blinking.?? ??But if the story is true ?? if even a fraction of it is true.

In due course the matter came to the attention of the Security Police
In due course the matter came to the attention of the Security Police. Zalachenko himself would have to spend the rest of his life in prison. said. and he doesn??t have a criminal record. He had a serious talk with Giannini and explained that she could have access to Salander for one hour a day. moving fast. we have good reason to believe that your associate. for which you bear the primary responsibility. ??Satisfied??? ??It??s beautiful. it was a case of deep antagonism in a tragically dysfunctional family. by the look of them. I??ve had cameras installed to record what happens when I??m not home. SixOfOne wrote. a coup has taken place. If she wakes up again you can give her two mg. Landsort was the end of the world. ??You??re telling me that the Security Police is involved in flagrant criminal activity. Each mobile has its own unique signature ?C a fingerprint ?C in the form of the telephone number. what??s going on with you??? ??I??m about to resign from Millennium.

not to be discussed.?? ??I won??t comment on that. And one last question. Camilla. Figuerola came to Edklinth??s office. what have you got??? Blomkvist said. so that you can decide whether you can or you can??t. I??m a friend. Nieminen did not need the help of a pathologist to work out how they had died. Can you hear me??? ??Mmm. The headache was still there.?? ??But now we??re getting a little too close to poaching on S?po??s preserves. no ???? ??Teleborian wrote this in a report that he sent to Bj?rck.m.?? in official contexts.?? The P.C. but she learned nothing more about what had happened. He called his sister.

??But you??re the leader of the preliminary investigation. Adamsson watched as he took a bottle of cleaning fluid and sprayed the reception counter-top twice before wiping it with a rag.50. except possibly M?rtensson. ??Was it S?po that called you??? ??That??s what I told you. Then she tried to fix her eyes on the doctor. Mikael and Malin have been working like demons. and she went through every public register she could find. But Nurse Agneta had noticed that Dr Jonasson had spent time with the patient who was under arrest and otherwise seemed withdrawn from the world. ??It makes no difference to me who you appoint. He opened the Yahoo group [Idiotic_Table] and found the final version of Salander??s autobiographical statement. So. and did it in a way we didn??t think was possible. including bow and arrow. And this is the document that proves me right.?? He flipped his mobile shut and crawled into bed. July 13. I??m better than you are at what I do.C.

?? Wadensj?? read the letters with rising astonishment. I take it that you will plead self-defence??? ??Maybe. Jan.?? ??I assumed that the case would be handled in Stockholm. Teleborian. She saw no-one who showed any interest in her. He would never regain full health. and almost any political blunder gave rise to headlines: ??S?po suspects that ???? A S?po statement carried a lot of weight in a headline. checking one face after another. the intensive care unit.?? ??Naturally. I??ll ask you for 500 kronor a night to sleep here the rest of the week. The designation S. She saw him look up at the footbridge on upper Bellmansgatan. ??Hi.?? Blomkvist looked at Malm intently.P.?? ??As I understand it. which she sprayed in Lundin??s face.

?? ??Thank you.?? the Prime Minister said. If so. a pure media circus with himself at centre stage. between 37 and 37. ??Mumbo jumbo.?? ??True. and on the left is an elderly couple who go to bed quite early. Because this had been going on for many years ?C at least since 1976. but she did not sense the same condescension from him. His mouth was dry so his first stop was a corner shop where he bought a Pepsi. but on the blueprints from the city construction office she knew that it was on the other side of the building. The prosecutor is going to go on about this being the second time you have tried to kill him. Then he placed his hands gently around her neck and turned her head back and forth and to the sides a few times. ??Vitavara Inc. so it was not easy to prove that his work was a fabrication. managers or middle managers aged thirty-five or older.?? ??Mikael ?? I don??t think you really appreciate what this involves.?? ??It??s a fake.

DON??T THINK YOU CAN COME HERE AND THROW YOUR WEIGHT AROUND.?? Berger took a plastic folder from a desk drawer and laid a sheet of paper in front of him. ??I??m fearing the worst. He was also about to go on holiday. but Berger was not the kind of person who liked to be threatened.?? she said. But it feels wrong. This may have been because many documents were stamped Top Secret and were therefore off limits. He was mentioned in a lot of correspondence with Teleborian.v ?C MONDAY. editor-in-chief. On more than one occasion Edklinth and Figuerola considered bringing M?rtensson in for questioning. Nieminen was boiling over. ??What was that??? ??Oh. Both were dressed in jeans and leather jackets.?? He grunted. He defected and was granted asylum by S?po. He had found a roll of duct tape and this he had used to close the wounds. since Giannini left for G?teborg this morning.

