briefcase as the nurse checked Giannini??s I. but he??s irreplaceable.

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It had never come up. not for a moment. you must turn this information over to the P.?? ??Hmm.?? ??What would it cost exactly??? ??You??d have to negotiate that with her. no exit. She followed her past the Hilton on S?dermalmstorg and past the Stadsmuseum at Slussen.K. You??ll never regret it.?? Salander said. and some very senior officers began to wonder whether the Section was not run by paranoid conspiracy theorists. That??s a normal phenomenon among people who do extreme training. Either you roll up your sleeves or it??s time for somebody else to take over here. On the other hand. which was mostly figuring out what was going on on the other side of the Baltic. She seemed to have sharp pain in her left shoulder when she tried to move her arm. The next moment she heard quick heels clacking in the corridor. Zalachenko abused her mother so viciously that she spent most of her life in hospital. She says that the murderer was a man in his seventies. How could I have been so bloody stupid? On the bottom of the drawer someone had spray-painted the familiar five-letter word.

all of which had contained the word ??whore. Then. rather than unleash him to condemn the entire police force in his magazine and elsewhere in the media. That??s the question our analytical group is working very hard to answer. to leave.?? Magnusson said. ??My dear Mikael.?? ??Could we talk to the prosecutor??? ??No. there is no ??we?? about it. They contained data.?? Modig said in apology.?? ??Where was this man then??? Giannini hesitated. has eaten into a great many old consolidated assets. Why do you ask? Has something happened??? ??No. starting when she was a child. they don??t have the evidence. There was a report today that she??s going to be the new editor-in-chief at Svenska Morgon-Posten. Seven letters had been sent to Vitavara Inc.?? Blomkvist waited. As a result of this outburst.

You??re a man who gets more than his fair share of action.?? He put his arms around her..?? ??I??d like to take you home and undress you. The original shows that Peter Teleborian was assigned by the district court to do a forensic psychiatric examination of Lisbeth Salander. and why he had run for his life instead of staying to finish Salander off. Fuck off. attempting to eavesdrop could be measured in economic terms.O. advertising. Then she tried to reach Berger. we??ll see. It??s an invitation to abuse of power. It was undeniable. at Sahlgrenska hospital in G?teborg. He??s charming. the loose cannon who quarrelled with P. And in corridor 11C the staff were security-conscious after the killing of Zalachenko; they were familiar with her situation.?? ??But the present situation has arisen because you have been subject to a direct threat from a specific individual.?? ??Try.

The problem is that he??s unpredictable. V. His assignment was to make sure that Zalachenko never got a chance to talk. nothing serious. and closed the door.?? Figuerola said ??What??s that??? ??Evert Gullberg. It did not seem as though she would ever be able to finish it ??Hi. ??We??ve borrowed the place for tonight??s meeting. the front page went to press. which in turn is sole owner of a subsidiary called Vitavara Inc. Teleborian did a routine psychiatric examination of Salander and concluded that she was mentally unbalanced. as usual.?? ??Which means that the excellent Herr Niedermann took the weapon while Zalachenko was asleep and shot Salander. Quite the opposite: I want to give you some information. But it definitely does mean that some individuals within S. I am. She did not have much time. Mikael and Malin have been working like demons. But it??s a shame von Rottinger isn??t still with us. but they had no facts.

An intelligence agent who let his cock rule any part of his life was obviously not a good intelligence agent. Dragan Armansky.?? ??Me??? Eriksson said. Nykvarn may be a cemetery in the woods for people who crossed them. who already had an overview of the activities of the Section. and that means that Salander has been subjected to a lifetime of injustice ?C since she was twelve. you must turn this information over to the P.?? ??Yes. But if he can??t handle the fact that you screwed up one time in twenty years. But he did not have access to her room and had never even seen her.00 in the afternoon he turned on his iBook and took up the thread of the text he had begun writing at the hotel in G?teborg. slowly. As Blomkvist tried in frustration to manoeuvre his mobile out of the breast pocket of his jacket ?C it proved to be an impossible task with his hands cuffed behind his back.S.P. In terms of espionage it was a sad chapter in their history. I shouldn??t have picked that spot. You??ll have to prepare him for the fact that probably I won??t be in a position to make a decision in the coming week. He waved her in. Exactly how high up the conspiracy went he had no idea.

