being involved in any crime. the media regarded S?po as an excellent news source.

which meant that they had to walk back and forth between the two buildings several times a day
which meant that they had to walk back and forth between the two buildings several times a day.O. I??ve already told you about his ultimatum.?? ??You don??t seem to be exactly enamoured of your board. When he had worked for seven straight hours. Unfortunately there was not much he could help with. Berger was in her B. now retrained as a locksmith. Poison Pen might easily be a married man with five children and a dog. ??But not me. He walked slowly through the station. Zalachenko said that he would mull over the matter. since her assignments were largely to act as a counter-force to raging lunatics. They might not have been best friends. Berger waited until he had finished thinking.?? He burst out laughing. I??ve worked in the media for twenty-five years and I have never met a person like him in a management position. patients and visitors. In 1997 he was no longer on the official roster of the external service. Gradually she succeeded in sitting up.

She was slammed up against a tiled wall next to the door. Gullberg had been appointed head of a newly created division with the working title of ??the Special Section??. Ownership implies responsibility. don??t you??? ??You were sitting with a map spread out on the front seat. She called home first and then rang Lillian Josefsson. ??Kurdo Baksi sends his greetings. The easy part was done. To the bathroom with you. worrying. You might bear in mind that the beating that provoked Lisbeth??s attack put her mother in hospital for the rest of her life. He took a pinch of snuff. Just as I??m persuaded that you haven??t given me carte blanche to look at everything you have here at S?po.?? ??Understood.?? Figuerola said.?? ??In what way??? ??Faste appears to have become obsessed by one newspaper story about a lesbian Satanist gang. which is six weeks for the basics. They??re a reputable manufacturer.?? ??Annika. Criminal Inspector Holmberg. What about the defence leadership and the government??? ??We cut off the defence leadership some ten years ago.

But when the discussion was over. She simply needed to prune the number of names on the list. now our editor-in-chief Malin Eriksson who managed to dig him up through the corporate records. Quite apart from anything else. The departing editor-in-chief. I was wondering about your involvement in this story.S. Meanwhile. It??s also possible that he worked for S?po as an expert or source or whatever title you want to give him. Holm has a choice: either he can do things my way. Take a taxi.?? ??Go on. She free-associated. In his old age he became a gangster.00. The headaches that had tormented her after surgery had subsided and came back only sporadically. Outside the Section the information was known by the chief of S.?? ??He will be. ??What day is it today??? she said.?? He looked almost apologetic.

?? ??I hope she will. That should be happening ???? ?C Bublanski looked at his watch ?C ???? yes.?? Berger put down her fork and stared at him. and if we make a smaller newspaper. He happened to look into the living room and stopped short in surprise. She was not going to accept a situation like that.?? ??How much would it take for you to come to S. You have an infection in your body. promises of future assignments. Then he inserted a thinner probe and located the bullet. Saturday. First. which right now is a nightmare. Then she remembered it all. no question??? ??Yes.?? Wadensj?? sounded doubtful. and paid with Berger??s credit card. I want to know who goes in and who comes out. She took a chance and hurried to the corner of Sveav?gen.?? he said.

K. no-one else??s. Then Falun waited on the landing as Sandberg went in. right away.?? Edklinth frowned. Lisbeth Salander. ??What have you come up with this morning??? ??A nationwide A. purposely selecting younger talent who had experience on the regular police force and were only recently recruited to S. It was a young blond man who was usually there two or three days a week. Erlander had been allowed to conduct two brief interviews with Zalachenko. Immediately it was easier to breathe. ??We??ll probably close out the present quarter with a small deficit. Bublanski had called to give them new instructions. And there??s something wrong with him. Despite persistent attempts to establish the truth and uncover the crucial evidence ?C the smoking gun ?C the Section had never found any proof. so Erlander was willing to listen. Two were from his sister Annika. And the reality is that over the past fifteen years. She saw that Blomkvist had not uploaded anything new for three days and wondered what he was working on.?? ??Salander.

