weapon.?? ??Calculating what??? ??I mean. including in the military. This thought upset Zalachenko. She had to put names and social security numbers to these people. I couldn??t even take notes. even fear.

The image was pornographic: a naked woman with exceptionally large breasts. He happened to read the registration number.?? ??The board approved your measures. Thomasson could provide him with all that. ??Hello. And not quite right in the head. in accordance with his own paranoid delusions. account pinged. a black leather jacket and running shoes. The doctors think she??ll make a full recovery. More than 230 people. one of them the globally recognized International Joint Effort Against Child Labour in London. That was a crime. He could not identify any one of them. Have you got a mobile on you??? ??A what??? ??A mobile. to bring some clarity to the fog in which Paulsson was apparently enveloped. They were officers used to investigating real crimes. and G. May I come in??? Holmberg sat at the kitchen table while F?lldin poured them some coffee. and all that stuff about a lesbian Satanist gang is probably a smokescreen originating mainly from him. and this paper will come out tomorrow too. He took the registration number and looked me up.

and came to the realization that most of all she felt indifference towards her entire life. ??Right. As I understand it. Malin. Gullberg. Each day he had checked the address he had given to Criminal Inspector Modig. You all know our deadlines. That address doesn??t exist. His parents lived in ?rebro and they were his sole heirs. such as ??O. The only spot from which the entrance door to the building could be observed directly was from the promenade and footbridge on upper Bellmansgatan near the Maria lift and the Laurinska building. and one in Nacka. and that in turn would lead to even more damaging speculation and perhaps yet more insistent investigation. He took the registration number and looked me up. with thin reddish-blond hair. who knows? Maybe I??ll come back to Millennium before I retire. Is that understood??? ??Yes. But first I??d like to examine you.M. even though his motives were not to harm her.?? Ekstr?m said. he had helped in the attempt to murder and bury her.

S.?? ??If anything should happen. then pulled the forceps straight out.?? ??Just doing my job. Kurdo??? ??Of course. But it was. agent who had apparently turned up in Sweden on Election Day in 1976. but I anticipate we??ll have grounds for charging him with the three murders here in Stockholm. She had decided to stay in G?teborg at 4. But I understand making newspapers.?? ??Anything else??? ??Sandberg lives in Sollentuna.?? ??It??s an excellent system.?? ??In 1989 a refugee by the name of Idris Ghidi came to Sweden from Iraq.?? ??Micke. and she got it at St Stefan??s.?? ??That is grossly unfair.?? ??O. And yet she had connectivity.?? ??As Prime Minister I??m not in a position to deliver any such information. Agneta Sofia Salander.?? ??Sounds good.?? ??And who is your superior??? ??I regret it.

Then she shook enough life into her husband to explain where she was off to. ??Not quite yet. He wondered what would happen if he acted on his impulse. but I doubt that??s who you??re working for. She was still thinking when she heard footsteps in the corridor. but bit by bit she gathered that a man was being sought for the killing. So he spent the whole of Friday brooding alone in his office. At morning rounds.T. Nothing could compare with the pain he had undergone for several weeks. I can tell you that I see no sign of mental illness. All this happened on the day Zalachenko was murdered. and import everything from Thailand. then surely there was good reason to take her in for psychiatric treatment. none of this looks like much fun. the signature of the Prime Minister meant that he had sanctioned the need for a unit that would be responsible for ??internal personnel control??. and when he was pressingly invited to dinner and a private conversation. replaced by new technology ?? but the number of reporters contributing to copy was reduced by 48 during that period.?? ??Any safe??? ??No ?? not that I can see.I. He spent a chapter debunking first what the press had written about Salander. but she kept her distance.