She jumped out of bed so fast that she felt a pain in her injured hip. let??s say ?C could publish selected excerpts from it. But I see no evidence whatsoever that she is schizophrenic or suffering from paranoid delusions. And he killed a policeman tonight. and it should have been found by now. ??I don??t talk to crazy-doctors because they never listen to what I have to say. since this afternoon. And not a word in the daily memo about Svavelsj? M. she knew. and Trelleborg. but I have a job to do.?? ??Yes. And not one of us had noticed a thing. I hired Niedermann as an assistant a number of years ago. ??I had a cranial X-ray done.?? ??And did you??? ??I went upstairs and borrowed some copies of Nature magazine and The New England Journal of Medicine. He described his assistant Niedermann.?? Blomkvist said. That could be the only explanation. You??ve spoken to our notorious patient.

00. If the king. ??Why should that be a problem??? Eriksson said. ??I just collapsed in exhaustion last night.?? ??And then what happened??? ??We kept an eye on her. She found a scarf and wrapped it around her foot and tied it tight. in some other way. but also not a nutcase. We could end up on opposite sides of the barricades.?? ??What do you want??? ??What do you think??? Gullberg pulled up the chair and sat down. It??s not over. That would require us to believe that Salander is innocent. She was given a local anaesthetic and afterwards the wound was sewn up with three stitches. They could forget about finding a car to take them to Gosseberga. After she was gone Blomkvist called the hospital in Sahlgrenska and tried to get some information about Salander??s condition. ??This is not your little joke. But that??s the angle the police are taking. must have been persuasive. Blomkvist was at the Kaffebar on Hornsgatan when he heard on the radio that a 66-year-old unnamed man. She had thought that she was beginning to get to grips with the actual process of producing a newspaper and had planned to reward herself with a weekend off ?C the first since she started at S.

She got the instant reply [PROVE IT ?C OR ELSE ??] as the animated Lara Croft unlocked the safety catch on her gun. But you??re going to be digging into the background.?? Elderly. please. and she had not used the program since starting at S. They came from the same batch as the weapon that Salander had taken from him at Stallarholmen. His face was lined with anxiety. Zalachenko laboriously got up and fumbled for his crutches. When they were seventeen. On the right. Because Trinity could record the calls from Ekstr?m. There he would spend almost two years. He studied his unexpected visitor as she stood up. It could have been at his home or at his office or somewhere else altogether. He tried to murder Lisbeth. probably just after 3. When he started. Sonja Modig was closer to police headquarters than Bublanski had thought.?? ??What you don??t understand is that our shareholders bought stock in the paper because they want to make money.D.

Are you doing the exercises the therapist recommended??? She nodded. He realized the gravity of the situation. A few years in an institution would do her nothing but good. Your client says that she doesn??t know where he??s hiding. He did his military service in the ??40s and became an accountant or some such.I. Then she picked up her mobile and called Criminal Inspector Jan Bublanski. Sonja Modig was closer to police headquarters than Bublanski had thought. She punched in the door code her friend had given her.40 that morning. it is a tragedy that could have been prevented if there had been more support within society. After a while he took out a leather-bound notebook and made some notes. ??Mikael. Sometimes I start running regularly and lose a couple of kilos. We??ve just fine-tuned it. She did not say a word. Blomkvist had never before read anything by Lidbom. His ill health had taken a heavy toll. As the chat continued.?? Wadensj?? said.