Salander was locked up at Sahlgrenska. No-one felt good when they were separated from all their friends. She began by crossing off all the women.?? ??I??ve been running. It dawned on him that he had not been worried about her.S. ??I heard you took off your neck brace last night. also possibly that she was injured. Paulsson finally asked how Niedermann had come to be in that ditch. An Agent in Place contained so much inaccurate information about Sweden in the first chapter that he threw the book into the wastepaper basket. Some are embedded in the brain tissue. and showed Zalachenko his I. Could you possibly write it??? Magnusson hesitated a moment but then said. The emails contain vulgar sexual innuendos. unlawful activity that uses violence.?? * Erlander had a chat with Giannini in a brief interlude between one or other or both of them talking on their mobiles. For a long moment they stood looking at each other. Whore. When she was admitted to Sahlgrenska hospital I performed a comprehensive medical examination on her. Jan.

If you publish before Edklinth has completed it.v Blomkvist made sure that he was not being watched when he walked from the Millennium offices early on Friday morning to Salander??s old apartment block on Lundagatan. we??ve tried it. You??re an exercise fanatic and you were once a top-class athlete. ??I??m in G?teborg. She did not like asking for help or showing any sign of weakness. we??re going to need new blood. ??Gullberg is out of his mind. The first thing he did was to rename it ??Special Analysis??. and to have the strength to get up and finish the job once and for all.?? Figuerola said. The Ministry of Justice also called.?? ??I??ll give the go-ahead tomorrow. She was just reaching out to shut down her computer when her I. I??ve seldom had a healthier patient. T. Are you satisfied with Millennium??s contribution??? Edklinth nodded reluctantly. She exercised so often that the endorphins her body produced functioned as a drug that made it tough for her if she had to stop training.M. Mikael also has a tendency to bury himself in his own stories and be totally off the radar for weeks at a time.

The Section was faced with its worst crisis since the day he had created it.S. At 6. We brought in the external help in the form of M?rtensson. which seemed not to trouble him. according to Blomkvist. He felt that the situation was chaotic and ominous. I was shot in the head. but he restrained himself. He simply concluded that Salander was suffering from stress. He would function as a contact person in matters relating to the defector. So you went to the justice minister. Figuerola poured him a mineral water.8 ?C too high. Now. kill the whole story? Orring turned in a good piece. this trial is going to turn on who uses the toughest methods. and so a potential criminal in Saddam Hussein??s Iraq.?? ??And??? Modig hesitated once again. Either we ancients step in and do our bit.

and why he had run for his life instead of staying to finish Salander off. It was the first time she had smiled at Sahlgrenska hospital. We have a number of things to discuss with you. Of course I haven??t done a psychiatric evaluation of her. You??re a lawyer and you??re a recognized authority in women??s rights. She??s survived this far and that??s a good omen for her getting through having the bullet removed.?? ??I know all about Paulsson.?? ??Well.. But now they want me to start asap. By 12.?? ??I couldn??t stand sitting at home one more day. Tell me what you see. She was increasingly dependent on Fredriksson??s judgement in the light of her loss of confidence in Anders Holm. It was the reorganization of 1964 that had shaped Gullberg??s future career. She turned it on and searched for connectivity. He was still amazed that it had not been confiscated when Paulsson frisked him. Now that he had crutches. 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. She rasped out a single word: ??Giannini.

. adjusted his glasses. we found nothing to distinguish it from any other farmhouse. At first she could not make any sense of it. a matter of national security. Alexander. One was from Malm. ??And what did he say??? ??He was very concerned about her safety and wished her well. Gullberg followed the story in a state of awful confusion. This caused the activists in Hacker Republic to devote a startling amount of energy for six months to hacking and destroying every computer owned by that company. ??We need images. The problem in this case is that Blomkvist knows only a fraction of the truth about Zalachenko. How can this have gone on for so long? How could this activity have been both concealed and financed??? ??Go on. She could see a large part of the editorial office with the news desk in the centre. The problem would then unfold in two parts. She had scarcely sent the message before she heard that Berger was up and moving about again. names and organizational charts. Hallberg is retiring this year. the youngest person at the meeting. they had given carte blanche to a former Soviet intelligence officer to commit crimes involving weapons.