He focused his gaze on the computer screen.?? ??And what if I make a wrong decision??? ??If I see or hear anything out of the ordinary.?? ??But what about a budget? An operation like this has to be financed. the Russians will swiftly identify our informants and sources in Russia.?? ??I think you have to do a bit more physio on your shoulder muscles. and we??ve begun to co-operate???? ??We??ll hold off on the press conference until we know more. Foolish to think otherwise.?? ??You??re at the Sahlgrenska in G?teborg. When she closed the door he arduously sat up and swung his legs over the edge of the bed.?? Sellberg said.M. but he walked briskly from the Academic bookshop to the side entrance of N. a lot of jobs and good money for several years. Trust me. but it??s the research we??re after.?? ??Good. I can??t do it ?? that would be presumptuous of me. I cannot help it if some idiot in the Security Police fantasizes in his reports.I. or at least suffered such massive trauma that she would have been in a coma.?? ??It??s a fake.I.

And the reasoning among the board was to bring in the most improbable editor-in-chief they could think of. And tell them that next time they should send a grown man for me to discuss things with. Salander visited him only once in a blue moon. but it was being carried out so clumsily that he could hardly have helped but notice. She went to her study and turned on the light.?? he said. about two hours later than usual.?? he said. ??Everyone??s here. ??Ekstr?m??s holding a press conference at 3. Our operations chief Johan Fr?klund has been looking into his background. May I come in??? Holmberg sat at the kitchen table while F?lldin poured them some coffee.?? ??You said there was no rush. Go and find Benny.?? Blomkvist turned and looked at her profile. without his father there to guide him. An hour??s research turned up the information that M?rtensson held the title of business consultant and owned a private company whose address was a P. At first he had been almost hostile. 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.?? This. One was pronounced D. For a moment she envied Berger.

Possibly also to show them how a real police investigation should be run.?? Edklinth swallowed and nodded. I??ve been reading a lot about you. The problem is the ones who won??t let them do their jobs. But you ought to know that you could easily kill an intruder with a golf club. Through the service??s language school. She was walking to the university when someone shot her with a crossbow. if the entire underworld is looking for him. At the same time I??m editor-in-chief of a newspaper that??s in danger of skidding because the newsroom doesn??t have the information that I have. Through its global satellite monitoring the N. you say??? ??I don??t believe F?lldin would have covered up something like this. ??Can I share information with you and discuss things with you without the risk of your leaking it to the police or to anyone else??? ??I can??t get involved in criminal activity. They??ve committed serious criminal acts and they??ll be the object of a preliminary investigation.?? ??There was a ?? Clinton. For them costcutting was what counted. Salander found the report. exposed Wennerstr?m and eventually got him a life sentence for treason at L?ngholmen prison. Have you got the number of Mikael??s second mobile? The one that??s not tapped. it could also be classified as murder.?? ??Aha what??? ??Nothing. She had a memory of being surprised that he had run away and she did not know why. turned on but not uplinked.

I would use the thinnest forceps you have. Henry Cortez answered. another half-dozen citizens had come online and welcomed back Wasp before joining the debate. There were bandages.?? ??Gunnar Bj?rck. The doctors think she??ll make a full recovery. Then she checked the hard drives of Ekstr?m (some routine correspondence about the trial) and Teleborian. ??There??s something I have to do. She ran her hand over the neck brace and located the fastenings that held it in place.?? ??Anything new on Svavelsj? M.00. If the government was not informed. And things similar.?? ??What is it you want??? ??Over the years there have been a number of public reports on S?po. The old bastard had a pistol too. and then he produced rolls and coffee from a thermos. This is one cold bastard. He thought for a long while and then began to write. They contained data. From now on Blomkvist would be allowed only into the temporary office at Fridhemsplan.?? They shook hands. She reached out and slid the bag under the covers and pressed the coil of cord into her crotch.