this is only between you and me. He??s a prick who plays people off against each other.?? ??Hello. the attack on Salander??s lawyer ?C which Edklinth could not bring himself to accept was a part of the same pattern ?C and possible involvement in the murder of Zalachenko.?? ??Toilets??? Eriksson sounded as if she thought Cortez was pulling her leg. that the discrepancy arises.?? He got up and stood next to her to look through the glass at the newsroom.?? ??And how are we supposed to give her the proper care here if we can??t have access to her records? The medical responsibility for her right now is ours. The Russian defector who came to Sweden in 1976.?? she said. Pippi and the password is p9i2p7p7i. you alone are responsible for your investigation. I must have been hallucinating. and as a doctor he was not the least bit interested in the answer to that question. were masters of forgery and disinformation.K. they don??t have the evidence. The picture was from her old byline at Millennium and could be downloaded off the Net. it can??t have been her intention to kill him.

?? he said at last. We thought that it would be best for all concerned if she disappeared into some institution again and availed herself of the opportunities there. He was better off not asking any questions. She had filled five packing crates. the detectives sat in silence.?? He thought for a second and then asked one more question. She had a heavy.?? Monica was already on her way and passing Drottninggatan. I can pay part of her fee out of my own pocket. nodded.?? ??Not a hope. But unfortunately you??re a bit too healthy. then we can take a taxi. Which he had no intention of doing. Foreign guests.?? ??We don??t know. She was looking for Zalachenko. 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.M.

?? ??Is there any desk or ???? ??He seems to work at the kitchen table or sitting on the living-room sofa ?? wait. An article she had rejected in the afternoon would appear in the newspaper sometime after she had gone home. He remembered him as thin with a narrow moustache. but it could be used as evidence that the meeting had taken place.S.L.. 8.?? Berglund said.?? ??I know that. They were to find out if there was any truth to Blomkvist??s story that a man was sitting in a ditch there. It??s exercise more than hard training. forty-four. Blomkvist made a pretty acute observation. His problem was that he utterly lacked the instinct to lead. The old comrades shook hands. I??ll come back tomorrow or the day after. She had a long list of the movements she was to perform each day to strengthen the muscles in her shoulder and hip in the wake of her operation three weeks earlier. his whole cover. which Niedermann was presumed to be using.

Ghidi wondered what Adamsson would do if someone actually tried to get into the Salander woman??s room. He looked around the corridor and saw that he was being watched by nurses. ??I would never have guessed you were such a good poker player. She left out all the details that could be used against her. ??And now she??s wondering if it was me that wrote to her. That was what F?lldin??s administration must have decided too. But he had sent in the charger for her Palm. What the hell is going on??? Bublanski took off his reading glasses and tucked them into his breast pocket. Bjurman discovered the connection. It was expensive. Salander laughed aloud for the first time in weeks. the names of today??s participants must not be mentioned in your articles. Poison said that he had used it successfully.. Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R. He wondered what would happen if he acted on his impulse. Salander has also been declared legally incompetent.M. I??ll have a car in place in five minutes. not a straightforward case of sexual harassment or of violence against a woman.

She had a taser. ??That doesn??t sound like an official line. especially in the leftist-radical ??70s when a number of constitutional blunders had certainly occurred. also keeping one for himself. He was about to call Cortez when the T10 rang in his hand. It has come to my attention that an employee of S. Ghidi soon discovered that being a well-educated and experienced construction engineer counted for nothing.I.?? Giannini thought for a moment. along with Gullberg. It won??t be over then. ??Christer told me. but she held back; she was exhausted and decided it would be better to keep quiet than tarnish her stay at Sahlgrenska with a fight. Finally he lit upon the obvious solution. Salander hasn??t even been examined.?? ??Who answered if you called the number??? ??I don??t know. Then everything had gone haywire.?? ??I??ve been running. Edklinth had great respect for Armansky. it still took five minutes to force the lock to Blomkvist??s apartment.

?? ??Quite right. Not even the head of S.I. ??Excuse us for summoning you to this meeting at such short notice. I have a mountain of work before the trial begins.?? ??That petty thief you identified ???? ??Kenneth Gustafsson. That was all she could manage.?? ??That??s no excuse.?? ??Please explain. get in your car and meet me in S?dert?lje. whose task it was to handle the most sensitive of the sensitive. of course. F?lldin. He??s with that blond fucker you and Magge always hang out with. but he seemed peripheral.?? ??Why was that??? ??He was sweet. She had brought a green military bag containing her laptop. weighing her chances. Violation of the prostitution laws. And you don??t have to answer if you don??t want to.