so that forensics can work out that they died while I was still locked up. But use your judgement. He did not have anything against the existence of S?po.?? Nystr?m said at last. The problem was that she did not know what she should do. I can??t believe Salander knows anything about it. a couple of days after Zalachenko and Salander had landed in Sahlgrenska hospital.?? Blomkvist said. When at long last Edklinth concluded that he had to act on Armansky??s information. And he was inflexible. Then came the awkward part.?? ??What discrepancy??? ??In the original version Bj?rck presents five well-argued recommendations. First day on the job. It revolves around this Zala ?? Alexander Zalachenko. however. Ingvar Carlsson had been Prime Minister at the time. He read the letter and laid it on the table beside him. There was nowhere there to park a car. The next moment she heard quick heels clacking in the corridor. She fervently wished that Blomkvist had been kind enough to smuggle in her PowerBook with a real keyboard and a 17?? screen instead of only the hand-held.

but Lisbeth tracked down her father whom she hadn??t seen for fifteen years.?? Blomkvist said.I.?? ??But Blomkvist has already been warned ?? they stole Bj?rck??s report from there. ??He?? could even be a woman. Then the manhunt would at least ease up a bit. But it would have to be something very unusual. In three years. ran a hand through his thick blond hair.I. leaned her crutches against the bookshelves. He had made the right decision. and explained how a policeman??s death was a needless catastrophe because Niedermann had already been shackled. After a period of computer celibacy. The bullet is located away from the major blood vessels. He sent over a U. printed out the document and began to read it at once. It was short. Jan.00.

a freelance journalist in G?teborg. Salander found the report.?? Salander flipped the mobile shut so that Berger would not be tempted to waste precious seconds with unnecessary questions. just that. Two days later he was released into his uncle??s custody. everything was under control. Then he vanishes. I didn??t make all this mess. it provided a good account of S?po as a structure as well as its primary concerns over several decades. It was 4. She had humiliated him.00 p. ??You??re missing the point. why would Faste want to leak this information??? Frisk shrugged.?? She nodded. I need you to take command. Then give me some insight into Edklinth??s investigation.?? ??Understood.?? ??I know. He had transferred the most crucial documentation to her desk.

Bambi wrote. ??What are you working on at the moment. ??Now now. In real life he was a severely overweight and socially challenged thirty-year-old living on disability benefit in Sundbyberg. ??I think she??s coming round. Nieminen did not need the help of a pathologist to work out how they had died. small burn marks on his chest. She knew that Blomkvist was doing a lot of whispering with Cortez and Eriksson and Malm about the Salander story. ??But not me.?? Modig said. This was largely due to the fact that no-one was quite sure who or what should be investigated. You can only do your best.P. Convicted of safe-cracking in the ??80s and some other minor stuff. He worked with you for ten years. He could be clean out of the country. She requisitioned the report. ?C among the few people who actually knew about the existence of the Section ?C a certain amount of criticism had surfaced.M. Let me call my wife to warn her.

but he wasn??t.?? Malm said. and almost at once fell asleep. On her side of the wall there was presumably a similar screwed-on cover. ??Yes. said. She opened the document that he had called [Central questions].?? Figuerola said. When Blomkvist had finished reading. that??s a fee I??ll gladly pay. which meant that some operator would go in manually and listen to the conversation to decide whether it was of interest or not.M. at her instruction.?? ??But I???? ??Give it a try. Edklinth grimaced. She changed the ring to silent and leaned back in her chair. made a late snack. ??You know who I am ?C so you don??t have to be afraid of me. The selection was scarcely based on any statistical.P.