The nurses obviously had been instructed not to discuss other patients. for the sake of fairness. In the States a special group of internal spy chasers was created within the C. and picked up the three A4 pages that comprised the meagre results of their search for Niedermann. Nieminen walked the fifty metres to the barn. but she worked so furiously on her projects that she was encouraged to go home when the day was done. had a reputation for not wasting time on formalities or mere courtesies. And when he saw the car again the next morning he was not surprised. He was on leave of absence from the Section for two years in the ??80s when he worked as intelligence attach??. He must have. This happened because Bublanski had repeatedly tried to get hold of Bj?rck. that her hair was one big lump of dried clay.P. for some unknown reason. Teleborian. ??Oops.S.?? ??Does anyone have any information on Lisbeth Salander??s condition??? Blomkvist said. somebody had gone into her bathroom and taken Millennium??s material about Vitavara Inc. and there??s no-one who can tell us who his clients were.P. It cannot be ruled out that there is a minor bleed that is not visible on the images.

of course. where I work.?? he said. and a typical libertarian when it came to freedom of the press. One policeman killed and another seriously wounded.P.?? Gullberg said. you check it out. He could not move it even a millimetre.?? She took Salander??s hand and helped her into the bed.?? Clinton shook his head again. so she followed him. Zalachenko acknowledged for the umpteenth time that it was a shame and a crime that his son did not possess certain qualities.20.?? ??I follow your reasoning.?? ??Could we stop going round in circles? Why do you think I arranged this meeting??? ??To find out what I know and what I intend to do with it. shrink-wrapped and sent out with the special summer issue. Gullberg drew up a list of names that were connected to Palme: Carl Lidbom. Then Dr Jonasson and Blomkvist had upset her plans by smuggling in her Palm. Teleborian to the south. ??Probably. It was 2.

03.?? Blomkvist said. It was the reorganization of 1964 that had shaped Gullberg??s future career.K. When they started plying him with questions about his possible involvement in trafficking and other criminal activities. He looked like a bit player in E. ??I can understand why you??d want to quit this madhouse ?? but to be the head of Sweden??s most turgid old-boy newspaper ?? that??s going to take some time to sink in. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word. Inspector Figuerola was named as their chief. You??ll have to think about this possibility when you plan your strategy.S. Do you think it??s a turn-off. Zalachenko was technically an immigrant. Never mind that Zalachenko had supposedly been murdered by a nutter. For the construction industry it??s the opposite. What have you got??? ??Three names. ??I??m on call this weekend.000 other mobile telephones within a kilometre of police headquarters.?? ??So ?? what else? Illegal tapping or something??? Edklinth said. it is sick. I??ve worked at Constitutional Protection for three years. threat or coercion for the purpose of altering our form of government.

albeit under guardianship.?? Fransson said. ??Where are you guys??? ??You said to call when we passed Ikea.?? ??Good enough. She rang for the nurse and asked for another Tylenol. P.?? ??Thanks. and was one of Sweden??s most popular actors. where she had written: She had spent several weeks in the Caribbean last winter working herself into a frenzy over Fermat??s theorem. ??Take a seat. He sat still for while. Espionage in Sweden by Mikael Rosquist (Tempus. ??Find out what he??s working on. and a navy blue jacket. The older man got in. It??s your job to take care of Lisbeth??s physical and mental health.P. Inspector Paulsson had started out with a relatively manageable situation: now he had a murdered policeman and an armed killer on the run. a work of art.?? ??I didn??t have much choice. and gave them one last instruction. ??There was one thing that struck me.

Day-to-day stuff they could and should do on their own mobiles. So he spent the whole of Friday brooding alone in his office. particularly in the Malm? area. and parliament??s security detail had been informed. They had arranged for him to have the best rehabilitative care. he had done an evaluation of Salander??s condition. He had been given large doses of painkillers. He had a limp. but in a week nobody will even remember the name Zalachenko. He became aware that his ears were ringing after the shot and he rubbed his left one with his free hand. It has been 56 days since your last visit. ??To your right. That was unusual.?? ??You still haven??t answered the question. I have no idea where he is or where he might go. He was gasping as if he had just run a marathon. He had never been arrested. He was trained in accounting and had begun his career as financial adviser to a Yugoslav who owned a string of bars. ??In the first instance. Classify TOP SECRET.?? ??Why didn??t you say anything??? Blomkvist said. she knew.