You??ll have to fight hard to hold your own.00 in the morning. She had taken him out easily. Nystr?m saw that Ekstr?m had swallowed the bait. ??I??m going to need somebody on the inside I can trust. Holmberg was studying his fingernails. on Kungsholmen.?? ??Why??s that??? ??Circulation has dropped by nearly 150. Cortez left the Academy bookshop running like a madman. but he stopped himself. coming up towards her. Someone decides that a certain person should be given a particular level of clearance. They were as astonished as he was. ??We need images.?? ??You can??t do that. stood on tiptoe and unscrewed the three screws in the round white cover of a vent in the wall of Salander??s room. I know so. He turned off the alarm.?? ??It is. He called Karim in.

I??m only interested in the Zalachenko club. Zalachenko is there too with an axe wound to his skull. We can assume they??re fairly tight-knit. ??Do we kill the article??? Blomkvist looked Cortez straight in the eye. Sandberg looked at Zalachenko for a moment.?? Inspector Erlander saw Giannini through the doorway to Salander??s room. Good to know. They were southern European. It meant that the creation of the Section appeared to be just another routine matter. She felt depressed. Then he said hello to Salander and asked her how she was feeling. Way beyond the budget.?? ??Then that??s how it??ll have to be.?? Blomkvist said. but stopped and held the door for me. He was a dangerous bastard and a psychopath ?C a psychopath that the police were looking for with a vengeance. He was given the assignment.?? ??I know. And for anyone to become a member they had also to be known personally to one other citizen.M.

Someone cut off about two metres of rope. and exactly what it is you intend to publish. Erika Berger finally rolled over on to her stomach and rested her head on her fists.M.?? ??Have you???? ??No. I got a message that you were looking for me. The murderer had been identified as Evert Gullberg.?? Blomkvist said. ??You suspect that there??s a conspiracy within the Security Police that is acting outside its constitutional mandate. Headquarters was almost deserted on this summer afternoon. Although. No date had yet been set. had conspired to lock Salander away in the asylum.?? ??How old is he now??? ??He turned seventy-one two months ago.P.?? ??No. but he made these journeys less and less often. this is a matter for the G?teborg police. it was not this. The image was pornographic: a naked woman with exceptionally large breasts.

in the late ??60s. at the request of Helena Endrin. and clocked out. very dirty and bloody. He infiltrated the B. Through a glass pane in the door he saw the nurse take the bouquet into Zalachenko??s room. We can pretty much assume that she took the pistol with her to Gosseberga. had never set foot in the office in London where he supposedly worked. He looked concerned. There was a smiley face on the screen with a cartoon speech balloon: She found the document [Hi Sally] at the top of the list. When Andersson had left for the day. I??m terribly. after all. one of which was a relatively complicated and widely reported safecracking heist at a department store in V?ster?s. He closed his eyes for a moment. Nieminen did not trust Niedermann for one second. But this is going to take some legwork.M.?? ??Something along those lines. in 1968 whom he had personally evaluated as unsuitable.

S.?? ??How do you know it was his room??? ??Well. She had been thinking for so long that the bathwater was now cold.?? ??This sounds fun. He was expert at breaking and entering. The Section had its offices at Kungsholmen. Blomkvist was working on the Salander story and would not share any part of it. In his old age he became a gangster. ??So we have S. ??Then I??ll have to start by thanking you for coming to me with this matter as soon as you did. ??Focus on the information.?? ??Then I have something to tell you too. a former agent of Soviet military intelligence. very recently. so we have to solve the problem of who??s going to be in charge of the editorial section. Then it occurred to her that she had other secrets in the house.?? Armansky told her. and they planned to do something as old-fashioned as have a bite to eat and go to the movies.?? ??I??m happy to have you as my lawyer. That was unusual.

He sent over a U. I??ve reminded you about this at least half a dozen times.58 a. She stood for a long time breathing in the mild May air. at 6. nothing else matters. I??m out.. He told her succinctly what had happened.I. She looked down and saw blood. And if the person responsible for Zalachenko??s safety had seen fit to resign. She??s strange. As the situation is now. let??s wait and see what??s necessary and what isn??t.?? ??How old is he now??? ??He turned seventy-one two months ago. ??Hello. Then she got back into the bed and woke Blomkvist.P. ??Hello.

?? Salander looked to be not particularly bothered by either the fever or the headache.T. but bit by bit she gathered that a man was being sought for the killing. He opened a new Word document. He turned over Bj?rck??s report as soon as S. He booked the room for two weeks. Erika Berger. She then proceeded to the Yahoo group [The_Knights] and checked whether Plague had added anything. She??ll have to choose between selling her share of Millennium and leaving our board ?? or in the worst case. ??Lisbeth Salander. I??ve already handed over evidence that Teleborian committed crimes with Bj?rck in 1991.?? He flipped his mobile shut and crawled into bed. But not at 7. I don??t want to get flabby. The solution to the problem had been very simple. ??Since I was a teenager.?? Wadensj?? felt the panic rise.?? Erlander bent towards him. back-up alarm systems and everything else without blinking.?? ??But if the story is true ?? if even a fraction of it is true.