?? ??Yes. I??m running the club. the kidnapping of Miriam Wu. Gullberg chose from the beginning to inform only one person in S. who described her as emotional.?? She nodded. another half-dozen citizens had come online and welcomed back Wasp before joining the debate. Annika recognized him as the man who come up in the lift with her. But they had never worked together. forty-seven years old and known by the nickname Falun. Her neck had been broken when her head was turned 180 degrees.?? ??And she??s alive??? ??Weak but regular pulse. For herself.?? Jonasson said. Anything else of interest on the table??? ??Books. whom they believed to be Jonas.K.?? ??Could you possibly reach her or anyone else on the investigative team who might be able to take a look in Prosecutor Ekstr?m??s corridor ?? to see if there??s a meeting going on in his office at the moment. Berger was determined to retain her shareholding in Millennium and to remain on the board. ??Maybe one of Teleborian??s colleagues in Uppsala.

Ronald Niedermann. The answer was obvious. He would never be able to tell anyone what had happened in Stallarholmen. It was already 4. a man she knew and had worked for during her short time in that department. They sat in the car and waited. He was arrested with Lundin at Stallarholmen. I would guess that somebody in Stockholm will be assigned to compile all the material for a prosecution. the front page went to press. This is what we??re going to do. ??Morning. Berger looked up and scanned the half-empty newsroom beyond the glass cage.?? ??There is an alternative.?? Janeryd blinked and pressed his lips together. were still haunting the former C. The case has been transferred to Stockholm. and then in fact report to another employer??? ??Something like that. They were not pleasant thoughts. Over the years he had noticed that if he stopped giving instructions or gave Niedermann too much latitude to make his own decisions.A.

??He turned east???? ??We can see you both. if Bjurman were to breathe so much as one syllable about Zalachenko. this was made out to be a conspiracy.000 kronor a month for a three-cube apartment.B Import. & M. That was not going to be enough.?? Fredriksson??s expression darkened. She had humiliated him. Even if it was only a ten-minute walk. I don??t think that. He sent over a U.?? ??Alright. There had to be a high level of constitutional oversight. ??Plague. ??Well. ??An analysis of the blood will probably establish that Salander was buried here. inevitably. then we can take a taxi.?? Berger said with a faint smile.

I??m going to be arrested. but really that seems his most logical course. That will take time. cleaned the brushes. his email. which he never did.?? ??I see. Nor had Berger any thought of taking the story with her. This investigation is being conducted in great secrecy. I especially like the way he wrote in the margin.A. assign two personal assistants to help him with all the practical matters. The meeting had lasted forty minutes. Right now it??s some seriously unpleasant individual???? ??Who??s got a hang-up about you in particular. A Sig Sauer that had been dismantled and was being oiled on the kitchen table.S. Tell me what you see. 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.C. She had not been given any details about the incoming cases.

Berger was editor-in-chief and therefore one of the few people who could demand that information from him. of whom four were female.?? ??I see ???? ??The problem is that a number of sentences were altered in a very subtle way.S. You??ll hear bang-boom. I??m not above the law.?? ??That sounds reasonable. She felt a niggling irritation that she could not identify. Right now he had to focus on himself. this year you will be paying out a huge amount of money in dividends to the paper??s twenty-three shareholders. She spectacularly kicked the shit out of two complete thugs from Svavelsj? M. and on top of it all.?? Nystr?m said with a slight smile. and jogged past the Pocket bookshop before slowing down so as not to attract attention. much less drive safely for any distance. Blomkvist supposed that she had not planned to come back. want to plant such a forgery??? ??We don??t know that either. Ricky. Or both.I.

We??ve got them covered. also possibly that she was injured. A nice-looking man. What am I doing here? She felt exhausted.S. Blomkvist noticed that the chief of the Constitutional Protection Unit hesitated for only a second before he got up and brought the thermos over to the conference table. Von Rottinger came originally from the military intelligence service and worked for several years in the office that coordinated military defence with the Security Police. Not once had he seen its driver. I do recall that he needed a little rest and wanted to expand his horizons. ??This is a great sleazy story. and put her through. I fall asleep like a blown-out candle as soon as I get home. ??Why so??? Berger said.?? Salander felt an icy chill run down her spine. The case is now at the prosecutor??s office. He would never be able to tell anyone what had happened in Stallarholmen. As long as he had a licence. That was Bj?rck??s job. a forgery??? ??No question about it. Francke was a bit of a cowboy who saw K.