Trinity flipped open his mobile and dialled a number he had memorized. Understood??? Holm threw up his hands in a gesture that indicated he considered Berger??s accusations to be absurd.?? ??That can be considered a step forward.?? she said. On the way he passed Zalachenko??s door. I won??t make any record of your answer and I won??t discuss it with anyone else. Just in case anyone was still following him. we want you and your husband to be aware of certain things and to take certain routine measures. M?rtensson must have been looking through Blomkvist??s papers or whatever else he keeps at his place. We ?? that is. The exceptions were on those occasions when Inspector Erlander had asked her what she knew about Niedermann. I came to G?teborg for two reasons: to interview her and to get her ready to be transferred to a cell in Stockholm. Which do you prefer??? Salander considered the choice. And the murder of a person who was no friend of mine ?? a lawyer called Bjurman. Since she had access to Teleborian??s P. I??ve apologized to him for the way he was treated last night.?? Modig cocked her head to one side. I mean. We have to check their email.M.

?? ??I??m not so sure about that. the Lock and Key Service. The Prime Minister glanced quickly at Edklinth and then at Blomkvist. I??m smitten by an insatiable desire for you. and I??m afraid she??s going to get the same medicine when the trial begins. She stopped in the doorway. ??And that??s exactly what we??re going to do.?? ??I??m sorry.?? ??Good. As long as you live.?? ??The reason I work out is that it feels great. ??I have to call Erika and???? ??No.?? ??I found it yesterday at Lisbeth Salander??s apartment when I finally worked out where she was.?? the P. But Salander was gone from her I. Which means that there was some degree of contact between the two of them while Salander was on the run. for having struck Zalachenko on the head with an axe.A. But Nurse Agneta had noticed that Dr Jonasson had spent time with the patient who was under arrest and otherwise seemed withdrawn from the world. especially when he had been drinking.

she knew. I realized that when I worked out how you identified me. including bow and arrow. she was going to have to get an accountant to help her. She saw two nurses running towards another room two doors away. My guarantee is this ?? if you don??t wave your magic wand and make all this disappear. Deceased (Suicide?). He studied his unexpected visitor as she stood up. to shoot you too??? ??I have no way of knowing. they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical.?? Dr Endrin said. Bj?rck had traces of a strong painkiller in his blood. It was dark. was born in Hamburg. The second institution was the Security Police division for Constitutional Protection. He??s perfect as publisher and damned good at editing articles and tying up loose ends in work that is going to be published. Which means that there was some degree of contact between the two of them while Salander was on the run. She isn??t the type to ask anyone for help. The hottest thing we??ve got is that the timber industry in Dalarna is reporting a boom. but there was still a small scab.

This caused the activists in Hacker Republic to devote a startling amount of energy for six months to hacking and destroying every computer owned by that company. Ekstr?m wanted an extensive psychiatric examination and had sent a lot of messages with the object of getting her transferred to Kronoberg prison as a matter of urgency.?? ??Such as??? ??While you were concentrating on the Zalachenko story. That had to be the most idiotic intelligence operation in the history of the world. Let me put it on record that you do not have to say anything at all. or to make use of the art of espionage. which he arranged in the chest of drawers. The risk you are running is that you could have bleeding in your brain. Wadensj?? flung open the door to the room at the Section where Clinton was resting. she was tending towards the theory that stability was overrated. Time is running out. It was dark. Borgsj? went to Vietnam twice more. and Lisbeth Salander was unlucky enough to have him as her father. She would be taking the weekend off.?? ??With what??? ??Genetics. 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 they had both ended up in bed with Torkel. You??re a typical example. She reached out and slid the bag under the covers and pressed the coil of cord into her crotch.

I just need to know if he has a meeting with anybody right now. born in 1969. and exactly what it is you intend to publish. ??Right now I??ll settle for charges of grievous bodily harm or attempted murder. so Erlander was willing to listen. Counter-Espionage said that they definitely had not borrowed him. if she??s well enough. Then came the awkward part. piecing together what had happened overnight. this is a matter for the G?teborg police. and you can either suspend our co-operation or you can live with that. Suddenly she swayed. The sports desk has six and a half jobs at the moment.?? ??And if it is a forgery ?? who did it and why??? Bublanski shrugged. Somehow he had to establish contact with her.?? He looked at her. but not on my watch. ??Then I??ll have to start by thanking you for coming to me with this matter as soon as you did. ??but he vehemently denies being involved in any crime. the media regarded S?po as an excellent news source.