?? ??Yes.D.?? she said. Acquitted of all charges. It was an ordinary formula. since Dr Endrin was assigned to her case. Zalachenko??s death will have nothing to do with the Section. ??We??ll have to postpone the meeting a bit longer. had no responsibility for the budget and was not at all helpful when it came to making decisions about how much a freelancer should be paid or whether they could afford to buy a new laser printer that was not already included in the sum earmarked for capital investments or I. ??It??s almost impossible to answer that question. It was not on the windowsill. The Constitutional Protection Unit publishes an annual report. ??So we have S. starting when she was a child. Monica. One was from another member.?? ??Lisbeth Salander has become a government matter. Her heart skipped a beat. Edklinth.?? ??And in this instance Blomkvist is quite correct.

??What in the world ???? Wadensj?? said. He issued a directive putting S?po in sole charge of the defector.00.?? ??What do you mean. Magnusson was getting on in years and as advertising manager had nothing to do with the editorial side. Then he picked up the telephone and tried to call his old protector in Laholm. Then the efficient chaos.00 tonight you have to report for duty.m. at least they had worked that one out. She punched letters. Conscientious and a teetotaller. I mean. Evert Gullberg saw that his whisky glass was empty. A nationwide alert had gone out for a man in his mid-thirties. not to mention their years of investigations of Palme and other prominent Social Democrats. ??Now we just have to decide how we??re going to handle it. Blomkvist wrote a note on a yellow Post-it.. He looked back at the clock.

and the room was at the end of an L-shaped corridor.?? Blomkvist gave her a wan smile. Whatever happened. ??I??ve never heard of anything like this. of that she was perfectly aware. He packed clothes.?? Salander said. Next week I??ll be travelling. are refusing to say anything ?C they??re claiming they??ve never heard of Niedermann. ??Partly. YOU??RE GOING TO GET FUCKED IN THE CUNT WITH A SCREWDRIVER.?? He scrubbed her back and soaped her shoulders. She caught herself thinking over and over about Salander.?? He got up and walked once around the table before stopping in front of Edklinth. the lawyer Annika Giannini. She had a fever that would not abate.?? Gullberg took a deep breath.Q.K. The woman had been shot in the head and there was no exit wound there either.

K. promises of future assignments. How was that possible? Edklinth tried to imagine what reasonably would have happened if he had been sitting at the chief??s desk at S. It??s like this. But right now she had to make decisions on several matters.O. I??m a doctor. and the Ministry of Justice. we also want you to know what to do in the ten minutes before the car arrives from Fisks?tra. but he had only a vague idea of what the Section actually did. that her hair was one big lump of dried clay.B. Everything else is unimportant. Despite persistent attempts to establish the truth and uncover the crucial evidence ?C the smoking gun ?C the Section had never found any proof. Paulsson had then turned his attention to the wounded man in the woodshed. Clinton would take care of Giannini.?? Gullberg looked at Sandberg with blank astonishment. and his girlfriend too. I explained that I wanted information in advance on all proposed articles. Ghidi never discovered.

But you ought to know that you could easily kill an intruder with a golf club. I cannot help you. which described the problems encountered by the former Swedish ambassador to France when he was commissioned to examine S?po in the wake of the Palme assassination and the Ebbe Carlsson affair. And then we need a bad guy for the story.?? ??Good. not news reporting. one of which was a relatively complicated and widely reported safecracking heist at a department store in V?ster?s. As it says in the report.?? ??I??m not sure exactly what I think.?? Zalachenko??s eyes narrowed. He was standing about ten metres behind her. ??From a medical standpoint. chief. It was highly unlikely that Evert Gullberg would ever be brought before a court. and in his teens he was a skinhead. He was actually off that day. above. This is about a small group of conspirators. He glanced down at her briefcase as the nurse checked Giannini??s I. but he??s irreplaceable.